[andrenotgiant]

My 3yo daughter got a blood clot in her thumb that caused the entire tip above the last knuckle to get purple, then black, then essentially die off due to lack of blood flow.

She was in the hospital for something different at the time so doctors were able to watch it closely. It looked really bad: blackish grey and stiff like she had gotten frostbite.

The hand specialists warned us that amputation might be necessary if it gets infected, but said ideally they just "wait and see."

Sure enough, three weeks later they were able to literally just pull off the dead part and find a new thumb growing underneath!

Here are before and after photos: https://imgur.com/a/S8hlhKz WARNING: GRAPHIC

[xattt]

I worked med-surg for a number of years, and every so often we’d get older adults admitted to the floor for peripheral vascular disease. Same thing happens: toes get dusky, then necrotic. The treatment is painting the toes with Betadine and wrapping with gauze. I never considered that this might be part of regeneration that doesn’t come to completion because of chronically poor blood flow.

There is more than one tale of nurses going in to rearrange the bedding or taking the gauze off only to find the affected toe had fallen off, and the patient not noticing it.

[refurb]

That’s pretty remarkable and an amazing example. It’s not just the flesh, but also the nail that was regenerated. You’d expect that the death of the nail bed would mean no new nail, but there it is.

[agumonkey]

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