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Thanks for sharing this story. I really like it. The change of color is one thing but it would be interesting to know how the brain rewrites its motor cortex to

• dole 7y ago
  Change of color was one thing but the change of shape was very surprising. tl;dr: changes in color and shape may have been due to hormones being the first(?) male-to-female hand transplant, hand shape became more female.
  • jtbayly 7y ago
    But don't forget there's no such thing as male and female... /s
    • fennecfoxen 7y ago
      Regardless of whether one ought to forget, this is hardly the forum.
  • gibolt 7y ago
    They mentioned her losing 12kg after an infection. There could be more to it, but that is a significant loss that could explain much of it
  • hinkley 7y ago
    I kinda suspect that gender reassignment patients and their doctors were not at all surprised by this change.
• lostlogin 7y ago
  Is that necessarily needed? Couldn’t the nerves still control the same muscles?
  • hinkley 7y ago
    My understanding was that the location and arrangement of peripheral nerves in the human body is not fixed. So which parts go where is not identical. But yes, supposedly you can relearn. I cut the shit out of my thumb a few years ago and was relieved that I could still feel everything, except for one little spot below the cut (which also pooled blood for a while, both issues have resolved now) I’d heard that it’s a crap shoot whether you hit the nerve or not, and none of the three doctors I talked to disagreed with me.