# Let Me Give You a Hand! - Hand Transplant Recipient **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066 "2011-04-20T09:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/1 "2011-04-20T09:38:43Z")
I wouldn’t call this really mundane, but I find this so fascinating. We have our thirteenth hand transplant recipient and she’s doing fantastic! [Hand transplant recipient Emily Fennell shows off her new hand in UCLA video](http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-hand-transplant-ucla-video-20110419,0,2743301.story) - With video (not graphic) > **[Life with a new right hand](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-apr-19-la-he-hand-transplant-ucla-20110419-story.html)** > > California's first such transplant patient describes her journey Emily is 26, lost her hand years ago in car accident. UCLA did a transplant and she’s already using the hand to pick up objects, stack them, etc. It’s amazing how they do this. They use a curved incision instead of snapping it on like a bracelet, connect the nerves, tendons and muscles. (How they connect nerves is something I’ll never understand.) The nerves are growing at 1 millimeter per day. It will take months of therapy and possibly lifelong immunosuppressants, but it’s working and damn, it looks like a very close match. Kudos to the surgeons and best to Emily. Hope you enjoy this too. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/2 "2011-04-20T09:44:19Z")
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “I got her digits”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/3 "2011-04-20T20:57:39Z")
Let’s have a big hand for the little lady. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/4 "2011-04-20T23:29:25Z")
I had a hand and it went…good? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/5 "2011-04-21T00:01:00Z")
That’s amazing. I wonder how that guy with the face transplant is doing? I’m wondering how these kinds of transplants fare after months and years. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/6 "2011-04-22T17:27:04Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > That’s amazing. > > I wonder how that guy with the face transplant is doing? I’m wondering how these kinds of transplants fare after months and years. I saw him playing hockey. There was a face off in the corner. mmm ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/let-me-give-you-a-hand-hand-transplant-recipient/579066/7 "2011-04-22T18:27:43Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I wonder how that guy with the face transplant is doing? I’m wondering how these kinds of transplants fare after months and years. Looking good. I see him around every now and then. I remember the day it was done. The doctor that I work for told me about it and was absolutely thrilled.