To Have and To Hold

摘要

When he regained consciousness last Monday, Jan. 25, Matthew Scott had the uncanny sensation that he had been there before. He was in a busy operating room, the staff swirling around him, his left arm swathed in a pile of white bandages. "I flashed back to when I lost my hand 13 years ago," Scott, 37, told NEWSWEEK. It was all so familiar: "the feeling of coming out of anesthesia, the odd feeling of discomfort in my arm, the 'Oh, Matt, are you OK?'