"I knew going in I was probably going to lose my arm," he recalls. The medics who initially treated him were just as doubtful of his prospects.
The incident happened in August 2020, while Kieffer was hunting alligators with some friends at Lake Jesup. The gator"shook his head once and he lifted my body 6 to 8 inches out of the boat. That's when I could hear the skin rip and the bones snap," Kieffer said. "One of the residents came to me and said, 'We have a patient that had an alligator basically bite off his arm,'" Desai said."I thought it was a joke at first because I was new to Orlando Health and I thought they were just giving me a hard time as the new guy. But then they showed me the x-rays and the pictures.
Luck was on Kieffer's side when it came to the damage done. Many blood vessels were impacted but easily repaired, Desai said, and because the bite was on the back of the forearm it didn't sever the two nerves responsible for the majority of a person's hand function. "I shifted them to the back of his arm and reconnected them to the tendons on the back of the arm to make his fingers go up and to make his wrist go up," Desai said.It took more than 20 hours of surgery, by Desai's estimate, and even then it wasn't certain that Kieffer would regain much function. Kieffer wound up spending 11 days in the intensive care unit, and lost count of his surgeries.
Why can't we leave them alone? Do they not have a right to live?
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