Introducing... Fred Ingersoll

Location: Stoughton, WI (a hotbed of Norwegians)
Date of Amputation/Cause:    I had a through the elbow amputation on March 20, 2005.  It was due to a blood clot and Compartment Syndrome setting in as a result of taking an artery from the left forearm for a heart bypass operation three weeks earlier.
Prosthesis:  I expect to get a hook type prosthesis.  Curious if I will use it very much or not. I feel fortunate that it was not my dominant hand.  I think that it  would be tough at my age to learn to use the other hand.
Amp Events Attended:  None
Other Information:  I am 73 years old.  My wife and I have six children, fifteen grandchildren and one great grand child with two more on the way.  My wife has been in a nursing home with Alzheimer's for the past two years.  I enjoy the outdoors and look forward to learning to fish one handed and to take up golf too.
E-mail:  fvinger@sbcglobal.net

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