Cake Boss star Buddy Valastro has opened up about a bowling injury he sustained earlier this month, revealing that he is unsure if he will ever be able to bake again as a result.
The 43-year-old TV personality had been bowling with his family using the alley in their home when the pinsetter malfunctioned and his "hand got pinned".
“I’ve reset it a hundred times,” Valastro told PEOPLE in this week's issue. This time, “I guess I looked away, and then my hand got pinned. The metal barb pushed right through the middle of my ring finger and my middle finger. I was stuck in a machine.”
It took some minutes but Valastro's eldest sons and his brother-in-law, Joe Faugno, were able to free him using pliers and a saw.
Following the horrific incident, he has had two surgeries and he's currently recovering at his home in Montville, New Jersey, according to PEOPLE.
Valastro is right-handed and so because the accident had inflicted nerve, tendon, and muscle damage in his right hand, he will need to undergo physical therapy and possibly more surgery. The whole recovery period is set to take months.
″It's really preliminary right now, but they're saying it's definitely going to be a long road to recovery,″ he says.
Valastro's wife Lisa, and their four kids, Sofia, 17, Buddy Jr., 16, Marco, 13, and Carlo, 9, have been doing their best to help their dad get by with his hand injury.
″He is an excellent patient," says Lisa.
It remains to be seen whether or not he will be able to continue making cakes for Carlo's Bakery.
Related - check out how to make this mouthwatering giant Baileys crepe cake:“I have a thing with my hands. If I get a paper cut on my hand, I'm pissed off. My hands to me are my lifeline of everything I do,” he says. “And I wonder, ‘Am I ever going to do what I used to be able to do?’ ”
Lisa believes “he will bake again, even if he has to use his left hand.”
“Trust me,” she says.
According to Valastro, his Buddy vs. Duff co-star Duff Goldman "was one of the first people who reached out when he heard and he's been so supportive. I'm going to need him to force me to get back into it."
