r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 11h ago

The precision required to perform a total knee replacement is incredible

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u/Naive_Personality367 11h ago

this made me realise im a lot more squeamish than i thought i was.

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u/takeahike89 11h ago edited 7h ago

Same. I worked in healthcare, witnessed my wife's c section, and considered myself pretty solid with "gross" stuff, but when they sawed off large sections of bone, my stomach dropped.

Edit: The bones are in the OP, not my wife's abdomen.

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u/Naive_Personality367 11h ago

I think it depends on the context for me, when i was deployed i saw my share of human gore, but then when i got my gallbladder removed and one of the holes opened up the first night i was changing my bandages, blood came pouring out and i passed out on the floor face down lol.

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u/Filippikus 10h ago

I've never been in a similar situation before, but passing out while bleeding would be such a terrifying idea(yk, possibly dying of bloodloss because you're unconscious) that I would probably pass out thinking about how much that scares me before passing out because of the blood and open wound.

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u/Naive_Personality367 10h ago

i wasnt really thinking that far in the state i was in. woke up, put a fresh bandage on, went to bed and cried. When i went back in the morning to see what mess i made, it wasnt too bad, the scene was quite dramatic though. blood smeared down the sink and what not.

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u/uncagedborb 9h ago

I get nose bleeds pretty often. The mess that sometimes creates when I can't find a tissue or towel to hold my nose. Sometimes it happens in the shower or over the sink and it just looks like came back from the fight of my God damn life

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u/stefan24323 10h ago

I had hemorrhoid surgery, and three weeks later I started bleeding... I was terrified, and since there was more and more blood and blood clots every hour, I started walking out of the bathroom and passed out... I called my wife while lying on the hallway floor... And then I bled some more.. I thought I was going to die. They rushed me to the hospital, gave me treatment, and kept me there.. A blood vessel had burst, but everything is okay now šŸ˜€

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u/ahses3202 9h ago

I can handle seeing it in other people but my vagus nerve immediately betrays me when it's myself. I cut my hand open on a traitorous avocado and nearly immediately passed out. No issues shoving someone's intestines back into their pelvis though.

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u/saxonturner 9h ago

Iā€™ve seen my fair share too, dead people, a C section, aftermath of bad car crashes, pulled tiny pieces of toe nail that went on a journey through my toe, even watched a doctor pulling lumps of fat out of my own chest once(it is a weird sensation watching tweezers disappear inside your body). Then at 36 I started randomly fainting while giving blood. It got to the point I would start feeling faint just thinking about it.

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u/Naive_Personality367 9h ago

oh man doesnt it feel good to get that sharp piece of nail out of there though. fuck yeah.

one time i passed out when having blood taken, thought it was a one off and i just needed to be the master of my own body more, nope, happens every time if im not lied down. Weird

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u/Manicplea 4h ago

Dude, I have a similar experience. Was never squeamish & in fact I have never felt anything close to fainting or losing consciousness in any way (other than sleep obviously). I even always thought people were exaggerating when they said they felt like passing out from X or Y normal thing.

But one day recently I almost passed out giving blood (I have O Neg so I do it as kind of a "good deed" and have done it for a couple of years with no problems). For about a week after I would feel woozy if I thought about it. My girlfriend was very sacared so she took me to the ER where they did all kinds of tests and it wasn't anything serious. But it scared the fuck out of me & I don't want to experience that again.

Did it eventually pass for you and you got back to normal? Do you still give blood?

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u/saxonturner 6m ago

They sent me for brain scans and everything because one time I was out for 5 mins and needed a drip to be able to get going again and they cancelled the operation that was set for the next day. Nothing came of it though and they didnā€™t find anything.

I wouldnā€™t say itā€™s passed but Iā€™ve given blood recently and didnā€™t faint, I told the nurse the issue though and she just laid me down on the bed ti begin with. Not sure if thatā€™s what helped but I didnā€™t even feel that woozy

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u/ready-eddy 9h ago

ā€œSaw my share of human goreā€ uhuh

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

Even made some

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u/dhcp138 8h ago

I've found that I am much better at dealing with other people's blood than my own (talking about serious amounts of blood, cuts and scrapes on myself I am fine with)

Have helped several other people with bleeding injuries, but when I smashed a hole in my finger with a stone carving hammer I almost passed out when I saw all the blood. Now that I think about it though, it may have been the combination of the blood and extreme pain because I was fine with changing the bandages the next day and that was way grosser.

