Fishing trip turned tragic for 16-year-old Jordan Thomas . Double amputee discovered others struggling to pay for prosthetic limbs . The top-of-the-line prosthetics Thomas was fitted with -- the ones that helped him return to the golf links -- cost about $ 22,000 . The teen was found dead in a creek near his home on the outskirts of St. Louis last week after he fell from an embankment while trying to retrieve a fishing pole that had been left behind by another Legislation addresses payment gap , but more needed , say advocates .
Fishing trip turned tragic for 16-year-old Jordan Thomas . Double amputee discovered others struggling to pay for prosthetic limbs . The teen was found dead in a creek near his home on the outskirts of St. Louis last week after he fell from an embankment while trying to retrieve a fishing pole that had been left behind by another Legislation addresses payment gap , but more needed , say advocates .