• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Weirdest instance I can think of where somebody lost something important was a young woman doing a bouncy Irish stepdance on a sidewalk above a very steep embankment. Suddenly her phone flew out of her sweater pocket and she back-kicked it over the precipice.

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    Not actually that rare to see. Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don’t end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don’t unionize, especially if the bone isn’t really responsible for weight bearing.

    The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.

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    Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.

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    I would assume it was pulverized in whatever accident required the pins to be installed. What’s more surprising than why it’s missing, is why they didn’t replace that section of bone with anything, while they were operating the 1st time.

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      I had a similar thing done and just looked at my pics of my xrays (was too poor at the time to get copies). None of mine stick out except maybe the head of one of the screws a little.

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        It sucks that they charge for copies. I’m in the USA and when I hurt my foot and got X-rays they just made me wait while they burned a CD.

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          Yeah, here in Japan it seems to be included (or at least extremely cheap). The US is a mess (having grown up there and worked in the healthcare industry there).

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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      You would think, I have a similar intramedullary rod in my leg, and my screws also stick out. Since the screws are there to hold the rod down the inside of the bone in place, they care more about that stability than the screws being a bit long.

      I’ve been told that now that I’m healed, if the hardware is giving me problems, I can have them go in and remove it. Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done (basically as much as I paid to have it put in when my leg was broken). So at least for now, even though I do have some hardware-related pain, it’s not bad enough for me to justify the cost.

      • Logi@lemmy.world
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        Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done

        Fucking hell. I told my doctors that the titanium in my arm was interfering with my rock climbing and weight lifting and they took it out. I think I paid some token fee.

        In Europe, obviously

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      I’m wondering if it ai generated. The text at the top doesn’t look normal

      Edit: wow we’re literally at the point of downvoting people for wondering something?

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Organ harvesters? … Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?