"But can he do the same for a young woman who lost her legs?"

Or any less real than the guy who lost both his legs and one arm.

I kind of lost my legs a little bit there.

He had lost a leg and was going to need care.

He was not able to get medical attention and almost lost his leg as a result.

I had lost a leg, and, or so they later told me, something of my mind.

"Do you remember how my father nearly lost his leg?"

But that had been before he fell and lost his legs.

Before losing my legs, I played maybe once a year.

A man who had lost a leg could grow a new one.