Ihor Lakatosh struggles to describe his life before the surgeries, when his severe burns went untreated for years in his native Ukraine, leaving him with one arm fused to his body, unable to walk and abandoned by his mother. The 11-year-old boy, however, smiles widely and repeatedly makes the sign of the cross when he describes how he feels now, after a series of surgeries and physical therapy at a Boston charity hospital. “Thank you I can walk. Thank you I can walk. Thank you Lord, I can walk,” he said recently through an interpreter.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:01:24 +0000
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