Aiden Adkins from Michigan accidentally sawed his thumb off while making a woodwork gift for his girlfriend.
Fortunately, he managed to get a replacement.
The loving boyfriend was working in his garage when a piece of wood chip flew across the room. When he checked his hand, he was shocked to discover that his thumb was missing!
Adkins immediately went to a hospital where doctors said they only had 4 hours to fix his thumb. However, his family couldn’t find the missing finger so surgeons had to sew up his wound.
He was then offered two choices: to live without a thumb or use one of his toes as a replacement.
A few months later, Adkins decided to have a thumb and live without one toe.
The toe/thumb switcheroo was first performed in 1897 by an Austrian doctor who successfully attached a hand of the patient to his foot and left it together for several weeks before cutting off one of his toes and attached it to his hand.
Adkins had his toe removed at the University of Michigan Hospital and used it to reconstruct his thumb. After a week of wearing casts, he was delighted with the results.
“I can finally give a thumbs up again!! Doctors are loving how it looks!!” he expressed.
Kelly Nye, an occupational therapist at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, said Adkins’ is a very successful story compared to other patients.
“His thumb does bend and straighten pretty well,” Nye said to WKRN. “That’s the most motion I’ve ever seen out of a toe-to-thumb transfer.”
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