Kyra Baker looked forward to being able to do the basic things that most people with two hands can do: Wash dishes, tie her shoes, ride a bike. But at the top of her list was to “learn to do my hair with two hands,” the 14-year-old says.
The Warsaw teen was born with a hand that never fully developed. There are fingers, but they don t have any bones.
She could have gotten a prosthetic when she was younger, but that would require doctors to cut off her fingers. And that, Baker says, was something she didn t want to do.
ANGOLA â Prosthetics can be a blessing for people who are missing a limb, but theyâre also very expensive.
That expense can make them impractical for children and adolescents who are constantly growing and changing. However, a senior design group of Trine University engineering majors completed a project this year that provided solutions for two teenage girls born without left hands.
With support from the Kosciusko County Community Foundationâs Helping Hands Fund, the team of Marissa Shaver, a biomedical engineering major from Fostoria, Ohio, Ben Avey, a mechanical engineering major from Pendleton, David Cervera, a biomedical engineering major from South Bend and Karina Bruce, a biomedical engineering major from Findlay, Ohio, designed low-cost prosthetics that will allow the girls to perform routine tasks such as curling their hair.
Burnley Road, close to Hapton Animal Feeds A 41-year-old man who had been riding his motorbike while under the influence of cannabis died in hospital seven days after crashing into a van. An inquest in Preston heard how on November 4 last year, at around 11am, Gareth Wood had been riding his Yamaha motorbike along Burnley Road from Accrington towards Hapton. Ahead of him was a white Vauxhall Combo van, which upon approaching Hapton Animal Feeds, prepared to turn right into the car park. Coroner James Newman told the inquest: Mr Wood attempted to undertake the van and clipped the rear, which caused him to crash and land in a hedge.
They deserve a medal - the teachers and schools praised by parents for support in pandemic
Families have been telling us the schools and teachers they want to thank for supporting pupils
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Thank you posters outside Oak Tree Primary in Cheadle Hulme (Image: Vicky Moran)
Schools across Greater Manchester have been thanked by families for all they have done to support them during the pandemic. In an article last week about executive headteacher Chris Hanson praising families and staff at Corpus Christi RC Primary in Chadderton, Oldham, for pulling together amid the pandemic, we asked parents to tell us who they wanted to thank.