Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 22:11:27 GMT -6
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In all his years working as a high-altitude tree trimmer, David Mendoza said he never had a serious accident, much less with a chainsaw, like the one that nearly claimed his left hand on Jan. 18 as he tried to remove a fallen tree from atop the garage of a Coral Gables home.
“I was going to start cutting to bring it down, like many of the jobs I do,” he said, “when all of a sudden the chainsaw slipped.”
The chain saw tore a four- to five-inch gash in Mendoza’s left forearm. He was rushed to the emergency room at Mercy Hospital, where doctors cleaned the wound and sewed it up.
Mendoza, 33, followed up with a hand specialist and a two-hour surgery the next day to repair five torn tendons and a pinched nerve. He will need six weeks of physical rehabilitation. Full recovery will probably take about six months.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article56710683.html
In all his years working as a high-altitude tree trimmer, David Mendoza said he never had a serious accident, much less with a chainsaw, like the one that nearly claimed his left hand on Jan. 18 as he tried to remove a fallen tree from atop the garage of a Coral Gables home.
“I was going to start cutting to bring it down, like many of the jobs I do,” he said, “when all of a sudden the chainsaw slipped.”
The chain saw tore a four- to five-inch gash in Mendoza’s left forearm. He was rushed to the emergency room at Mercy Hospital, where doctors cleaned the wound and sewed it up.
Mendoza, 33, followed up with a hand specialist and a two-hour surgery the next day to repair five torn tendons and a pinched nerve. He will need six weeks of physical rehabilitation. Full recovery will probably take about six months.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article56710683.html