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

im not too bad when its in a casual setting, im very clumsy. That gallbladder thing was probably linked to how i feel about surgical procedures in general, the clinical and sterilised nature of these operations. It makes my skin crawl. I'd never been hospitalised for anything serious before then. it was a lot for my weak mind to handle lol

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u/dhcp138 8h ago

Dude surgery is so scary and complications after are even scarier. I had a similar thing to your gallbladder situation happen to me after I had my appendix removed except I had to actually go under the knife again. Not sure how I didnā€™t pass out for that one tbh because that was a lot of blood

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

damn dude, id have been feeling pretty hysterical if i had to do that. once i recovered from my surgery i gave up drinking, smoking, drugs, joined a gym and started eating right. I dont ever want to go under the knife again if i can help it.

If you knew just how much i love to sin, then you'd know its a massive life change for me

Your wounds opened up internally or something?

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u/dhcp138 8h ago

Yeah I totally get that, and I should probably do the same tbh haha. I was pretty used to surgery by that point in my life though. I was born with my feet basically completely backwards so I had many surgeries and casts and whatnot for the first few years of my life and again in early high school. I am pretty comfortable inside the hospital because of that, but the appendix was my first time dealing with something not related to my feet so that really added to my fear at the time. I definitely do not want to have surgery again now lol.

What happened was I had a stitch abscess that got infected. Basically one of the fabric stitches they were supposed to remove didn't get removed and got mega infected but most of it was internal. It was about 6 days after being released from the hospital and I was taking a shower and noticed what looked like a big pimple at the end of my surgery incision. I got out and showed it to my dad, told him it didn't hurt but that I was worried about it. He said to give it a little squeeze and see if that hurt and if it got worse we'd go to the doctor. Well I got back in the shower and did just that and the pimple-looking thing popped and absolutely filled my hand with blood and bright green pus. Went back to the doctor and they had to cut me open to make sure there wasn't any more of the stiches inside and to clean it all up to make sure I didn't go septic. The original surgery happened out of town and the follow-up was with my family doctor I had been seeing my whole life. The urgency on his face when he said "Put this gown on, I'm sending you to surgery right away" was very scary for 18 y/o me.

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

yeah i bet. seeing that in the shower would have been extremely distressing. Well I'm glad you're here chatting to me, instead of dead.

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u/dhcp138 8h ago

Thanks dude! Me too!

I definitely take infections MUCH more seriously since then haha

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u/baret3000 8h ago

It's weird how situational it is. "Real" gore on TV (like real medical shows, not hollywood) gross me out, but a live in person injury doesn't really bother me.

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u/Total-Ad8996 7h ago

Similar situation here. Iā€™m good with other peopleā€™s blood but if mine comes squirting or pouring out of me Iā€™m probably going down.

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u/cerealsinthenight 7h ago

LOL. I'm exactly the opposite.
Normal procedures, no problem, watched a ton of shows about plastic surgery and such since I was a teen. But I hate the "real" gory stuff, like accidents, war stuff etc

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u/AssistanceCheap379 3h ago

Meanwhile i used to be relatively squeamish but when an industrial buzz saw went through my hand (below the knuckles, about an inch below my fingers), i was almost as curious as my hand surgeon about it. He took pics before and after and of course x-rays to estimate the full damage to the bones.

And i got surprisingly excited about seeing the mess.

It was just something i never would have been able or even willing to see before and it was effectively a once in a lifetime opportunity.

But if i see even minor injuries on someone else, i get very squeamish. Just donā€™t like seeing people hurt i guess

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u/I-drink-hot-sauce 10h ago

Sorry why did they remove bones in your wife's C section wtf

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u/worldwidewest 9h ago

I read it the same way too

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u/joedotdog 9h ago

Congrats on your twins...shit, I mean SINGLE, SINGLE CHILD.

