Edward Wong of the New York Times writes a profile of the Sichuan Missing Limbs Restoration Center, where many of the victims of the May 12 earthquake are being treated:
Li Chunyang, 16, is one of the children pulled from the rubble of Dongqi Middle School in the town of Hanwang after being trapped for 52 hours. His left leg had been pinned under debris. It was amputated after his rescue.
The other day, he went on his own from Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, to the city of Deyang to take a national school exam. The trip involved getting on a bus, then walking through city streets. It was his first journey with an artificial leg. It took two hours.
