Every time I'm standing and I move, over 300 adjustments get made every second to make sure that they work out. I dance - but, no, they come with their own remote. GLENN: So if I had my iPad, I could make you dance or something, just as a joke.
#Dont call me up 10 hours Bluetooth#
GLENN: What exactly does the Bluetooth technology do?
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TRAVIS: They have Bluetooth connectivity. And I just press down on the gas and the break, and I drive a truck. My legs are Bluetooth, so they have a driving mode in them. So I hit a button and it will do left turn, right turn, horn, kind of everything. TRAVIS: Well, I'm locked on a try pin (phonetic), which is like a suicide knob here, here, and here. So he can turn his hand all the way around. GLENN: Do the thing with your hand where you can. GLENN: Well you don't have any hands, so. I didn't get hand controls put in my truck, and I drive with my feet I mean, with my feet, prosthetics, I'm actually so stubborn. The technology out there - you know, I walk.
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TRAVIS: And I'm very thankful for Walter Reed.
#Dont call me up 10 hours full#
I'm trying to swing -īut, yeah, once my wife was going to stay with me and my daughter was going to look up to me and I was going to be the dad I was expected to be, I just went full force in recovery. It turns out, when you have no arms and leg, you're really short now, and you have a hairy chest, you're the world's best teddy bear.
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And I thought, boy, she's going to be just so scared of this monster. Stuff all over my chest, like little monitors. But my little girl who looks up to me, who I thought was going to be scared. I'm going to be with you.Īnd, you know, between her and my little girl, the support of my family - of course my parents and everybody. And you can go." And she's like, that's not how this works at all. You can have the account numbers, and it's yours. Anything I make - you know, keep the same bank numbers. And I said, "The house, the money, the cars, it's all yours. You know, I was a staff sergeant in 82nd Airborne Division. Anything we have is yours." Not that I have a lot. And I said, "Look, there's no reason for you to put yourself through this, financially. And I didn't think I had much self-worth. But, yeah, so then the 18th, she came me into Walter Reed, which is a wonderful facilitate. Like, he's going to die if we don't take him to surgery. So she had to sign a paper to cut off two more inches of my right leg because my sutures ripped open. My wife, the very first thing she had to do was sign a paper. Thirty blood transfusions.īut, yeah, I made it to the hospital on the 17th and went to immediate surgery. Two doctors actually - or, two nurses pumped air in my lung for two hours straight - or, I mean, nine hours straight to keep me alive. You need to go to sleep." So 14 hours of surgery, nine doctors, and seven nurses worked on me. And the doctor said, "I don't know how you're still awake. That's the person that woke me up from my medical sedation because I was actually awake until the operating table on the 10th. But I was also embarrassed and upset.īut then I finally called, talked them a little bit on my birthday. And the Taliban wasn't supposed to get me, and they did. STU: You didn't want to call your family? So my 25th birthday, I woke up for the very first time to find out what happened. Then the 14th, I woke up for the very first time. The 12th, they cut my left hand off the rest of the way. After getting everything blown off on April 10th. I actually just didn't want to be a burden on her. TRAVIS: And it wasn't because I didn't want to be with her anymore or anything, I didn't love her. I saw a short video of you, where - I mean, you've - you actually - when you had your legs and arms blown off, you actually told your wife - you had a new daughter. And the author of the book Tough as They Come.Īnd you can tell already you're as tough as they come. Travis Mills is a quadruple amputee from the war in Afghanistan. GLENN: United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills is with us. Listen to the hero's conversation with Glenn or read the transcript below.
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The journey Mills took to becoming "tough as they come" didn't happen overnight. I actually just didn't want to be a burden on her," Mills said. "It wasn't because I didn't want to be with her anymore or anything, I didn't love her. When he finally spoke with his wife, among his first words to her were "Leave me." He told Glenn when he first woke up to find out what had happened, he didn't want to call his family. "I was a staff sergeant in 82nd Airborne Division. The United States Army Staff Sergeant who became a quadruple amputee from the war in Afghanistan joined Glenn's radio program to share his fascinating story on Monday. It's no wonder those who know Mills describe him as " tough as they come." With four missing limbs and an award-winning smile, Travis Mills is a sight to behold.