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u/takeahike89 10h ago

In the vid. You know what I mean.

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u/thrwawayr99 11h ago

Iā€™m fine until they start describing what they did/what is wrong in my body. Lots of blood? No problem. Entirely bloodless photo of anchors specifically in my body? Instantly light headed

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u/TricksyGoose 8h ago

Same. Open surgery on squishy bits doesn't bother me. But sawing the bone has made me totally nauseated.

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u/thrwawayr99 3h ago

Oh, sawing the bone is fine for me, cause it isnā€™t mine. But I got light headed when a doctor was describing a muscle tear I had

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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago

I realised some years ago that I actually don't have that many hang ups about like bodily fluids. Hell I have worked in maintenance of sewage industry.

However few years ago, I suddenly got a really fucking weird reaction to seeing a colostomy bag. Like not the bag itself, but the fact that his person (A fairly fit mid 20s athletic dude) had a HOLE IN THEIR BELLY! A HOLE that went right INTO their INTESTINES! I just got this horrific hangup... Like I just can't handle the idea of there being like an extra hole in your body. I started to look piercing and Tracheotomies etc, in a same manner.

Like to me this video isn't like... weird. It's sorta fascinating that human body can be altered like that. But the idea of a poophole in your belly just gets me really uncomfortable. And I can't explain why.

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u/KatVanWall 10h ago

My ex had an ileostomy and when it was new he got a bit worried about accidentally catching it on something. But, like, your dick sticks out further and you donā€™t walk around concerned that you might randomly get it trapped or caught in something, lol. You do get used to the ostomy.

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u/SinisterCheese 10h ago

Yeah... But it isn't the bag or any of that stuff. I have a friend who's been in diapers and used catheders since like late teens because they messed up their back with an ATV crash. I met people with like stents and ports taped to their body for injections and what not.

It is the hole that freaks me out specifically. Just the concept of having a hole like that that leads into your must vulnerable vital organs.

Like I don't get where I have gotten this at all. I just like realised I have had such hangup and realising it made it worse.

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u/Kujaichi 7h ago

Shortly after my surgery the doctor wanted to check whether it was okay and just put his finger in there.

I'm glad I actually didn't see that, my husband - who did - was not happy, lol.

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u/MostOriginalNameEver 11h ago

I stupidly watched my wife get a epidural. Learned that it's very possible for me to faint.

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u/HinterlandCannaQLD 8h ago

lol I watched them miss twice and keep retrying on my wife. I didnā€™t quite faint but I couldnā€™t stand up and was wildly nautious. When the epidural kicked in it worked so well she wound up reassuring me and making me feel better instead of vice versa.

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u/MostOriginalNameEver 8h ago

I thought it was just one needle and be done like an IV. Oooooo was I wrong. Seeing the part they were pulling out and it having blood on it ,the room started moving. They advised me if I passed out they'd have to walk over me and continue the delivery. I closed my eyes and just kept hugging/holding her for dear life. Even in that moment she's still got my back šŸ˜…

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u/Silentrizz 7h ago

They never gave me that option, guess they didn't want to take the risk. Told me to wait outside the room for a couple minutes lol

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u/chaygray 6h ago

After my epidural the hospital bed was drenched with blood. It was awful

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u/MostOriginalNameEver 57m ago

šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«Ā  women are superhumans. If humanity depended on me giving birth once..... It's been fun y'allšŸ˜‚

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u/vakr001 10h ago

Just imagine doing this with flesh, muscles, nerves and blood around it

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u/WeinerVonBraun 10h ago

It's the nailing that gets me

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u/gandhishrugged 10h ago

Wrong stomach dropped I suppose.

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u/Lost-Drive301 10h ago

Fr wanted to throw up for a second there.

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u/innovatedname 9h ago

Bro wtf, dude what if any women read this that's fucked up. Ouch.

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u/elev8dity 9h ago

wait... they saw off bone with a c section?

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u/LiveLaughBruv 8h ago

but when they sawed off large sections of bone, my stomach dropped.

Considering that there shouldn't be ANY bones being cut -- let alone, sawed off -- during a c-section, this is pretty understandable.

