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submitted 10 months ago by DBT@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Your body doesn’t heal itself. Cuts need stitches that must be permanent. Bones need to be screwed together even if just cracked. How you doing?

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[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I'd probably be dead from infection, and at the very least horribly disfigured. Was in a boating accident when I was 6 and had 3rd degree burns across my entire body.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'd tell you but it's really hard to type from this Tupperware they putty-knifed me into after The Incident.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'd be dead.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago

I think that's just what diabetic patient have to deal with, wound that never heal will get infection sooner or later. So i'll just die from paper cut.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I already have screws, bolts, and rods in me. I'd probably have thousands of staples and/or stitches. No healing means no scarring, so there may be some benefits in other ways.

[-] Neil@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I don't remember it, but my dad and I were going down a slide together when I was a toddler and he accidentally rolled over me and broke my leg, lol. I was only one at the time, apparently. I suppose I would've died then without any healing.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, i would be boned. Even just recently i had a wrist reconstruction

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Not anymore, you didn't!

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

A few bruises and maybe some toes that need armor, but not too bad.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ded. Like, so ded.

[-] _Sprite@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm 50% of the way there and it sucks. Everything hurts at some point.

[-] ItzLiftin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Would be in a bad shape but not dead probably.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ded. I'd be nothing but a mass of stitches and have been burned enough times, if that didn't heal id be dead.

Slow healing is the one thing I notice the most about getting older. I'm in good shape and all, well nourished, it's not lifestyle. I broke my finger and it took two years to heal completely. As a kid that would have been 6 weeks, at 50 something it took 104 weeks.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 months ago

Would've bleed out at 9 from arm laceration.

[-] Chuymatt@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] skybreaker@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Depends on what you're talking about. If you consider all the injuries we've ever picked up in life, we'd all be dead. If you're just talking about the injuries I have now not healing, then I'm fit as a fiddle.

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