Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania boy has returned home less than three weeks since doctors reattached his arm after it was severed by a tractor mechanism.
Seth Apel (AY'-pel) tells KDKA-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1NTB8zL ) that "it feels good to be home."
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, about 60 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Paramedics packed the arm in ice and doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC spent eight hours reattaching it. Seth 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."
___
Information from: KDKA-TV, http://www.kdka.com
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
