Five months on from the operation, Steven Gallagher can do things like stroke his dog, turn on the tap and fill a glass of water. He is now hoping to get back to work.
The hand transplant team at Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, which carried out the surgery, said it is the first time anywhere in the world that hand transplantation has been used to replace hands terminally affected by scleroderma.
"These hands are amazing, everything has happened so quickly. From the moment I woke up from the operation I could move them." "The pain is the big thing. The pain before the operation was horrendous, I was on so much pain relief it was unbelievable, but now I've no pain at all." More than five months on from the operation, his condition is improving and although he cannot do tasks requiring great dexterity, such as doing up buttons, he can do things like stroke his dog, turn on the tap and fill a glass of water.
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