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For Fort Sill soldiers, surgeons offer healing hands

 
SUSAN SIMPSON | Published: July 28, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment


Oklahoma City orthopedic surgeons saved the hands of two Fort Sill soldiers injured in accidents on the same day.

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The men continue physical therapy several times a week at the Orthopedic Institute and hope to regain mobility in their hands.

Cpl. Michael Sullivan and Sgt. Michael Mayfield didn’t know each other until April 28. They met in the ambulance that took them to Oklahoma City.

"The first thing he said to me in the ambulance was ‘give me a high five,’” Sullivan said of Mayfield. Both had severe injuries to their right hands.

Sullivan nearly lost three fingers that were caught in an electric generator. A practice grenade exploded in Mayfield’s hand, splitting tendons, bones and arteries.

Both injuries required multiple surgeries to save fingers and function, and they may not gain full use of their hands.

"These are very serious injuries,” said Dr.

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