“Things are a little different now,” Buda resident John “Fritz” Zavala said with a catch in his voice, as he looked down where his leg had been amputated roughly a month ago.

Despite the circumstances, Zavala showed a smile to his wife, as they readied to leave for his first prosthetic fitting in Austin. Zavala understood that things could have been much, much worse.

More than a month has passed since John was involved in a motorcycle accident at the Robert S. Light and S...