Q: Can you give an update on Aimee Copeland, who lost parts of all four extremities after a fall into the water while zip lining about a year ago?
— Barb Ribner, Decatur
A: Copeland, whose hands, right foot and left leg were amputated last year to help save her from necrotizing fasciitis, is living with her parents in Snellville and is on schedule to graduate with a master's degree from West Georgia University in August, her father, Andy Copeland, told Q&A on the News in an email. She also has applied to Valdosta State, where she wants to earn a master's of social work, and Aimee has plans to start a wilderness therapy camp for people with disabilities, her father said. Aimee recently told the South Gwinnett Rotary Club that she will be fitted for a set of advanced prosthetics called the i-limb Ultra. "They're flying me up to Ohio in May, and they're going to custom-fit me with a pair of these hands," she said in a video on Snellville Patch (snellville.patch.com). "I really can't stress to you how much that will allow me to do." Doctors believe the bacteria entered Copeland's body through a gash in her leg, which she injured during a zip line accident on the Little Tallapoosa River last May.
Q: While watching the final round of the Masters, I didn’t see a single umbrella with a logo on it other than the Masters logo. Does it ban the use of umbrella logos other than its own?
— Frank Manfre, Grayson
A: Patrons are allowed to bring their own umbrellas into Augusta National, a club spokesman told Q&A on the News in an email.
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