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Trying to live life normally after having two last rites
Deputy Life Editor Wong Kim Hoh talks to a feisty woman who doesn't waste time bemoaning her fate despite having had her hands and lower legs amputated after a ruptured ovarian cyst led to her going into septic shock.
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She's not overstating the difficulty of the task. Ms Carole, you see, moves around in a wheelchair. Her limbs have been amputated: her hands, just after the wrists, and her legs, below the knees.
Cleaning Angel's ears involves holding the cotton stick by pressing it between the stumps of her arms and guiding it carefully into her pet's ear canals.
