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If you've ever watched CSI, you know that the job of a pathologist can be just as important and interesting as being a hotshot detective. Official U.S. government statistics claim that there were 21,292 pathologists in 2019 and that the number has increased by 13% since 2011.
Perhaps CSI had nothing to do with it; the nature of the job itself can be just as alluring. If you don't think so, check out these stories from real pathologists who shared the strangest and wildest things they've ever come across inside people's bodies.
Autopsy professionals were prompted by one netizen, who asked: "People who perform autopsies, what was the weirdest/most unique anomaly you've found?" From extra organs to giant tumors and bullets in the cranium – these coroners have seen it all.
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#1
My dad had a kidney ailment and was one of the first people to receive kidney transplants. In fact, because of the nature of his disease, he had received three kidney transplants by the time he died. He intentionally donated his body to science in the hopes of freaking out some poor student when they autopsied him for a class and kept pulling out kidneys like they were some twisted meat handkerchiefs from a corpse clown or something.
I miss my dad. He was awesome.
StarCrossedFriday 6 months ago
Reminds me of this: https://youtube.com/shorts/H9mPsacfDD8?si=ItOh6y3egAgcwldY
Bob Connely 6 months ago
Many thanks to your (sadly, late) Dad for his contribution to all of us...
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#2
I did an autopsy of a young kid around 10 yrs old who had hydrocephalus and was altho quadriplegic yet retained some of his normal functions. Like talking and understanding, albeit minimally.
When I opened his skull, there was no brain. I was shocked. This was my first time witnessing something like this but there was approx 1.5L of fluid and just an empty skull. The brain was so severely atrophied it was tinier than a golf ball. Amazing how he survived till 10!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I recall hearing about a similar case back in the early 2000s: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-missing-most-of-brain/
Zaach 6 months ago
A person with really severe epileptic seizures had half his brain removed - the entire hemisphere(his seizures happened at any time and last for almost an hour) he recovered and after years of work, the half of his brain he had left learned how to compensate and restore the missing functions - this is an extreme example of brain plasticity; it will compensate.
Panda Cat 6 months ago
It was generally thought that neural tissue didn’t regenerate, but we’ve learned it does. There was a boy of about 10 who was given a lobotomy because his stepmom was a jerk. Luckily for him, his brain managed to adapt and function normally. Recently, I learned of a boy similar to the one described here, and he developed close to normal. His parents did an immense amount of work with him… I can’t remember where I read or heard about this, but he was definitely an amazing exception.
Atom Bohr 6 months ago
That's a bit of a misunderstanding. We don't grow new neurons except in a few limited areas. The examples you're describing aren't cases of tissue regeneration as we imagine it based on how other parts of our body create new tissue. Instead, brain cells, neurons, are constantly growing connections to nearby neurons (and more distant neurons, but those grow less frequently). That's what happened in the case of the lobotomy: the cells that were destroyed in the procedure were gone, but of the connections of the surrounding healthy tissue that were broken during the procedure (the main aim of a lobotomy) were gradually able to be regrown. Those connections, formed by axons, dendrites, and axons terminals are the source of brain plasticity, and they change almost daily in most of us. They're what we call muscle memory, and they're amazing
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Michael Largey 6 months ago
OK. "Does the OP mean that someone can die just from a bullet nicking their ear?"
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Debby Keir 6 months ago
My uncle had a series of strokes, and after one, the MRI showed damage to 3/4 of the brain. We were told irreversible and expect vegative state. He woke up and behaved mentally normal - able to talk but not walk. He survived for a few more weeks until the 'final' one.
Victor Botha 6 months ago
McKenzy Flores I have a question for you. If God is so great, loving and compassionate, why would he inflict this terrible existence on this poor child and his parents for 10 long years?
Bob Brooce 6 months ago
Well, duh. He works in mysterious ways. What could be more mysterious than an all-powerful and all-knowing sky wizard deliberately making itself a psychopath?
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Karen Menard 6 months ago
He probably lived on love. Parents are notorious for being unwilling to let a child go as long as he can smile/laugh and twinkle those eyes, autopsy not withstanding of course.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 months ago
My neighbor, a young boy that I watched grow from 8 years-old until 14 years-old when we moved, used to walk with a minorly-noticeable lope and unnatural left arm status due to the left side of his body being partially (maybe 40%) paralyzed. Those issues were the only obvious physical signs with shyness and a few educational issues (required just a bit of extra help -- no more than many "normal" children of the same age) being the only mental/emotional issues.... Of him having LESS THAN HALF of a brain in his skull. His mother informed me that as an infant, an illness caused brain inflammation and injury and the only treatment that worked was the neurosurgeon removing a bit chunk of the contents of his head. A truly unbelievable child who always amazed me when I remembered just how different he was on the inside.
#3
I've never performed an autopsy, but my friends (they were 3 siblings) growing up had a pathologist for a father. I was over their house so much, that I became a fixture in the family/included in most of their adventures.
Me and the oldest son got a hold of some liquor one night and got wasted. My father is an alcoholic, and it gave me a bad homelife/probably was a significant factor as to why I basically moved in with them.
We were caught. I was nervous and sad, expecting them to deem me a bad influence, and abandon me, a cycle I was familiar with. Their parents beckoned me in to the dining room, wanting a private talk. I braced for the worst, but Instead they sat me down, told me they loved me, and that I had to be careful with alcohol due to a*******n having genetic components. We talked a long time, and when it was over they informed Me I wasn't off the hook yet. Apparently they had a surprise for me and their son, which would blow my mind.
The next morning we were woken, and told to get dressed and get in the car with my friends dad (the pathologist). He drove us to his work, where he showed us a cadaver and the liver of a middle aged man who died of cirrhosis. It burned in my brain and I never forgot it. It had such an impact on me to see how alcohol destroys the body.
While I wish I could say i escaped alcoholism, I would go on to have my own struggles. But they probably would have been a lot worse if it weren't for this experience!
The PanDA 6 months ago
Alcohol is such a hard time. hard to deny, hard to deal with, hard to admit. I wish you the best from one to another.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Recovering addíct here as well (cocaíne/barbíturates instead of alcohol, but close enough.) Hugs and fistbumps to you and all of my fellow pandas who have been through this. We got this!
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 6 months ago
Good grief. Addiction is neither obscene nor a slur. Sheesh. (Yes, I know it's a bot & ranting does no good, other than to reduce the urge to throw the laptop across the room.)
Multa Nocte 6 months ago (edited)
How did "A*******n" make it through the censoring with yours but not with mine? Edit: OK, I rewrote this and capitalised the word - maybe that's why it made it through this time.
