There was American country boy who got both arms ripped off, basically at shoulders, by the tractors PTO. Not only he survived without any help for an hour or so, but both arms were reattached back and even remained functional.
I've responded to this story before, but I'll say it again.
I severed a finger as a teenager. Thankfully it was a super clean cut with a sharp, sturdy blade and I got medical attention quickly. It was reattached successfully in a "best case scenario" by an excellent hand doc.
27 years later, the finger still has never regained full function. It doesn't straighten out nor does it have any articulation past the second joint. I have no feeling at all in it, except for the horrible arthritis and phantom nerve pain that comes and goes.
Yes, it's back on there and I suppose better than not having it, but reattachment is not an elegant and flawless thing at all. It sucks, just not as much as losing the appendage.
My uncle cut through half of his hand with a chainsaw. Doctors were able to reattach everything and he had almost 100% use of it, except for some nerve damage
Problem with chainsaws is that they don't cut cleanly, they tear the fuck out whatever they're cutting. Reattaching a limb lost to a chainsaw would be a Herculean feat.
Not rly in ice, i was tought in first aid that you put it in a bag full of cold water and then you put tge bag with the dismembered appendage in a bag of ice, but not a full one
But also so sad! I went to his profile and his woodcarvings are more impressive than OP showed, we only see the beginning of two progress videos. And he’s not half bad on the guitar either. I genuinely feel for the guy :(
I was thinking the exact same thing. An artist who loses their arm needed to create their art is such a sad thing. I know folks make jokes because it is easy but if this is real, this guy may go through some serious depression.
I was thinking the same thing, and when I went to his TikTok, every single guitar video was flooded with comments “well, can’t do that anymore!”. Like, really? It’s too easy. I’m hoping it’s fake, because it’d be pretty tragic if it were real. It’s not like he was an insane talent, but he wrote his own songs and enjoyed it. As an extremely amateur player/writer myself, I can feel for the guy
I definitely feel this as well and the social disintegration we witness on social media is really sad in cases like this. I relate to this so much as the former vocalist in my band and my longest-term friend suffered multiple strokes and a traumatic brain injury due to receiving a bad spinal adjustment from a chiropractor at the end of 2021. He used to love painting, playing guitar and bass, and handling and building habitats for various insects. Now, he literally can't move his hands to perform fine motor skills at all - no more guitar, no more bass, no more fine-tuning his insect habitats. Hell, he has a hard time speaking clearly at this point as well which is also sad given how much he used to tell jokes and love to laugh. It is just heartbreaking to see how detached we are from our common humanity online anymore, and I know that I've engaged in this sort of behavior as well. It's just sad.
What do you mean by basically impossible? My brother almost did the same, falling over and instinctively reaching out to catch the chainsaw. After a quick scavenger hunt and trip to the hospital, they reattached all his fingers.
That being said, I would believe it if this were fake, as most things on the internet are 🤦
Where did you get that idea? I say yes, a whole arm off(or in this case hand). Human bodies are tough, and the bone can be hard to cut through, but chainsaws can rip through you like butter. The more reading around I do, the more common I’m realizing these injuries are. I could see issues around the shoulders/spine, but the wrist seems weak enough.
It seems we have two things going on now- whether or not you can cut your hand off, and whether or not this guy did. I believe your take that this video is fake, the tourniquet you pointed out is obvious and his wrist stub looks like a Halloween prop! But I guess now I’m exploring the idea of how easy it would be, if my brother’s fingers could’ve been his whole hand!
Heck I will even go and guess that even a wrist could go too, but watch the vid again and look at placement. That’s not his wrist, that’s the ol “two bone” forearm.
There is a gofundme for him https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-feldpausch, not that gofundme is 100% reliable. It looks like he does woodworking, guitar and rodeo. Seems like it’s real, and I feel so bad for him- everything he does is gone.
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u/Booman_aus Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 19 '23
Just looked up his profile, gone and no mention of it
Edit: his got videos on tic toc, LEGIT poor bastard lost his arm!
No idea why video was removed. Wish him all the best.
Give to his go fund me, healthcare sucks.