She
Survived the
Boston Bombing, But Can She
Bear the
17th Surgery?
“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 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
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