Complex Cases · Hand
Roger's
Recovery
From four severed fingers to near-normal motion and sensation in a single year.
The story
Roger was a 25-year-old engineering graduate student, building a tiny house for himself and his fiancé, when a table saw ran over his hand and severed four of his fingers at the point where they meet the palm.
A 14-hour surgery reattached every finger — but survival of the tissue was the harder battle. For the following week he stayed in the hospital on vasodilator and anticoagulant medication, keeping the vessels open long enough for his body to rebuild their inner lining and sustain blood flow on its own.
A second, smaller procedure later cleaned up scar tissue and restored his range of motion.
The recovery
The procedure
What the care involved
Replantation reconnects severed fingers — bone, tendon, nerve and the tiny vessels that carry blood — under a microscope. The first hours restore the structure; the days after protect the circulation until the body can take over.
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