"Eight-year-old Zion Harvey underwent an 11-hour procedure involving a 40-person medical team to give him new hands. The Maryland boy lost his hands and feet after suffering an infection as a child. Eight-year-old Zion Harvey underwent an 11-hour procedure involving a 40-person medical team to give him new hands (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) .... Two years later, Zion continues to adjust well to his new hands. The boy's progress was noted in an article published Tuesday in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the first medical journal report about the surgery, which took place in July 2015. The report documented the first 18 months of Zion's progress and noted that he is now able to write, feed and dress himself independently. Within days of the operation, which took more than 10 hours, Zion was able to move his fingers using ligaments from his residual limbs, according to the report. With “extensive rehabilitation,” Zion tackled one milestone after another. By six months, he could move the newly transplanted muscles in his hands and feel touch; it was around then that he learned to feed himself and hold a pen. By eight months, he could use scissors and crayons. And within a year, he had achieved one of his original goals: gripping and swinging a baseball bat with both hands." informal items with plus size to wear of the wedding