Awakening after being hit by a truck while riding his motorcycle in Kona, Hawaii, Dustin Reynolds felt the bloody stump of his left arm, and instantly saw the hard road ahead, he said. The rest of his life would be difficult. Cellphone in his right hand, he had a choice to make—he chose to live. Since the accident in 2008, Reynolds has traversed storms both literal and figurative. Overcoming bankruptcy, he learned to sail and now claims to be the first double amputee to have circumnavigated the globe. “I didn’t have any decent job prospects, randomly I found a website of people that set records sailing around the world alone,” Reynolds, 43, told The Epoch Times. “Since there was no double amputee on the list; I decided to change that.” He sold his carpet-cleaning van and fishing boat for $12,000 and bought a $12,000 used yacht—a beat-up 1968 Alberg 35, …