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When 12-year-old Seth Apel's arm got cut off with his sleeve getting caught in a tractor's mechanism, he almost lost his arm.

His father and his brothers, who were also cutting wood, were a bit far away at Clarion County, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, who lives just next door, heard him screaming and immediately called 911. The medocs put his arm in ice and rushed him to a children's hospital.

On Nov. 7, the tractor's belt-driven mechanism effected the cruel severance just below his shoulder, according to KWTX.

In a children's hospital in Pittsburgh the doctors re-attached his arm. This was the arm that he can still use to pitch while going for his favourite sport, baseball!

An eight-year long surgery helped the doctors to complete the attachment successfully, according to CBS Pittsburgh.

And now the Western Pennsylvania boy is back home. It is just about three weeks after getting the arm reattached. He said "it feels good to be home."

His mother, Angela Apel, recalls that at first the doctors were not too certain whether he would get back the arm completely, but she said: "God will give him whatever he needs and, whatever it is, we will be grateful."

"We're excited to see how God writes his story, 'cause that's what he's doing," Angela said.