text: A father-of-two who chopped off his hand with an electric angle cutter is back at work just  weeks after surgeons reattached it. Gary Lincoln, 48, from Port Talbot in Wales, was working in a house in Cardiff when his jacket sleeve got caught in the blade and his hand was severed at the wrist, leaving it held on by only flesh and skin. He put in in his sleeve 'to hold everything together' and was taken to hospital where surgeons operated on him for more than seven hours earlier this month. Back at work: Gary Lincoln is carrying out light duties at his workshop just weeks after he severed his hand . Mr Lincoln, who runs a furniture upcycling company a interior design firm, said: 'I didn't feel any pain at all. 'It was like hundreds and thousands of tiny electric shocks that didn't hurt, like very intense pins and needles. 'There was a lot of blood. I got my hand free and put it in my sleeve to hold everything together.' The accident happened when he was on his own using an angle cutter, which was fitted with a safety guard. Neighbours called for an ambulance to take him to the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Swansea's Morriston Hospital. 'When it happened my main worry was stopping the bleeding but I was also thinking "That's it. I've just ruined my life",' Gary said. 'I'm right-handed but need both hands to do my work. I have a wife and two children. My life would have been devastated.' Orthopaedic surgeon Aso Mohammed re-attached the fractured bones using a plate and screws. Gary Lincoln (centre) with consultant plastic, reconstructive and hand surgeon Ian Josty (left) and orthopaedic surgeon Aso Mohammed (right) Neighbours called for an ambulance to take him to the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Swansea's Morriston Hospital . Then plastic surgeons, led by consultant plastic, reconstructive and hand surgeon Ian Josty, repaired the tendons and performed microsurgical reconstruction to the severed nerves and major blood vessels. Waking up in hospital the next day and being able to move his fingers was, Mr Lincoln said, nothing short of a miracle. He added: 'I can move all my fingers, which is absolutely amazing. I cannot believe it. 'I didn't think I would have my hand working again properly. I thought my life was ruined. 'My hands are my work, so I thought I had lost everything.' Mr Lincoln was home a week later and is already carrying out some light duties in his workshop.
target: Gary Lincoln, 48, from Wales severed hand using an electric angle cutter .
  He was working in Cardiff when his jacket sleeve got caught in the blade .
  Surgeons were able to reattached hand and he is back at work weeks later .
  Mr Lincoln said he 'didn't feel any pain at all' when he chopped hand off .