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I got pics of my foot during surgery and pics of it a week after the operation. I'd love to share it with people and discuss how neat the human body is. I don't want to subject people to it who aren't interested in it, though.

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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I'm glad you're healing well. I broke my foot earlier in the year in July...lis franc injury, but mild enough that they decided not to do surgery for fear of fucking up with the tiny foot bones (I got a lot of little breaks at the end of the bones which are nigh-impossible to put screws through without making it worse), which seems to have been the right call as I'm walking on it 4 months later.

I absolutely loved the doctors that got all excited and doctory talking about stuff! With me, I ended up with some of the history of lis franc injuries, which used to be common for soldiers on horseback, as they'd fall from their horse and get the midfoot stuck in the stirrup, breaking it.

I also had an unrelated small skin biopsy, and my surgeon was happily chattering away about doing it by hand so I don't get weird skin flaps by the punch, and how the little cauterization tool worked. You know, as I lay there with bits of my flesh burning, lol.

Nerdy doctors are cool.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That's so cool! Thank you for sharing!

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