In an effort to somehow tie this story of a man who had his thumb replaced by a toe into the fabric of pop culture, I present this angle: Feel free to use the above image as Bulimia inspiration for the next 100 or so years… You’ll be looking like your favorite starlet in toe time!
The good news is, if they ever decide to make another live-action Flintstones movie, they’ll finally have a live hand-model to stand-in for the scenes when Fred hits his thumb with a hammer. Highlights of the story below — and click on that link for VIDEO!:
A new surgery center at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco uses a teamwork approach to complex reconstructive surgeries. Specialists from St. Mary’s and UCSF are partnering to offer state-of-the-art treatment for patients like Garrett La Fever, who lost part of his hand in a woodworking accident.
“The piece I was cutting got bound up in-between fence and popped back and cut my thumb off,” says La Fever. Doctors reattached what was left, but the results were poor.
The thumb is responsible for 40 percent of the function of the hand which is why when doctors proposed removing Garrett’s big toe and using it to create a new thumb.
“I wanted to do it. I was sick of having that thumb and there was an option to get out of it.”
Now, a month and a half after his microvascular surgery, Garrett’s new “thumb” is recovering nicely. “As long as I don’t put this hand near it, It looks like a normal thumb.”
How adorable would it have been if they would have replaced his thumb with his pinkie toe! Baby hands! Feel free to outdo each others toe-finger-hand puns in the open forum otherwise known as the comments.
