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"You ate something so we need to cut off your fingers" is a sentence I hope is never spoken aloud to anyone ever.


I'm posting a yahoo page about it because of a text preference for HN, but the Chubbyemu YouTube video is mildly terrifying. It's my understanding that this sort of thing is vanishingly rare, but serves as a reminder that it's better to have modern medicine than not. https://news.yahoo.com/teenager-legs-fingers-amputated-eatin...


https://archive.is/KKrYN

>> both of his legs and and all ten fingers amputated

> better to have modern medicine than not

Fuck no! Never let modern medicine butcher me like that.


You would rather die? In such a case, there is no third option.


Die rather than being a helpless cripple? Yes. You think I didn't know that?


I doubted. Your interaction style on here gives little to suggest a habit of thinking things through.


> They learned that JC only received the first dose of the meningococcal vaccine just before he entered middle school. And once he reached the age of 16, JC did not receive the recommended booster for the vaccine.


wow, so it totally is possible to lose your fingers after eating something. This also show the importance of vaccination and makes me wonder: how do I know if I missed some vaccines as a kid? how do I know whether I need a booster of something since school?


Get your medical records and visit a doctor?


Don't read about the people who are paralysed or die from eating slugs as a dare...




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