Word: forearming
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...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
...walk in a bar and have someone say, 'Sorry about Tara.' Oh, man." He also promises never to try to act or move to L.A., where he grew up. In fact, he's got a post-9/11 red-white-and-blue tattoo that says nyc on his forearm below a cross and a Corvette logo, a tribute to his car-salesman dad. Though he's a practicing Roman Catholic, he is not, as rumor has it, a born-again Christian, as evidenced by his cursing, drinking and being friends with Jimmy Kimmel...
...faster than anybody who can write better." In the film game, To is the embodiment of that maxim. He makes quality pictures in quantity. He drives himself hard and his staff nuts; 24/7 is a normal work week at Milkyway. He suffered a severe burn on his right forearm while making Fulltime Killer, but kept on shooting. His editors have stayed in the cutting room 10 days and nights straight to get a movie in theaters on time. It's all about the work ethic?and the work passion. "I'm not a good man, but I like what...
Five minutes, 10, 15. No response in the arm. "We were nursing this for about 30 minutes," Rogers says. "Then, all of a sudden, all the little cuts in his forearm started to bleed, and we could hear pulses in the arteries." The trickiest part, the doctors say, was stitching the skin back. "It was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together," says De Campos. After 12 hours in surgery, they wheeled him into the recovery room. They could only wait and see if he would survive...
...husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead on the night of the 1998 Super Bowl, and his hand is flown to Boston where a brilliant surgeon transplants it to Wallingford's left forearm. With the hand comes the grieving widow, who has some interesting plans of her own for the lucky recipient...