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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer CNN correspondent Miles O'Brien has arm amputated after accident
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/health/miles-obrien-amputation/<snip>
Miles O'Brien, award-winning science journalist and former CNN correspondent and anchor, revealed in a blog post that his left arm was amputated recently after an accident.
"I wish I had a better story to tell you about why I am typing this with one hand (and some help from Dragon Dictate)," he wrote.
The story is not, he wrote with bittersweet humor, as "entertaining" as an "out-of-control quad copter that turns on its master," or perhaps a shark attack or assassination attempt.
What led to the loss of O'Brien's arm was a case of TV gear.
On February 12, he was stacking cases onto a cart after a reporting trip to Japan and the Philippines, and one of them fell on his left forearm.
"It hurt, but I wasn't all '911' about it. It was painful and swollen but I figured it would be okay without any medical intervention. Maybe a little bit of denial?" O'Brien wrote.
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Former CNN correspondent Miles O'Brien has arm amputated after accident (Original Post)
malaise
Mar 2015
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Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)1. That happened a year ago. nt
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)2. Didn't that happen last year?
elleng
(131,370 posts)3. Not new news, he's been appearing on PBS on science,
including lots about prosthetics. Here's one:
malaise
(269,278 posts)4. Still it is a year old
Thanks for your link
elleng
(131,370 posts)5. Yes, it is a year old. His features on prosthetics are new,
and very interesting.
malaise
(269,278 posts)6. There's nothing like personal experience
He seems the type who can adjust
elleng
(131,370 posts)7. He seems to be doing well,
and good he's got his job, and with it, doing good works.
malaise
(269,278 posts)8. Now I know why this was on the link - there's a program with Miles and
Sanjay Gupta is talking about the entire accident and life since with O'Brien now.
Man that was hard for him - still going on - CNN.