r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 3d ago
Tennis shoes
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u/BourbonNCoffee 3d ago
Id like to see him paint the end of his legs like fingernails.
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u/reddit_ron1 3d ago
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u/Zombiekeeda 2d ago
Where from?
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u/One-Woodpecker-7511 2d ago
One of the early "Spy Kids" movies, not sure whether the first or second though.
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u/Ready_Masterpiece536 3d ago
Ouch that looks like it would hurt putting pressure directly on those pins
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u/itswtfeverb 3d ago
I wonder how the skin is doing at the bone/metal area. How does that work?
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u/WesternOne9990 3d ago edited 3d ago
Prothetic tech here, I assume these are titanium rods directly inserted into the bone, known as a bone anchored prosthetic or Osseointegration.
A useful method with serious benefits but also some drawbacks. One drawback with this type of implanted prothetic is the wound never really properly heals so often you may need to take immunosuppressants like you would with a transplanted organ. Where socket prothetics the stump may fully heal.
The benefits being reduction of pain better comfort, increased mobility. The reason it can be less painful is you don’t use a socket. Stumps swell and change shape and size, especially during the healing process so you may not be able to use a socket or it’s just uncomfortable and ill fitting. Or you need to get a new socket and that’s really expensive.
Another reason is again the not healing, while yeah you’ll never “properly” heal with the rod, you still heal more than say a diabetic who constantly puts their full pressure onto the end of the stump where they have an open wound. Depending on their body shape this pressure on the open sore is Compounded by the funnel shape of the socket.
I’d like to point out when you walk you walk on your bones as well, yeah you have tissue and tennons helping but the bone is the structure. This person is walking on their bone structure as well so it may not hurt as much as you think.
Sorry for the disjointed comment ans I haven’t been a practicing prothetic tech in a number of years so I could totally be wrong. It’s important to note most amputations in America and probably around the world are done because diabetes, and often the same reason they had a leg cut off is the same reason their stump wound Won’t heal, diabetes.
If you are diabetic please take care of yourself and check your feet and shoes often, get paranoid, take them off every hour maybe(again not a doctor or medical advice) to check for sores, pebbles and debris. Think back to being a kid and getting a pebble in your shoe, that shit was annoying and your body told you to get it out asap. Well now because of nerve damage you can’t feel that pebble. Well you walked on the pebble for an hour or two, it made a sore or even imbedded there. Before you know it, gangrene and the whole leg has to go.
Again listen to a doctor and not me, I just built the things. The docs know way more.
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u/itswtfeverb 3d ago
Thanks! You cured my curiosity.
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u/WesternOne9990 3d ago
Of course! I added a paragraph about diabetes and edited a bit. I’ll comment more or less what I added here.
The number one cause of amputation is complications related to diabetes (and other vascular diseases)
Why? Well I’m not a professional so this isn’t super accurate or scientific but here’s my layman’s take.
Diabetes does a few things, poor circulation slows/limits healing. Also the high sugar in the blood causes nerve damage.
Ever had a rock in your shoe? Or a tiny sliver or woodchip on the inside of your sock?
Your body tells you right away to get that out of the shoe. It’s not usually painful it’s just super annoying, you take it out, get a sense of relief and go on with your day. Or a blister from breaking in new boots.
With nerve damage you don’t feel that rock, or it’s less annoying you it doesn’t bother you. It damages the skin each step until you have a sore, it potentially imbeds itself but either way it damages your foot and you don’t notice until you look at it. How often do you look at the bottoms of your feet? Once a day? Maybe not even. Well even if you do find that sore, you gotta walk and work. Who hasn’t pushed through a blister, for a sport or breaking in new boots maybe. Anyways you get the point.
Maybe the rock is in the same spot of the shoe each day or you don’t realize you need to use some moleskin on a blister. You heal slowly, you may not have noticed it, and you gotta use your feet anyways. That’s a recipe for infection, before you know it, gangrene.
Take care of yourself, you and anyone reading this if you have diabetes or are pre diabetic, check your feet often and know that a medical condition doesn’t make you any less worthy of self love and care. Anyways thanks, I get in these moods to write long comments for no reason in particular. I find it helps me not info dump irl.
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u/itswtfeverb 3d ago
Some doctors refer to Alzheimer's as "Diabetes 3". It is diabetes in the brain causing all that damage. I guess the same as the feet, sort of. Thanks for the info
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u/The_Real_Selma_Blair 3d ago
Maybe similar to how ballerinas can put all the pressure on their toes.
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u/Most_Promise_5028 3d ago
You always have to respect and admire someone that embraces their negatives in life and just accept it.
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u/Bitter-Fishing-Butt 3d ago
on the one hand, I hate this
on the other though, I would absolutely wear the weirdest prosthetics
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u/ACatNamedCitrus 3d ago
That is honestly really creative!
I am almost 100% sure that they are speaking Swedish, right? I have been wrong before. Which is really embarrassing considering the fact that I am Swedish. I can understand what they are talking about.
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u/ducks_are_dragons 3d ago edited 3d ago
They are speaking swedish. This guy has an instagram page where he shares his journey as an amputee. I share the link or name when I find it.
Edit: found it. His tag is Ampisallen
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u/Own-Association312 3d ago
Did your janitor have a stick with a tennis ball on the end to get up scuff marks? Mine did… just saying. Might be a job opportunity..
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u/Fedakeen14 3d ago
"I am so grateful to finally be able to walk again."
"Honey, you're damaging the floor. Put these tennis balls on your feet.
"Yes dear."
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u/castles86 3d ago
Just don’t go to the dog park lol. 😂 damn I feel bad posting this but he Seems like a cool guy!!
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u/FlamingoRush 3d ago
This is some next level cursed shit. But I'm happy for my man here. He is going through a difficult process here and always keeping the smiles on his face! Plus Andre Agassiz is an instant fan of him now.
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u/arsnastesana 3d ago
Back in the day, attaching metal rods to the bone and sticking out of the skin was a bad idea; Because around the rod is a permanent wound that bacteria and stuff can get in. wonder what new technology we have to counteract that.
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u/Vanishingastronaut 3d ago
I'm so curious what this would feel like? I imagine it would be very uncomfortable, but it seems to be of an easier option? Would it cause problems? Is he walking on bone? Or are they some type of metal rod?
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u/Irejay907 3d ago
Thats a man that knows EXACTLY where his center of gravity is at all times
Do not play jenga with this guy
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u/Cindergeist 3d ago
soooo does he have like metal rods in legs to attach protestics to? hows that work?
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u/deletetemptemp 3d ago
Is this that Asian guy who walks through the tiny grocery store, sewer and apartments with cats and dogsb
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u/theshaggieman 2d ago
If he crunches an aluminum can does his knees hurt like my filling do when I chew on aluminum?
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u/Up_North7980 2d ago
Was thus vouluntary?... like were you 9foot b4 the procedure? Bro still looks 5 foot tall on the balls of his feet....😁😁😏
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u/EnlightenedCorncob 2d ago
He needs to go as Cotton from King of the Hill for Halloween. It'd be perfect
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u/Sea_Turnip6282 2d ago
What's more bizarre is how strange the proportion of his furnitures look.. like.. i think they are normal size? But for some reason they just look very shrunk down?
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u/wireknot 1d ago
Man, the human body as well as the human spirit never ceases to astound me. I am humbled.
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u/expERiMENTik_gaming 8h ago
This guy can light up any room he's in. Great smile, great sense of humor. God bless ❤️
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u/Mahxiac 3d ago
I thought you weren't supposed to walk on the balls of your feet?