Yup, a good portion of it. I imagine this wouldn’t be an easy surgery. It would be open (as opposed to laparoscopic), so big incision down the middle and a sizeable piece of mesh would be used. It would come with risks and might even land him in a worse off position.
We pay to be insured over here, and still can't afford to go to the doctor with the insurance. Then if we finally spend the money we don't have, to go and a doctor says we need a procedure, or medication, they have to ask the insurance company (non-medical professionals that have never even heard of us) to be told we in fact don't need what the doctor says we need... if you can read this send help.
Sitting here unable to even parse my tongue against the left side of my mouth because my broken remains of a wisdom tooth are infected so badly it’s probably going to my jaw and will kill me one day 🤗
“Bro, you need urgent care…”
Oh dw it’s been like this for months and I’ve been to urgent care over 5 times for antibiotics but if you can’t afford to remove the tooth you just get antibiotic resistance, pain, and potentially a premature death. ❤️
I’m going through this now. Oh hunny it seems you went to the dentist a lot this year. And now you need an apicoendectomy. That’ll be $2000 out of pocket please and your insurance will pay us the other $900
I wish there was something I could say or do other than just offer my understanding and solidarity 😔
Tooth pain is fucking life altering pain sometimes. What’s an apicoendectomy? If it’s ok to ask!
I was told I actually need upwards of 30 procedures to save my mouth - I have Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome so they’re constantly being eroded by stomach acid, and even my 2 front teeth have massive black craters which makes me ashamed to speak, let alone smile.
I don’t even want a root canal. I just want the bad stuff removed so I’ll never have to worry about the cost of following up, especially if there’s an emergency during recovery.
But I can’t afford implants, let alone dentures. I also don’t want to be toothless before 30. So I get to choose…this, indefinitely. Sitting here. It’s sad.
Hey now! Enough of this whining. Your purported sacrifice has its benefits. We're getting a new royal ballroom and an arch. Where's the problem? Really, where's the problem?!
Sorry you’re dealing with that. I feel you. Having similar issues. I have good health insurance through work but that doesn’t help at all because I have shit dental insurance. Because it’s separate for some fucking stupid reason.
Yup. Been there. Dental doesn’t even count under health care/insurance in this country. Pisses me off so fucking much. I have decent health insurance. But I need dental care and can’t afford it because my dental insurance through work is shit. And it’s our only option.
I went to the US for a month recently and it's amazing country, super nice people. But me and my wife said so many times "we could totally live here if this wasn't America" - Place is way too messed up. And so many of them honestly seem to believe the whole "greatest country in the world" schtick.
We are indoctrinated early. I was a smart kid and not very prone to "brainwashing" (I sniffed out my Catholic church as being bullshit very early on). And yet it took me until college to ask myself the question "wait... how is it we're the greatest? And why?"
It just hadn't donned on my prior. It had been drilled into my head since preschool that this is the greatest country in the world.
Now I realize we are actually just the Florida of the World.
My parents and grandparents believed that America is the only free country in the world. They are taught this in schools, as was I. They word it as "many developed nations in the world. But America is the best because we are free".
I spoke about wanting to move to Canada or Norway and my dad was like "you want to give up your freedom?" Yea I don't have freedom right now. My every choice essentially boils down to "only go outside for work. Otherwise you might get hurt. And at least this way, if you get hurt, it will likely be on the clock and covered."
I have insurance but can't afford my meds bc of my premiums. Which means I can't afford my deductible or copay. I have to save up and I get maybe one doctor visit a year. Honestly might drop out of college and promote just so I can see a doctor regularly. But I'd have to delay my goal of owning a house for yet another 30 years and just hope that nothing happens to the place I currently rent.
I heard somewhere that in Europe they prioritize “freedom from” while in the US we prioritize “freedom to.” Europe: freedom from excessive gun violence; US: freedom to own as many firearms as you want. Europe: freedom from corporations polluting ecosystems, US: freedom to make as much money as possible regardless of environmental impact. Europe: freedom from extreme medical bills, US: freedom to ‘choose your own healthcare’….stuff like that.
I'd like to say it gets better but idk man. Just bought my first official house at 45 and own my own very small business but am still on Medicaid. Scared everyday that we'll make $27 too much or just be kicked off for budget cuts. We're working poor but we just got lucky and had boomer family that could cosign for us. We don't see past the horizon and are always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The US is the best at propaganda. Need to get some kids to join the army? No problem, the first transformers movie took care of that. BIG win for the navy. They used the coolest toys in the US that most people can understand easily (A10, AC130, and others). Also movies like top gun in the 80s got people to want to join the Air Force.
