From Canada.com:
VICTORIA – Shawn Clement knows that his left arm looks as if he lost out to the shark in Jaws. Sometimes the 30-year-old tells gawking strangers that’s exactly what happened to his arm, now a tributary of scars running from his wasted bicep to below his elbow.
What actually happened to the former Gold River, B.C., shake and shingle mill worker is as horrific as anything Hollywood conjures up. In February, a flying 1.2-metre saw blade severed his left arm about 16 centimetres below the elbow.
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“My face hurt. I went to grab my face. My hand was gone. I got up and grabbed the stub that was left and ran to the first aid room.”
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“It’s safe to say he’ll never have normal function,” says the surgeon, who envisions Clement’s left arm only in an assistance role to his right arm.
Time, therapy and medical procedures have given the right-handed Clement partial use of his left arm.
“I can pick up a screwdriver, scratch my nose, but I can’t wipe my ass or pick up a dime,” he says.
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