A young firefighter has returned to his job after doctors saved his injured hand - by sewing it in into his stomach. Anthony Seward, 27, was forced to give up his dream job in the fire service when he was 'degloved' by an industrial mangle.
Anthony, who was 21 at the time, feared he would lose his left hand for good after it was caught in the unprotected machine at a textiles plant. But surgeons saved the limb by sewing it inside his stomach- creating a 'pocket' which kept it alive for three weeks.
Thanks to the quick-thinking medics, Anthony has returned to his dream job as a firefighter with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service (DSFRS). He had only been in the fire team in his hometown of Tiverton, Devon, for a year when his left hand crushed it a factory he was also working at.
