Freak Accident

Today I was online not really doing anything productive when Ash told me that I had to read this news article. I decided to check it out. It was horrible! The news article was about a six year old girl. Her and her mother were driving home from the girl's soccer practice. The girl was seated in the back of the car playing with a jump rope she had found. She had tied one end of the jump rope to her left hand. The other end of the rope she stuck out the window to float in the breeze. All of a sudden the rope got snagged on the axle of the car, ripping her hand off. The girl began screaming and crying. The mother who was unaware of what had happened looked back to discover her daughter covered in blood missing a hand, she panicked and pulled the car over. Luckily, driving in the car behind them was an off duty paramedic. He witnessed the whole incident and pulled over to help. Quickly he jumped out of his car and tied the girl's wrist off with his waste belt and called the police. He sat with both of them who were in shock. In fact the girl didn't even know what had happened. He explained to them what he saw. The little girl then asked if anyone was going to help her. The paramedic reassured her that people were on there way. When the ambulance showed up, the on duty paramedics retrieved her missing hand and rushed them to the hospital. Ten hours of surgery latter the girl had her hand back! The doctors are not sure if she will ever gain full use of her hand.
I think its remarkable that a doctor can attach a severed hand! I cant even imagine the pain of having your hand ripped off. I would think she would have some sort of trauma after that incident. Including the mother. I would be freaked out to turn around and see my kid without a hand screaming and blood everywhere. Talk about a bad day! Thank God that the off duty paramedic was behind them. If he wasn't, the girl could have die or her hand may not have been able to be reattached. I hope she feels better and gains all the use of her hand back. What a terrible thing for a six year old to go through.