Jeff Kepner — who made made headlines in 2009 as the first person to receive a double hand transplant in the United States — now says his limbs are completely non-functioning.

The 64-year-old Kepner tells Time he does not blame the doctors who performed the transplant. But he added that, if given the choice today between using prosthetics or undergoing a transplant, he would choose the former.

“From day one I have never been able to use my hands,” Kepner said. “I can do absolutely nothing. I sit in my chair all day and wear my TV out.”

Kepner lost his hands to sepsis that started from a strep throat infection in 1999. Ten years later he underwent surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to attach the donor hands.