Chapter Sixteen: Finding Purpose, Chapter Seventeen: Longing for Home and Chapter Eighteen: The Why Questions Summary and Analysis

A local police officer almost loses a leg when his police motorcycle crashes into the back of a truck. A friend asks Don to go visit Brad and tells Don that the officer has been fitted with an Iliazrov frame. Brad suffers from the same depression Don experienced while laying immobile in the hospital. Don shows Brad pictures of himself in his Iliazrov frame and shares the frustrations he felt with the lack of optimism from his doctors. Don then gives Brad and his wife advice about how to approach his recovery. He counsels them to be patient with the medical staff, to limit visitors and prepare for therapy. Several weeks later, Don...