News about Dylan Thomas

There was no pain, no screaming. Toby Gutteridge slumped to his knees and stompled forward into the dirt of an isolated Afghan village. His comrades stepped over him after he was under fire, in the midst of a routine operation gone wrong, assuming him dead. Only because of a sacred tenet of the British special forces - no man was left behind - that he was rescued. Fellow soldiers pulled his body out of the hospital and were surprised to discover that he had a pulse. They found the entry wound, a gaping hole in his neck, into which one stuck his fingers to stem the blood loss before an evacuation helicopter arrived. At Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a haze of morphine, Gutteridge came round through a haze of morphine. The bullet had shattered his spinal cord, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. If anyone entered the room, he could not even turn his head, which, post-surgery, was stitched to his body by 51 metal staples.