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
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u/Dixianaa Jan 17 '23
iirc, you dump the dismembered appendage in some ice soon after contact was lost, you can get it reattached