Leonor works as an illustrater and make wonderful paintings.
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Leonor Harris is 43 years and worked as a teacher of arts in a school in Puerto Williams, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Her life was normal, until that in a day she took into a hospital feeling very bad, with too much cold and feeling very tired. They so decided in the next day to take her by plane to a little bigger city. Into short time her body became deeply letargic and she went into a coma, in which she would awaken 3 months later.
During this time the doctors tryed insistently to discover what could be afecting Leonor. In the beggining, they believed that it was meningitis. However, in one of the examinations carried out, it showed that she had been afected by a commom bacteria know as pneumococcus. Her body was necrosing and she didn´t awaken. Because of this the doctors needed to take a radical decision: amputate her fingers, her legs and her nose.
After 3 months fighting for her life, Leonor awakened. Se was alive but something was very different. She suspected that she had been amputated, but not about her legs. She came to know about that only in the next day when the doctor came to examinate her and took the blanket to see how her scars were. With this terrible chock, Leonor needed to get used with her new body.
Nowadays Leonor is traying to adapt herself to her deficiencies and its not been easy, once she can not work as a teacher anymore. Now she woks producing toys and handcrafts to sell online, as well as illustrations.
