f7ae/1247859240-fourth_l.jpgI love this article for two reasons:

1. The fact that the United States has apparently completed the first successful motherfucking double-hand transplant

Kepner lost both his hands and feet from a bacterial infection about a decade ago, but was supposedly ambivalent about the surgery, after hearing reports of previous attempts failing due to rejection. With a little persistence from his wife, and some convincing from the head surgeon about new anti-rejection techniques, he agreed to try it. The transplant required 21 surgeons working in groups of four on each arm to attach the new hands.

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2. The term "lunch hooks" used to describe hands, which I had never heard before.

(Special note: Please do not consider the use of John Irving's The Fourth Hand as an illustration for the blog post to be any sort of an endorsement for the book; I loathed the fuck out of it. But it does feature hand transplants. Relevance trumps quality yet again!)