article_snippet: Waking up after 'amputation', O'Brien could feel his arm, but his arm was only a phantom limb .
article_snippet: O'Brien could feel O'Brien left arm, the fingers on O'Brien hand.
article_snippet: But it was an illusion, a phantom limb.
article_snippet: I had never lost an arm before,' O'Brien said, drily. '
article_snippet: — look what happened to an arm!
article_snippet: — that arm for the knowledge and the love that I feel?'
highlights_snippet: O'Brien woke up after amputation thinking his left arm has been spared because O'Brien could feel it, but it was a phantom limb .
  