What she went through opened her eyes to a problem faced by other amputees and what she did in response to her nonprofit organization is the reason why Abbott is a CNN hero.
So we get to arrange occupational focus groups with our amputee volunteers in order to identify which gestures they will use the most, and of those, how many we could perform using just a single motor.
" It helped me accept myself as an amputee. It gave me a sense of freedom. I fell in love with the process of pushing my body further just to see what I could do."
In a separate story, a farmer in China who lost his hands in a fishing accident has turned his tragedy into a family business. His company now sells bionic arms to other amputees.