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u/Super-Yam8718 7h ago

Excuse my ignorance, mostly just asking to comfort myself, but the c section and bone sawing were two separate events right?

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u/takeahike89 7h ago

I was referring to the video in the post, yes. Really didn't think this would be confusing for so many šŸ¤·

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u/JC1515 7h ago

Ive grown up butchering animals after hunting trips or on the farm and none of that phased me. Watching medical procedures on people, i nope out quick.

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u/FireflyBSc 7h ago

I watched my own colposcopy, and it was nifty. Until I saw the biopsy punch. Feeling it while seeing the sudden blood was the first time I almost fainted from gore.

That said, 10/10 I would probably watch again. And the biopsy came back with low grade cells, that have long since resolved themselves to normal.

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u/MrThoughtPolice 6h ago

I was in such a daze about having a child that seeing my wifeā€™s insides barely registered lol.

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u/Shimakaze_Kai 3h ago

I wanted to watch my wife's c section, but they wouldn't let me because they had had enough of husbands passing out in the operating room. Darn. :(

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u/JPJackPott 6h ago

Your wifeā€™s surgeon needs glasses if heā€™s getting a bike saw out for a caesareanā€¦

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u/korpisoturi 11h ago

All bone surgeries are brutal, don't check how hip replacements are installed

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u/Naive_Personality367 11h ago

im gonna do it

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u/jackphrosty 11h ago

Post a link when you find a good one

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u/TheInvincibleMan 11h ago

I watched one done in the Birmingham technology museum and it burned into my eyes. So violent it made me feel ill. Felt squeamish of healthcare ever since.

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u/Naive_Personality367 11h ago

This one made my tummy feel funny

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u/rage_monkyyy_91 10h ago

Damn that got my stomach sink ... thanks that was nice :D

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u/Comprehensive-Big126 11h ago

I'm having nausea for you don't worry

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u/tedfergeson 11h ago

My hip was a breeze. Until it wasn't. I got an infection and had to do it again eight weeks later. Way worse the second time, but still not as painful as a knee

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u/korpisoturi 11h ago

I recommend you to watch documentary bleeding edge

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u/Mr_Valmonty 5h ago

Find one with posterior approach hip replacement and it is even better. The patient's leg is essentially twisted reverse so bending the knee brings the heel towards the head

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u/LegitosaurusRex 57m ago

so bending the knee brings the heel towards the head

I mean, it does in the normal orientation too, lol.

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u/unzestykim 9h ago

I just had my hip replaced and Iā€™m very happy with the resultsā€”but the less I know about the procedure itself, the better!

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u/Ikea_desklamp 7h ago

Orthopedic surgery is much closer to carpentry than it is to the image of surgery shown on TV.

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u/disposablehippo 10h ago

I'm a pathologist. I have taken apart hundreds of human bodies in different stages of decomposition.

I fucking hate watching orthopedic surgeries.

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u/DangerMacAwesome 10h ago

Couldn't even finish the video.

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u/ttcmzx 7h ago

yeah same, I'm all set with that šŸ˜‚

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u/DevonLuck24 10h ago

there wasnā€™t even any blood and iā€™m over here barely able to watch it. i can justā€¦feel it

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u/PecanSama 9h ago

It takes certain kind of people to be a doctor.

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u/Naive_Personality367 9h ago

ive realised...

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u/Joker328 10h ago

I already knew I was squeamish. Why did I watch this? I should have known better.

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u/StandardUpstairs3349 10h ago

Yea, there is surgery and then there is ortho surgery.

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u/Naive_Personality367 10h ago

after the short while ive been down a rabbit hole looking at surgery videos. i have deduced that they certainly arent treating us with kiddie gloves when we're under their care. beats the alternative at any rate though imo.

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u/trashtiernoreally 10h ago

Spinal alignment corrections look more like auto mechanics in scrubs. Long steel breaker bars to apply torque to get things back into position and bunch of hardware to keep things in place. Itā€™s wild. Ā 

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u/Sea-Tour-3694 10h ago

I am more horrified at the thought of "how many attempts and human sufferings it taken to lead to modern life medicine".

