Human spare parts club

If you have spare parts as a result of injury/surgery that are aftermarket ... i.e. you werent born with em (non OEM ) lets hear about em:

I broke my left leg riding BMX and as a result I have SS screws in my hip and my knee, and a titanium rod running the length of my left femure. It sets off those metal detector wands security personell use. Its gotten a bit dicey at the airport before. Twice, security people have gotten to know me a lot better than I wanted them to

Also, same spill that broke my leg also broke a tiny bone in my wrist. called the scaphoid, its only function is to align the other bones in the wrist. if its broken, and not fixed, youre almost certain to get bad arthritis, as well as other problems from the misalignment (bad tread wear for starters ). This bone is extremely dense and is cursed with very poor circulation, and almost never heals on its own. The doc took a hunk of bone out of my hip, which grows back very fast, and carved me a new bone, and then set it in my wrist with a screw and a plate around it.

"we can fix him...we have the technology"

I have a number of SS rivets in my chiseled out tibia, along with some relocated tendon, thanks to an ACL reconstruction

talking for my father here... he is looking forwards to hip replacement number 7 soon. He got his first two courtesy of the US Navy back in the early 70s.

I wish I had pictures, but he did turn on of his "spare" titanium hips into a shiftknob for his MGBGT

mad_machine wrote: talking for my father here... he is looking forwards to hip replacement number 7 soon. He got his first two courtesy of the US Navy back in the early 70s. I wish I had pictures, but he did turn on of his "spare" titanium hips into a shiftknob for his MGBGT

bad a$$

I'm not as cool as you guys, I'm only missing parts.

Shawn

mad_machine wrote: talking for my father here... he is looking forwards to hip replacement number 7 soon. He got his first two courtesy of the US Navy back in the early 70s. I wish I had pictures, but he did turn on of his "spare" titanium hips into a shiftknob for his MGBGT

My dad had a hip replaced twice, and I had similar thoughts about the first one they took out of him...they are a pretty interesting piece of metal.

Well, I made it thru 64 years with just the usual scrapes and bruises. Then I lost an argument with a step-ladder and ended up like this:

I carry a small laminated copy of this picture for when I have to go thru the metal detectors at the courthouse!

I'm lucky, my body is very determined to work right. It self repairs quite well, and even grows back things. Including things that supposedly can't grow back (teeth, fingertips, calcified lung tissue, etc).

And the government hasn't kidnapped you for experiments yet?

I almost ended up with a piece of mesh to keep my intestines out of my nutsack, but the Dr. decided against it at the last minute.

Screws, schmoows, when you have somebody else's tendons in your knee, that's manly. Or does it make me a quasi-zombie?

You're only quasi-zombie if you quasi-eat brains.

foxtrapper wrote: I'm lucky, my body is very determined to work right. It self repairs quite well, and even grows back things. Including things that supposedly can't grow back (teeth, fingertips, calcified lung tissue, etc).

There some reptile DNA in there somwhere.

Shawn

I have grown back fingertips and I do not scar... I would like to try growing back teeth

well, in an odd tie-in to automotive matters... my mother is on knee #3, the first one had a RECALL!

My wife has wire tying her sternum together as a result of two open heart surgeries , two angioplastic rings in her heart, but the really creepy thing is she has a metal plate screwed into her neck which retains a piece of cadaver bone.

I have my zombie attack kit ready......

mad_machine wrote: I have grown back fingertips and I do not scar... I would like to try growing back teeth

I've got a baseball bat. We can make this experiment happen.

Appleseed wrote: Screws, schmoows, when you have somebody else's tendons in your knee, that's manly. Or does it make me a quasi-zombie?

Not manly if the tendon came from a (gasp) girl. That would explain the pink Miata however.

I've had an artificial front tooth since I was eleven or so. I lost the OE one in a fight over... who got to use the bathroom first.

I'm actually on the Plastitooth Mk.II, the original was replaced a few years ago since it was only supposed to be temporary anyway. The new one matches the colour of the rest of my teeth much better, and it's got a nice silver backing on it. I figure if I ever become a pirate it'll pay for my pirate burial.

J

My friend Matt broke his right humerus arm wrestling (no E36 M3). It broke in a spiral pattern instead of clean through, he had to have surgery on it. A titanium plate and six titanium screws later and he's doing just fine.

He does have a 10 in. scar from the surgery on his upper arm that he likes to show off, and his arm clicks very loudly when he does push-ups.

Chick did scars. I have proof.

When I first met a good friend of mine he had a SS bar connected to two pins that went into his arm bone. This was to spread it out so it would heal correctly.

It was quite disturbing (to me) and he would grab it and shake it hard as well as hang things on it often.

I am freaked out by anything but OEM parts in their correct locations.

Ok, after I got hit head-on a few years ago by a drunk driver, my right leg was stuck (I thought). I reach down to see why my leg isn't working and ewww, is that bone? Yep, shattared and shoved my tibea out the back of my calf. I snatched a towel out of the back seat, tied a tourniquet around my leg, and shoved my way out of the remains of my car.

4 screws and one titanium rod later I'm almost fine. They took out 2 screws, so the doc gave them to me and I had a cross necklace made out of them, wear it every day. Down in the head of the screws are still little chunk of ME!

haha, that happened to me a couple of years ago. Got a couple of screws inserted in my elbow from a nasty snowboard fall, went to the airport to go crew for a Grand Am team and the metal detector picked me up, they were waving their wands, asking me all these questions...

I've got a dental implant and artificial crown in place of my upper left front tooth. The implant process included a graft of cadaver bone and drilling a hole in my jaw to set the titanium implant. The crown is some sort of CAD ceramic thingy that was custom colored to match my other upper front tooth.

I had a well formed and clearly defined brain tumor removed a little over 3 years ago. The souvenir from which is a bunch of little titanium plates and screws securing the trap door they roto-zipped out of my skull.

I fell off a slalom skateboard and the brain lesion was found incidentally when I got a CT in the ER in an attempt to determine why I passed out. Turned out the passing out was due to low blood pressure from the HUGE contusion and hematoma on my hip. The big upside was that if the whole deal had never happened I'd have found out about the tumor until years later when it would have inevitably become symptomatic and likely of higher grade.

This is an instance where you ~want~ low grades....

So I have a little bump on the left side of my forehead which is a screwhead (yeah, you'd think they'd use flatheads) and I go to NIH every 4 months for an extremely specialized and costly MRI paid for by your taxes. For which I am truly grateful.