severe infection at age two. He received his new hands during an 11-hour operation in early July at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and since has been doing physical and occupational therapy several times a day, NBC News reported.
He has made significant progress and went home from the hospital on Wednesday.
“He’s just a remarkable lad. Today he was playing with his action figures and baking cookies with a whisk, doing all sorts of things with his hands we never dreamed he would be able to do within a few weeks of surgery,” transplant team lead surgeon Dr. Scott Levin told NBC News.
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A young Baltimore boy has two new transplanted hands to replace ones he lost to amputation five years ago, his doctors announced Tuesday.
Zion Harvey, 8, became the recipient of the world’s first double hand transplant performed on a child, following 10 hours of