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NBC closed with a preview of a Today appearance for the Thanksgiving holiday by Nick Nelson, a nine-year-old from Minneapolis. The boy grabbed the attention of network bookers after a human interest profile on his local station KARE-TV. So reporter Joe Fryer got to rerun his piece for a national audience. Young Nick was born with weblike growth of skin behind his right knee--a syndrome called popliteal pterygium--that prevents him for straightening his leg. For most of his childhood he has used a wheelchair but "his condition will just continue to get worse" jamming his calf and and foot under his thigh. So he opted for amputation. "Wise beyond his years," Fryer called him. The boy reflected on his prosthetic future: "I am going to kind of miss my leg."
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