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GRAND PRAIRIE TX - It's another day and another surgery for Airman Colton Read of North Texas. Wednesday the 20-year-old had more dead tissue removed from one of two amputated legs. Read lost his legs after a routine procedure took a turn for the worst at an Air Force hospital in Sacramento. Now the airman is fighting for his life and much of that fighting spirit can be traced back to Texas. "He was mature enough not to get into any trouble," said Read's grandfather, Sam DeBrow. "He was older than his years when he looked at things," DeBrow said...

A Texas Airman stationed at an Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif. has lost both legs after surgeons reportedly botched a routine surgery to remove his gallbladder. Colton Read, 20, underwent laproscopic surgery last week at David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento. Laproscopic surgery is a minimally invasive procedure that involves making a tiny incision to minimize pain and speed recovery time. About an hour into the surgery, something went wrong. Read's wife Jessica told CBS11TV.com. "A nurse runs out, 'we need blood now' and she rounds the corner and my gut feelings is 'oh...

A 20-year-old airman was in critical condition at University of California Davis Medical Center on Monday, after losing both legs in what his family described as complications of routine gallbladder surgery. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 20-year-old airman was in critical condition at University of California Davis Medical Center on Monday, after losing both legs in what his family described as complications of routine gallbladder surgery... Read, who was stationed at Beale Air Force Base east of Marysville, Calif., was supposed to get his gallbladder removed laparoscopically at the Travis hospital, said his wife, Jessica Read. Instead, a device being threaded...

Jessica Read is still stunned about what happened to her husband. "It's very hard for us to understand." Last week, 20-year-old Colton Read, who grew up in Arlington and who's now in the U. S. Air Force, went to have laparoscopic surgery to remove his gall-bladder at David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento. His mother, Shelly Read-Miller says he wasn't worried. "He said 'Mom, this is routine, it's no big deal.'" But what happened during surgery turned out to be a very big deal. Jessica Read says around 10 a.m., about an hour into the...