Finger-losing tourist gets reattachment

A toddler whose finger was severed by the luggage carousel at New York's Kennedy Airport is facing a full recovery, the New York Daily News said Friday.

Isidore Shien, 2, was waiting with his parents to pick up their luggage from a JetBlue flight from Tampa Thursday when he stepped on the luggage carousel and somehow got his finger caught in it, losing his right middle finger.

Passengers found the digit and emergency personnel packed it carefully in ice, and the tot, his parents and the finger were rushed to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, N.J., where surgeons reattached it.

The Sheins were headed to Manhattan to visit friends through the weekend, but father Andrew Shein said they would wait to see how Isadore fares before deciding whether to stay.

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