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Phocomelia is a congenital condition that involves malformations of human arms and legs which result in a flipper-like appendage. [1] [2] A prominent cause of phocomelia is the mother being prescribed the use of the drug thalidomide during pregnancy; however, the causes of most cases are to be determined.
Bonnie J. Consolo (October 12, 1938 – December 27, 2005), née Bonnie Jean Pflug, was a Kentucky native and motivational speaker who was born without hands or arms. Consolo was the third of five children born to Wendell and Ruby (Sorrell) Pflug, and the only one with born with a disability in the family.
Character Book(s) Author(s) Disability Ref. 1995 Nessarose, AKA Wicked Witch of the East: Wicked: Gregory Maguire: Born without arms. [citation needed] 1851 Captain Ahab: Moby Dick: Herman Melville: A whale bit off Ahab's leg, and he stands on what's left of the bone. The sound of his ivory limb echoes on the deck.
1889: Frank Lentini, an Italian-American sideshow performer, was born with a third leg, as well as a fourth foot and two sets of genitals; 1995: Somali baby girl born with three left arms. [4] March 2006: a baby boy identified only as Jie-jie was born in Shanghai with a fully formed third arm: he had two full-sized left arms, one ventral to the ...
Marty Ravellette was the fourth [1] child of the farm family of Ernest D. Ravellette and Laurene Ravellette (née Frohreich). [2] [3] He was born without arms. [1]Faced with the challenge of this disability, his family was convinced to place him at the age of two months in the Good Shepherd Home, known today as the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Devi, who is one of his protégées, is just 17 years old but won bronze in the mixed team compound open competition, becoming the first female archer without arms to medal at the Paralympic Games.
The snap shows her eight youngest kids — Noah, Maliyah, Nariyah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah and Makai — wearing crowns and holding up two fingers, to show 11. "Happy birthday to my ...
Steve Buscemi John Nacion/Getty Images Steve Buscemi didn’t love every moment of filming the movie Grown Ups. In the 2010 film, Buscemi’s character, Wiley, suffers an injury at the waterpark ...