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spoke to the charity’s founder Corinne Hutton, 50, who was given a five per cent chance of surviving sepsis in 2013 and had her hands and legs amputated.
After setting up the charity, she became the first quadruple amputee to climb Ben Nevis, the first female quadruple amputee to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and the first Scot to receive a double hand transplant.
William told her: “You’re a huge inspiration. I’m so pleased the NET have found you and you’ve found them and that relationship is helping.”
They were joined McAtamany, 57, who by Stephen had his left leg amputated in 1988 after a motorbike accident.
The Duke bonded with Stephen over their shared love of biking and William remarked on changing attitudes to disability.
William, who met many Paralympic athletes at the London 2012 Games, said: “One of the things I noticed after the games was that the country’s attitudes towards those who had lost their limbs was completely changed. Is that true? Do you guys see that and feel that as well?”
Stephen replied: “Definitely. In the old days you’d wear your trousers. Nowadays I’ve got a leopard print prosthetic limb and it’s just out there when you’re wearing shorts in the summer.
“People don’t look twice now.” On his virtual tour of Scottish charities, William also spoke yesterday to Lifelines Scotland, which supports blue light workers and volunteer emergency responders.
The former air ambulance pilot argued more should be done in initial training to prepare them for mental trauma in their work.
He said: “In the same way that we all have checklists we follow to make sure we’re not missing anything, we need to have the same thing with mental health.”