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There's new medical technology to help you heal if you break a bone.
It's a 3D printed cast, that is lightweight, and designed to be fitted exactly to you.
And now the first patient in Louisiana has one.
Serenity Cheramie is like every high school junior. She loves having fun with friends, but a year ago, that became trouble.
“I was on an ATV, and I was driving too fast, and me and my friends saw like a hole in the ground, and she turned the wheel this way, and I turned it that way, and we flipped,” Cheramie, 17, said.
The wide-open tissue wounds and break to both bones in her arm were traumatic. She was brought to Children's Hospital in New Orleans from her home in Larose.
“I mean, amputation was possibly an option at the time. It was so bad you know. Of course I said, ‘You've got to try and save the arm,’” her father Adam Cheramie said.
MORE: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/3d-printed-custom-fit-casts-come-to-louisiana-for-the-first-time/289-e2acc338-f499-426f-891f-a8adf8faedd9