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Double hand transplant
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13437663

David Savage has lived most of his life with a hook in place of a right hand.
He was 19 when the hand he relied on to write his name, throw a ball and do hundreds of daily tasks was mangled in a metal-stamping machine, and doctors had to amputate. That was 37 years ago.
Then, almost two years ago, Savage became the third American to get a hand transplant from a cadaver donor. Today, the 56-year-old Michigan man says he wakes up every morning happy to realize that he has two hands again.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95593579

there was also a story about a man who couldn't accept (psychologically) his transplanted hand because it was so different to his own other hand - and requested it be amputated.....can't find the story at the mo.


all fascinating stuff all the same.