Load More Replies... ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 6 months ago (edited)
ADDÌCTION, BP. You're talking about fúcking ADDÌCTION, that's the centerpiece of this story. If you don't DARE TO TALK ABOUT IT, DON'T TRY TO TELL THE FÙCKING STORY. And purely out of spite: ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION ADDÌCTION
Panda Cat 6 months ago
Pity that so many people think A*lcoholics Anonymous is the way to address it since it apparently has only a 5% success rate (and the higher power can be a problem for a lot of people). There are medication-based ways to deal with it other than Antabuse.
Tropical Tarot 6 months ago (edited)
I've heard of the Sinclair method but not sure what it is. I think its medication.
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Nicola Mawson 6 months ago
6yrs, 5mnths. Learning to cope with my Cerebellum Disease consequence. A*******n is a nasty disease
#4
Not a regular autopsy performer, but I do a lot with forensic archaeology (mostly natural mummies now) and had to take an A&P class that involved cadaver dissection. Female patient died at 102 of natural causes. We found that the joint of her left elbow was replaced with something that legitimately looked like a car part. It turns out she’d lived somewhere in Soviet Eastern Europe and had the procedure done some time in the 1960s, and it looked like that replacement was done with whatever they had available. It was absolutely incredible.
XenoMurph 6 months ago
She couldn't knit anymore, but her offroading ability was unsurpassed.
Load More Replies... Kroljogu Parak 6 months ago
Remains me a story of soviet Estonian orchestra conductor who was allowed to travel to Sweden. On the trip he needed to go to dentist and the dentist told him that please try not to repair you teeth by yourself next time. The level of stomatology was so bad in Soviet Union
#5
An old woman with an incredibly thick skull all the way around. Her brain was much much smaller than it should have been but according to her family she was fully functional and displayed no deficits of any kind. She actually ran her own cheese making company and died from a carbon monoxide leak.
Strangest case I ever saw!
Erica Stewart 5 months ago
There has to be a story behind this discovery?
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I worked with a guy who had a lot of emotional baggage. When he was a teen, he and his younger brother were rough housing, and he pushed his younger brother against a wall. He said his brother stood there for a moment saying he didn't feel right, then dropped dead. In the autopsy the coroner discovered the younger brother's brainstem had been "dangling by a thread," and any bump to the head could have detached it. That he made it through the toddler years of learning to walk was a miracle. Crazy story and I felt bad for the guy because he still blamed himself for what was truly just a freak accident.
I’ve Seen Things 6 months ago
This was going to happen regardless of what the brother did. It was just horrible timing, if he bumped his head 20 mins later, the brother would not have to live with the trauma of what he thought he did. So sad.
XenoMurph 6 months ago
That poor man will be late into adulthood before he can accept that truth.
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My aunt who worked as a pathologist told me of the time she did an autopsy on a newborn baby who was born seemingly healthy but was unable to feed and then died.
The baby's esophagus was not connected to his stomach, it was connected to his trachea and lungs instead. And the lungs were full of milk.
Miss Chili 6 months ago (edited)
My daughter had this, but the opposite way. Her stomach acids could've gone into her lungs and her oesphegus was a pocket. Its called a tracheo esophageal fistula and atresia. She was "luckily" born premature and needed a feeding tube. When they tried to insert it it wouldn't go down and that's how they found it. Surgery at 24 hours old 25 years later she is doing fine
XenoMurph 6 months ago
Modern medicine is bloody awesome. My taxes are well spent.
Load More Replies... Bob Connely 6 months ago
And yet - somehow - so many continue to worship a supreme being that they deem to be "kind and loving..."
Boo 6 months ago
How could it have been prevented? They didn't find out about the condition until the autopsy....AFTER the baby dìed! 🤦🏻♀️
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#8
In a previous career I was a US army CID agent, and every death investigation that required an autopsy we had to send an agent to photograph and observe for the case file.
One guy who had been stabbed through the heart with a steak knife by his wife was in peak physical shape, but when the pathologist pulled his brain out he said "look at this". I have no biology training, but the golf ball sized tumor on his brainstem was obvious even to me. Doctor said he had maybe 90 days to live at the time of his death.
The wife went to prison for m****r, and all she had to do was wait a few months and she'd have been a hero Army widow.
Nina 6 months ago
Makes me wonder if he got stabbed because his behaviour became less friendly... The (loving) mother of one of my friends got a brain tumour as well, she really started behaving more and more atrocious the more ill she became.
The Majestic Opossum 6 months ago
Reminds me of the Kent State shooting. Before it happened his behavior became very erratic. Autopsy after his death showed a brain tumor.
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Bob Connely 6 months ago
And I'll bet she was the kind of kids that snuck out late on Christmas Eve to see if Santa Claus was real!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago (edited)
Shockingly, sometimes WOMEN can be abúsive for no reason other than the fact that they are abúsers. There may not be a "why" other than she just wanted to k!ll/stab him.
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#9
Performing an autopsy on an elderly patient with cardiac valve disease and found a 3 cm white plastic disc lodged in the ostium of one of the renal arteries. It was identical to the disc of the patient's tilting valve type mechanical aortic valve which was in place, intact, and functioning normally. We had no explanation for why an extra valve disc was present far downstream from the heart.
An in depth review of the patient's surgical history revealed that many years prior, during the installation of the patient's aortic valve, the cage for the valve broke while being installed and the disc had flown into the aorta and couldn't be retrieved. The surgeon immediately removed the broken cage, replaced the entire apparatus with another replacement valve and completed the surgery. We found no evidence that there was any subsequent investigation to determine the whereabouts of the lost valve component.
So for years (apparently unknown to most of his caretakers and even potentially to the patient) the patient had a cardiac valve disc lodged in his renal artery ostium, in such a way that it was non-obstructing and stable, and it was discovered as an incidental finding at the patient's autopsy.
Bob Brooce 6 months ago
D**n good thing that it went downtown instead of going uptown and lodging in his brain. Even in the open orientation that could have been a serious, and immediate problem.
Debby Keir 6 months ago
It goes with the flow....so uptown isn't on the route.
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Brandy McNamee 6 months ago
I wonder how often MEs come across medical detritus when performing autopsies? Probably more often than you'd think...🤔
Seadog 6 months ago
Just another reason I don't rust doctors anymore. Guy my wife knew had to have his foot amputated, surgeon standing at his feet read the chart "remove left foot" picked up foot in his LEFT hand and amputated the guys right foot. Friend had surgery and continued to get worse to the pint his wife had to take him to Duke. The discovered the surgeon had left a clamp on the liver artery. Now ay to stop death at that point. I could go on.
