(CNN)Â — The calendar said March, but Monday clearly was Valentine’s day — James Valentine, to be specific — when the 21-year-old Pennsylvania man survived a work accident that sent the razor-sharp teeth of a chainsaw blade deep into his neck and shoulder, and barely a centimeter from a vital artery.
Thanks to quick but cautious work by his colleagues and medical responders, 30 stitches and an hour of surgery, a day after the accident Valentine was recovering in stable condition at a Pennsylvania hospital.
“He looks more like himself, he’s walking and talking today,” Valentine’s sister, Becca, told CNN on Tuesday. “We can’t believe it at all.”
