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286: What if you were born without a hand?

This Is Actually Happening

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The Importance of Devotion to Religion

At 10 months old doctors moved the toe bones from his left foot to his hand. When he was 7 they grafted a second toe onto his wrist, but it didn't work out as planned. At 9-years-old surgeons lengthened my forearm and used an alizarov device that pulls apart bone by millimeters every day. And then at 13 years of age I had surgery on my right arm which allowed me to move all four fingers with one hand.

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