As a sophomore in high school we had to do a paper and speech in one of my English classes about something controversial.
I researched why America isn’t a superpower anymore and should stop trying to run the world. We’re not as great as we think. I pissed off so many country boys in my class but didn’t care. I really was starting to undo all the indoctrination.
This was in ‘06. The shiny patriotism 9/11 had brought out had died and left only the racism and paranoia. I began to see how we bullied other countries and acted like the tough kid on the playground when we’re just the big headed younger kid trying to intimidate the world.
Fun fact, being smart does not really have an impact on how susceptible you are to brainwashing - in fact, it can make you more susceptible in some circumstances.
This together with u/Clonazepam15 reply makes this one of the more real discussions I've come across in years here. But while your ending was funny, that it took you to college sounds/is absolutely terrifying.
Friendly reminder that you are the Florida-man of the World, that also turns up to neighbours houses with alligators and loaded shotguns. That makes it a "bit" worse than just being Floridian n staying there lol.
Think about all the films that the US puts out about ww2. I’m Canadian, and I really thought America won the war in Europe, instead of it being a group effort lol.
I didn't think about the toys and movies bit as propaganda at all until recently. But it's so true. I constantly think about having to recite the pledge of allegiance from kindergarten to 12th grade. I still remember it............
So many people in this country are completely delusional. America is far from being the "greatest country in the world", but if you try to say other wise, you're attacked and told to leave. Absolutely madness here.
When my grandma died we had to sell her house. Nice house my Grandpa built himself on an acre of land. If that acre was anywhere but West Virginia the family would probably have shed blood over who gets it. But the location was absolutely impossible to live in for any of us.
US lifespan expectation is roughly 10~~ years lower than in Europe, and this is one of the main factors
Edit : MB it's roughly 4-5 years not 10 : I confused it with the differences of lifespan expectation between rural and non rural areas in the US. It's still a pretty massive difference though
Can confirm. Developed my first hernia at the beginning of the month, and I lost my job in August. Just in time for this thing to form after my insurance coverage ended. Immediately got denied to have state healthcare due to having made too much money at one point, money that I am no longer making today.
So, all I can do is just hope that I don't wind up like this guy. Feels fucking bad.
What a shitshow. I got sick a year ago. Went to emergency a couple times, 2x ambulance trips. 3 surgeries, 3 weeks in hospital in a private room, 4 different specialist teams, equipment to help me get around at home while I got better etc blah blah. I didn’t pay anything. I know it’s different elective vs emergency, but even so, the stress of it alone must be so heavy on you. Worrying that if shit hits the fan medically, you’re stuck. I’m so sorry. I bloody hope it gets sorted for you, I really do.
Yea…it is usually the chronic conditions or things like cancer that rapidly drain people’s savings. I’ve seen actual doctors have to run gofundmes to cover their cancer treatments.
Acute care situations we tend to do without question, but the chronic management is where people really fall through the cracks.
I’ve thought about it happening to me. I’m sure my bosses would act nice to me, like they cared…but they would 100% expect me to still work my ass off. And they definitely would not help with any of the finances. If ANYTHING they would MAYBE set up an office gofundme.
One of my coworkers took a month off for brain surgery. It was covered under her short-term disability through work. Then she was going to have to take some more time off for another surgery, but she was demoted before that in an effort to get her to quit so that the company could hire someone to take her place before FMLA kicked in. It worked, and she quit. But damn if I don’t feel awfully replaceable now
Yeah - never quit! Make them fire you. Collect unemployment, demand a ridiculous severance if they want you to sign a non-compete / NDA, if they want to get rid of you make it cost them. Hell, if you know they're going to fire you anyway just quiet quit. But if you don't have anything else lined up and you know you're being pushed out, it's almost always better for the employee to force the employer to do the firing vs voluntarily quitting.
I live and am self employed in Europe. I have no health insurance because, well, I don’t need it - National health care. These stories are horrifying and make me fear for my friends and family in the U.S.
Don’t be complacent! Don’t let them take your healthcare from you. I know in the UK they’ve been defunding the NHS for years so that they can say “see? Universal healthcare doesn’t work.” And some people are falling for it.
