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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:05 PM Jul 2015

Doctors Save Man’s Severed Hand By Actually Attaching It To His Leg

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/doctors-save-severed-hand-grafting-leg-photo/1115504/

A Chinese man’s severed hand was kept alive by being attached to his ankle for several weeks.

According to Daily Mail, the man known as Zhou lost his left hand in an accident involving a spinning blade at the factory where he works.

Describing his initial reaction to the damage, Zhou told People’s Daily Online,

My mind went blank at that moment, and I just thought that I had lost one hand.
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Doctors Save Man’s Severed Hand By Actually Attaching It To His Leg (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2015 OP
straight out of Grey's Anatomy magical thyme Jul 2015 #1
Or Futurama. Initech Jul 2015 #3
How does that old song go? packman Jul 2015 #2
This will make it easy to pull up his sock. Orrex Jul 2015 #4
Or to pull himself up by his bootstraps. nt tblue37 Jul 2015 #5
Damn you! Orrex Jul 2015 #6
 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. How does that old song go?
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 12:56 PM
Jul 2015

And the hand bones
Connected to the ankle bone
Hear the word of the Lord

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