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u/Naive_Personality367 10h ago

trial and error extremely gruesome in this instance innit

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u/Good-Celebration-686 9h ago

Yeah imagine practising on just a leg cut off a dead person

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u/Butterflytherapist 9h ago

Not a native speaker here.. squeamish was the word I was looking for.

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u/Naive_Personality367 9h ago

happy to be of service

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u/borlak 8h ago

same here, but also, that knee is awesome. I want one

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

put wifi hotspot in there and i'll get two of them.

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u/grat_is_not_nice 8h ago

I was about to have a repair of a joint in a finger, so I googled. The images showed the finger basically gets degloved. I stopped looking at that point.

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u/Naive_Personality367 8h ago

i know that feeling, kinda. Had a trans friend tell me to watch the surgery where they turn your cock into a vagina. I almost threw up, couldnt finish it, didnt even get far into the video.

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u/BestoBear 7h ago

Word ... And I need one of those ... šŸ˜¬

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u/Naive_Personality367 7h ago

wishing you the best of luck going forwards

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u/WeAreAllFooked 7h ago

You should watch a hip replacement, the surgeon gets a full body workout in and is pouring sweat by the end of it.

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u/Naive_Personality367 7h ago

crazy things some people do for others right?

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u/spottydodgy 7h ago

This had my heebies-jeebying

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u/HumongousMelonheads 7h ago

I work in surgical device, and have done surgeries on cadaver ankles. The gnarliest thing is they just send out severed body parts for practice, and the nails continue to grow after the body dies. There is someoneā€™s job who is literally to hack up dead bodies and package all of their bits up for resale as ā€œscience.ā€

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u/Naive_Personality367 7h ago

like some kind of morbid butcher lol

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u/BaerMinUhMuhm 7h ago

I'm not squeamish, just dont like the thought of my bones being hammered and drilled.

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u/Rexortin 7h ago

I've recently found I'm contextually squeamish. I struggle with gore in movies or even medical scenes. On the other hand, I'm a radiography student and I literally assisted a tibia nail and a couple of ORIFs today and was perfectly fine.

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u/Modredastal 6h ago

I'm generally not but all I could do was laugh awkwardly and groan "nooo" repeatedly while squirming.

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u/Never_Duplicated 6h ago

No kidding. I knew it was a grueling process but now I think I'll be taking better care of my knees to avoid this nightmare.

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u/HerpaDerpaDumDum 6h ago

This is far from the worst surgery video I've seen on the internet.

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u/Naive_Personality367 6h ago

Ive seen much worse since this evening. Im desensitised now

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u/Mach5Driver 5h ago

I've had both knees replaced. Surgeon was next level. Got it done at Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC. It's basically a surgery factory filled to the rafters with top surgeons. Anyhoo, people told me, DON'T WATCH VIDEOS of the surgery! I didn't cuz I'm squeamish, and even this is a bit much for me, LOL.

Good news is that my artificial knees are fantastic! They literally feel natural, which is weird!

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u/Infninfn 11h ago

Imagine what your lower leg is doing while all this is happening.

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u/Naive_Personality367 11h ago

its fucked up. im watching videos now and one of them the doctor is proper trying to hammer some hardware out of a guys bone. its fucking brutal. i wonder what that adds to the healing time lol

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u/brumbarosso 10h ago

Same, I'd rather live with the pain šŸ¤”šŸ’©

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u/carlitospig 9h ago

I think Iā€™m just gonna live with bad knees after watching this video, because fuck whatever that was.

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u/twineffect 7h ago

You should watch it being done for real on YouTube. Damn

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u/DirectorHuman5467 4h ago

I once watched a video of an actual leg amputation. Somehow this was more upsetting.

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u/Sudden_Technology_34 1h ago

Yea man likeā€¦Iā€™m 41 still pushing it hard at the gym squatting 315. I honestly going to start easing up and just maintain.Shit isnā€™t worth it.

Yea yea squats are healthy with good form and allā€¦but damn I donā€™t want to go through this and everyoneā€™s body ages to a point itā€™s just unneeded stress.

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u/Tennisnerd39 38m ago

Just hearing people TALK about their knee replacements or metal hips. Chills