Month Four: A dent in the regrowing fingernail
Twelve weeks have passed since my thumb lost its tip. As you can see, the removed fingernail is slowly growing back.
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Twelve weeks have passed since my thumb lost its tip. As you can see, the removed fingernail is slowly growing back.
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Plastic surgeons are offering a new procedure to their customers. It is called toe tuck, and it involves shortening or complete removal of bone inside toe pinky.
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Dan Brown is one of the greatest literature discoveries in the recent years. His most famous book is Angels & Demons, which led him to international stardom. Much of the book criticism is based on Dan Brown not being the first one: a number of guys raised the same topic of religious symbolism before Brown,
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Another sportsman, missing a finger. Waqar Younis Maitla, cricket fast bowler.
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Two months has passed since the thumb tip amputation. The nail is slowly growing back.
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Apart from female circumcision, young girls suffer another mutilation: breast ironing. The procedure includes stick beating up 10-12 y.o. daughters breasts and burning them with heated stones. And the poor child is tortured by her own mother.
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Another condition may result in amputation. It is called diabetic foot, and as the name suggests, diabetes is the cause.
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House M.D., one of my favourite series, showed an interesting device to treat phantom pain in amputated limbs, called a mirror box.
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It’s not uncommon knowledge, that a lot of Facebook accounts with amputee girls as profile pictures, are actually guys in disguise. Or devotee as they call themselves.
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Apart from convincing hospital insights, Arthur Hailey brings on the topic of amputation and relationship in his 1959 book, The Final Diagnosis.
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