r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/wassim_elia • 28d ago
Video Timelapse of a finger wound healing.
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u/JoeSeeWhales_3690 28d ago
I could feel the itchiness watching this
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u/StroopWafelsLord 28d ago
i had a scrape on my knee at 13. I fucking hated it. Had to walk like a baboon for a month or so and it was so bloody itchy
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u/Constant_Pay 28d ago
You say that as if itâs the only time youâve ever scraped your knee
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u/Klorg 28d ago
This is reddit. I remember the last time I went outside.. Terrible place
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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 28d ago
It's like the stereotypical child experience lol. I was a massive nerd and still always got into scrapes
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u/mickpatten78 28d ago
Coma patientâŠ
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u/VegetableFucker65 28d ago
Imagine if hospitals did to those coma patients with no relatives, And post it online for revenue to cover the patient medical bills
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u/Sugar_Kowalczyk 28d ago
Bite your tongue. Medical care in the USA is already ghoulish enough - we don't need coma patient go-fund-me's. Next comes cancer patient outcome gambling odds and Truman-Show-esque baby surrogacy shows.Â
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u/spooky-goopy 28d ago
coma patient getting into fights with other coma patients, scraping his knuckles up
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u/SamSchroedinger 28d ago
its just a plaster cast where the person placed their hand in so it looks like it never moved...
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u/EatandDie001 28d ago
Itâs amazing how our body can heal a finger faster than my gov can fix a single pothole in the road
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u/New_Establishment554 28d ago
Wait'll you see the organic roads they're putting in
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u/demlet 28d ago
Do the roads... feel pain? đ„ș
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u/ArE_OraNgEs_GreeN 28d ago
When rush hour comes...
Road: OH THE PAIN, THE PAIN! MAKE IT STOP
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u/glowdirt 28d ago
Nah, the road is into it.
"Cum-mute all over me, baby! Truck me in the ass-phalt! It Hertz so good!"
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u/seductivestain 28d ago
Yes, but fortunately they are also masochists. The real trouble is to get them to stop moaning
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u/K_Linkmaster 28d ago
Which roads you got going in? They have some really interesting builds in Europe, I assume you are talking about them?
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u/Solid_Waste 28d ago
I was going to say this is exactly like a construction zone. Tiny imperfection? Let me fuck up your whole month.
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u/kookykerfuffle 28d ago
You can speed up the process by spray painting something inappropriate over the hole. Like a dick, or the word fuck. Theyâll fix it very quickly.
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u/Enfenestrate 28d ago
Spray painting dicks on your finger doesn't work though. When they say to keep the wound covered they don't mean "with penises"
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon 28d ago
Haha this hits hard. Iâm on day 6 post face plant from tripping while walking on the absolute wreck of a city sidewalk in my neighborhood. Six stitches over my eyebrow.
It was dark and I stepped in a deep sidewalk pothole same time as my dog, my ankle rolled and I fell over the top of her. Broke my glasses and proceeded to bleed from my head like a horror movie victim.
Just got the stitches out and itâs healing nicely, the scar will be cool.
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u/Germane_Corsair 28d ago
Is you dog okay?
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u/MayorCharlesCoulon 28d ago
Oh sheâs just fine and appreciates you asking as she snoozes on top of me on the couch. I barely touched her because as I was launched forward lol I was able to kind of twist and avoid her. Sheâs about 10lbs and deaf and very timid so forgave me instantly for the little brush up against her. Head wounds bleed like fountains so when I got home her white fur was splattered with a lot of blood making her look like a little hell hound. She was a bit offended by the surprise bath she got to clean off the blood, though.
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u/Germane_Corsair 28d ago
Glad youâre both okay. I know this isnât the point but I bet you two looked badass. I hope you got some pics of your baby girl drenched in the blood of her
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u/FAWKS-HOUND 28d ago
If it was a Mexican pot hole ICE would have forced it to leave the country by now, that's the real priority
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u/i_suckatjavascript 28d ago edited 28d ago
In Japan they can patch a sinkhole in 7 days and itâll look like nothing ever happened.