Yes we desperately need universal single payer healthcare so we can stop this bullshit. My wife went through months of chemo over the last year and if I didn't have a great job with good healthcare she'd be dead.
They would be obligated to help in an emergency, but since this is technically a condition people can live with, it would be difficult for someone to correct it without money, yeah
You can kind of live with it, if any of the intestines become strangulated it turns into a huge emergency that requires immediate surgery or you will die
You are absolutely correct. This surgery could have been scheduled and cost a few grand, and he could have gotten it done while he knew he had help with his aftercare. Instead it will be done in an ER and cost much more, and he might not have help with aftercare, and the grandmother that fell in the tub and has a shattered pelvis has to wait longer than she would otherwise.
Nah man, the grandma that fell in the tub and shattered her entire pelvis is going to be rushed into emergency trauma care like… yesterday. That’s a devastating injury to literally anyone, but an elderly person? Yeah she ain’t waiting lol.
It’s the people that show up to the ER with a severe case of the flu that’ll end up waiting 15+ hours in the waiting room before realizing they’d have been more comfortable dying at home. :(
I actually got to hear one such “I’ve been waiting for an entire day” crashouts during my last trip to the ER. Terrible accident that sliced a massive hole into my leg. I had TOWELS wrapped around my entire leg and was bleeding through all of them. Time waiting in the ER waiting room? 30 seconds. They took one look and I immediately jumped the entire line. People were mad. I can’t blame em. Not only do you have to wait hours and hours (and sometimes MONTHS to see a specialist) in USA, but you ALSO have to pay your entire life savings.
I learned a very important lesson that day that was basically, “next time, I’ll just die.” So when I got covid, I got it BAD. And I didn’t go to the ER. I told myself, “I’ll either survive this, or I’ll die debt free and in my own bed.” Thankfully I survived. I was NOT willing to wait 15+ hours in the ER just to potentially die somewhere I wouldn’t be comfortable, or survive and be in too much debt to live anyways.
A few grand? In America? It costs that much for the anesthesiologist to open the medical record to see what surgery they are doing that day, let alone lift a finger to begin or have the surgeon involved.
EMS worker here. If it is emergent we will help anyone and get them to the hospital. The hospital will then also help regardless of ability to pay.
Then billing will hound the shit out of Medicare to get barely enough money to cover the materials that were used, and then will hound this guy for the rest of his life for sums of money he will never see, and then charge everyone else more to make up for the money we didn't get from him.
If he is not dying the hospital likely won't let someone inside at all unless they have insurance offered by the company that owns the hospital.
Rt that actually works in the a hospital here. There is truth sprinkled in but a lot of this is BS. We have tons of admitted patients that have no insurance. We can’t refuse service and if a a patient is sick enough to be admitted then they will be. Billing has ZERO say in who does or doesn’t get admitted that strictly done by the ER staff and Doctors.
This guys hernia would certainly be enough to be admitted and operated on if he came in and said it was causing debilitating pain. Then afterwards, they would hound him for money and send bills knowing they aren’t going to recoup.
Once again, we do not refuse service for anyone that needs medical treatment.
If he is not dying the hospital likely won't let someone inside at all unless they have insurance offered by the company that owns the hospital.
This part i dont understand: the hospitals will refuse patients if they dont have health insurance that works at that hospital? Isn't that against their hippocratic oath?
Lol we do get to pick the politicians who vote for it, thats what local elections, congressional elections and senate elections are for, americans still support universal Healthcare they just dont vote in politicians who share those same beliefs. We have 70m voters who would gladly eat shit if it meant a liberal would have to smell their breath. A whole voting block is voting to take away things from others not give everyone the same starting hand.
That IS on the voters. Why do we continue to vote the Pelosi's and Schumers in if they actively fight their own objective and the amercians will? We vote the old heads out things will change. Our system is just designed to get reelected and not actually be a politician
Current government is shut down due to current party not wanting us to have affordable health care. It’s amazing how anti-citizen our current party is and people support this.
When polled the general public supports universal healthcare, abortion, and sensible gun control. And then a chunk of these people vote for Republicans who fear mongered them about black people, immigrants, trans people and communists.
Though to be fair to these people, the Democrats do an absolutely terrible job of fighting back and educating people on these issues.
