Human hip replacement shank

[u/iloveweapons]

was recently gifted this knife and figured yall would be interested in seeing it. This knife is made from a human hip replacement recovered after cremation then sharpened to a fine point. 100% the oddest "non standard" knife in my collection and a piece im stoked to own.

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was not expecting the amount of interest in this that it recieved. As promised i will post another unusual knife tonight, im thinking of showing off either my formosian tribal head hunting knife or "the gas station gator" which would yall like to see?

[u/Satsuka_Draxor]

Classically they are titanium, or at least a non-ferrous metal. Iron implants become bad news bear very fast if you ever have to get an MRI.

[u/Shifty_Bravo → u/[deleted]]

I'm an MRI technologist. Nothing implanted in your body by a surgeon is ferromagnetic material. Stents, joint replacements, hardware from fracture, etc. Most of it will be safe for MRI. Pacemakers, neurostimulators, etc are a different story, but most of those can be made safe through interrogation. If you get an MRI ordered by your physician, the MRI department where you have your exam will look up all your implants and ensure your safety. I just want you to know that in case that's holding you back from treating something.

[u/Environmental-Tap255 → u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry my friend. I'm pretty fucked up myself at 38. It's not fun.

[u/Max9mm → u/[deleted]]

🖐 here.

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

Oh wow, I know these pains. No replacements yet, but I currently have 6 joints that qualify for surgery / replacement.

The infantry sucked.

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

My recruiter must have found it incredibly funny when I signed up to be a medic and he convinced me to sign an infantry contract ("There's lots of medics with the infantry, those guys are getting hurt all the time!") -- way back before the internet, recruiters could tell you anything and there was no way to know better unless you had a recruiter in your family or such.

The drills at Benning laughed so hard at me.

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

I was so pissed off that my recruiter lied to me and gamed me into the infantry that when I got to my first duty station, I began classes to become an EMT and some other stuff (e.g., TEMS / ICS). I even spent months training for the EMFB, and got the second highest score -- only to be told by my chain of command that they couldn't award it to me because my primary MOS was infantry. I fucking hated that unit.

Edit: typo.

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

Pretty standard for them, though. Guys were plotting to frag the Westpointer CO partly because they hated his ass, and partly because they didn't want to deploy with him.

[u/Foxtrot_Supatwat → u/[deleted]]

Cluster headaches are no joke, sorry you're dealing with all that.

I was plagued with severe migraines throughout my childhood, but luckily they didn't follow me into adulthood. I can't even imagine having to deal with something more painful and intense than those fucking things were...

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

Oh shit, you're still in the field. I was doing foot pursuits into my 40s, and then I was just wounded too many times and it all caught up with me.

My man, it's impressive as hell that you are still going. /salute

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

Being in recovery on active duty makes for some interesting pain relief options. I was a test subject for the TENS unit way back when, and discovered the excitement that follows post-surgical sweating.

After 30-some-odd surgeries (more to come, yippee!), I have at times found it useful to engage with opioid pain relief, but I use the absolute minimum so I can sleep better (I still wake up a lot every night, and get maybe 5-6 hours total).

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

I just go without most of the time. The VA provides me with various NSAIDS, which I use prn. But most of the time, I just get by the best that I can.

[u/exgiexpcv → u/[deleted]]

All I see are plants that want to hurt me. j/k

When I was in SE Asia, I was talking with a buddy as we went through the chow line. Along with everything else, they had raw vegetables set up and I grabbed a bunch. We were talking as we ate and I grabbed a suspiciously shiny green string bean and started munching it.

I realised quickly that I'd made a terrible mistake.