Someone just had a bone to pick with you and they actually did it
Skele-grow potion required
Walks into room with bone crumbs around my mouth and a mysteriously part-of-fibula-shaped bulge in my stomach
“Oh, geeze, uh, that’s a weird one”
Forgetting a screw is one thing… Forgetting a part of a bone…
Fibula hasn’t rendered completely yet
Scotty’s been experimenting with the transporter again!
No doc or anything, but sort of looks like the top of the bone with pins has a dense section roughly the size of the missing part.
“No one has any idea” is code for “we know exactly what happened but we don’t want to be sued for malpractice by admiting it”
Yeah, If there has been work done on the bones and sudenly a bit is missing…
I was gonna say, someone’s clearly been in there to put that metal in, are we sure they didn’t take a souvenir
Also, Are those screws supposed to be poking out? Doesn’t that damage all the squisy bits?
Orthopaedic surgery is harrowing stuff… Think of 60’s panelbeaters on your squishy stuff in amongst the bones
It’s very cyberpunk, really.
I attended a talk at a conference talking about how we live in a Cyberpunk future.
The speaker pointed out how we take stims (coffee) jack into cyberspace (put in earbuds to listen to music/podcasts/watch videos) have fully digital travel passes, etc. before then diving into some of the crazy surgeries and treatments that can be done now. It was a pretty entertaining take
I had to intubate patients as part of my clinical time for paramedic, which meant time in the OR. Some surgeons would let us hang out and watch the surgery. Orthopedic surgery sounded like a cross between a construction site and an automotive shop. Die grinders, saws, and power drills.
Also, apparently knee replacement involves one guy doing MMA submission moves on the patient’s leg while another goes at their exposed, hyper-flexed knee joint with a hammer and chisel.
Thanks! Now I’m nauseous…
This one time, I got to have my femur cut mostly through with a saw then slowly bent (did you know bones are viscous?) open and filled in with bone spackle then bolted together with a plate at screws, which was unpleasant.
“Bone spackle” being the #5 worst part of this comment, at most, is quite a fucking achievement.
And the bone/leg just accepts it. We’re pretty impressive creatures.
Only for specific metals. A lot of metals are absolutely not biocompatible.
Speak for yourself.
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Yep. I got wood screws sticking out my femur. Hurt like hell for a year or so, had to learn to walk again. Ached every winter for a decade.
No problem now, forget it ever happened. But I stand on my tippy toe like a girl from the remembered pain. Small price!
You’re so right. Seeing the hardware, it’s post-op, so someone made a boo-boo. “No one has any idea” is code for: stalling for time to give the hospital’s legal team a head start.
Spooky
I’m not a doctor but I believe that piece of bone is fairly important
Nerp. People that aren’t doctors also sometimes believe drinking bleach cures covid. Please check with an expert before deciding which bones are and are not fairly important.
I’m not sure what a nerp is, but they’re not advocating for anyone to remove any bones. It’s not a big deal.
Instructions unclear, just finished removing part of my fibula to reduce my weight so I can get mad ups
Ups?
Jump height
The fibula isn’t a weight bearing bone. The part near the ankle is important, as it’s part of the joint, but the middle doesn’t do much. It’s frequently used for bony reconstruction, like for head and neck cancer surgeries.
I’ve just straight up cut one out because it got in the way of our bypass (I think fem to peroneal)
Bet you couldn’t run without it
I enhanced the x-ray and found this
The marvels of the human body
Hehe, marvels.
It renders as [OBJ] here. … Or if it’s the joke then that’s pretty funny
Took a second to find a working image lmao
Was worth it!
Fibula Nolongata
not to be ‘that guy’ but its fake
Moopsy
So close
I KILLED FITTY MEN
Narra uretee