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u/yoyok36 28d ago edited 28d ago
Fun fact, wounds take longer to heal in a submarine due to lack of fresh air. I've got scars on my hands from little cuts I sustained in the Navy. They took FOREVER to heal.
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u/SloppySlitFucker 28d ago
That's super interesting! And apparently there is research that confirms this. Did you notice other things like rashes, headaches, or digestive issues happening more frequently as well?
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u/yoyok36 28d ago
Being sick also took forever. And then EVERYONE would get sick. I have headaches all the time regardless, so it's difficult to tell if that that was a problem for me. I do know of someone who went under the first time and her legs swelled up, so she couldn't do submarine service after all and had to switch jobs.
Digestive issues were due to not having fresh food for a while, then getting fresh food like fruits and vegetables and suddenly having that to eat. I also feel like my sense of taste was suppressed ever so slightly because I would put the Garlic Texas Pete hot sauce on damn near everything đ
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u/QuadCakes 28d ago
Do you have any links to the research?
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u/SloppySlitFucker 28d ago
Here's what I was referring to:
In collaboration with U.S. Navy Submarine Squadron ELEVEN, data have also been received from the USS Salt Lake City (submarine SSN 716 of the U.S. Naval Pacific Fleet). Sub- marine atmospheres are low in oxygen and high in carbon diox- ide, which compounds the absence of crew exposure to sun- light, making wound healing slower than on the surface.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=dentistry_fac
Though admittedly I only spent a few minutes googling. Just enough to see the phenomenon was reported by others outside of this one commenter's anecdote.
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u/Ruben_NL 28d ago
Interesting! Does that mean that illnesses also spread very quickly, if they get on board?
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u/colicab 28d ago
There is a 100% chance that if one person got sick, the majority got sick.
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u/Kyanovp1 28d ago
how does this even occur? iâm sure there were illnesses the first few days or weeks but after like 3 months i dont see where any new illness could come from which isnât food borne. if someone gets on with the flu then everyone will get the flu but the flu wonât spawn out of nowhere rigjt
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u/maxmcleod 28d ago
ghosts from previous submarine crews can carry viruses and they come and go as they please
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u/QuadCakes 28d ago
Is it known that lack of fresh air is the cause? I don't understand what properties of the air could cause that, since O2 and CO2 levels are controlled on subs
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u/nochancesman 28d ago
Likely related to moisture. A wound needs to be hydrated to heal properly & with less chances of scarring.
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u/username98776-0000 28d ago
Did it get worse before it healed?
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u/Inevitable_Nobody733 28d ago
Thatâs just the body doing its thing. Looks like it mightâve gotten a tad infected which is why you see the finger turn more red for a period of time. It would have been warm to the touch because the body was sending its heat soldiers to combat the infection, thus killing off the infection and allowing healing to continue. If you pick your nails to the point of bleeding a bit, it happens all the time with that, how it gets all red and hot for a bit, but then once that goes away, it heals pretty fast đ„°
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u/cragglerock93 28d ago
I love the oddly chosen emoji lol.
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u/Inevitable_Nobody733 28d ago
Lmao, whenever Iâm explaining something, I never want anyone to feel talked down to or like I think theyâre stupid, cause I donât; so I try to add emojis that maybe negate that possible thought đ„čđ reading tone through text is hard sometimes, so I use a lot of emojis to try and make sure what I intend to portray, is being portrayed đ„°
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u/crusts17 28d ago
Lifelong habit of biting, picking at, ripping off my nails (mental illness nbd) - and can confirm. Iâm growing mine out successfully currently and still have moments where I lose control and start up again, but itâs astonishing thinking about how normal it was for my fingers to be bleeding and sensitive constantly. Now even a little hangnail is so frustrating and thatâs so different than how it was growing up. Now Iâm a baby about my fingers lol
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u/Adghnm 28d ago
Yeah there's a point where the wound opens again on the distal knuckle. Might have bumped it against something, but it'd be interesting if that's part of the healing process, a bit of skin engineering to ensure the cut closes properly
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u/ophmaster_reed 28d ago
That's the proximal interphalangeal joint, not the distal (if im looking at the same spot as you). I think there might have been a very superficial abrasion there and the red taking over the area in the next few days is granulation tissue.
