Being bionic: how technology transformed my life

Prosthetics have made amazing advances in recent years – and are slowly changing people’s attitudes to disability. By Patrick KaneI was born with the usual set of limbs. When I was nine months old, I contracted meningococcal septicaemia, a dangerous infection of the blood, which very nearly killed me. I survived, but because I had sustained major tissue damage, it became necessary to amputate my right leg below the knee, all of the fingers on my left hand and the second and third dig