The story updates the case of a local handyman who was the subject of national news reports because he had accidentally cut off his right hand with a power saw on a Friday the 13th in 2002 and underwent a rare and much-celebrated reattachment surgery. The startling development that came after all the efforts to save the hand: the man (Sean McHugh) made the decision to have it amputated. And, losing the hand made him feel whole.
