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Over time, Copeland is learning how to control her hands by flexing and contracting the muscles in her residual limbs.
The father of the 24-year-old grad student who has been battling flesh-eating bacteria for over a month says she has “struggled mightily”.!
She lost both of her arms and a leg after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacteria, but now, she’s been given not one — but two — helping hands.
Aimee Copeland, a 25-year-old graduate student from Georgia, tragically lost both arms at the elbow and her left leg, as well as her right foot, after contracting necrotizing fasciitis during a zip-line accident in May 2012.
The young woman has recently been fitted with state-of-the-art prosthetic hands, a promising new development that will allow Copeland to begin picking up the pieces of her former life.
Appearing Friday on the “Today” show, the determined young woman showed viewers how she’s overcome her circumstances and has re-learned how to do the simplest of tasks — like slicing strawberries and chopping cucumbers.
Speaking with “Today,” she said that she sometimes forgets that all of this has happened.
“Sometimes I wake up, and I’m just like, ‘Oh my God, is this my life?'”
She was fitted with two prosthetic hands, each costing $100,000, by T
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