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[oakenguy]

So I'm reading about Roy Horn's condition after the tiger attack. And it mentions that they had to remove about 1/4 of his skull due to cranial pressure. And--here's what made me squeak out loud on the T--to keep the skull usable, they've made a pouch in his abdomen and tucked the skull fragment in there until they feel it's time to put it back on his head!

Am I just totally out of the frickin' loop here? How long have doctors been giving people pouches?!? How many patients have woken up from emergency surgery and discovered they had a new place to put their spare change??

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[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Urm, I think it's probably some kinda internal thing -- more a place for a time capsule than spare change. Freaky, nonetheless. When I saw the headline, I'd wondered about him, you know, going through life without 1/4 of his skull, but then they explained it. Surgeons are so weird.