Bob Connely 6 months ago
When you hear a Surgeon say, "Oops... anybody see where that went?," you know you're workin' with an amateur!
#10
Situs Inversus. Basically all the organs were in mirrored anatomical positions from where they should normally be. So so cool.
John Mosley 6 months ago
An MRI showing basically a slice of a human. The white area on the bottom with a hole in it is the spine.
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Christine M Quigley 6 months ago
I went to nursing school with a classmate that didn't realize she had this condition till she went through the physical to get into the nursing program. She had to carry a card with her at all times in the 70's, but I think I would've had a tattoo on my chest letting people know.
Jay Weigel 6 months ago
My brother has this, and it wasn't fully discovered until he went for his Army physical in 2967, although he knew by then that he had dextrocardia.
#11
I performed autopsies for almost a decade. The most unique thing I saw was uterine didelphys with a septate v****a. Basically, the v****a split in two and went to two separate cervixes and two separate uterine cavities. The two parts of the uterus fused into one heart-shaped body. I only saw that once.
Beth Wheeler 6 months ago
I used to work with an older lady whose adopted Korean daughter had double uterus. Dr's said she could get pregnant in either one.
The Other Guest 6 months ago
Vagina, a perfectly normal part of the human body, and a word that can be said on television. Oh, BP censor-bot, you're so ridiculous...
Multa Nocte 6 months ago
Good Lord - the word made it through the censors! My eyes! My heart!
Load More Replies... ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 6 months ago (edited)
VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA VAGÌNA. Fúck your stupid censorism bullshít, BP.
Sarah Edwards 6 months ago
Bored Panda, my dude, vag1na is an anatomical title, not a cuss word for second graders. Seriously.
Panda Cat 6 months ago
Bicornate uterus. I read about a woman who was pregnant on both sides with different gestational ages. It seems so unlikely because the progesterone from the first one should have prevented the other.
Alisha Natzel 6 months ago
Unless the conception was very soon after the first it seems impossible. I have read about a woman in India who has two babies a month apart as a result. I would assume that the oxytocin production from the first would send her into labor with the second.
Load More Replies... Pasty Girl 6 months ago
Why are we allowed to see the word 'uterus' but not 'vagína'? Both are medical terms for parts of the female anatomy! Who is in charge of this ridiculous censoring??
Bob Brooce 6 months ago
So if she had twins it could have been like ordering from a Chinese menu? One from column A and one from column B?
ROSESARERED 5 months ago
A friend from years ago had 2 uterus', periods rarely matched up, sometimes they came together. Tried lots of things to control it, her hormone cycle was chaotic. She eventually had a child, just one, her husband said it was very hard for her to get, and stay, pregnant, only time they were going to have a child never going thru that again.
#12
I observed a lot of things during my professional autopsies. The most notorious was a guy with four bullets '22 into the cranium. He didn't claim pain and apparently a normal.life. Daughter of him told me he was a g**g member when young. He died from a cardiac arrest at 60 y o.
Michael Largey 6 months ago (edited)
Few subjects claim pain during their autopsies. (And if they do, you're not doing it right.)
MorticiaRS 6 months ago
HILARIOUS! As a retired mortician, this is going in my permanent file.
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Seadog 6 months ago
Local cop responded to a call one night where the guy was threatening to shoot himself in the head. 32 auto (those who know guns can see where this is going). Yep, he pulled the trigger, the bullet entered the scalp at an angle but doesn't have to power to penetrate the skull so it made a loop around his head under the scalp.
CatD 6 months ago
A 32 caliber bullet can certainly penetrate the skull. Even a .22 can.
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#13
As part of h**h school anatomy we went on a field trip to a local college to work with the bodies donated to science.
They had a sign “If you can’t find it they don’t have one”. A nearby body was missing some part of their digestive track (I forget what. Appendix?). They searched up and down. Just wasn’t there. No scar indicating removal either.
Another body was a dead biker. Heavy drinker. His body adjusted though. His liver was seriously twice the size of anyone else’s there (or more) stretching all the way across his torso. That liver was a beast.
Michael Largey 6 months ago
Depends where you ate. If it was Taco Bell, it's a race track.
Load More Replies... Ahnjunwan 6 months ago
They allow high school students at bodies donated to science? Is it only me who thinks this is wild? I believe this post is from the US but in my home country donated bodies have to be treated with the highest respect, students have to thank the donor before they do anything with it. We surely would not allow some highschoolers mess around with deceases people not only because it is pointless but mostly because it would be considered very disrespectful. Maybe a cultural thing but if i would know that this would maybe happen to my body, i would never donate it for some children to make fun of my skinny asss
Panda Cat 6 months ago
It sounds like they went to observe a cadaver lab elsewhere. I imagine it’s unusual to have anatomy at a high school level even if there are AP/IB anatomy courses. I doubt the college students did the dissections either. When I took anatomy at a university level we had someone with the position of adjunct lecturer do the dissection and only 2 cadavers for the lab. When I did high school and university anatomy no one treated the specimens with any disrespect since we were there to learn and understood the gift we were given.. AFAIK it’s mostly in medical school when students do their own dissections with a few students per. I plan to donate my body for whatever I can. I can’t be an organ donor anymore, so being in a teaching lab or a Body Farm is probably what’s left for me. I’m not expecting anyone to thank me though since I plan to be dead by the time my body gets to where it’s going.
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Uncle Panda 6 months ago
Our local cadaver lab had a body with the appendix on a stalk that had stretched up around the heart and resided next to the spleen. The lesson was that you can't diagnose things because you've taken a single A&P class.
Toni Ahlgren 6 months ago (edited)
so h i g h is also now censored? T**s is g******g f*****g r********s.
Uncle Panda 6 months ago (edited)
One of the cadavers had attained legendary status post-mortem. Every young nurse who got their degrees in that part of Illinois knew Hank. Hank's fame was well deserved. It looked like something off a horse.
#14
I don't do anything with bodies, but I did get to go to a hospital as a teen and get shown some strange specimens they had. What I won't ever forget is that they had a spleen in a jar, except inside it you could see a little fetus, maybe golf ball sized? Ectopic pregnancy that managed to implant inside the spleen. I don't know the odds but it seems pretty crazy.
CatD 6 months ago
An ectopic pregnancy is any outside the uterus. An implantation in the abdominal wall would also be considered ectopic. It's just much more rare.
