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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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pouches, cats, and geniuses.

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

they've been doing that for a couple years at least...
kid in my high school cut his thumb off (genius!) and they put his hand in the 'pouch' for two weeks to get the blood vessels ready to attach his big toe as an impromptu thumb. odd. always looked like he had his hand in his pocket.

the truly odd thing? I've seen craniectomies done. On cats. We just throw the piece away and kitty has a soft spot :)

~K

Re: pouches, cats, and geniuses.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

so he had to lose his big toe just to get a working thumb? don't they have like, thumb donors or something? what the hell?

Re: pouches, cats, and geniuses.

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

nope, no thumb donors... and yup... had to lose his big toe.

But... when you crush your own in a wood splitter (ever seen how SLOW those things are?) you deserve to lose *something* for your stupidity.

Re: pouches, cats, and geniuses.

[freyja.livejournal.com]

oh, it got crushed? that's probably why then :)