Michigan mans toe used to replace his sawed-off thumb
He’s happily giving a toes-up.
A Michigan man who accidentally hacked off his thumb is finally getting back to normal — thanks to one of his toes replacing the missing digit.
“I can finally give a thumbs-up again!” Aiden Adkins said on Facebook as he showed off progress from his surgery, raising the left index toe that is now on his right hand.
Adkins told WKRN that he didn’t initially realize that he had sawed off his thumb in April while making a wooden gift for his then-girlfriend at home in Carson City.
“It didn’t hurt at all, not even a little bit,” he told the station. “I realized that what I had seen fly was not anything to do with the piece of wood. It actually was my thumb that I had seen fly.”
Adkins was told that in order to have his thumb reattached, he’d have to go into surgery within hours. But he was unable to find the missing body part.
He finally had surgery on Aug. 20, with doctors at the University of Michigan Hospital detaching his left index toe to replace the more important digit.
Rehab is helping life get back to normal for Adkins, a keen taxidermist, fisherman and target shooter who says he is “super pumped” at the progress.
His therapist, Kelly Nye, told WKRN that it was “the most motion I’ve ever seen out of a toe-to-thumb transfer.”
Adkins still wants to find the missing thumb, he told the station — so he can wear it around his neck as a symbol of what he has been through.
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