Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Yewande Komolafe

  • On quadruple amputations

    Avi OhryTel Aviv, Israel Recently I read “How Losing My Limbs Turned Me into a Different Kind of Cook.”1 It is the story of Yewande Komolafe, whose two-decade career as a cook came to an abrupt end when a catastrophic sickle cell crisis led to bilateral below-the-knee and upper limb amputations. Cooking was at one…