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 didn’t lose a limb but came very close to it. I ripped a slightly larger than an adult male’s fist, sized hole out of my forearm, exposing the bone and severing nerves and tendons to some of my fingers and my hand.
From what my dad told me, the surgeons cut my arm open wider and using microsurgery, stitched the nerves and tendons back together and I got a skin graft over the gaping hole in my arm, from my thigh.
The hardest part was lots of physio later, but they were so amazing and I was playing guitar and piano a little after a year. All the while realising how easily that it could have been my head (accident was on a mountain bike and impacting a Roughcast wall)
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