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04-08-2014, 10:41 PM
She Survived the Boston Bombing, But Can She Bear the 17th Surgery?
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“I think I’m ready to chop it off.”
Rebekah Gregory is weary — confident one moment, hesitant the next. Staring down at the stitches in her left leg, she emits a nervous laugh. “I don’t k**w. I mean, I k**w we’ve done so much to fix it. But I just —”
She pauses and looks down at the floor
Her doctor leans against a table, eyebrows knitted. He runs a hand through his salt-and-pepper beard. He exhales and looks out the window.
The sound of cars from the nearby highway fills the silence — horns honk, tires screech. She bites her lip and waits for his response.
After the Boston Marathon attack (http://mashable.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-explosion/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on April 15, 2013, doctors thought they could save Rebekah's left leg. One of the bombs shattered it from the knee down, destroying tissues, muscles and half her phibia in a matter of seconds. It ripped her right hand open to the bone and burned her right leg almost entirely Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/boston-bombing-rebekah-gregory/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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“I think I’m ready to chop it off.”
Rebekah Gregory is weary — confident one moment, hesitant the next. Staring down at the stitches in her left leg, she emits a nervous laugh. “I don’t k**w. I mean, I k**w we’ve done so much to fix it. But I just —”
She pauses and looks down at the floor
Her doctor leans against a table, eyebrows knitted. He runs a hand through his salt-and-pepper beard. He exhales and looks out the window.
The sound of cars from the nearby highway fills the silence — horns honk, tires screech. She bites her lip and waits for his response.
After the Boston Marathon attack (http://mashable.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-explosion/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on April 15, 2013, doctors thought they could save Rebekah's left leg. One of the bombs shattered it from the knee down, destroying tissues, muscles and half her phibia in a matter of seconds. It ripped her right hand open to the bone and burned her right leg almost entirely Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/boston-bombing-rebekah-gregory/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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