A firefighter who fought for his life is now focused on goals that are easy to take for granted, like driving and opening doors.
Daniel Lyon was critically burned working on the Twisp wildfire last summer.
Moments before a complicated surgery, doctor Gary Fudem's hope for his patient is pretty simple.
"I want him to be able to go out in public and feel like people aren't staring at him, that he has a normal, human appearance," Fudem said.
Normal is now what doctors want for Daniel Lyon.
He was severely burned working on the Twisp wildfires last summer when his crew was overrun by smoke and flames. Three firefighters were killed. Lyon was severely burned; his fingers partially amputated.
"You lose any movement in your hands and it just makes everything 100 times harder," Lyon said.
Webbing makes easy tasks tough, like cooking or turning pages of a book. This surgery will make a big difference in his mobility.
But Dr. Fudem is only treating a small area for a reason.
"I wanted to start out pretty isolated to see how he responds emotionally and psychologically to an operation since he hasn't had one for almost a year," he said.