Twelve years ago Peng Shui-lin’s body was severed when he was hit by a truck – it took a team of 20 doctors to treat him, but he survived. Doctors grafted skin from his head to seal his torso, leaving him alive but without legs. Then, last year, scientists at the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing learned about his struggles, and outfitted him with a specially-designed pair of bionic legs, along with a modified walker. Now Peng is learning to walk again.—Gregory Mone
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Nananananannaanana. Nanananananananana.
You know, the sound from the Six Million Dollar Man.
I think of stories like this when I hear people bad-mouthing the medical profession. God bless them.
Are these legs somehow better than wheels?
Do0D....poor guy. . .
So instead of a disabled individual, he became a robotic midget.
That's a step up I guess.
dude. egglegs!