Buddy Valastro is getting again to the grind with a brand new tv present two years after a freak accident that would’ve price him his future. 

“I’m anxious about everybody else seeing it. It was fairly ugly,” the Cake Boss star, 46, informed Additional on Monday. The famed baker jokingly thanked God that he has no aspirations of being a hand mannequin however added, “I’ve quite a lot of mobility and power.”

“I’ve acquired yet one more surgical procedure I gotta get and get a finger straightened out,” Valastro continued. “However contemplating… 95 %. My palms are every little thing to me. With out my palms within the adorning world, I am nothing.” 

Valastro’s world was quickly turned the other way up on Sept. 20, 2020, when he sustained severe accidents whereas participating in a routine interest together with his household. Because the group frolicked of their at-home bowling alley in Montville, New Jersey, the chef’s proper hand acquired caught between the machine and a metallic rod that impaled his hand thrice between his ring finger and center finger.

“I checked out my hand and blood was gushing in all places. It appeared like a Halloween film,” he informed PEOPLE days after the incident. 

The ordeal helped Valastro achieve a brand new appreciation of his hand’s significance in his work, he informed Additional.

“You do not actually understand till one thing is jeopardized,” he stated. “I used to be actually motionless for about six months the place I could not even use my hand. I had 5 surgical procedures on it. I keep in mind the final surgical procedure I used to be scared as a result of I could not bend my hand.”

The fact TV star’s physician reassured him that he would make a full restoration. “Don’t fret, this final surgical procedure I’ll launch the tendons and you are going to be good to go,” Valastro’s physician stated, the chef informed Additional.

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For the reason that accident, Valastro has been grateful to the medical doctors which have assisted him all through his restoration. On Dec. 30, 2020, simply months after severing his hand, he visited the Hospital for Particular Surgical procedure in New York Metropolis with a particular supply for Dr. Michelle Carlson and her group.

“Take a look at the tremendous particular cake I made for Dr. Michelle Carlson, the nurses and employees at @hspecialsurgery as a token of my immense appreciation! It replicates the primary hospital there in #NYC. ????” he wrote in an Instagram publish on the time. “I may by no means thank them sufficient for all they’ve completed to assist me on this journey to a full restoration ♥️.” Within the carousel, the healthcare suppliers marveled at his creations. 

Throughout his September 2020 interview with PEOPLE, Valastro recalled considering he was in a “nightmare” as a result of the scenario was so surreal.

“The ache, the screaming,” he recalled. “After which one thing kicked in and informed me to be calm as a result of at that time I knew I used to be caught. I used to be caught within the machine. This rod was by way of my hand and I knew that I needed to get out of there.” 

Inside 5 minutes of the accident, Valastro informed his sons to make use of a reciprocating noticed to free him from the bowling machine. After about quarter-hour, his spouse Lisa Valastro drove him to Morristown Memorial in New Jersey for his first surgical procedure. “It was simply chaotic. quarter-hour of hell,” Lisa informed PEOPLE.

Valastro’s new collection, Buddy Valastro’s Cake Dynasty, is ready to air this fall and can present viewers how far he’s come and the way far he plans to go.

“My youngsters are in it as a result of it is sort of just like the succession, my youngsters coming into the enterprise. I feel it is going to be superb. It is in all probability the most effective tv I’ve ever made,” he informed Additional.

Cake Dynasty premieres on A&E Community in November.