If ur referring to what’s on his wrist. It’s metal poles going through his bones through his wrist to stabilize it. I’m p sure it’s called external fixator and it when u break a bone badly that it can’t naturally heal itself but need rods.
It sounds like he’s the one narrating/telling the story, I forget the chapter but he said something like “now that I’ve been through most of it...” referring to his one year under the doctor
You okay, bud?