Zion Harvey
Shared By Mark Flippo
Eight-year-old Zion Harvey, the first child to receive a double hand transplant, spent most of his life without his hands and feet. "I just want to say this, never give up on your dreams. It will come true," he said. Zion has endured more than most adults. A severe infection when he was 2 years old forced doctors to amputate both his hands and feet.
He walks with the help of prosthetics, but for his hands, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia decided to try something they had never done before with a child: a double hand transplant. The same infection that claimed his limbs required him to have a kidney transplant when he was 4 years old. Levin directed a team of 40 people, including 10 surgeons, who worked in four separate teams to attach the donor's hands in an operation in early July. The hands came from another boy, roughly the same size and age. Zion himself said he doesn't feel all that different now. "I'm the same person who I still used to be, but with some cool new hands," Zion said.
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Shared By Mark Flippo
Eight-year-old Zion Harvey, the first child to receive a double hand transplant, spent most of his life without his hands and feet. "I just want to say this, never give up on your dreams. It will come true," he said. Zion has endured more than most adults. A severe infection when he was 2 years old forced doctors to amputate both his hands and feet.
He walks with the help of prosthetics, but for his hands, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia decided to try something they had never done before with a child: a double hand transplant. The same infection that claimed his limbs required him to have a kidney transplant when he was 4 years old. Levin directed a team of 40 people, including 10 surgeons, who worked in four separate teams to attach the donor's hands in an operation in early July. The hands came from another boy, roughly the same size and age. Zion himself said he doesn't feel all that different now. "I'm the same person who I still used to be, but with some cool new hands," Zion said.
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