'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro details gruesome hand injury
'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro gets teary-eyed on the "Today" show describing how his family helped him after an accident led to a gruesome hand injury.
"Cake Boss" star Buddy Valastro is giving fans a health update after suffering a gruesome hand injury earlier this year.
In an interview with ET published Wednesday, the reality TV chef said he's "trying to look at the glass half full" as his hand continues to recover. In September, Carlo's Bakery spokesperson Michael Ciullo told USA TODAY that the famed pastry chef's hand was repeatedly impaled by a "metal rod" during a "malfunction with the bowling pinsetter" at the bowling alley in his New Jersey home.
"I feel like I'm in good spirits," Valastro said. "I'm taking it day by day and cake by cake."
The chef added that he's "on surgery number three," though it's possible this procedure won't be his last.
"We think potentially another one, maybe two or three," Valastro said, when asked if he'll need more surgeries in the future. "The swelling could take a year to go down. I'd say I'm probably at like 10 or 15 percent of the strength I used to have."
Though Valastro said he's "not ready to be on the sidelines yet," he added his future as a baker is uncertain.
"I don't know how much I'm gonna be able to do," he said, when asked if he'll still be able to make cakes. "I might be like a boxer who's got the heart, but ain't got the tools any more. Whether I have to do it left-handed at 30 percent, I'm gonna try to do it with all my heart and only time will tell."
Valastro also spoke about an upcoming TLC special that will document the injury as well as his road to recovery, revealing that he recently returned to the bowling alley for the first time since his injury.
'Cake Boss' star Buddy Valastro's gruesome hand impaling detailed in upcoming TLC special
"I actually went for the first time with a camera crew last week," he said. "It was emotional."
In late September, Valastro gave his first interview since the injury to "Today," describing how the bowling machine "just blew out half of my hand."
"I thought I was going to faint," he continued. "I looked at my hand and there was blood everywhere."
According to Ciullo, Valastro was trapped in the bowling machine for five minutes before the chef's teen sons, Buddy Jr. and Marco, used a reciprocating saw "to cut through the metal rod and relieve (their) father from the machine."
"After trying to release the bowling pin from the cage mechanism, his right hand became lodged and compressed inside the unit," Ciullo said in a statement. "Unable to remove his hand, he can see a 1½ (inch) metal rod slowly and repeatedly impale his hand three times between his ring finger and middle finger."
'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro's hand impaled during 'terrible accident' at home bowling alley
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