Justin Dodge is determination in motion.
“I actually feel blessed because I got to walk for the second time,” he said. “I got to relearn how to walk.”
And he’s walking confidently on a prosthetic leg he’s only had a few weeks.
“I’m at a point where I’m comfortable just walking normal,” Dodge said while walking around Denver’s Washington Park in shorts on a breezy February afternoon. “Eventually, I’d like to get it to where if I had pants on you would have no idea whether I was an amputee or not. I know I’m getting close, but at 22 days, I’m not there yet.
His pace is remarkable — not only in stride, but in how far the sergeant and SWAT officer for the Denver Police Department has come since his world turned upside down 8 months ago.
“There was never a time for me where I was like, ‘I can’t do this’,” he told CBS Colorado’s Kelly Werthmann. “There was never a time when I thought, ‘This is over.'”
