{"id":204040,"date":"2026-05-28T00:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:52:16","slug":"philadelphia-woman-utilizes-adaptive-technology-after-losing-limbs-during-covid-19-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204040\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia woman utilizes adaptive technology after losing limbs during COVID-19 battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Philadelphia first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/candice-davis-philadelphia-april-limb-loss-awareness-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introduced you<\/a> to Candice Davis in 2024. Davis, who lives in Philadelphia and is a former flight attendant, had her arms and legs amputated after a severe battle with COVID-19 in 2021. She spent nine months in the hospital, and since then, she spends several days a week at Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Now at the rehabilitation hospital, the 34-year-old is learning to use assistive technology to help her improve her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is amazing the things that are coming out,&#8221; Davis said, &#8220;and the things technology is doing for people like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the hospital, she uses a new phone attachment on her wheelchair, which includes voice activation, helping her turn on devices and search for things online.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is also able to put on a prosthetic arm easily, despite not having hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It takes a lot of practice,&#8221; Davis said, &#8220;but I do my makeup, eyelashes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Katie Griffiths works for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inglis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Inglis<\/a>, which supports people with disabilities through housing, day programming, employment services and adapted technology. She is helping Davis learn how to use new devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She can use technology to do so many things,&#8221; Griffiths said, &#8220;and it just encourages us to find more opportunities. I think that it&#8217;s allowed her to really live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Eisenberg with Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation said watching Davis learn to live on her own despite her limb loss has been an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just being able to have that independence within the house to do everyday adult living things,&#8221; Eisenberg said, &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis said she&#8217;s excited to live on her own someday and is grateful for the support and new technology helping her with her therapy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every little thing you have to re-learn to do,&#8221; Davis said, &#8220;I appreciate all of the small things now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Philadelphia first introduced you to Candice Davis in 2024. Davis, who lives in Philadelphia and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7619,1057,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-204040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}