Surgeon tucks hand into man’s belly

Casey Reyes struggled to explain the “sci-fi” surgery doctors were proposing to save her 87-year-old grandfather’s badly burned hand.

“They’re gonna put your hand inside your stomach, kind of like a hoodie,” she told him.

Frank Reyes agreed to the operation at Houston Methodist Hospital, and spent three weeks with his left hand tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply.