I just realized what was bothering me so much about this story! You know, what made me question it.

The accident left him partially paralyzed on his left side, said his mother, Shawn Dewberry.

Asked by reporters if he felt any pain or was scared when he woke up Monday morning, he said no.

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He will still be able to play video games, one of his passions. Dontavius, a student at Potter Elementary, enjoys playing his Nintendo video game. He was playing at the hospital.

``I'll be OK. I can still play video games with one hand,'' he said.
These ideas just don't follow! It says he was "partially paralysed" but it also says he felt nothing at all in that hand. It didn't hurt. He couldn't even feel it enough to wake up when the puppy was chewing through bone. To me, that says his hand must have been really "dead" and I could believe that.

However, if this WAS the case, would it make a lot of difference whether that dead hand had fingers or not? Are we to believe this will affect his video game playing or anything else? A hand with no nerve function can't be used for playing video games with or without fingers... A hand with partial nerve function is VERY difficult for the job (I know because I suffered some injuries that left a couple fingers tingly, and they make it awkward to do many things). Even so, if he had partial nerve function, he would have felt SOMETHING.

I should hope he could play video games one-handed because that would be the way he'd HAVE to have played them since the accident... Unless we are to believe his hand is completely numb to all sensation but he still has full function of its movements, enough to do a lot of fast and accurate button mashing and everything.

So how does this fit together exactly?? I wonder if maybe the story was verging on true, but someone threw in the video game thing as an "extra" to make it feel even more awful (this poor boy has been deprived of things he enjoys! As opposed to, the dog mutilated a dead and useless appendage...)


Oh, and he was "playing at the hospital"... Loss of blood and everything. Yeah right. My sister couldn't even watch TV for over a week after her car accident--she couldn't eat much either and barely managed to talk to people, and her injuries were no where as severe as losing several FINGERS.

(Sorry to bring up an older thread here, but there was something about this story that just didn't fit, and I couldn't figure out what until now. Heck of an implausible story if it's true! Still waiting to hear from the Snopes.com people.)