I wonder if he would still have his arm if he had waited...
“Metz’s arm had become caught between heating cores inside the boiler on Monday. Within hours, Metz, 31, could smell the flesh of his crushed arm beginning to rot, the telltale sign of life-threatening infection.
“Very quickly it became apparent to me I had a major problem,” he said.”
In the article it said the arm was already starting the putrefy, and the doctors said if he hadn’t taken it mostly off , it would have spread to his body and possibly killed him.