Months of therapy await soldier

Months of therapy await soldier
Central Illinois man undergoes rehabilitation in Texas after car bomb explosion in Iraq
Monday, January 31, 2005
BY LISA COON
OF THE JOURNAL STAR

Dustin Hill's days are filled with grueling hours of therapy as he learns how to walk again and master the electronic prosthesis that is now his right hand.
Hill is a bilateral amputee, losing both hands as result of third-degree burns he sustained on about a third of his body when a car bomb exploded behind the Humvee he was in while stationed in Iraq. The 22-year-old generator mechanic with Galva-based Battery F, 1st Battalion, 202nd Air Defense Artillery of the Illinois National Guard also lost his right eye in the blast.

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