The Story of My Right Hand

I was born without my right hand. It's not part of any known named syndrome. My parents felt an urgency to come up with a treatment plan or some kind of a solution. They explored reconstructive surgery which was really going through a trendy period at that point in the early 90s. The surgeons described this helper hand as being slightly inferior to a fully functional hand but something that I could do simple tasks with.

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