When a person receives a limb donation, how do surgeons “wire up” the nerves so that the recipient can use the limb and feel sensation from it?
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I had a sheet of glass fall on me at work last year, they wouldn’t intubate me for the repair surgery fearing they would need the machines for covid patients.
spent about 3 hrs watching two “micro plastic surgeons” (I think that was their titles) they literally cut my wound wider and used a metal clamp to hold the it open. then used a combination of methods to stitch and glue my nerves an tendons back together…. the craziest event out of it all was feeling my nerves “recalibrating”. I spent an entire night in bed unable to sleep, it felt like my hand was possessed an moving around wildly, yet I was watching it sit there perfectly still, wrapped tight in a fiberglass splint.
the sensations came and went for about a week and now about a year later I would say I’m pretty much recovered other then some numb spots on my palm.
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