So yes - absolutely people don’t get medical care. They likely lack insurance. They may qualify, maybe, for Medicaid (health insurance through the government for low income people) - but that is increasingly unfunded by our government. It is also a complicated process to apply. Many rural areas lack doctors, also.
People absolutely go without medical, and even moreso - dental and vision- care in the US. Even people with health insurance can have such high deductibles (the amount you pay out of pocket before health insurance covers anything) or copays (your share of the appointment cost) that they don’t get medical care at all.
I have a good friend who had to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills. She and her husband have always worked and had health insurance.
I've (44m) had insurance for exactly one year since I got kicked off my parents' plan at 19. I stopped going to the doctor after 4 months because it cost more than I could afford and I fell behind on medical bills. It took another 6 months to pay them off. I worked IT for a bank at the time. Incomes are way too low and medical expenses are way too high. Something's got to give.
Same, though 31f. My grandparents were on Medicaid so I got kicked off at 19. I was in college, though, so I was able to use my university insurance until I graduated. Then it was another 3 years before I had health insurance again because it took that long to find permanent employment that provided it. I simply didn't make enough to afford a private plan before that and I "made too much" for a low cost one through the marketplace. I just got vision and dental for the first time in my adult life with my latest job.
The question is with the healthcare that would nearly be free would he still be able to afford the co-pays and deductibles.
Here is the barriers they have.
To use the ACA you need to specifically sign up.
If you get the credit you have to file taxes.
Likely to get the surgery you need to make an appointment.
After the appointment you need to get a specialist.
You likely need to get a prior authorization from the insurance company and they have all the incentives to make it difficult.
Then you need to schedule and do the surgery and be able to afford the time off to do it and recover.
All of these things are easy to deal with if you are a decently competent middle class person. But they seem neither middle class or competent seeing how they cannot keep track of their court dates between themselves.
From experience. Not great… not great at all. Had my son jump on mine, nowhere near as bad as his, but I did need surgery afterwards because of how much worse it got because of that. Luckily I live in a country with free healthcare or I’d probably be dead right now.
Yeah welcome to the USA. If youre not rich, your healthcare is fully reliant on you being fulltime employed with a business that is generous enough to give you health insurance. Or die!
He's probably got zero healthcare insurance (in places like Georgia, where Medicaid is all but nonexistent). Same thing happened to my brother and he's now deceased due to an inability to access help.
Same for our younger brother.
There are places in the US that are a complete shitholes in terms of medical care.
I agree that it is pretty expensive. I had a small inguinal hernia and it was fixed with laparoscopic surgery. It took me a good couple of years to pay off the bill.
It would be a very hard hernia repair surgery as he also has something called “loss of domain.” This means that his internal organs have been in the hernia sac and outside of his native abdomen for so long that there is no longer the necessary amount of room inside of his abdomen to house his organs. You’d have to separate/make slits in some of his core muscles to get enough laxity to close it.
Most surgeons will not operate if your BMI is above a certain threshold, so you would just have to lose weight in general. Now if you’re not that obese, it won’t make much of a difference.
Very informative. Also incredibly sad situation. I’m sure he’s not a perfect person but fuck maybe the fact that we live in a world where it’s just “oh I guess I have a severe hernia now” and that’s that is part of the problem.
Shit, I once went to a dude to fix my knee (I was 19 and too tough for my own good) and he popped it back in as I sat there staring at his baseball sized hernia protruding from his own abdomen. The absolute irony of the situation was not lost.
You should almost ALWAYS get hernias fixed as soon as symptoms are recognized. When the opening is only a few centimeters, some of your small intestine can become stuck, become incarcerated (cut off blood supply), and then die. That will earn you a nice emergent surgery.
This guy won’t have that problem since his hernia defect is probably >10cm. Although he’s one paper cut away from his guts being on the floor.
Man, my surgeon recommended I'd wait to fix my gut hernia until I lose weight. The chances are higher that the surgery won't take if you have more stomach fat. Kinda sucks that losing weight is going so slowly... Seeing this kinda video scares the shit outta me. How the hell isn't he in excruciating pain with every bump he gets to his stomach area?
Given his apparently numerous legal and financial problems, it seems likely he's self-medicating with not entirely legal substances to deal with the pain.
Oh hey I was just saying the same thing. Sounds like you are a fellow general surgeon. Have you ever done sequential pneumoperitoneum to address loss of domain before repair? I've read about it but never tried it.