Load More Replies... Pieter LeGrande 6 months ago
Imagine if it implanted in your back. You could end up a female version of Scrad and Charlie (Men In Black II).
Cydney Golden 6 months ago
I wonder how ectopic pregnancies are handled in states where abortion is illegal.
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 6 months ago (edited)
Generally, abortion is allowed but not until the mother is so septic she's about to die or she's on the verge of the fetus breaking through the fallopian tube. It's not allowed until the fetus is finally causing conditions that will k!ll the mother. This stupidity is causing women to lose the ability to get pregnant again. If the fallopian tube bursts, she loses the function of that tube and the other one has to pull double duty, reducing the chances of getting pregnant. Also, if it bursts, she could bleed so heavily that entire uterus is removed. In too many cases she dies from blood loss. Add on top of this, some state and federal congressmen believe the ectopic pregnancy can be removed and attached somewhere else in the uterus. And these men are the ones making laws causing women to lose the ability to have a baby, completely OPPOSITE of the forced pregnancy laws. Wouldn't they want her to get pregnant in the future? I think this info is correct for the generalities of different states and federal governments, not a specific law in one state that differs from the majority of other states.. Please correct me if any of this is incorrect.
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I worked for the coroner'a office many years ago and picked up someone who had killed themselves by throwing their face on a SPINNING TABLE SAW. So, c*****d in half skull of course and it only got through to just before the neck started.
Imagining the pain you have to be in to choose that is nearly impossible for me. Like, staring at the spinning blade and deciding to do it. Wow.
Beth Wheeler 6 months ago
Oh sweet Jesus I would have nightmares for the rest of my life. I can't imagine somebody doing that to themselves
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
I've been su!cidal for most of my life (since about 12 or so) and have had decades of su!cidal ideation. Even at my darkest moments (I have made actual, serious attempts twice) I have NEVER wanted to unalive myself in a way that would traumatize other people or force others to clean up my corpse/mess. I imagine that the person OP is talking about probably committed one of those "split second"/impulsive su!cides and... just saw the table saw and in that instant, decided to go through with it. I have heard of it, but don't entirely understand the impulse myself - my two attempts were both planned out well in advance (mostly because I intended to OD on a substance I obtained.) But, as someone who IS actively su!cidal most of the time, I can understand that sometimes the impulse is there, and at *that moment*, you just decide to go through with it, and you're in so much emotional and mental pain and turmoil that you don't think about the people who will find you and clean up afterwards.
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jasper 6 months ago (edited)
OMG , 911 operator here, we took one of these a couple years ago. Responders said she had a couple hesitation wounds... I cannot imagine being that desperate.
KC Lancaster 6 months ago
I'm so sorry such an awful event (of many) passed through your dept. Could the hesitation marks been saw skip marks instead...? Please share with you coworkers that often when psychological pain becomes so overwhelming, and su!cidal ideation so strong, one feels they can't suffer any longer to find the help they desperately need - so fear of physical pain evaporates. (It's another reason "cutting" is used to get away from horrid thoughts.)
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lise duhamel (That_U_Scully) 6 months ago
Honest question, why are so many words being censored? Not asking about racial slurs or obvious insults, genuinely don't understand the purpose for many others though.
Miranda Prince 6 months ago
Right ? Like the "high" in "high school." WTF, BP?
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Doctor Strange 6 months ago
Be glad you can't imagine it. I've been there, been hurt so bad that I decided to take my own life. To this day, no one can say why I didn't stay dead.
#16
I’ve never preformed an autopsy. My dad passed away from cancer and had his body donated to science at a local school how cremated him afterwards. What he wanted done with his ashes was have them loaded into live shotgun shells so when you shot them, his ashes would be spread. There’s a company that does this (Holy Smoke?) but we figured we would save money and just do it ourselves since I reload shotgun shells anyway.
While sorting through his ashes, we found part of his mediport, something that we figured was from his knee surgery, and a copper BB from a BB gun. When he was 10, he was hanging out with some friends and one of them had just gotten a BB gun for his birthday, was playing with the trigger and shot my dad just above his right eye. It went under the skin and was there the rest of his life. If you touched it, it would roll around a bit lol. I asked why he never told his parents he said “why would I want to get into trouble if I didn’t need to”.
Nichole Harris 6 months ago
Because why pay for a surgery if it wasn't interfering with his quality of life or detrimental to his health
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Gracie Mae 6 months ago
your question made me curious, so I did some googling: Copper melts at about 1,983°F and cremation occurs at high temperatures, generally between 1400 and 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. So maybe the cremation temp was just under that? Interesting stuff
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I don’t do autopsies, but my wife has two blood types from as far back as they could tell past her birth. They just thought it was an error the first time it happened in middle school. I’m sure they’re going to find some interesting stuff when she dies (hopefully a very long time from now).
Beth Wheeler 6 months ago
Chimera maybe. Would be interesting if she had DNA testing done by Dr's.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
From OP on Reddit: "Likely but we don’t know for sure. It’s AB+/O- but neither of those are mom’s blood type, which would mean she had a fraternal twin that failed to develop when their placentas exchanged blood/etc. between them. It boils down to her being the twin that got lucky and had AB+ blood type. She obviously produces O- blood still which suggests she has some kind of microchimerism going on, but she does lack a lot of the traits associated with 'true' chimerism."
Load More Replies... EJN 6 months ago
She is a genetic mosaic. Chimera is another word for it. There is speculation that the person absorbed a twin in utero and that is why the different chromosomes in specific locations in the body. Blood type chimerism would indicate that the chimeric location was bone marrow, although it could be in a number of sites in the body.
CatD 6 months ago (edited)
There was a fairly famous story about a woman who had a chimeric ovary. She was her children's genetic Aunt even though she gave birth to them.
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Not an autopsy per se, but back when I was working as a lab assistant, we received something that both the doctor in charge and I were stumped by. After many attempts at understanding what it was and c*****g different sections, I finally realized it was a pretty malformed embryo. The tiny little head still breaks my heart. I’ve seen a lot of weird anomalies and held different organs in my hands, but that was a full human that could have never made it to life. It hits you in a different way.
Colleen Glim 6 months ago
And this is why abortion should be an option for all women. This embryo would never have survived birth and probably not to term. But the mother is supposed to deal with knowing the baby is going to die?
Chris the Bobcat 6 months ago
That thing in the above picture looks like it will burst out of John Hurt's chest by dinnertime.
