Bionic Mom Tabitha Mullings Get's Her Life Back
It's a profile in courage and an example for all us. Tabitha Mullings, 33, is trying to get her life back to normal after a medical misdiagnosis left her a qauruple amputee.
The Brooklyn mom has been fitted with two prosthetic hands and one bionic limb that allows her to turn doorknobs, and she stopped by our studios today to tell us her story.
Mullings has been walking with a prothetic leg for more than a year and was fitted with the two hands last week by Ortho Remedy Inc. in Cliffside Park, NJ.
Mullings' ordeal began in September 2008, when she was misdiagnosed with kidney stones. Just days after doctors sent her home, she developed a sepsis infection and lapsed into gangrene. The ordeal destroyed her limbs and robbed her of her eyesight in one eye.
Through it all Mullings sasy she is determined to live a happy life and her determination and resiliency is fueled by her three sons and mother.
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Comments: 1
she is a real hero. the world has many unsung women men and children who never make the front page. they are the ines that lead the real word