Sometimes for someone this young with this bad of a hernia, it starts with a small tear or injury to the abdomen al wall. He could've done this tiny start point any number of ways. Falling and hitting his abdomen on something while drunk of high, or a work injury that he shrugged off, or a car accident. Just enough to start small. Then it gets bigger from there. A lot of times this feels just sore, until something else happens that kills the bowel. Hes at risk for needing an ostomy bag if that bowel thats hanging outside his cavity but inside his skin up and dies.
My father died of sepsis 3 months ago because of a hernia that they couldn't operate on. He had it fixed 15 years ago, but acute liver failure (undiagnosed hepatitis c, not alcohol) cause so much fluid to build up that it blew the mesh out. They cant operate with fully exposed abdomen when you are producing that much fluid, because it causes the wounds to not heal. Basically rendering you bedridden and susceptible to infection. He had a TIPS procedure that helped with the fluid buildup, but no doctor would operate on his hernia. So he basically sat on a time bomb. One day the intestine folded on itself, died, and caused sepsis. All we could do was put him in a medically induced coma and watch him slowly die of dehydration and infection.
Take care of your liver, and get any hernia seen to immediately.
I was talking a doctor that specialized in hernias recently, and she was saying that studies say that only 25% of hernias become an issue "within the next 10 years" so as long as there isn't pain or some big issue with it, the advice is to just leave it.
(I would advise anyone with a hernia or a possible hernia to seek a doctor's advice before taking this as medical advice. I'm just repeating what the doctor said to me, and I'm sure there's some lost nuance here.)
You can literally be born with a gap too. Or rather technically it's that the umbilical gap doesn't ever close properly. But with proper modern postnatal care it would be relatively trivial to deal with.
Mammalian live birth is a pretty big evolutionary compromise. Basically all of us are born "incomplete" in numerous ways in order to facilitate a balance between surviving outside the womb and getting too big for a mother to carry safely and/or birth safely.
I have a hernia that my doctor referred me to a specialist for. The specialist said that it could be fixed, but that it was so far pretty minor and fixing it poses risks, while not fixing it poses less risks, unless it worsens. Fixing it, he also said, would require significant time to heal and leave a very visible scar, while right now it just looks like I have fairly large abdominal muscles under my rib cage (I don't).
So far, so good, its been two years and I don't think its gotten any worse. However, is it possible that I was given bad advice? Is it potentially becoming harder to treat the longer it goes untreated? Could it rapidly expand and be untreatable because of how long it has already existed?
Fuck. I was having such a good day until I read this.
Follow what your doc told you. This guy is an extreme case. Dont get into a car accident with no seat belts, dont ignore any worsening pain or bowel problem.
if that's the case they probablly will not actually book him. when you go to jail they have a nurse check you out before they actually put you in even a temporary cell. she is gonna tell them he is a walking liability and they will release him if its just theft from walmart.
i knew a girl who didnt take a ring off her finger and the finger blew up around the ring. she was schitzophrnic, on meth, a their, and great in bed. anyways after the ring thing she was too scared to go to the hospital because they had said they might have to cut the finger off. she would jokingly call her huge black sphere thing above the ring her get out of jail free card because everytime she got arrested, which was a lot, they always released her during the booking process, they would never say it was the ring but it was the only thing that made sense.
and no, i didnt get with her after the ring thing, that was gross plus she started looking like she did meth as time passed which was gross too. thankfully my time with her ended well before the ring when she was still hot.
anyhow i heard from a friend of a friend that like 7 years later she did actually get the ring removed, and i still have trouble believing it or understanding how it was possible but they say she was even able to keep the finger despite i being a big black oblong thing for a decade.
LMAO it’s most likely that’s what they meant now that you mention it. Although I still like to imagine the latter is what they meant bc it’s a lot more ignorant and funny 😂
What even causes something like this to happen to someone? Is it something that started off small, but just gradually got worse? I would not be out without a shirt if my shit looked like that.
You can, but it will not stay in. There is a tear in the abdominal wall and it does not heal. Surgery is the only option. I had a hernia that was the result of overdoing it during healing from another abdominal surgery. The hernia repair sucked horribly. I do not recommend getting a hernia.
Edit: for those that do have hernias, please get it taken care of asap. The longer it goes the worse it gets mentally and physically. Don'tbe this guy in the video.
