How do people live with exposed bones?

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These are the people who literally have a bone that has no skin on it and just go about there day like normal. Like one lady I saw her arm was only attached by the bone that was completely uncovered and had been that way for a long time. How do people live like this? What is it like?

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  1. cmc24680 Avatar

    What are you talking about?

  2. geligniteandlilies Avatar

    I mean…teeth are technically exposed bones, but…what you’re referring to isn’t exactly normal and should be quite painful actually.

    I’m assuming it’s because they don’t want to deal with the financial hassle of getting it fixed, which is pretty sad…

  3. MacintoshEddie Avatar

    The answer is that many of them don’t live.

    They’re dying. Whether it takes weeks or months or rarely even years they’re usually on the bare edge of sepsis, and often so stoned they don’t even know what planet they’re on.

    There was a recent post asking about people who likely died after posting, and several of them were like that. Like the guy whose finger was actually decaying on his hand and horribly infected. High chance he got sepsis and died shortly after posting those pictures.

  4. kv4268 Avatar

    They do not go about their days like normal. They are dying.

  5. goldent3abag Avatar

    The human body can survive through terrible things.

  6. sunglower Avatar

    I had a friend whose bones were protruding through his skin following an accident, at the bottom of his neck, but I can’t envision properly exposed bones. I want to Google it but I don’t. Does anyone have a link please?

  7. PetiteTarte Avatar

    I don’t have a solid answer, but I’m just gonna suggest you go down the Kelly Ronahan rabbit hole and see how much abuse that woman put her body through… Absolutely fascinating, and she’s (afaik) still alive today. Tangentially related, I guess?

  8. Moist_Fail_9269 Avatar

    I watched an episode of Drugs, Inc. that followed krokadil users. One guy’s tibia was completely exposed and he just kept on using while his flesh rotted away.