severed hand restored to USAF pilot
this is a super story of great surgery -- what chance
would you give to having your left hand re-installed
after it was cut off by a circular saw??? -- j
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would you give to having your left hand re-installed
after it was cut off by a circular saw??? -- j
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NO WAY...If it paid for it I could go back to work. If it didn't I would then be disabled and a reliable Democrat voter!
reliable D voter, don't you think? -- j
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that ladder and saw it from the inside. -- j
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Jan
Many years ago when I was flying out of Auburn California, Mike and I used to talk airplanes (before his accident). I saw him fly an airshow routine with his new hands, even.
world of extraordinary people!!! -- j
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home should be kept active and cared for with the
best on-base care!!! -- j
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Whenever I hear stories like this, I remember times fixing a prototype so it could be ready for a big demo at a trade show. It seems so stressful. I can't imagine if the risk weren't missing a trade show but someone being permanently disabled or dying.
"We can rebuild [her]. We have the technology."
root canal job, I was shocked. . they are translucent
little stringy things -- and these folks figured out how
to reattach the right ones to the right ones so that
her hand worked afterwards. . yes, I believe in
miracles! -- j
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I recall my first root canal.
The dentist raised a little stringy piece of flesh with tweezers before me, pointed at it and said, "That's what has been hurting you."
How they reattach all those things to rejoin a body part is mindbogglingly.
indistinguishable from magic." -- Heinlein
-- j
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