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. Shada now carries her husband around the house. His legs were blown off in a bombing. 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.
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Iraqi woman devotes herself to caring for injured husband
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Her husband lost both legs in bombing, has been unable to get prosthetics
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"I saw my legs were severed, just flesh and skin," he says
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Wife: "I am asking people for help because I cannot leave him alone in the house"
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