Doctors Save Texas Man's Burned Hand By Sewing It to His Abdomen, Houston Methodist Hospital Reveals
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) - Casey Reyes struggled for a way to explain the "sci-fi" surgery doctors were proposing to save her 87-year-old grandfather's badly burned hand.
"They're gonna put your hand inside your stomach, kind of like a hoodie," she told him.
Frank Reyes agreed to the strange operation at Houston Methodist Hospital, and spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply.
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"They're gonna put your hand inside your stomach, kind of like a hoodie," she told him.
Frank Reyes agreed to the strange operation at Houston Methodist Hospital, and spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply.
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