god told him to do it...

Tuesday's big surgery at Davies was the reattachment of the hand of a 17 year old boy. They used 9 units of blood for that one. The kicker is this: the kid cut the hand off himself, using a butcher knife. He was (obviously) emotionally disturbed. But, yikes, the determination to do something like that sorta inspires a sick awe, at least in me. It's not easy cutting off significant parts of one's body, as I can attest.

Meanwhile last week, someone eating a bowl of chili at a restaurant in San Jose bit down on something a bit chunkier than she was used to, only to discover that the chunk was about 1 inch of the distal part of a (well-manicured, I heard) human finger. Authorities as yet still haven't found who it belongs to!!!