Double Arm Transplant Compare/Contrast

       This week I read two similar articles on a woman from Texas who lost all of her limbs to a flesh eating disease. After giving birth to her third child, she contracted the rare disease and shortly after it ate through all four of her limbs. That was in 2010, but now in the year 2012 she is scheduled to undergo a bilateral transplant at Brigham and Woman's Hospital and get two new arms. After the disease struck her, she went into a coma for about a week and during this time they amputated her limbs. When she first woke up the first thing she said to her husband was "OK let's get to work", this was a sign of the true fight she had inside of her. She said right away she knew she wanted arm transplants, not just prostetic arms or legs. She is going to be the first person in the country to recieve two new arms. Doctors say her mental and spiritual health were key in her recovery process. I got all of this information from the Boston Herald.
       However, reading the same article from the Boston Globe was somewhat different from the article in the Herald. For starters, the article in the Globe was about twice the length of the Herald. The beginning of the story in the Globe was different because it started off saying everything that she could do before she lost her arms and legs. Also, in the Globe there are direct quotes from Katy Hayes which show her excitement for life and how she plans to go on even if she doesn't have her arms or legs. The Globe also mentions who Hayes is waiting for a donor that is female, of similiar skin and blood type. They also talked about how after about 18 months of rehabilitation she will be able to bend her elbows and have sensation in her fingers which will allow her to lift herself in and out of the wheelchair by herself. They talked about a similar surgery that was done in Germany about four years ago, where a farmer lost his arms in a harvesting accident, but he is doing fine with his new arms now. It also tells how her husband was the one who made the decision to cut off her limbs and save her life, not Hayes herself. Then the article sums up by talking about her other two children that she can't wait to hold and to get back to her normal life.