Andrii Sydorenko, a 47-year-old Lviv resident, has left his secure life overseas and voluntarily enlisted within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The person sustained a extreme mine-blast harm that resulted within the lack of his eyesight and left leg.
Supply: UNBROKEN rehabilitation centre
Particulars: Andrii labored overseas together with his spouse for all his grownup life. In January 2024, the person joined the military and served as a medic and rifleman within the twenty fourth Separate Mechanised Brigade named after King Danylo.
Six months later, in July, a Russian munition exploded proper in entrance of Andrii, and its fragments hit his head, limbs and abdomen. He was immediately blinded and needed to discover his approach out of the battlefield by contact.
"In the summertime, we had been speculated to rejoice our twenty fifth wedding ceremony anniversary, and he promised to return on trip," the defender's spouse stated. "However as a substitute of Andrii's name, I obtained the information that my husband had been wounded.
That day, I had had hassle respiration; I felt that one thing was unsuitable. However once I came upon that he was alive, I prayed to satisfy him as quickly as attainable."
Since then, the person has undergone 13 operations, together with on his stomach and limbs. The surgeons needed to amputate Andrii's left leg on the degree of the higher third of the shin.
"Our prosthetists have already made a man-made limb for the affected person, and he’s studying to stroll on it. It isn’t straightforward. In spite of everything, Andrii is totally blind. He has bodily misplaced one eye, which was changed by our ophthalmologists. And the opposite one, though nonetheless there, has misplaced its imaginative and prescient – the optic nerve is irreversibly broken," the UNBROKEN centre says.
At the moment, Andrii is working with bodily and occupational therapists who’re serving to him learn to use a cane for the visually impaired and navigate in area.
Andrii works with bodily and occupational therapists. Photograph: UNBROKEN
The defender himself admits that even if he can’t see the sweetness round him, he desires to go outside and scent the timber and listen to the sound of the river.
"I imagine that life goes on and I can adapt to my new circumstances. And I’ve my spouse by my aspect. She is at all times by my aspect and holds my hand. We’ve got two kids. My son, like an actual man, has turn into our help, and my daughter helps at residence," says Andrii.
Background: Earlier, Ukrainska Pravda informed the story of 25-year-old chorister Yaroslav Makar, who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces and misplaced his leg on the entrance.
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