Burglars steal triple amputee's hand movement
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
BY ALIA MALIK
AUGUST 22, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ben Eberle was smoking a cigarette Nov. 19, 2011, in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan when he saw the blue wire.
He took one last drag of his cigarette, knowing what would come the moment the enemy detected his movement. He took off running and the IED exploded.
Eberle threw up his right arm to protect his face from the blast. He lost that hand, and both of his legs.
Almost three years later, Eberle, now 27 and medically retired, smoked a cigarette as he described the overnight burglary that cost him his right hand for the second time.
Eberle awoke sometime after 10 a.m. Friday to the news that someone had smashed the window of his pickup and stolen an iPod Touch out of the center console.
It was no ordinary iPod Touch. The device had an application called i-limb, which Eberle manipulated with the pinky of his prosthetic right hand to achieve a range of movements that otherwise would be impossible with so many damaged nerves.
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