severed hand restored to USAF pilot

Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 10 months ago to Technology
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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
.
SOURCE URL: http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil/2015/06/destined-to-fly/?source=GovD


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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 10 months ago
    I am sure my Obamacare plan would pay for that! I wonder if the surgeon would be "In Network"

    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!
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    • Posted by 8 years, 9 months ago
      this young woman must already have been a
      reliable D voter, don't you think? -- j
      .
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      • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 9 months ago
        Probably, and the fact that she is female is probably why she is back on flight status. A male pilot would have been scrubbed from flight status for being stupid enough to cut his own hand off. Believe it or not, there are plenty men in the officer corps that are Democrat leaning. The further away you get from the mud the blood and enlisted status, the more likely you are to have democrat tenancies. I suspect there are a few reasons for this, 1. Promotions are subject to maintaining the correct political speech standards. 2. the higher you go the more important it is. 3. It is after all a government job!
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 8 years, 10 months ago
    Just goes to show what can be done when the will is there to do it. Too bad they don't use the same approach to all the Wounded Warriors coming back by keeping them on active duty. Even if they are not fully combat capable, they can still provide inspiration to new soldiers and airmen and by allowing a deployable asset to be utilized while the WW does the job at home. By the same token, all us older folks can be retreaded back to active duty to fill cadre slots so someone else can go. (Damn, who put that soapbox there?)
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 10 months ago
    How is it even possible to re-attach nerves? It blows my mind that attaching a hand is possible.

    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."
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    • Posted by 8 years, 10 months ago
      when I first saw a nerve, taken out of me during a
      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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      • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 9 months ago
        I've had the same experience.
        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.
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