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I bet somebody has this on their 2026 bingo card
Foul Tarnished…
Isn’t that Margit’s opening line?
It is, oops, Godrick prefers lowly Tarnished.
Impressive and again a yay for science
“accident”
Pranks that went too far
A great milestone for humanity.
Sometimes it can be a perk keeping an ear to the ground.
For…. Science?
Edit:
The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save the patient’s aural orifice so it could be reattached to her head later.
Okay, but its going to be really hard to find socks in the meantime. Also, dont the hairs that allow you to hear not grow back? I assume the ear will never be useable again. Although I guess the aesthetic appeal is still there
The hearing happens way further into the head. The outer ear just helps with sound localization.
Congrats. A human spider.
This case is another example why proper patient care is so important:
But complications arose five days later, when the ear turned purplish black as its connecting veins struggled to send blood back to the heart, causing the blood to pool. Over the next five days, the team rescued the ear with manual bloodletting, a labor intensive process that required almost five hundred individual interventions.
Every hospital cutting nursing jobs to a skeleton crew has blood (and ears) on their hands.
And it’s the same with rehabilitation measures: especially with neurological damage after a stroke or brain hemorrhage starting with therapy ASAP preserves and restores function and abilities that are lost if it takes months to get therapy.
I’ve heard this idea has been kicked around for a few years now…
Ugh, take your upvote and get out.
Saving you a click:
The patient suffered a horrific workplace accident involving heavy machinery, which tore off a large part of her scalp and her ear with it. The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save the patient’s aural orifice so it could be reattached to her head later.
For those curious as to why the foot:
They chose the foot because the arteries and veins there are compatible with those found in the ear. The foot’s skin and soft tissue are also similarly thin to the head’s.
They do this with penis injuries too. I’m surprised people are surprised?
Or maybe I know too much about dick science.
The patient can’t wear a shoe on that foot, but I guess that’s the least of their worries at that point.
Maybe they’ll be able to graft the ear back on her head before she’d be healed enough to walk out of the hospital anyway.
That’s the whole reason they attached it to her foot.
The damage to her scalp and vascular network was so severe that restoring the ear at the time was impossible, so the procedure was performed to save the patient’s aural orifice so it could be reattached to her head later.
That’s the whole reason they attached it somewhere, but your quote doesn’t address my speculation about why they picked her foot in particular. I was making a guess about the relative timing of her being healed enough to release vs. being healed enough to have the graft moved back to where it belongs.
My guess is blood flow. Legs tend to be the limb that receive the most blood flow.
Gross
Because…?
Fuck off
thats kind of amazing that you can just graft one body part onto another while waiting for the correct spot to heal enough to actually have a successful reattachment surgery.
The ear is about the only thing this really works with. There’s not much special going on with it, it’s just shaped flesh and cartilage. You don’t even need nerves in the ear to use it, since literally everything happens inside your head.
You couldn’t do this with pretty much anything else really.
They do that with feet and hands routinely.
Who does?
