TRUE-LIFE
Sat on my sofa, I couldn't tear my eyes off the telly.
It was April 2021, and I'd switched on a documentary about a young lad called Joe DiMeo.
Back in 2018, Joe, then 19, nodded off driving home from a night shift.
He hit a kerb, his car flipped and exploded.
Passers-by pulled him from the flames.
But Joe had burns to 80% of his body and spent months in a coma.
How did he survive? I thought.
He'd had over 20 reconstructive surgeries, his fingers amputated.
Thick burn scars meant he could barely see, breathe, talk or eat.
He was dependent on
