1.   A replacement joint was put in place, and the hand was reattached.

2.   Doctors tried to reattach the hand, but the injury was too severe.

3.   He refused surgery because, he said, he feared he would go to hell if the hand was reattached.

4.   Paramedics stopped the bleeding and he was rushed to Erlanger Medical Center, where doctors were attempting to reattach the hand Friday night.

5.   For five years, doctors tried to fully reattach his hand.

6.   Surgeons worked through the night early Tuesday to reattach the hands of a woman chopped off with a machete by her common-law son-in-law during a domestic fight.

7.   Then the new wrist joint went on and the hand was reattached.