A WEIGHT OFF HIS SHOULDERS
Feb 05, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY MAXINE PETERS
HE’S propped up on a pillow in a hospital bed, still in recovery from major surgery that lasted 14 hours and took a team of 50 medics to perform.
But nothing can stop the smile spreading across his face. He’s waited for this moment for more than two decades and he’s ready to tell the world.
A laptop is propped up in front of him and dozens of journalists from his homeland have tuned in for the occasion.
“Welcome, dear Icelanders,” Felix Grétarsson says. “Twenty-three years ago, on 12 January 1998, I lost both arms in an accident just outside Reykjavik.
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