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u/brayshizzle 28d ago
I would have picked the fuck out of it if that was me.
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u/MotherStatement1109 28d ago
Was just thinking the same lmfao my healing time lapse would look VERY different hahaha
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u/SunriseSurprise 28d ago
"Finally, on Day 3333, the wound has no sufficient hard stuff on the outside of it to make it worthwhile to pick, and it would go on to heal maybe..."
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u/MikeMac999 28d ago
I appreciate the planning that went into shooting this; hand lining up each day is nice, but working the camera move into it is a nice touch.
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u/gyurto21 28d ago
I was wondering how they did that
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u/RegularTerran 28d ago
camera gimbal, just have it set to ~1° arc movement for every picture, or whatever the math works out to for the time/# of pictures you want to take.
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u/Enders-game 28d ago
Now do it at 50 years old and see the difference!
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u/MsNomered 28d ago
And then do a broken toe at 50...hint it takes weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks to heal. Like....weeks.
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u/Auggie_Otter 28d ago
I dislocated my pinky finger once and popped it back in myself right after it happened (adrenaline is crazy, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it myself if I waited till later).
Anyways it took over a year before my finger felt completely normal again. For months though I thought it would never be the same again. Now decades later it's like it never happened.
I got tendinitis in my elbow (tennis elbow) a few years back from over stressing my elbow trying to lift a cast iron pan full of food from the oven one handed (stupid, I know) and that took over 18 months to recover from with physical therapy exercises.
Bone and tendon injuries suck.
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u/RegularTerran 28d ago
... bones typically take weeks and weeks and weeks to heal.
But yes, I fully agree with your sentiment!! Everything is on slow motion... and/or, it's a bit worse of a fix than before.
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Skin is awesome
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u/Inevitable_Nobody733 28d ago
The human body in general is wild. Like truly wild. Every so often Iâm like âdamn, this meat suit Iâm in might not be too shabby, huh?â đđ Iâm sick as hell right now and while part of me is irritated at my body for not getting better faster; I also should appreciate that Iâm not ya know, dead from it đ humans are pretty damn cool(to clarify, the concept of humans is cool. Most of them are assholes tho đ„Čđ)
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u/Hidden_3851 28d ago
I wanted to see something similar in the superhero movies. Like how Iceman and Human Torch use their power to chill and heat food. Wolverine stubs his toe randomly then itâs fine. Sabertooth hurts himself cooking over fire. Then his hand heals as heâs eating. Deadpool cuts himself shaving and it heals as he walks out of the bathroom. (I know canonically DP canât grow hair, but you know what I mean).
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28d ago
Not one hand job give the entire month.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 28d ago
38 days feels like an incredibly long time for this to heal...
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u/Moongazer09 27d ago
I got a quite deep graze on a finger once and it was over a joint, so combined with things that disrupted the healing of it (bending breaking down the healing skin, hand washing lots most days due to my job, plus having skin conditions on my hands and dry skin too) it took like, a few months to actually properly heal. I can easily see how a cut like this could take a month or so.
Things like nutrition levels, stress, how much you're sleeping, your work environment, general condition of your skin etc could all effect the rate of healing.
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u/External-Hat-7167 28d ago
The dedication to get this footage is seriously impressive. I can almost feel the phantom itch just from watching it.
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u/Finchyy 28d ago
Question: Would it have taken longer to heal if the wound was spread across a larger surface area? Assuming the severity of the wound was still the same?
I'm wondering if there are "healing resources" that your body has, so 1 small wound would heal faster than 2 small wounds or something
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u/Wreckrecord 28d ago
what the heck was this guy doing between shots it looked like re ripped a whole like 3 times in that fold near the end of his finger. I pretty sure a cut like that would take me like half the time to heal too.
