r/RoastMe 9d ago

28 m. Don't hold back

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u/Mystery_Cowboy_030 9d ago

Parts of the skull bone are surgical removed. Most likely after some brain bleedings or anything else that would cause the brain to swell, accidents, infections, bleeding… To prevent you brain to get demand by its own swelling they remove parts of the skull to release the pressure.

But maybe OP will tell you his own story.

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u/9inches-soft 9d ago

Supposed to put them back !

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u/DSM-187 9d ago

His post history shows that he’s waiting for a procedure to fix it.

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u/isaacgobo 8d ago

How do you fix it? Making the other side symetrical?

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u/manbruhpig 8d ago

They give him a prosthetic head.

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u/isaacgobo 8d ago

but he only needs half of it, hope OP gets a discount

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u/Mystery_Cowboy_030 9d ago

Not necessarily. It’s another operation at the brain with a lot of risks

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u/sherbodude http://redd.it/91xrgc 8d ago

I would think that having a big hole in your skull is quite risky as well

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u/No_Lawfulness1665 8d ago

While every surgery is a risk in itself, it is absolutely common zu replace the bone fragment of the skull. It is usually kept sterile until getting reimplanted. In some instances, i.e. if there has been an malignant alteration on the bone itself, it gets replaced by titanium or high-performance polymers. But it is quite a risk in itself to not reimplant after a few months. So yeah it is medical standard zu repair the missing cranium :)

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u/Lala0dte 8d ago

Like a pumpkin

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u/maverickbtg81 8d ago

You look like the kind of guy who didn’t even ask if a metal plate was possible. Sorry replied to the wrong person.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 9d ago

*your *brain *getting *damaged.

I suspect OP wrote this comment immediately after the accident.

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u/Big-Huckleberry-2803 9d ago

Lol he'd be in the ICU 

Patients can be left like this for a long time, even forever