Paul Jayne 6 months ago
When I was working in the ER many moons ago a young pregnant woman came in with :spotting: and diagnosed as a TMC (threatened miscarriage). Ordered on bedrest. The spotting became worse and "cramps" started. Then she "passed" an enormous amount of blood and clots while trying to use a bedpan. I was told to examine the contents of the pan to look for products of conception. I found them. The woman and her husband were inconsolable.
Earonn - 6 months ago
Don't these specimen come with some documentation? How else is the lab to know what to do with them?
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
It would have been about 3 weeks of pregnancy, and not naturally aborted as usual before the death of the woman.
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ckcfpf42xm 6 months ago
Ignorant thing to say .. it should ALWAYS be a right of a woman to decide
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Not an autopsy technically but a cadaver dissection, one cadaver had a small extra muscle in her wrist. We had no name for it since obviously 90% of people wouldn’t have a muscle there. She would never have known in life that she had it!
Atom Bohr 6 months ago
Why would we not have a name for something OP claims 10% of the population has?
Agfox 6 months ago (edited)
There is a name, viz. ulnar-sided accessory muscles. The most common of these is the accessory abductor digiti minimi, which is present in as many as 24% of wrists. https://radsource.us/accessory-muscles-of-the-hand-and-wrist/
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Lowrider 56 6 months ago
Actually, more and more people are being born with that. They said it was part of evolution.
Sandy Kavanaugh 6 months ago
Just like there's a percentage of the population that has an extra tendon in one arm. Evolution never stops!
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
I wonder how many physical anomalies there are in humans that are never discovered?
Roni Stone 6 months ago
Palmaris Longus Muscle - a vestigial muscle that has absolutely nothing to do but is present in approximately 85% of human beings.
#20
Veterinary pathologist here: aside from a bunch of conjoined twins, situs inversus etc, one fun one I found was some ambergris in the intestine of a whale.
Sparky 6 months ago
Dang, I'm fascinated by the idea of a veterinary pathologist. This needs to be a TV series.
Bob Brooce 6 months ago
Quincy Jr. Veterinary Pathologist. This fall on NBC.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
"Precious hamburgers?" -Futurama quote XD
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
OP didn't say, but I'm going to guess cow. I sometimes get in a mood to read about weird stuff, and apparently fetal deformities in cows is common. *WARNING* REALLY GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF FETAL DEFORMITIES IN CALVES: https://visgar.vetmed.ufl.edu/en_bovrep/fetal-monsters/fetal-monsters.html
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#21
Had to do one in med school. Drowning victim. Found a catfish in their pocket.
SouthernGal 6 months ago
It obviously wasn’t a woman. We never get pockets big enough to hold a catfish!
Daphne Y 6 months ago
In the case of a crime scene, or maybe accidental death, the body is delivered to the morgue as found. The morticians undress the body and catalogue everything.
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Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago (edited)
The cadaver was still dressed for a medical teaching session???
#22
In detective school, we visited the Medical Examiner's Office. One of the decedents in the lab was a middle-aged woman who had been registered as an organ donor. After she died in the hospital, they removed what organs were viable for transplant. Two of these organs were her femurs (removed for marrow for leukemia patients) which had been replaced by 1×3s. I have to say, no matter what I anticipated going in, I did not expect to see lumber inside a dead lady's legs.
Robin Roper 6 months ago
Every heard of Dr. Michael Mastromarino? He used PVC and other material to replace the bones he stole from bodies and then sold at a huge profit. He was awful and died from liver and bone cancer.
Panda Cat 6 months ago
Although you said PVC my brain kept trying to make this be from the era of the body snatchers aka grave robbers. Nope. It was 2012.
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Lowrider 56 6 months ago
Detective school? I have never heard any police officers call it detective school.
Bob Connely 6 months ago
While working as an Autopsy Assistant (many, many years ago!), it was part of my job to replace any of the removed Long Bones (Femur, Tib-Fib, R&U, etc.) with lengths of PVC pipe -- after all, no embalmer wants to work an a flopping cadaver...
#23
An accessory spleen just hanging out attached to the intestines.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago (edited)
Heck, my dad didn't even have one XD (was removed decades ago after it got damaged in a car accident.) He could have used an accessory spleen while he was still alive! XD EDIT: note: the car accident and/or lack of spleen did not cause my dad's death XD he fell off of a ladder when I was 18, sustained catastrophic brain damage, and eventually died in 2021 (ostensibly of pneumonia/staph in both lungs.)
Load More Replies... Pieter LeGrande 6 months ago
The medical system is getting so bad these days that bodies now come with spare parts already attached.
CatD 6 months ago
And they vent them as often as possible. MAGAs they're called...
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Step mom is a funeral director/enbalmer and had a deceased with a 6" tail just below their spinal cord.
Bob Brooce 6 months ago
This would only be weird if the tail was in a place that tails don't belong. untitled-6...09b7be.jpg 
Roni Stone 6 months ago
This gorgeous and unique little man is living a perfectly fine life *with* his odd little tail, if I recall correctly.
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Huddo's sister 6 months ago
That's not that unique, except I think most people have them removed
S Bow 6 months ago
Usually neither, the case studies I've seen describe them as immobile, lacking the muscular structure to move.
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#25
A lady had, some 30 years ago, drank draino to unalive herself after her mother died. She lived.
But destroyed her insides. She ended up having her intestines connected to her esophagus as her stomach was removed from too much damage.
What. A. Mess.
Binny Tutera 6 months ago
I think those who take their own life are taking a HUGE risk. The possibility you will not be successful is very real. Then you will end up relying on someone else for everything. Probably the same people that made you miserable in the first place.
Michael Largey 6 months ago
Or the people you loved and were trying not to be a burden on in the first place.
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#26
Im a funeral directr and was embalming a old woman who was still warm as she had just died like an hour before... i couldn't get any drainage at all l but I had the drain tube in her vein, opened up and the embalming fluid was pushing through it didn't make sense. I started rooting around in her vein and I saw some coagulation in the vein and used forceps to pull out a clot that looked like a tree branch. It was about 7 inches long and had branches from the smaller vessels.
She instantly started bleeding out. She was a great embalming.
Cindy Brick 6 months ago
I was fascinated by this... and more than a little grossed out. All right, BP!
Corrina Byers 5 months ago
you dont bleed like that after you are dead,,theres no blood pressure to force the blood out,,,
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
Graphic, but why so early after death to embalm? I thought people were left a few hours for the brain activity to complete the death cycle!! At least something 'different' was studied. Clotting is common and a cause of death!!
