Wow, can they really do this now?! (don't look if squeemish)
 

He won't be able to use it, but if the hand heals over and eventually bonds together again... that's just fucking amazing!!

I've heard of reattaching the top of a pinkie finger, but never anything like this.



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Can be done yea..

I was fucking eating you twat! :ak47:

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fiuck, i had to look but regret it now....

sure
i have a friend doctor who sewed back an arm of one guy and a leg of another. took about 10-12 hours

Shame he cant ever use it but better than nothing and atleast it is there and the tissue and muscle are still alive incase technology evolves so that he can use it.

That shit is a MIRACLE.

Lucky it wasn't his right hand... :Graucho :)

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too bad for john bobbit, he never was the same

Sweet Jesus! :NopeNope

The difficulty in those kind of re-attachments is encouraging bloodflow into the reattached limbs. with all the arteries, capillaries etc severed, reattaching them can be an extremely tedious process, and it's not always guaranteed that it will take. If bloodflow is not restored within a certain amount of time, the tissue will die and reattaching is pointless. It can only be done within a certain time or the limbs are just gone.

But yeah, that is cool. It's when they can regenerate nerve tissue (which fish can do, which is a reason they are a subject of fascination for neurologists) that things will be VERY cool.

Never distract the chef when he's chopping the veggies for your dinner. You might get a surprise. :eek7

Nic to see how far science have come! :thumbsup

Wow, what happened in that picture? Pretty wild.

I'm glad that's not my hand :)

There are many stories. The most likely is that he was travelling in a car without a seatbelt, crashed and was ejected, hit the ground face first, and kept going, or went face first into a street sign...

Another story is that he was travelling on a motorbike without a crash helmet, and came off. It's also been said that he survived a suicide or homicide attempt with a shotgun, or that he put a firework in his mouth & it exploded.

they can regenerate nerve cells from human embryonic stems cell in rats.. pretty fucking cool

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031113/135161_1.html

it's not uncommon for people who try and kill themselves with a shotgun to blow their face off.. Shotguns are pretty heavy so most people sit the butt on the ground and put it under their chin.. They know to aim into the back, but the leveraging that happens when they pull the trigger moves the aim to more straight up than straight back and up.

oh my god, that was fucking disgusting. Why did I look :throwup

Hmmm....even after the reattachment, that thumb tip looks discolored. Hope it starts recieving blood flow soon.

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Not really. What if he's left handed?

Ugh......:throwup

that was anticipated before hitting the reply button.

... I guess the nurse would have to do it. :Graucho

The hand (reattached of course) is looking pretty good. Not sure if the second pic was taken right after surgery or not, but if it was taken a few days after surgery then it is looking nice.

Coloring is ok, not a great deal of swelling etc. They use leaches in a lot of these cases. Those suckers do a mighty fine job.

A teacher at a local school decided it would be a damn good idea to clean a hunk of grass out of the lawnmower while it was still running. Three fingers later she remembered that she wasn't supposed to do that. They reattached all 3, of those 2 took nicely and with a lot of therapy she will get some limited use of them, the third didn't take. They looked really nasty though during the healing process.

i had my head severed and they put it back on.... twice....

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Let the dude in your passenger seat know his pimpin is a little too fast, gotta stay in sequence :thumbsup

Now this is Pimpin...


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Damn, that sux, probably lot's of physical therapy for recovering from that :(

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and u thought john wayne bobbit was lucky

Yeah, he didn't do too badly for himself after that incident. Reattachment and money in the bank. Sweet.


I'd still rather lose my hand, though.