How Mica eats by herself

Sep 19, 2022

She uses her left shoulder stump to push the fork to the edge of the table and grips it between her shoulder stump and her chest. She leans forward to pick food up from the plate with the fork.

Then she drops the fork on the side of the plate, presses onto the end with her stump, this lifts the other end like a lever.

She bites the food off the fork and eats it. Finally she knocks the fok off the plate back onto the table, scoots it to the edge again and picks it up as she did before.

It's a slow process and prone to mistakes and accidents. If she drops the fork on the floor or in the chair, she can't get it back. So someomne else always needs to be there to help.