CONTENTS

Author’s Note

1

An Explosion in Brooklyn

2

Fight or Flight? Our Built-In Threat-Defense Program

3

Diagnosis: Spaghetti Wrist

4

Instrument of Instruments: Anatomy of the Hand

5

My Family Flies to My Side

6

Big-Wave Surfing: Replanting a Partially Amputated Hand

7

Under Water on the Upper East Side

8

With Respect to Pain: How It Helps and Works

9

At Home with Strangeness

10

After the Unthinkable: Psychological Recovery

11

Music City TLC

12

Pins and Needles: Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

13

Farewell to the Dream Team

14

It’s All Up to You, Kiddo: Rehabilitating a Replanted Hand

15

Rotas and Meltdowns

16

Struggling with the Status Quo

17

New Normal: My Right Hand Today

Acknowledgments

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