#27
Veterinarian
I had a calf that died out in the field at about 14 days after a couple hours of respiratory distress that did not respond to antibiotics. We were expecting it to be pneumonia, which is fairly common in calves.
He had a double outflow right ventricle and just this little flap of nonfunctional left ventricle, so the blood entered the right atrium, went to the RV, out to the lungs, and back to the left atrium, where it entered the RV through a common AV valve. The blood also left the right ventricle through the aorta, so both pulmonary artery and aorta came off the right ventricle. There was significant dilation of the pulmonary artery from pulmonary hypertension and he developed congestive heart failure. Pretty neat, a bit sad, and very unexpected.
Really cool to see a single ventricle heart in a mammal, almost like a lizard, and wild that he made it to 14 days like that.
TMTMTMTM 6 months ago
After a quick Google: the mammalian heart has two halves. Each half has two chambers, its atrium where the blood enters, then that blood goes to its ventricle, then it's pumped out. Normally, blood comes from almost all over the body (lacking oxygen) to the right side. That pumps it out to the lungs to get rid of CO2 and pick up new oxygen. The oxygenated blood then comes back to the heart to the left side, which pumps it to the rest of the body. That's the cycle. -- In this calf, the ventricles were essentially combined into one. So the blood that needed to get oxygen, and the blood that already had oxygen needed by the body, mixed. So half the blood going to the lungs was already oxygenated, and half the blood going to the body didn't have the oxygen that the body needed. Badly inefficient, so the heart had to work a lot harder to supply oxygen. Screwed up the blood pressure too.
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EJN 6 months ago
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome also occurs in humans. If there is a shunt between the right side and left side, the animal or infant can survive through birth and the first week or so of life, but almost all of these children must have heart operations immediately to survive. They also look forward to a lifetime of heart operations in order to grow to adulthood.
Craig Reynolds 1 week ago
Well, that was a jigsaw puzzle of words I couldn't assemble into a coherent understanding.
#28
A horseshoe kidney, both kidneys were fused at the lower ends. Another person had a missing lung lobe, so two lobes on each side, instead of two and three (without having had any surgery).
Colleen Glim 6 months ago
My oldest daughter has a horseshoe kidney fused at the top. She’s still going strong
Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
I have a horseshoe kidney, and it's genetic my mom had it and so does my youngest daughter. It makes hydrating difficult and I pee (hematuria) blood quite frequently.
Carol Hobbs 6 months ago
I found out at 52, that I only have one kidney. My grandmother only had one, I don't know if any of my aunts, uncles or cousins are the same. They are all very healthy, so many never went to a doctor regularly.
#29
Horseshoe kidneys ☺️ have seen this twice in my 10 year mortuary career. Huge pericarditis pus build up that was 500ml in volume and bright green. Intestines that had herniated into a man's testicles. Have seen many accessory spleens which are very cute 🥰 I have so many other cool things but these rank up there. Oh just wanted to add that jumping maggots are a thing, fun times!
CatD 6 months ago
They wouldn't do that job if it wasn't interesting for them.
Load More Replies... Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
I've responded to this a few times now. But I have a horseshoe kidney, whenever I have surgery the surgeons shoot dye into my kidney so the students can see it. After peeing burning blue pee after a surgery, I always make sure the surgeons know that they're not doing that anymore and if they so I will sue.
CatD 6 months ago
Several fly species have maggots that jump using hydrostatic legless jumping. Look it up.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago (edited)
A nice normal description, he was obviously found well after death had claimed him!!! The actual autopsy doesn't bother me, but the smells, gross!
#30
I don't perform autopsies but I know someone with three kidneys that they have had since birth. Extremely rare.
Edit: I googled it before I posted and google AI says that like 100 people on earth have an extra kidney, but according to this post everyone an their mom has 3/4/5/50 kidneys. I dont know what to believe anymore. Would AI lie to me?!
Sue User 6 months ago (edited)
We have an AI assisted program for scheduling/ recording meetings. Grest, since i never could run a meeting and take notes. Go back sfter a meeting and it said I said "that xyz would be okay". I didnt think it was okay, i had brought up concerns about xyz. The only thing i can think of was i was trying to be polite, and AI took my " gentle reproach" as " approval".
Load More Replies... Dave Platt 6 months ago
The extra kidneys must come along with all those extra feet and fingers that generative AI keeps showing us.
GenuineJen 6 months ago
Maybe the dividing factor is "from birth" or naturally occuring. When a kidney transplant is done they leave the failed kidney in, so it's not unusual for someone to have 3+ kidneys after a transplant.
Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
I have a horseshoe kidney, they didnt separate while I was developing in the uterus. So there's tissue connecting them both still which in effect gives me one kidney instead of 2. It's not exceedingly rare but in my case it's genetic. My mom had a horseshoe kidney and so does my youngest daughter. It makes staying hydrated very difficult and I pee blood (hematuria) pretty much all the time.
#31
Once with this strangely pretty cadaver I found a fully calcified gallbladder that looked like a porcelain teacup. Googled it later and it’s apparently super rare and can be linked to cancer. We took turns gently passing it around like some weird Victorian relic.
Learner Panda 6 months ago
My ex-gall bladder (removed a couple of years ago) identified as bone. The first doctor couldn't find it, because it was so full of stones. They called the consultant and he found it.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
OP's username on Reddit is "NecrophiliacMMA". Do (or maybe don't) use your imagination :x
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Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
You check if they are pretty???? Is this a normal expectation? Death is rarely kind to looks, maybe if embalmed to glamorise for others!! The porcelain teacup would be interesting, gallbladders are often removed. Was hers even diagnosed as calcified, and I imagine inert?
#32
I'm not dead quite yet, but I have extra bones in my feet! They're called accessory bones, and they're not rare. They aren't usually a problem and are left in place. I found mine because I went to a podiatrist for plantar fasciitis and had x-rays done on my feet.
J R 6 months ago
i have them in both feet. I wonder often if they're partly at fault for my foot pain
Seadog 6 months ago
Found mine when I dislocated a foot when I was around 10. Over the next 9 or so years, dislocated both feet multiple times. Podiatrist said the extra bones had nothing to do with the issue. I learned to not run over uneven ground and to be careful where and how I step.
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#33
In Medical School I attended one Autopsie where the Patient had a fistula (connection) between his Aortic artery and his Esophagus. He bled to death that way. Scary to think about that.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
From someone else's comment on Reddit: "It's a slow process, but once the fistula is complete, you're pretty much dead. The underlying process is almost always going to start in the oesophagus. Ulcer, erosions from excessive vomiting, foreign body working it's way through the wall, Crohn disease, cancer, there's a bunch of possibilities."
