Northern Ireland

Ranger Andy Allen is on a road to recovery

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Ranger Andy Allen, double amputee woke up in Selly Oak at the age of 19 almost entirely blind.

The images shocked the nation when he featured in the BBC documentary Wounded.

Three years on and with a positive attitude to life, Andy has got some of his sight back and is learning to walk again.

In the second of our special series, Ranger Allen explains his own road to recovery from that devastating explosion in 2008, to the specialist treatment he’s still receiving from the Queen Elizabeth hospital.

His girlfriend was pregnant when he was blown up and he explains how he copes with the day-to-day challenges of fatherhood.

He still has no memory of what happened to him.