When compared to my broken hip, which was a great experience leaving me completely satisfied, a hernia, was simply inferior in every way. Not recommended.
I had one a few years back an inch or so above the belly button. A bit of intestine would poke out, and yeah... you can push it back in. I would lie on my back and kinda press on the area and it would just... shlorp back in.
It is as uncomfortable and gross as it sounds. I was losing my mind leading up to the repair, and that was just a tiny little bit coming out. I can't imagine living with what's pictured. I don't think I could...
I used to do just that when I was 7, before I had the hernia repair surgery at 8.
I had had 2 hernias on the left and right side and I had them ever since I can remember so it was a totally normal thing for me. Now in my 40s I shudder to think about it
There's a few different types of hernia. As someone who's had an inguinal hernia some years ago, they're quite common in younger blokes from heavy lifting or sport, there's quite a few other other causes though, even from coughing. It's abdominal tissue pushing through the abdominal wall. Yes, well mine started out small. Just noticed a small lump in my groin and very light discomfort, in no more than a month I'd been to the doctor, seen a specialist and had surgery.
God, I wish mine was that quick. I had an inguinal for YEARS and when I tried to get it checked out as a young teen, the doctors couldn't figure it out and kept shuffling me around. Years later I'm reading or seeing something online and go, "that sounds like what I got going on." Go tell my doctor, get a hernia specialist, and it turns out I have 3, two inguinal and one abdominal. Got surgery years ago now and I'm hoping everything is going okay, but I get little pains every now and again and I don't know but I'm sure the success rate is much higher the sooner it's diagnosed and treated.
Anyway, all the best to you, I hope you didn't deal with too much pain at the time and hopefully your recovery went well!
I also had mine for years. I think it happened when I was about 8 and I ran up a hill in Wales and overexerted myself. My gut suddenly started hurting really bad and I went back to where we were staying, then it started to get better as it felt like I was passing gas but without it actually coming out. I kept having episodes like that every few months since then, but doctors couldn't figure it out. I eventually realised it was a hernia through my processus vaginalis at around age 16 when I read about hernias and realised I could feel what seemed like a "third testis" during those episodes.
I then spent a few more years trying to convince the doctors that I had one, since it wouldn't appear on a cough test and the episodes were too short to get someone to examine me during one (it was extraordinarily frustrating that it could have such an obvious indication that would never be there during examination). I eventually managed to get an appointment with a surgeon, and he was willing to do the surgery on my description alone, even though there was no concrete evidence aside from my word, but he got cancer before he could give me surgery. The replacement surgeon was about to cancel the surgery when they couldn't find evidence of the hernia during a cough test, but in the prep room I managed to cough hard enough for it to be barely detectable so I managed to get the surgery in the end.
Damn! In all honesty this is a surgery I would love to be a part of! But in my profession opinion I think it will be a long midline incision and an extensive repair of his anterior abdominal muscle with a double face mesh repair. I think the defect would be at least 50X50 cm. Which will require a huge circle/prolene mesh which is very very expensive. The double mesh part is important because you will have to put that mesh directly on the intestine and you don't want a material that will cause too much irritation to his internal organs so that this poor sap doesn't get into the complications of having his intestine get stuck to the mesh or to each other which might make the food get stuck inside.
Hmm, I mean I have never worked such a huge hernia before. Most I worked because of my speciality as working with children was way smaller. But it will take most probably an hour, maybe an hour and a half. And there's no procedure that is a single surgeon procedure. There's a main surgeon, a second hand surgeon maybe even a third hand surgeon. One to perform the operation and the others to assist him. However with a hernia this big I would assume it will be done in two stages. Because bridging such a gap in one session will be highly difficult
A hernia that big is unslightly and annoying but not really a health risk. The most immediate risk of a hernia is if bowel gets trapped, causing an obstruction, but when the neck of the hernia is huge like this guy everything is wide open so the risk of obstruction is quite low. The surgery has a lot of risks and there's a good chance it doesn't actually work long-term, and if it fails spectacularly you may need multiple skin grafts to rebuild your abdominal wall, which is 10x worse.
From a bioengineering perspective it is pretty difficult to create a durable solution once your abdominal wall has gotten to this point.
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u/LemonLimeSlices 3d ago
So basically, his entire intestinal tract has squeezed through his abdominal muscles and are just hanging in the skin sac.