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The Amazing Body; a cut finger

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Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
So... I am in the kitchen making a salad. I am running a cucumber through the new slicer. The thing cuts like butter, perhaps better.. I quickly go through the cucumber and 'bing!' that odd electrical sensation shoots through my body. I just cut the tip of my finger off.. arrghh.. Stupid me. It isnt bad, only about 1/4 of an inch in diameter, shallow slice. The disc of flesh is on the cutter surface. Blood everywhere.

So then comes a week of wearing bandaids, putting on salve, saying some prayers, putting up with bandage adhesive getting on the iPhone plastic protection cover shield, etc, etc....

This morning, I realised I do not have a bandage on it. yayyy! But... How much more incredible the body is. Being I was into making car bodies years ago, how hard it is to make something smooth and glossy. How can a bio machine such as the human body, heal itself? Imagine. Not only does it rebuild the area with a fresh layer of skin, but it replaces the fingerprint? How can cells know to do this? How sophisticated are DNA blueprints?

If you really sat down and dwelled on it, it would overwhelm you what all occurs in such an instance as a simple wound healing. For me, its just miraculous. Now and android would be stuck with that body damage for the rest of his days, but here we have healing and most of the time, scarring is minimal.

The amazing body..

Something to think about.. In 3 years, most of your bodies cells are rebuilt. In 7 years, every single cell has been replaced...

3 Years = 1095 days
7 Years = 2555 days



Bill
 
Consider yourself very lucky Bill. I lost 3/4" of a thumb to an emery wheel years ago. It did not grow back! Be more careful man!
 
The human machine is a very astounding piece of equipment. :applause:

I had a discussion with a table saw many many years ago, and though I only "knicked" a couple fingers, those fingers are better at predicting the weather than any meterologist. :isadizzy:

So? How was the salad? :icon_lol:
 
I sliced off the tip of a finger with a scalpel when I was an art student - the cleanest cut I've ever seen. It grew back just as it was.

But it's not miracluous, it's just nature. If cuts didn't heal, got infected and caused death then none of us would be here to talk about it. It's just the way it is - it doesn't need an explanation or a reason.

On the other hand the brain tumour I was diagnosed with when I was 26 hasn't changed a bit since the last time I had radiotherapy in 1997. Maybe it will grow again, maybe it won't but the damage it has caused to my eyesight will never heal.
On the whole I'd rather have a flat finger tip!
 
when they sliced my belly down the middle, instead of giving me stitches they put these 2 adhesive strips on either side of the 12" incision. they packed it with gauze and then they then took a shoelace sort of a thing, and laced me up just like you would a football or a shoe. then they cleaned and re-packed it twice a day. it healed to the point where i didn't need the laces in a few weeks.
 
If you are replaced every seven years than I have gone through better that 11 transformations.
I would like to go back to transformation number three if you please.
Thank you.
 
Helldiver said:
If you are replaced every seven years than I have gone through better that 11 transformations.
I would like to go back to transformation number three if you please.
Thank you.
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LOLOL.....

Me too...


Hey, you never said how the salad was?

TomSteber
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It was good! Had to clean up all the blood that was everywhere, but afterwards, it was a good salad.


CF,

That is grim.

What did you have worked on?



On a side note, have you ever thought of doctors as being mechanics?



Bill
 
they removed my small intestine, in a real big hurry. :icon_lol:

where did i see the joke about the proctologist who decided to go to school and be an auto mechanic? was it in the cantina?

i saw another one where a dr brought his motorcycle in to have a valve replaced. after the mechanic finished the job he said to the doc "the heart is just a big valve, am i right?"
and doctor agreed "yes, sort of"
"so, i can replace the valves in your bike, how come you make so much more than me?" mused the mechanic.
to which the doctor replied "because i can do it with the engine running"
 
cheezyflier said:
they removed my small intestine, in a real big hurry. :icon_lol:

where did i see the joke about the proctologist who decided to go to school and be an auto mechanic? was it in the cantina?

i saw another one where a dr brought his motorcycle in to have a valve replaced. after the mechanic finished the job he said to the doc "the heart is just a big valve, am i right?"
and doctor agreed "yes, sort of"
"so, i can replace the valves in your bike, how come you make so much more than me?" mused the mechanic.
to which the doctor replied "because i can do it with the engine running"
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lololololol..... Dang!
 
'Tis amazing...although science can lend a little help.
Our household has added Spray Plaster to the first-aid kit, and it's amazing.
Especially with clean cuts, you disinfect then spray this goo on.
It's invisible but forms a platform for cell reproduction.
I had a (reasonably minor, but might've required a stitch) cut recently and the next day had forgotten about it.
 
What I found to be most impressive is that they've actually grown peoples fingers back from being mostly chopped off.

It was on some evening news show like 60 minutes or dateline a while back. I guess it has to do with stem cells and stuff like that.

Medical science is amazing. I think there will be some truly awesome things going on by the time I'm old.
 
Helldiver said:
If you are replaced every seven years than I have gone through better that 11 transformations.
I would like to go back to transformation number three if you please.
Thank you.
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Like me, you must have forgotten to set a restore point on your 21st birthday ?

Bob.
 
Hi Bill,

Just imagine you had a Microsoft body: no new fingerprint but all the time an error message for the whole rest of your hand for the future.

Mike:salute:
 
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