“Doing it all over again, left handed...”
wrote. “So glad to see you getting back into the groove,” a fan added. “The talent does not exist in only one hand. 😊”
The injury occurred at Valastro’s home bowling alley. He tried resetting its pins, and it went horribly wrong. “I’ve reset it a hundred times,” he. “I guess I looked away, and then my hand got pinned. The metal barb pushed right through the middle of my ring finger and my middle finger. I was stuck in a machine.”
He continued: “If it was four inches lower, it would have hit my wrist and forget it, I could have bled out … or it could have ripped my fingers off. So much could have happened.” Using pliers and a saw, his sons and brother-in-law were able to free him. Since the accident, he’s already undergone two surgeries and will complete extensive physical therapy, with the possibility for more operations.
Before his recent practice run, Valastro feared he would never pick up the piping bag again. “I have a thing with my hands. If I get a paper cut on my hand, I’m pissed off. My hands to me are my lifeline of everything I do,” he said. “And I wonder, ‘Am I ever going to do what I used to be able to do?’”Support from readers like you helps us do our best work. Go
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