An Iraq veteran who lost all four
limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq almost four-years ago said today
he's looking forward to driving and swimming after undergoing a
double-arm transplant.
'I
just want to get the most out of these arms, and just as goals come up,
knock them down and take it absolutely as far as I can,' Brendan
Marrocco said Tuesday.
The
26-year-old New Yorker spoke at a news conference at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, where he was joined by surgeons who performed the arduous and
complex 13-hour operation.
After he was wounded, Marrocco said, he felt fine using prosthetic legs, but he hated not having arms.
'You
talk with your hands, you do everything with your hands, basically, and
when you don't have that, you're kind of lost for a while,' he said. More pictures after the cut.....
Marrocco said his chief desire is to drive the black Dodge Charger that's been sitting in his garage for three years.
'I
used to love to drive,' he said. 'I'm really looking forward to just
getting back to that, and just becoming an athlete again.'
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