ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Michael Caster never expected to need a lesson on how to use a wheelchair.
But now he’s one of the hundreds who was seriously injured in the Las Vegas shooting and he’s working through intensive rehabilitation on a journey that could last a lifetime.
“I have a lot to be thankful for. I could have been one of those people that didn’t make it here,” said Caster, who shielded his girlfriend with his body during the shooting.
A bullet fragment penetrated his spine and he has no feeling from just above the waist down.
“He’s the strongest person I’ve ever met and known,” said Tawny Temple, Caster’s girlfriend, who said the couple in the country. “If there is any hospital that’s going to work miracles and do the best at what they do, it’s this one.”
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