Combat veteran Karolyn Smith returned home from her deployments with multiple debilitating injuries and PTSD. She found herself heavily medicated and losing hope, with no solutions in sight until technologists and physicians at UCLA’s Operation Mend performed groundbreaking surgery on her that reduced her pain, increased her mobility, and restored her hope.
When she met Sophia, a kitten who had also suffered a traumatic injury that left her with an amputated leg Smith saw herself in the kitten and began her mission to change little Sophia’s life by prototyping the first 3D-printed feline prosthetic.
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