Jenny 6 months ago
My mum developed rectovaginal fistula and used to pass fecal matter through her vaginal opening.
#34
At my first and only autopsy, the pathologist scraped some green paste off of the magnum foramen of the skull. I asked what it was, and he said, "A vegetation." I was a h**h school senior at the time, and very very puzzled by that answer.
As an attending radiologist, I see vegetations all the time in vivo now, and I will always think of them as green because of that first autopsy. Except Aspergillis, which is black.
Laura Calvo 6 months ago (edited)
What are all these high school people doing forensics? Also what is vegetation in this context?
Michelle C 6 months ago
Career training, Research labs, etc., are often offered to students of that age.
Load More Replies... Learner Panda 6 months ago
I read that as vegetarian. That was a side effect I hadn't heard of.
Norm Gilmore 6 months ago
Yes. They could have given an explanation of the term. From this article-Infectious endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endothelial lining of the heart that typically occurs on damaged or prosthetic heart valves. The characteristic lesion seen with infective endocarditis, termed “the vegetation,” is composed of bacteria surrounded by a platelet/fibrin layer attached to the underlying endothelium. The vegetation has long been believed to exclude or hinder host defenses from clearing bacteria, although formal demonstration of mechanisms by which this occurs are lacking. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/185/7/994/804090
Load More Replies... lisa_l_ross58 6 months ago
I don't know. BP likes to censor everyday words.
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#35
Not my story, but a friend's. She was working on a DOA at a hospital and noticed something lodged in the girl's throat. She slit open the girl's throat to find a baggy full of d***s that the girl had tried to swallow. As soon as she pulled it out, the corpse took a breath and opened her eyes. Cue alarms and doctors and nurses, and apparently the girl made a full recovery.
EDIT: Again, not my story but a friend's. I have no reason to believe she was lying. Adding more detail to this story. I meant DOA as in she was "dead" when she arrived at the hospital. I don't know all the details of how someone gets picked up by ambulance and is pronounced dead. I can not speak to what happened between the time the girl was picked up and the time my friend ended up with the body. I do know I mis-stated the timing of this. She was not performing an autopsy at the time. Which means this probably shouldn't have been put as an answer to this question. I don't know the reason why, but she was picking up the body from the ER to transport to the morgue. It was still in the ER where she noticed the lump and cut open the girl's throat. And for the 3rd time, not my story, so take the truthfulness of it as you will.
Mariaf 6 months ago
I am pretty sure she was neither Deadpool nor Wolverin to make a full recovery after long oxygen deprivation. The brain starts to die after 4 minutes of oxygen deprivation, is fully dead in 25 to 30. There is literally no way they would perform autopsy on a DOA only 30 minutes from arrival at the hospital. The body goes into the fridge until next of kin is located or, if this is
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Miranda Prince 6 months ago
I honestly thought the censored word was "d***s" at first -- probably because of "eat a bag of d***s."
#36
Not an autopsy, but with a cadaver I got to work on during a brief stint in nursing school, the poor lady had thick black tar in her lungs from a lifetime of smoking. I was a smoker at the time and it honestly led to me quitting.
During my time as a Veterinary Nurse (I decided I wasn't suited to humans) I got to help with some interesting autopsies in dogs, cats, pocket pets, and even a parrot. I distinctly remember one cat who died as a result of sepsis as her kittens had died and decomposed in her, the smell of her uterus being opened was horrific. Another was a ruptured closed pyometra in a dog, where the infected uterus had burst and filled her abdominal cavity with pus. There were quite a few cancers.
Panda Cat 6 months ago
I knew a breeder with a female (b*itch) who had pyometra. She survived.
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LauraDragonWench 6 months ago
So pet parents don't deserve to know what kílled their pets, especially if it was sudden? Veterinary medicine doesn't deserve to advance thanks to discoveries made during necropsies? What a strange and thoughtless question.
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No an autopsy but a human dissection for anatomy class.
We were working on the shoulder area and hit something hard. It wasn’t a bone and made a “clinking” noise.
Turns out our cadaver had a shoulder joint replacement and we were hitting the metal “ball” (for lack of a better term?)
It doesn’t sound like much but it freaked the heck out of a bunch of second year students!!
That was many many years ago and the reason I stopped pursuing medicine!
I’ve Seen Things 6 months ago
Seems an odd reason as joint replacements have been very common for many decades now 🤔
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Misophonia is a real thing. Some people can't handle certain sounds. Maybe it was so jarring for OP to hear a "metal sound" when they expected a "bone sound" that it just struck them the wrong way, mentally. It's a bit odd, but I'm not going to judge them for getting freaked out by it.
Load More Replies... Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
I was told I might need that for rotary cuff issues from the Army. My right rotary cuff is shot. The left one not in much better shape.
Bi.Felicia 6 months ago
Many people find relief after having rotator* cuff surgery.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
I have two of those ..actually more..both shoulders, one knee, one hip and a busted foot from a doozy of a fall..
#38
A massive aortic dissection. The woman's aorta was enormous, wider than a garden hose. EDIT: I meant a fire hose lol.
#39
Back in 1990 was completing a group autopsy in an advanced human anatomy class. 85 year old patient had a tumor in her brain. It was the size of a Golfball on her right lobe. Unknown to her prior to death, her physician. Died in her sleep naturally. The tumor was not malignant but most likely caused some wicked headaches along with other symptoms. The stuff you find. The body is a wonder.
Roni Stone 6 months ago
I actually had two strokes without knowing. I had an MRI because of a sudden weakness in my right hand and they showed up like that tumor above on my MRI. One on each side of my brain, both about the size of a quarter. The doctor said the white spots were the dead tissue in my brain. This was years ago and today I have some weakness in my left leg which my neurologist attributes to one of those strokes even though I had no recognizable symptoms at the time. And the hand weakness went away and we never found out it's cause.
#40
Not human, but I knew a veterinarian whose university cremated all deceased animals on site. A pet owner came a few days after his dog died, asking for his ashes, so someone went out and scooped up some random ashes that were there to give him. The next day the owner called asking if it was the nail in the ashes that had killed his dog - turned out they had scooped up a horseshoe nail in the ashes!