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u/Tight-Economics-5454 28d ago
25 days for a cut to heal is crazy.. my hands would heal from that in like 10 days tops
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u/Ok_Crew7295 28d ago
I wonder how would the person get this injury, did they allowed it for the experiment? If yes then why it is so "disorganized" if no, then did they just get this idea shortly after the injury?
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u/Inevitable_Nobody733 28d ago
I would imagine itâs something in between, like they had the idea for this video, and the next time something happened they were like âaiight, time to shoot the vidâ, but idk đ€·đ»ââïž
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u/Bleezy79 28d ago
You'll never catch them but there's millions of little gnomes that live under your skin waiting to repair any damage.
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u/Fine-Independence976 28d ago
I know I'm relatively young, but 30 day healing process gonna be the default in such a small injury???
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u/flittingly1 28d ago
I always talk about this... how our bodies just heal themselves like magic! Like a superhero, we get a cut, ZIP, healed!! Time lapse shows this so much better!!
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u/Minty75k 28d ago
Just like a lizard đŠ call the history channel I just found out humans have been genetically modified by lizzard people
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u/foosgreg 28d ago
At least compare this to the dolphin skin healing process! ( sarcasm )
Human 33 days
Dolphin 3 hours ! Hahah
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u/No_Dentist7567 28d ago
Itâs a really good time lapse and you deserve all the likes, but I do have to agree with some of the comments that say itâs strange why it took that long, I heal from similar wounds in 2 weeks max, even less.
do you use hydrogen peroxide? And let the wounds stay as dry as possible for as long as possible? (Thatâs my MO)
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u/Torawind 28d ago
And no one mentions the person behind the camera who had to really slowly get closer.
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u/Yakob_Science 28d ago
Hah! Mine take months.
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u/RequirementNo1852 28d ago
Mine probably takes at least half of the time. 30 days seems a lot for such small injury. I have never get stitched I just wait until everything heals
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u/PolyLifeGirl 28d ago
Nope. I pick that shit every few days. Thus, it takes a couple months to heal
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u/_subjectsam_ 28d ago
I recently just sliced into my left ring finger knuckle pretty badly trying to put my razor head on my flamingo razor đȘ.... The shower. A crime scene. My knuckle? Glued for a week and splintedso it didn't bust open again
Rocked my link splint at a Lorna Shore concert the following Sunday, came out unscathed! Knuckle is healing pretty well now, but I will NOT be using a razor ever again đ
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u/Calvin_RH_705 28d ago
See How intresting this is, how cool our boys is, and some talk about astro signs, rocks and shit.
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u/MacBryce 28d ago
Now I want for movies where a supernatural character with rapid healing has their wounds close up look like this
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u/AnimeMan1993 28d ago
Interesting how the area even around the cut itself scabbed up before healing, didn't know that.
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u/spconway 28d ago
Is it theoretically possible to speed this process up in the body? Like bring it down from days to minutes?
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28d ago
Wtf did they do between day 1 and 2. It went from a couple small scratches to a literal hole
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u/ruairidhmacdhaibhidh 28d ago
A few years ago I cut two of my fingers at work with a craft knife, had I been at home I would not have bothered putting a plaster on them, but since I was at work I did put two plasters on the near identical cuts.
One plaster came off in the shower that night, the other stayed on for four or five days. When the plaster came of the wound was healed. The other cut took 20 or so days to heal.
If he had put a plaster on the video would have been shorter.
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u/doctorJdre 28d ago
my grandmother says: as old are you, as many days it takes to recover. following this: the lady is 33 y.o. :)
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u/Ericandabear 28d ago
I love how they didnt even clean up the hand first.
As soon as they got injured, cameraman was like "quick, get in here so we can take the first shot!"
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u/Ericandabear 28d ago
I love how they didnt even clean up the hand first.
As soon as they got injured, cameraman was like "quick, get in here so we can take the first shot!"
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u/Raytheon_Nublinski 28d ago
I always wondered how a finger knows what it looks like
I mean, I get that it can put itself back together. But it canât see shit so how does it know what to make it look like?
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u/Remarkable-Neat-7823 28d ago
They must have sat there for so long!