[JAMES BORCHUCK | Times]

Mary Arana-Andersen and Hanyn Arana help Andrew Hall into a vehicle after he is released from Bayfront Medical Center on Sunday afternoon. Hall will use a motorized chair, but hopes to walk again someday with the help of a prosthesis.

Home from hospital

After seven months and a half-dozen surgeries, Andrew Hall, who lost a leg in a hit-and-run accident, seeks "a new normalcy."

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