Wife acts as Husband's legs after bomb blast

CNN brings this sad and poignant story of an Iraqi family grievously affected by a roadside bomb blast, I've provided an excerpt here:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shada's back aches more and more each day as she literally bears her family's burden. Clothed in a black robe, she strains under her husband's weight.

Murtada, a 29-year-old taxi driver, was once a proud husband and father. But one morning last October, he kissed his family good-bye and set off to work. Within hours, their world was shattered. A bomb blew off both his legs above the knee.

"I lost consciousness for a bit. I knew I was wounded," he says.

"I was under the car. I saw my legs were severed, just flesh and skin. I was holding my legs, bleeding."

Helpless, the daily burden is now on Shada. She carries Murtada when he needs to be moved.

She can't even leave the house because of the constant care she provides her husband.