Boy who lost his legs has 'amazing' homecoming

That playful attitude pervades nearly every exchange between Josh and his parents, even through the most serious of discussions.When they talk about his surgeries, Josh wonders why he wasn't able to keep his feet in a jar. For his next surgery, scheduled for June 10, Josh wants to do something different."I want to videotape it so I can see it," he said. "I want to see what's going on."He should, after that surgery, have a better range of abilities. His right hand has been sewn to his abdomen to promote tissue growth for more than a week, and it will be cut free. His left leg, which has been too sensitive to work much with a prosthetic, will have bones fused and strengthened.Josh takes it all head-on."At first I was nervous (about surgery)," he said. "But if it was going to make me better, I was willing to go through it."There's two things Josh really wants: to get back home in time for school in the fall and to play sports again.When his friends made it to the house Saturday, they gravitated to the basketball hoop outside.


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