Bionic Woman Thoughts

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5715902&page=1 That is the link to the story. The date it was on was on Sept. 8, 2008.

The three vocabulary words

1. Prosthesis- an artificial body part. (In this case her arm)
2. Rehabilitation- restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
3. Bionic- having artificial body parts, esp. electromechanical ones.

The Bionic Woman is about a lady that had got hurt in a motorcycle accident and had to get her arm amputated, but she thought they would only have to amputate her arm to the elbow but they had to go all the way up to the shoulder. Which made it worse for her because she would have no left arm. But hope came for her and the doctors found out that they could do a surgery called "targeted reinnervation". This surgery will let her have a robotic arm controlled not by her arm stump or shoulder, but by her thoughts. It ended up that it did not only control movement of her left arm and hand it also let her feel (ex: feel the warmth of something and feel if someone touched her but only if they touched her chest in the right place.)

What I think about the issue discussed in the article is that it is really crazy that someone would be able to touch and feel things with a robotic arm. It seems impossible, but apparently it isn't impossible. The lady in the article must have been so surprised when she felt warmth in her hand from the hot water when she was in the shower one day. I would have been. I probably would have freaked out and most likely i would have been really happy and immediately call the doctors to tell them. It is a great thing what the doctors did. They helped her in many ways. Most people would not think that being able to hold a book, write on a piece of paper, or just something as easy as getting a drink of water would make you so lucky to be able to do it. But it really is a great thing that we can use both of our arms without really having to think about it. When the woman lost her arm she could not hold a glass of water with her left arm because it was not there then she get a robotic arm and it is like the greatest thing that had happened to her. If I was her and had to get my arm amputated then I would go for the surgery to be able to do the things I could with my original arm.