Stroke survivor Kerry Long has a new bionic glove and her auntie Pauline Williams says they hope it will help transform her life
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00:00 Okay, so 10 years ago, Kerry suffered the major stroke,
00:03 which has left her right side was all affected,
00:07 and her speech, she can't converse.
00:12 But she's now walking with her limb, obviously,
00:18 because when she's been told, no, she will never go any further,
00:21 because this isn't, you know, she won't be 100%,
00:25 but she decided that she's seen the hand,
00:31 robotic hand, bionic hand advertised,
00:34 and she thought, right, because her hand is clenched up,
00:40 she's got a paralysed arm,
00:43 we're thinking anything that makes life easier for her
00:47 by raising the money to buy the hand,
00:50 and immediately she's got this hand,
00:53 she's plugged it in, and immediately her fingers
00:56 were stimulated enough that they opened up.
01:00 That's just the start.
01:01 We don't know how much further we can go with this,
01:05 but anything will help, you know, to enable her to...
01:10 any little thing, you know, with life, you know?