The recovery of Kaitlyn Lasitter after devastating amusement park injury
Posted 6/5/2009
Kaitlyn Lasitter on the cover of House Organ
They danced and jumped in the packed crowd and even got their arms autographed by the musicians.
But what seems like a typical night out for a teenager was an amazing accomplishment for Kaitlyn.
Just two years before, she was lying on an operating table at Vanderbilt Medical Center, her feet were apart from her body and on ice on a nearby table after being severed just above the ankle by a faulty cable on a Kentucky amusement park ride.
Talented surgeons were able to reattach her right foot but not the left. In the time since, Kaitlyn has learned to walk again on one foot and one prosthesis.
The last two years have been a waiting game for Kaitlyn to see if her body would accept her replanted foot and whether it would regain motor and sensory function.
She got the all-clear only a few months ago.
To read the rest of Kaitlyn’s story by Leslie Hast, go to the House Organ Web site at http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan/.
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