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  • Bridgewater College student living life after amputation

    Erin Flynn, The Daily News-Record|Jan 1, 2017

    HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — For six months Shane Brubaker had ignored the pain that randomly occurred in his left leg. "I didn't put too much stock in it," he said. "I thought I tweaked it doing one thing or another." But when the Broadway resident, then 19, fell outside his parents' home in August 2015, the issues with his leg could no longer be ignored. The fall was caused by a peripheral nerve sheath tumor and led to several weeks in the hospital. Eventually, Brubaker's leg was amputated. But he hasn't spent the last 16 months feeling sorry f...