Wednesday, July 16, 2014

With transplanted arms and Army grit, a quadruple amputee soldiers on

The Washington Post tells this amazing story, With transplanted arms and Army grit, a quadruple amputee soldiers on.

"It has been 18 months since Marrocco, 27, of Staten Island, underwent a rare double arm transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He had lost both legs and parts of both arms to a makeshift bomb in Iraq on Easter 2009. At the time of his injury, he was the first service member from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive the loss of four limbs. He then became the first service member to receive a double arm transplant and still is one of only seven people in the United States who have successfully undergone the procedure."

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