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286: What if you were born without a hand?

This Is Actually Happening

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The Importance of Being Newly Acquainted With Your Hand

In order to graft a toe onto a new site they have to build up kind of a fatty pad almost like you have at the base of your thumb. The way they did that was to transfer skin and soft tissue from my right hip. In order for that donated tissue to take and not be rejected, I actually had to spend a period of time with my arm stitched to my hip so that the new circulatory paths could form.

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