Bod Bits You Have Lost ... And Bod Bits You've Gained

This is meant to be lighthearted so I hope no one has ever lost a limb. I’ll hang my head in shame if they have and I’ve put my foot in it.

But … how many body bits have you lost?
Appendix? Spleen? Hair? Hearing?

And how many extra bits and bobs have you gained, if any …?
Pacemaker? Replacement hip? Wig? False finger nails? Steel plates to stabilise rickety joints?

Fortunately I’ve lost nothing yet.
But … I do have a platinum coil in my head after having a brain aneurysm.

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I’ve had my left big toe nail & nail bed removed as it was ingrowing too much, beyond the point of recovery by manipulation or realignment
It was very painful, even with anasthetic but it’s all OK now

Touch wood, no other removals for the forseeable future, although my hearing has deteriorated a bit
My doctor said ‘You probably listened to a lot of pop & rock music when you were a young man; I expect you’re reaping the harvest now’.

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I lost a bit of my colon…

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Half my mop top
Half my hearing
An unmeasurable portion of my sanity

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Hi

A good fun post Morti.

Starting at the top, some hair, male pattern baldness, spreading rapidly, some burnt off and replaced by scarring.

Brain cells, some natural decay, the rest destroyed by and replaced by various pieces and types of shrapnel, some metallic, some non metallic.

Enough metallic shrapnel to prevent me having an MRI Scan.

Right hand ear and skull, bits missing, replaced by shrapnel and damage means that skull is considerably thicker than the other side.

Jaw, lost all my teeth, both jaw bones broken, so complete set of false teeth and plates and screws in both bones.

Hairy chest and stomach except for large area on the right, completely hairless and skin like a babies bum, covering area burnt off.

Missing coronary arteries, 4, replaced with own vein from right leg, metal staples to reattach ribs etc.

Metal stents, two, in remaining original coronary artery.

Plates and pins in left leg and knee.

Lastly, but very annoyingly, a scar in left hand, thumb, a defense wound, tip of knife still stuck in bone.

I also have a scar on the tip of the first finger of my left hand and inside is the revenge of the fish I caught.

The tip and barb of a hook so embedded in the bone it was easier to leave it in there.

I used to have short fat hairy legs.

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What do you have now d00d?
Long sexy smooth legs?
Just asking for a friend…
:nerd_face:

Aww…Good topic Morty…
I lost my heart 53 years ago to a lass from Barnsley…
:heart_eyes:
However…
Steel supports and rivets in my right wrist following a road accident when I was 18…I wasn’t driving just in case you were asking… :009:
8…yes 8 stents in various bits of pipework supplying blood to my heart…
Pacemaker/Defibrillator buried in my left shoulder…
Still got all my hair and teeth, but after 35 years working in a noisy factory making stuff I now use Hearing Enhancement Devices (hearing aids to you)
Gained…75 years of wit and wisdom…
That’s about it for now Morty…

I was a child in the 40s and 50s when they would whip out adenoids and tonsils at the drop of a hat so I don’t have those.

But apart from them, some teeth and a few small pieces of disc from my spine I am intact.

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Combat Veteran ?

I am classified as one but never saw combat . I was Army artillery with Air Cav but my squad never went out with them as during my tour only infantry went and that was ok with us .

Hi

Nope, never been military or police ,not brave enough…

A Government nerd, geek scientist during the Cold War, with a remarkable ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Most of my injuries are domestic terrorism related, post Cold War.

We do things very differently here in the UK compared with the USA.

In no way a criticism of the USA, just a different approach.

We are much more like the Australians, the USA are much more like the French.

My tonsils were taken out, too,when I was nine, it it was all the rage in the 70s. :grin:

Knobbly knees too!

:astonished:

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