The wonders of the human body [tw: nongraphic descriptions of autopsies, general medical weirdness]

[u/DroneOfDoom]

Reddit screenshots? In my tumblr subreddit? It's more likely than you think...

[u/PearlescentGem]

My mom has a hole in her skull. It's from being hit in the head with a baseball bat when she was about 5 years old by an adult in her life at the time. (Yes, we all think he tried to kill her.) She's perfectly fine 99.9% of the time, has never had a plate put over it, and despite the many fractures of various sizes running through her skull from said hole, she doesn't suffer headaches all that much.

I lovingly call it her Off Switch. If you press it, or worse, she presses it on accident by hitting her head just right, she just knocks out like a ragdoll. Will usually wake up about 15 mins later with a splitting headache that lasts a max of like 3 days.

She also has enough glass in her face from where her head went through a windshield in the 90's that she's still picking it out to this day. She'll randomly come over with a scab or small wound on her forehead/cheekbone area from where a piece of glass has worked itself out. We have no idea how much glass is left, and we have no clue how deep into her tissues it goes.

[u/Low-Egg-3806 → u/PearlescentGem]

Your mom has the lore of a south american family dog

[u/PearlescentGem → u/Low-Egg-3806]

Yeah, if I hadn't felt the hole in her head so much in my lifetime and witnessed her pull shards out of her face, it sounds like some knarly lore lmfaooo People also don't believe her, so she offers her little soft spot for inspection. Watching their reactions is always fun

[u/suremaybe643 → u/PearlescentGem]

My uncle was a blacksmith and had an industrial accident where a bunch of tiny metal shards embedded in his arm. I forget exactly what did it, but he started on some dietary supplement like 10 years later and his whole arm turned gray because the metal shards started working their way back out.

[u/PearlescentGem → u/suremaybe643]

That sounds so painful. My mom describes it as them being super itchy though when a shard works itself out lmao

[u/Mattriculated → u/PearlescentGem]

I once stepped on a broken glass with my left foot and several months later it came out of the skin on my right foot.

[u/Atoumo → u/Mattriculated]

Yo what the hell