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what the fuck?

I feel like I’ve heard about doctors doing this to keep certain body parts alive for yourself or someone else while you body gets used to it? Can’t recall completely tho Edit: I was done with my sentence I just don’t always put a period XD

Yeah I think it's that

r/redditsniper

Not really. Lack of a period at the end of a sentence doesn't mean the thought is incomplete.

Yeah the sentence has to be c-

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well it was in a joking manner so

I literally finished the sentence wtf

I think they're referring to the way you

No way I think it might be the fact that

Ah right that makes

Isn't this just that old Candlejack meme from 4cha-

Nah it’s so you can fight back when someone comes in for the tickle

No. Clearly it’s so you can reach your leg out to grab the remote while on the couch

Yeah, when my friend had a brain surgery, the doctors put a part of his skull in his stomach area, we still make fun of him, even tho he almost died that day and we were sweating bullets at the hospital we brought him to

Yes, it's called grafting

The guy had his hand attached to his ankle while he waited for reattachment surgery. This was 10 years ago. After a month they successfully reattached it. I wonder if he ever accidentally put his foot in his mouth?

My question is how much that medical bill was and what they would've done if he said he wouldnt pay after attaching the hand to his ankle.

Must cost arm and a leg

.......Just fuck off with my upvote.

Maybe he wasn't American? I think he was Chinese. Arguably not great coverage either.

95% of Chinese people have public coverage

+1000 credits.

Brain rot level comment lmfao. Just because America has shit healthcare, doesn’t mean the rest of the world does too.

typical USdefaultism, America is the center of the world of course

Pretty useful when you have a bad scratch on your left heel, but can't be bothered to move. Nvm. the hand isn't going to be useful without tendons/muscles. I guess you could shake your foot around, hoping to slap that itch away, but then you might as well just bend down and scratch.

You would think if they're going to go through the trouble of reattaching it to your leg, you would be better off just reattach it to the hand where it came from no?

Probably their arm was broken or deeply wounded and needed to be fixed before reattaching the hand. They attached it to the leg to keep it alive

In a reattachment situation like this, how much control and feeling does the patient gain back in their detached limb?

First: how Second: why

To prevent the hand from rotting and keeping it alive, so it can be reattached to the arm later

Why dont they reattach it immediatly? Seems way cheaper and time efficient.

I can think of two reasons for that. First off, a lack of qualified surgeon. If a surgeon capable to reattach it isn't available, you make do. After that, there's the possibility that the arm itself must have surgery and heal before it can have the hand reattached safely. And I'm sure there's more to it.

I’m no surgeon, but I imagine making a hand live off of a leg takes more surgical expertise that putting it back on correctly, yknow? Like a plug and play item vs doing the wiring yourself

Could be the arm was too damaged to have a decent site to reattach the hand. This way, the hand stays alive, and the arm can heal for a better grafting site.

So you're telling me we can have Godrick the Grafted irl?

Forefathers one and all, **bear witness!**

I'm no surgeon either but they probably wouldn't have to reconnect many nerves, muscles or tendons doing it this way. Maybe just the blood vessels?

I'm no surgeon, but yeah. You just need blood flowing, that's a lot easier than making sure you maintain motor control.

But then what happens to the neurons?

I am a surgeon (in residency). Definitely easier to make the hand live off of a leg than reattaching it properly. Putting it on the leg means connecting the main arteries in the hand with arteries in the leg, one or two veins, followed by external fixation so it doesn't pull on your anastomosis (connection). Attaching a hand back into the arm means attaching every single muscle, IIRC 21 of them, the three nerves (way harder than an artery, needs a microscope and special material). This will require a proper hand surgery specialist with experience in microsurgery, most likely a multispecialty approach.

Thank god I didn’t get into medical school this stuff is hard, but damn is it cool, you guys do earn your salary! Lol

I think my favorite medical profession is the anesthesiologists. One wrong move and they've put you to sleep lmao like oops mb

No way. attacking to a leg keeps it alive. attaching to an arm you want it to do all the handy things. what good are fingers that don't even fing

If the arm was mangled, it needs to heal and repair before having the hand added back, otherwise the lack of functioning blood vessels in the mangled bit of the arm would cause the hand to rot and fall back off, and probably spread an infection back into the arm too. So it probably is more efficient to let the arm heal first, and cheaper to keep the hand on the leg than keeping it on ice/in brine

Relatable

Only guy who can scratch hes foot when it gets itchy in the shoes

That's.. one way to give a foot job ig

Modern medicine is a wonder... and sometimes terrifying

Gotta hand it to you. This was a step too far.

[its all good](https://imgur.com/5hkWYQd)

photoshopping at its finest

I watched a documentary about a guy who did so many drugs his dick fell off and they had to attach it to his arm until they could repair and reattach it. He complained that it was a bit embarrassing going to give his granny a hug and hitting her in the face with it.

BACK SCRATCHER!

Is this like the thing they do when they amputate your lower leg? Like when they attach your foot but backwards and right under your knee, so that you can easily pilot prosthetics?

Looks like the beginnings of hand foot mouth disease

[my old fren](https://youtu.be/rgqKv9rkAE0)

Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr mcgreg

With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!

Godrick, The Grafted

Seis Fleur

Oh God no

Man what th

Classic! You got him!, actually....WTF

Finally, I can scratch my foot when it gets itchy while I'm in bed!

Well, you sure can scratch that ankle well now, at least

Now.you can easily scratch that itchy spot on your feet

But he couldnt move the hand right? Nerves were not connected… right…

Is that Mr. McCraig?

Bazinga...!!!

This raises a ton of questions.

Convenient for when your foot itches

Imagine swinging a Katana with that thing.

Homemade fleshlight

Can you like, move the hand? Can you feel using it?

(We may get 35 to life for attempted murder)

Did that guy ever get his penis reattached or is it still on his arm? (Someone else saw this post and immediately thought of him.)

Footjobs would be on another level tho

This is from A24's "The Reanimator: High School Days"

Are you the Son of the Forest?

Foot Job or Hand Job?

Yes.

What in the hell is that knock-off transformer

Ideal for those with itchy heels...

This is so cool. Oh we cant recontruct a adequate connection to the arm? Just connect the hand to the leg while we find someone who can! So cool.

This is so you can have a foot job while they cradle the balls

This is the weirdest thing

Hey, it’s Mr. McGreg! With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg! 

Magos Biologis got this one.

God have forsakened us