Life on a Thread: My story

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Jillian Michaels CLAPS BACK at Terry Dubrow after Botched star blasted the personal trainer for her anti-Ozempic stance: 'I don't believe these drugs are a solution! Jamie Hull, motivational speaker, adventurer and former British Army Reservist, was thirty-two when his life changed forever. Bear Grylls is the world's leading expert on survival, seen on millions of TV screens, and is also Chief Scout.

While there have been 'dark days', Jamie told how he hasn't considered suicide again, and was determined to make the most of the life he'd been left with. I couldn’t think of anyone who could recover from the atrocities he succumbed to and to rebuild his life as to what it is today.It was when I watched a video on YouTube of someone doing a backflip on a scooter and I thought “wow, that was really cool”. The word "miracle" was working its way around my mind and when the nurses and doctors and visitors came to see me, the word was even being uttered in one form or another. With his cock-pit on fire and his plane rapidly descending towards the ground, he knew that saving his own life required calmness of thought, swiftness of action, incredible bravery and a lot of luck. Jamie has undergone over 50 operations since the incident, an accident which doctors believed left him with a 5% chance of survival.

The skin on my body has gone, a lot of muscle and sinew and tissue too, I have no ears, no hair, my face is torched and caved in, my eye socket and nose are shattered, my collarbone ripped away, my insides torn to shreds.It was quite an extraordinary moment of calmness that allowed the clarity of thought to conjure up the only possible escape under the circumstances. As a Band of Brother, and a regular visitor to the Help for Heroes Recovery Centre in Tidworth, Tedworth House, Jamie has been able to experience the benefits of being around other like-minded Servicemen and women on their recovery journeys: “It’s absolutely amazing having that camaraderie back.

Looking ahead to the future he hopes to keep challenging himself, knowing he’s giving all he’s got to live the best life he can: “When I cast my memory back to being laid up in the hospital I would never have dreamt I’d be where I am now. Nicole Eggert opens up about getting breast implants at 18 while starring on Baywatch: 'I look at all these younger girls doing it and think, 'God, leave your bodies alone! The manner in which he has approached life since the accident is a shining example of dealing with adversity. Until one day when I woke up after having a dream of me posting to my Instagram saying I’d just landed the best trick in the world, and I knew from that morning it would be possible. I was recommended this book by one of the team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital burns unit when I was there earlier this year, which is where the author spent 2 years of his life.I get to work with some very motivated individuals and enhance their physical and mental development.