A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.
Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of “bionic” hands with 24 programmable functions that will improve her dexterity, her father, Andy, told the Associated Press.
Copeland, of Snellville, contracted a rare infection called necrotizing fasciitis in May 2012 after falling from a zip line and gashing her leg.
She spent two months at the Shepherd Center, a rehabilitation clinic in Atlanta, learning to move, eat and bathe without prosthetics.
She spent part of the week at Touch Bionics being fitted for the prosthetic hands that her father says will be controlled by her…
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