Doing my first digital replant (re-attaching fingers) as a chief resident, from start to finish. It was the summer and the middle of the night, and we had spent most of the weekend dealing with other traumas. A finger amputation came in on Sunday evening and my Junior resident and I took the patient to the operating room and re-attached the finger. It was in a young woman and I received a message from her some months later where she had made a wonderful recovery. It was a humbling experience; looking at the photo of a finger that I had re-attached made the previously abstract notion that I was becoming a surgeon into a reality for me.