Tuesday, March 27, 2018

hand transplants

when he  8 years old  Zion hervey  received  in incredible gift two new hands ! he han lost his hands and feet as toddler but 
in July 2015 the chiders  hospital of philadelphia performed the first  pediatric bilateral hand transplant. Surgeons attached Zion new  hands and forearms in a complex 10- hour surgery where they connected   bone blood vessels muscles  tendons and skin Zion now look forward to swinging on monkey bar holding his litter sister with tis new hands.




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