Former soldier speaks out about double arm transplants
USA TODAY | Janice Lloyd
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Marrocco, 26, of Staten Island, N.Y., was the first servicemember of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive the loss of four limbs. He has said he "doesn't regret a thing." He's already moving his new arms.
"My arms have given me a lot of hope. They feel great," Marrocco said in a briefing from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where he was the first soldier to receive a double arm transplant. "Don't have any pain anymore. Currently I don't have any feeling yet, but we'll get there. I can move my wrist a little bit."
He lost both legs above the knees, his left arm below the elbow and his right arm above the elbow in Iraq when a military vehicle he was driving on Easter 2009 was struck by a roadside bomb.
Brendan Marrocco, 26, of Staten Island, speaks Tuesday about the double arm transplant he underwent at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Former soldier Brendan Marrocco is speaking publicly Tuesday for the first time about his long recovery from a bomb blast in Iraq and what it feels like to have two new transplanted arms.Marrocco, 26, of Staten Island, N.Y., was the first servicemember of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive the loss of four limbs. He has said he "doesn't regret a thing." He's already moving his new arms.
"My arms have given me a lot of hope. They feel great," Marrocco said in a briefing from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where he was the first soldier to receive a double arm transplant. "Don't have any pain anymore. Currently I don't have any feeling yet, but we'll get there. I can move my wrist a little bit."
He lost both legs above the knees, his left arm below the elbow and his right arm above the elbow in Iraq when a military vehicle he was driving on Easter 2009 was struck by a roadside bomb.
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