‘Miracle’ recovery after arm severed by chainsaw is reattached

An East Sussex man who chopped his left arm off with a chainsaw has described having it re-attached as like "winning the lottery".

John Stirling was cutting wood in his garden in Telscombe Cliffs when the accident happened in September.

He was taken to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, were surgeons carried out a 14-hour operation to save him.



Mr Stirling can now move his fingers and has been back to work.

He said: "It's unbelievable actually. I can now move my fingers, which to me after 11 weeks is amazing.

"Obviously it's nowhere near how it was before I cut my arm off but to be sitting here at work after 11 weeks, it's a miracle. I am delighted."

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