Limbless Man Swims Across English Channel

Headline story can be found here & here. A remarkable feat for anyone to do. It's just plain incredible. This is his private website. For the animal lovers, here's an older animal amputee story that recently crossed my desk; a survival story from Hurricane Katrina. Also, you may recall Monica (Sprague) Jorge was on Oprah with Jenny McCarthy two years ago. Oprah had her back, this time with Nate Berkus, and surprised the Jorge family with a new house. They filmed a "Day in the life" video with Monica, before surprising her with the good news. Monica fell ill only weeks before Suzanne, and lost most of her arms and legs. Suzanne was fortunate to have kept her hands through her series of surgeries; and we credit the all of the medical professionals who treated her for months on end.

Speaking of Suzanne's hands, she will be heading back to the hand surgeon on Monday to have her cast removed from last week's surgery. Everything seems to be progressing well with that. But there are probably one or two more hand surgeries to go. Sue's legs are doing better as well. Her new prosthetist in Annapolis is working with her to mould new sockets for her legs. It is a trial and error adjustment phase which will take some time to get the best fit. Until then, the old legs are still holding her up, albeit rather uncomfortably.