Pennsylvania boy, 12, home after surgery to reattach arm
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania boy has returned home less than three weeks after doctors reattached his arm after it was severed by a tractor mechanism.
“It feels good to be home and not having nurses waking you up every two hours,” said Seth Apel.
Seth was helping unload firewood using a tractor’s belt-driven mechanism when his arm got severed just below the shoulder on Nov. 7 outside their home in Knox, Clarion County.
Paramedics packed the arm in ice and doctors at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC spent eight hours reattaching it that day.
The boy was home Friday.
His mother, Angela Apel, says doctors aren’t sure whether the boy will regain full use of his arm, but says “God will give him whatever he needs and, whatever it is, we will be grateful.”