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Pilot c Doctors ! would ne By Leslie Dunson The airplane took ( Williams-Brice Stadiui feet. Seconds later, th< far from the runawa conscious and soaked The pilot, USC remembers little abou seriously injured in ar "I don't remember whole day, for that m ground, I suffered a 1 cious. I don't even ren HUSBAND, THEN driven to the airport Murray. After signing engine aircraft, he tax "After I reached ai began to shake ? or s guard had been checki there, or if any of ther He said he saw my pla down. Then he called After Husband was doctores found his lefi leg broken in two plac jammed and blood trie ble brain damage. He 1 mained semiconscious "One of the parair hospital that my hand verified (that it would 'Wait a minute, let's si said. "Another doctor that had been stepped repaired. HE SAID the brain side of his body. Becai he would be confined His multiple iniurit hospital bed for exter concerned that fluid > tracheotomy was perf< 01 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. * 4 i ? 1 W ? * ? 1 I I t It I I I t l| mm mm "Here' redits reco said professor ver walk again )ff from Owens Field, an airport neai n, and reached an altitude of about 20C e Cessna 1 *50 lay in a mangled heap not y. Its p. ot lay in the wreckage, un with gasoline. biology professor David Husband it that day in June 1978 when he wa; i airplane accident. anything about the crash, or about th< atter, he said. "When the plane hit th< alow to the head which left me uncon itiiiuci ui ivmg iu iiic airpon mat ciay. * a member of the USC Flying Club, hac to conduct a typical flight over Lake I for the Cessna 150, a small, single ied down the runway and took off. i altitude of about 200 feet, the plane o I've been told," he said. "A security ng the area to see if all the planes were n had been taken out by club members, ne begin to shake, lose altitude and gc an ambulance." rushed to Richland MemorialHospital, t wrist severed, his jaw broken, his left :es, a tooth knocked out, his left ankle kling from his left ear, indicating possiay in a coma for nearly 10 days, and refor another two weeks. icdics told a friend visiting me in the would have to be amputated. A doctor have to be removed), but another said, ?e if we can put it back on,'" Husband said my kneecap lookd like an eggshell on." Fortunately, both injuries were damage had paralyzed the entire left ise of this, Husband's doctors told him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. ?s and paralysis confined him to his ided periods. Therefore, doctors were .vould be building in his lungs, and a ?rmed. FOR P PTiniUAl nilARHI i vi?ni> vnnMUi UNIVERSITY FEE YEARBOOK INSURANCE PLAI MEAL PLAN MEALS - CASH C O N T RTBUT'T - s a health, u ivery after * am j ^ j ' - : r *< ; ...J^Biliiiilif lESS flHEkv :'" J^Bplkisjj^ ^HH^LmmeS^Hk- jigfiKBr ?, ' I^^B? -l~ > BBB^i V Cutting remarks USC biology professor David Husband h plane crash and is teaching again. Here he one of his students. "I lay there in the bed with this tub never used," Husband said. "I cred physical condition." An avid jogger and health enthus therapy sessions to work his muscles during his nearly three-month stay in t BEIT IS - SEE MASTEI ( ( V ( _ -v ( ( CARDS ? l t 1 t I . *?%>!< ? 1 < iM . 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D ? ? ? ? a (8^ (IT) , ^3^- < ^ ^^14 vS*fO i' < c ( Sod, fa i good testimonial as to light be in a crash," H nined me said that if 1 in avvia^t kj I iwu IU IC1J d." ; his convalescence, Hu? is he moved from his v to one crutch, and froi ecovery, however, was I definite periods of depr ;tty forlorn situation. It jriod of normal recover nt, and then hit a plate happen or to get bette ggling, and eventually tl nd began to adjust to hi; d. Left-handed before t ight hand. After the casi le began to exercize it t >, frequently experiencir T NINE months after >ne. 1 totally recovered, exce ed me a great deal of p; normal physical therap) letic department for sc use the weights, the v ;. I also began to swim, s o a mile a day," Husbar ankle, though." ikle would trouble him was working in his la RllilHinn on ounni Ull V_ > V_ 1 I I UV,V.UI 1 a stranger approached I noticed his limp. sked how 1 had hurl my crash, and how I felt it en the stranger said, 'F len 1 told him how luck nd and called the ambu le Lord!' again." AND SAID the stranger ressing and he told him 1 ill-painful ankle. The str; much on himself, in spi ) into his office and ask ankle. S.C. (IT) (?) ? ? ? ? D ? ""Student summi T imily why one should stay in shape usband said. "Every doctor hadn't been a good jogger, i miles per day, I would have iband's persistence began to wheelchair to crutches, from n the crutch to a cane. The far from smooth, he said ession," he said, "it seemed was a hard row. I would go y, then to one of rapid imau. At those times, nothing r. I hung in there, though. I iiings got better." i handicaps as his body slowhe crash, he learned to write t on his left leg was removed, o loosen and strengthen the ig "excruciating" pain. J the crash, the injuries were pt for my left ankle, which ain. 1 was still very involved f, but I decided to go to the )me additional workouts. I whirlpool and other therapy ince 1 couldn't jog anymore, id said. "1 still had problems no more, because one day boratory in the Coker Life ed that changed his life.Husliim to ask for directions to a 8 leg, so 1 told the guy about was a miracle that 1 was still 'raise the Lord!'" Husband y 1 was that a security guard lance, and the stranger said, then asked how his recovery le had fully recovered except anger told him he was depenite of his success, and asked Jesus Christ to take the pain See "Husband," page 8. V t I 1 1 ? i'V 'V I av^V^VVAV^AV.V.*, it J