Brian Droste 6 months ago
Need to call whatever authorities needed and have that place shut down.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Not necessarily - that EMPLOYEE needed to be fired, for sure, but it's probably standard operating procedure for veterinary universities to mass cremate the animals they treat/experiment on/etc. They likely rarely get requests for an individual animal's ashes. It's also the same for some services that offer pet cremation - you can have your pet cremated along with a bunch of other animals and get a portion of the resulting mixed ashes, or you can pay a higher price to have your pet cremated individually/by itself and thus receive ashes that are ONLY your pet's. When my GSD Ember died in 2010, that's what I opted for - individual cremation. Same for when my old gray kitty Wintressia died in 2018. I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford individual cremation. Not everyone is able to afford it. The employee in the story above is an a-hole though - they should have told the poor guy that his dog had been mass cremated and that they couldn't give him his dog's ashes.
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Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago (edited)
Oops! That is not ethical even for pets. But the owners should make it known clearly to the vet that they want their own pets' ashes. Most are a community cremation for obvious reasons. We bury all our pets in the garden and grow a plant over them.
Marie BellaDonna 6 months ago (edited)
My kitty was a semi-stray. He was thrown out onto the street by my across-the-street neighbor, because he had FIV, and the neighbor didn't want his other cats to get infected. Could have all been solved by simple vaccines, but I guess it was just cheaper to throw the whole cat away. Sarcasm. But I digress. Anyway, FIV isn't dangerous to humans, and I had no other cats. So I took him in. Unfortunately his FIV rapidly progressed to feline AIDS, but I took care of him the best I could, and let him live out his last months in as much comfort as I could give him. He gave me more love in return than any other cat ever has. He died in my arms. When he did, I couldn't bring myself to bury him. I had promised him, when I took him in, that I'd never turn my back on him. That he'd never have to be outside, alone and cold, ever again. So I had him individually cremated. And his ashes have a permanent home on a shelf above my bed, right next to those of my beloved dog. RIP Georgie. You were the sweetest cat ever, and I will always love you!!
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I found a junior mint while doing an autopsy. It was lodged in the persons rib.
Mabelbabel 6 months ago (edited)
I did an autopsy years ago on a gentleman who was living in a nursing home. He was elderly and had dementia, but physically he was OK with no recent ill health. The death was unexpected and sudden, so it became coronial. I a found chicken thigh bone lodged in his trachea, still with bits of chicken attached. The family immediately complained about the nursing home giving him unsuitable food without supervision and were threatening litigation. It turned out that a nephew had visited, thought his uncle looked hungry so fetched him some fried chicken to eat, then left him to it. With his dementia, he had tried to swallow the whole thing.
#42
I had a guy with 3 testies lol.
CalamityOne 6 months ago
I want to say "like a Klingon," but I don't remember if that's canon or not lol
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
Hear of one testicle quite often. Three ..might have planned to be a twin that never happened? Nature is both selective and indiscriminate, I reckon.
#43
Not an autopsy but we had a guy die, by David Carradine’ing himself, who had an elaborate piercing. He basically had multiple p***s piercings locked together with a padlock. Wife had no clue where the key was for the coroner. .
The Other Guest 6 months ago
Again, penis is the anatomically correct term for a body part that roughly 50% of the human population has. (Again, venting so I don't throw the laptop.)
Toothless Feline 6 months ago
Medical terms should *especially* not be censored in articles about medical topics. So stupid.
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Joanne Hudson 6 months ago
Evidence. Was it self-inflicted or ...... not.
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Heir of Durin 6 months ago
I had to google it. Apparently he died from “erotic asphyxiation“
Load More Replies... Melissa Malott 6 months ago
So why is the photo of spurs attached to this story about p***s piercings?
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
What was the aim, I wonder? Like the husbands in the Middle Ages who put a painful metal chastity contraption on their wives to prevent adultery (??) Was he doing the equivalent for a male? David Carradine did it? My estimation of his beauty as 'little cricket' has now dropped to .01
Joanne Hudson 6 months ago
I was astonished when I read about it but it wasn't connected to me in any way so I didn't check it out except I needed love more, trust less, as it were. I did NOT know about the hardware. So the next time you hear something (like Diddy Combs) and say "no way", shut up and Google.
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Unfortunately the other interesting thing I've found was extra nipples.
Peeka_Mimi 6 months ago
My grandson has an extra little nip. We joke that if thsi was the Dark Ages he'd be executed as a witch.
Jay Weigel 6 months ago
I had a friend who had an extra n****e. It also produced milk when she had babies.
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
Lots of extra nipples. I think, men might outnumber women there.
#45
I didn't perform an autopsy, I'm a med student here, we came across a cadaver where the kidneys were located way too higher than the normal ones, and the spleen was highly distorted in shape.
Bgray450 6 months ago
A friend of mine has both kidneys on the left side of his body. He says the doctor told him that about 40% of humans have their organs in the wrong place.
Cybele Spanjaard 6 months ago
A friend's sister had her heart on the right side an not discovered until she was a mature adult. It made no difference to her lifestyle or body functions. When she passed, she was also found to have 4 kidneys!
Load More Replies... Blue Bunny of Happiness 6 months ago (edited)
Presumably not an autopsy to determine cause of death, but an anatomy dissection class?
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What do you think ?
Louise Clarke 6 months ago
I considered being a pathologist, but a combination of chronic pain and the smell of bleach making me throw up nixed the idea.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
A friend of mine is a mortician and she has invited me to attend a couple of embalmings/preparation of deceased people. (The families had all been notified and gave their approval.) The smells of ANYTHING dead-body-related/pathology-related/etc. are pretty gnarly. Pathologist and mortician (and any similar jobs) are hard work, too, and rough on the (living) body, apparently! Hope you ended up finding a career that you are happy with :)
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Doctor Strange 6 months ago
There is an unknown object in my brain. MRI's revealed it. Tests for cancer were inconclusive. It Could be a tumor, a cyst, or something else.
Deivid Khamund 6 months ago
I’ve done autopsies for 37 years. This list wasn’t that surprising at all.
Louise Clarke 6 months ago
I considered being a pathologist, but a combination of chronic pain and the smell of bleach making me throw up nixed the idea.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
A friend of mine is a mortician and she has invited me to attend a couple of embalmings/preparation of deceased people. (The families had all been notified and gave their approval.) The smells of ANYTHING dead-body-related/pathology-related/etc. are pretty gnarly. Pathologist and mortician (and any similar jobs) are hard work, too, and rough on the (living) body, apparently! Hope you ended up finding a career that you are happy with :)
Load More Replies... Doctor Strange 6 months ago
There is an unknown object in my brain. MRI's revealed it. Tests for cancer were inconclusive. It Could be a tumor, a cyst, or something else.
Deivid Khamund 6 months ago
I’ve done autopsies for 37 years. This list wasn’t that surprising at all.
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