First double-hand transplant recipient wants them off!
Following such a massive surgical milestone you'd expect only great news, but this recipient wants to reverse his hand transplant.
The first man to receive a double hand transplant in America wants the transplants taken off.
Seven years ago, Jeff Kepner, who is now 64-years-old, received the hand transplant after he lost his hands due to sepsis that started from a strep throat infection.
But now Kepner has come out saying his hands have never worked.
“From day one I have never been able to use my hands,” he says. “I can do absolutely nothing. I sit in my chair all day and wear my TV out," he told Time.
Kepner had used prosthetics for a few years after undergoing experimental nine-hour surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
He was told that the worst that could happen is that his body rejects the donated hands and they'd be removed and prosthetics be replaced, but he learned after that it would not be that simple.
Would you undergo an experimental surgery with the hopes to improve your life?