Bilateral Arm Artist Amputee Recieves Assistance from Barr Foundation Garrison O&P Clinic and Hosmer Dorrence
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Title:
Bilateral Arm Artist Amputee Recieves Assistance from Barr Foundation Garrison O&P Clinic and Hosmer Dorrence
Date:
12/5/2003
Text:
Here is yet another assistance story from the Barr Foundation.
This is a remarkable story of a bilateral upper extremity amputee from
Columbia who came to this country for help in obtaining prosthetic arms.
He was born with no arms and is a self taught professional artist.
32 year old John Jario Rueda is a renowned artist whom since at a young age
, has learned to feed, dress and paint himself with his feet and mouth.
In October the Barr Foundation received a telephone call from the local
Spanish television station TELEMUNDO in Miami about John and his needs for
artificial arms.
The Barr Foundation enlisted the help of one of their sponsors Garrison
Prosthetic Clinic in North Miami Beach, Florida and Where Hope Meets Donor
Member Hosmer Dorrance Corporation in Campbell, California.
On December 2, 2003 John received his final fitting and best Xmas present
ever, a brand new set of functional arms.
John is unsure if he will reteach himself how to paint with his new
hands,but he is glad he can at least use them for other functions like carry
his paint
and brushes and feeding himself !!
Talk about n eed!
Barr Foundation has assisted over 800 amputees domestically and abroad with
prosthetic rehabilitation, whom otherwise could not afford.it
Thank you, Hosmer Dorrance and Kevin Garrison.
Donations for this and other efforts are being accepted by the Barr
Foundation and receipted as tax deductible donations.
Tony Barr
Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
www.ertlreconstruction.com
This is a remarkable story of a bilateral upper extremity amputee from
Columbia who came to this country for help in obtaining prosthetic arms.
He was born with no arms and is a self taught professional artist.
32 year old John Jario Rueda is a renowned artist whom since at a young age
, has learned to feed, dress and paint himself with his feet and mouth.
In October the Barr Foundation received a telephone call from the local
Spanish television station TELEMUNDO in Miami about John and his needs for
artificial arms.
The Barr Foundation enlisted the help of one of their sponsors Garrison
Prosthetic Clinic in North Miami Beach, Florida and Where Hope Meets Donor
Member Hosmer Dorrance Corporation in Campbell, California.
On December 2, 2003 John received his final fitting and best Xmas present
ever, a brand new set of functional arms.
John is unsure if he will reteach himself how to paint with his new
hands,but he is glad he can at least use them for other functions like carry
his paint
and brushes and feeding himself !!
Talk about n eed!
Barr Foundation has assisted over 800 amputees domestically and abroad with
prosthetic rehabilitation, whom otherwise could not afford.it
Thank you, Hosmer Dorrance and Kevin Garrison.
Donations for this and other efforts are being accepted by the Barr
Foundation and receipted as tax deductible donations.
Tony Barr
Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
www.ertlreconstruction.com
Citation
“Bilateral Arm Artist Amputee Recieves Assistance from Barr Foundation Garrison O&P Clinic and Hosmer Dorrence,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/222150.
