An Evening With Mark Ormrod 

Mark Ormrod/Glenn Spencer

In the early hours of Christmas Eve 2007, Royal Marines Commando Mark Ormrod was out on a routine foot patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan when he stepped on and triggered an Improvised Explosive Device. Thanks to the swift action of the men around him and the intervention of the Medical Emergency Response Team he was airlifted via helicopter to an emergency field hospital in a desperate attempt to try and save his life. An innovative and dangerous procedure carried out onboard a Chinook helicopter en route to the hospital did save his life. He woke up three days later in the UK in Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham: Both legs amputated above the knee and his right arm amputated above the elbow. He was the UK’s first triple amputee to survive the Afghanistan conflict.
Now Mark wants to share his story of how he went from the pits of hell with thoughts of suicide through to where he is now as a father, a husband, a full time prosthetics user and an athlete.  
So come and join us for an evening you're not likely to forget in hurry.
Mark talks very openly and honestly about the day he was injured with a mix of harrowing and graphic detail intertwined with a little bit of dark military humour.
 
WARNING - The evening contains themes of an adult naure including graphic images, stories and adult language.       It may not be suitable for young children.

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