Month Three: The shape
Two months has passed since the thumb tip amputation. The nail is slowly growing back.
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Ultimate contraception: Young girl breasts amputation
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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Relieve back pain and constrained spine
Humans are the only orthograde species. Other creatures, even bipedal ones, tend to bend their body during movement. The payback for hauty posture is indispensable pain in the back.
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Amputation in disguise: Diabetes
Another condition may result in amputation. It is called diabetic foot, and as the name suggests, diabetes is the cause.
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Mirror box therapy
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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Facebook amputee devotee
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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Amputation in fiction: The Final Diagnosis
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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Sedative drug causing no limbs at birth
In the 1950’s, there was a drug called Thalidomide. It was prescribed as sedative for pregnant women having morning nausea. In the early 1960’s it became clear that the drug causes birth defects: babies were born without fingers, toes and sometimes entire hands and legs.
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Children can regrow lost finger tips
Many observations confirm children can regrow cut off finger tips. That’s not a rare miracle. It’s a fact. Most children up to the age of 12 can regrow amputated digits. On one important condition.
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Female genital mutilation
The movie Desert Flower, apart from the controversial topic of rural Islamic poor infesting civilized European cities, raises another issue of religious barbarism: female circumcision.
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