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> He soon developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture – he eventually underwent partial amputation of several fingers. > On Septemb
by dom96 4y ago
> He soon developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture – he eventually underwent partial amputation of several fingers.
> On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where his symptoms were diagnosed as the result of something he had eaten; he was told to return home and rest.
Hopefully the partial amputation occurred after the visit, otherwise I would really love to know what the clinic thought he ate that could cause partial amputation!
- BizarroLand 4y ago"You ate something so we need to cut off your fingers" is a sentence I hope is never spoken aloud to anyone ever.
- r2_pilot 4y agoI'm posting a yahoo page about it because of a text preference for HN, but the Chubbyemu YouTube video is mildly terrifying. It's my understanding that this sort of thing is vanishingly rare, but serves as a reminder that it's better to have modern medicine than not. https://news.yahoo.com/teenager-legs-fingers-amputated-eating-033108656.html https://news.yahoo.com/teenager-legs-fingers-amputated-eatin...
- dom96 4y agowow, so it totally is possible to lose your fingers after eating something. This also show the importance of vaccination and makes me wonder: how do I know if I missed some vaccines as a kid? how do I know whether I need a booster of something since school?
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoGet your medical records and visit a doctor?
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agohttps://archive.is/KKrYN https://archive.is/KKrYN >> both of his legs and and all ten fingers amputated > better to have modern medicine than not Fuck no! Never let modern medicine butcher me like that.
- LudwigNagasena 4y ago> They learned that JC only received the first dose of the meningococcal vaccine just before he entered middle school. And once he reached the age of 16, JC did not receive the recommended booster for the vaccine.
- throwanem 4y agoYou would rather die? In such a case, there is no third option.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoDie rather than being a helpless cripple? Yes. You think I didn't know that?
- throwanem 4y agoI doubted. Your interaction style on here gives little to suggest a habit of thinking things through.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoDon't read about the people who are paralysed or die from eating slugs as a dare...
- mrexroad 4y agoWell, they clearly didn’t think much of the doctors advice… the next day: > “September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.”
- EdwardDiego 4y agoWhen I first read about this, I wondered how you wouldn't be afraid of something glowing with a deep blue light. I feel like that would get the ol spidey sense tingling for most.
- throwanem 4y agoCherenkov emission is quite beautiful. If you don't have any inkling of the hazard it indicates, why be afraid?
- dylan604 4y agoIgnorance is bliss as they say. however, "let me light this glowing-blue stuff on fire to see if it is gun powder" really sounds like they forgot the part where he said "hold my beer"
- throwanem 4y agoI mean, I can respect an experimentalist approach. It certainly seems foolish when considered on the assumption that everyone in the world knew as much about radiation forty years ago as you and I know today, but so to assume would constitute flagrant historiographical presentism.
- dylan604 4y agogranted, i did omit the 40 years ago factor in my judging.