Posted on 07/20/2015 3:58:26 PM PDT by lbryce
All you Not true without pictures guys, DU is calling.
After a man’s hand was chopped off during a work accident, surgeons saved it by attaching it to his leg, Central European News (CEN) reported.
Zhou, a factory worker in central China, had his left hand chopped off due to the incident, which involved spinning blade machine. When he was taken to the hospital, his arm and severed hand were badly wounded, leading doctors to decide to graft it to his right ankle. For over a month, the appendage was left there, so the nerves and tendons could heal.
"Under normal temperatures, a severed finger needs to resume blood supply within 10 hours, but that time is even shorter for a separated limb,” Dr. Tang Juyu, head of microsurgery at the Xiangyu Hospital in Changsha, told CEN. “If a limb is short of blood for too long, its tissues die and it will be unsalvageable.”
In a 10-hour surgery, the hand was reattached to Zhou’s arm.
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What a time to be alive.
Yeah. Add that to Obama being president, and you might say it was the worst of times, and it was the worst of times.
Pretty cool. However, did these same doctors graft the Repub-e’s heads up their arses??? Enquiring minds want to know.
I saw this happen 1973 or 74. Hand completely off. Put it in his stomach. Reattached later. Did not work very well.
Surgical skills like that are indirect evidence the God loves us.
Oops! ‘the God’ = ‘that God’
Looks like a dewclaw for humans.
“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana, as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!”
Ben Franklin: letter to the Abbe Morellet
A similar procedure was performed in the tv show “The Knick” which takes place in the early 1900’s in NY City. A former lover of the head doctor asked him for help in replacing her nose which had been eaten away because of the syphillis she contracted from her husband. He grafted skin from the inner part of her upper arm and attached it to her nose. Her right arm was draped across the top of her head, and her head had to be at a specific angle so the skin connection/graft could heal properly. She had straps and wraps all over the place to make sure both the arm and the nose remained connected during the healing process. It was really weird to see.
“Well the, ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone’s connected to the hip bone,
The hip bone’s connected to the back bone,
The back bone’s connected to the neck bone,
And the neck bone’s connected to the head bone”
...in this case, it’s:
“the hand bone’s connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone’s connected to the hip bone,
The hip bone’s connected to the back bone,
The back bone’s connected to the neck bone,
And the neck bone’s connected to the head bone”
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