The fact that it's a characteristic they share probably helps, because it's not a case of "Oh I have this condition that sets me apart and I'm the only one".
@@Eagle-rv3iy it’s be a lot easier due to their numbers, get five sets of gloves, cut up the fifth set and add an extra finger to each of the other gloves
I haven’t gotten to that part of the video yet, but I think I’ve heard somewhere that having 5 fingers is a recessive trait to 6 fingers like blue eyes are to brown eyes. If true, it’s kinda weird most people don’t have 6 fingers
The last store honestly makes me happy, sure there was a death in the family and my heart goes out to the family. However, seeing that kid move around so much and have fun is heart warming
7:30 The stomach pocket guy is actually from Brazil, where I come from. This type of injury can be common because of the economic situation, that forces the vast majority of workers to work at factories with dangerous machines. But, this type of surgery is in fact very rare...
0:58 The tiniest little gnat crawled into my ear when I was camping and it was scuttling around on my eardrum. Sounded like something huge was in my ear (I had no idea it was tiny until it came out). I was an absolute mess. I literally thought it would drive me insane. Can't imagine what ants would sound and feel like in there!
You should have done a show on my foot, which was a medical mystery of sorts. I woke up one morning and it had sorta exploded. It was massively swollen and painful, all the way up to my knee. I could put almost no weight on it and the pain was intense. But there was no bruising and no broken bone. This was 13 years ago and it's STILL swollen, though I've gotten used to the pain. I was seen by many doctors and none of them could figure it out. One doctor guessed nerve damage, but from what? No one knows.
I just checked, and I have 6 fingers! I didn't know it wasn't normal. In seriousness, that's crazy. Soon we'll have people with 4 arms like the pokémon machamp. They'll be crazy strong.
I remember (if correctly) that polydactyl is an autosomal recessive gene, but can also involve multiple gene mutations. But we didn't know if mom was a carrier...?
it's actually good to see these types of videos to calm down our nerves (ego) sometimes we think we aren't quite blessed with having very good limbs i mean look at these guys when we complain we are not having a perfect life these guys are even happy while having those conditions they could have just made suicide they are so happy with whatever they have so be happy 😄😁
A dear friend of mine had conjoined twins. Both twins shared most organs. The doctors said we could separate them but only one can live or they can stay together but have a hard life or no life at all. The idea of picking only one to live was heart breaking. They thought about it for a long time. Sadly, before they could make a decision, both babies died. She wonders what life would have been like with both of them or even one of them if they had decided in time but ultimately she is happy in the idea that they came together and left together and she didn’t choose one over the other. She is so brave and I don’t know what I would have done if it were me. Congrats to the family in this video that has a beautiful son!
That is so sad. But I don’t know how any mother or father could choose one of their babies to die and one to live and then be able to live with their decision for the rest of their lives. I can’t imagine a worse decision to have to make. I certainly wouldn’t want to make that decision. Perhaps if they had made the decision and they were separated, only for the one who was supposed to live, to get an infection like the twin in this video, and then unfortunately pass away. The parents would forever live with the guilt of, maybe if they had stayed conjoined, they both would be alive today, but we chose and now both are dead. That would be worse to live with in my mind.
Oh my god I cannot even imagine... As an outsider it seems like a logical idea to choose one baby growing up healthy over two babies conjoined growing up in lifelong struggle. But as a mother it would be excruciating to even consider.. what a strong woman.
How would a parent feel for the rest of their life when they make the decision to separate them for the sake of the life of their beloved babies and then one of them dies. Or when you decide against it and then both babies don't make it. That must be a hard situation to be in...
Honestly the 6 finger thing seems quite advantageous especially in todays world of keyboards, phones, controllers etc. plus the fact that it’s a dominant trait makes me think that it may become more and more common
yeah except for most items were designed with 6 fingers in mind. Gloves for example wouldn't work, and holding certain items might not either but still, I would agree
I actually cried for the twin that lost his life. I can't stop thinking about how scared he must have been to be seperated and then he didn't make it. Rip little man.
Same.. I’m a mother and just imagining having to go through making that decision and then losing a child.. I’m bawling… my heart goes out to the family.
Honestly hearing dr mike say “so he does have a normal life, maybe a unique life, but a normal life” really hit hard tbh. As someone with an invisible disability I often get stuck in thought cycles were I feel like I can never have a normal life. Hearing him acknowledge that you can have a normal life even if it’s different from other’s lives is so reassuring
People only SEEM "normal" until you actually get to know them. Almost everybody's an outlier of some kind somewhere... SO there really is NO SUCH THING as an "average person" or a truly "normal life"... Those are abstracts, statistically created constructs because when you delineate humans to numbers they WILL "average out" to something... mathematically. BUT as with many mathematical constructs, what works on paper doesn't actually exist in Real Life. SO you have about as normal a life as I (or anybody) does. There are things that you do routinely, many without thinking much or any at all about it... AND there are things that take up various degrees of your "thinking bandwidth" all the way to excruciatingly detailed and my favorite "damnably difficult". Everybody has those kinds of lists, too... some are longer than others and others are shorter... That's just life with "the human condition"... a wonderfully beautiful, red hot mess. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 lol I get upset when people call me normal, normal is so boring. I don't think there is such a thing as normal when it comes to people, everyone is unique in their own way.
@@kelliewhyte_85 "Normal" is such a vanilla and uninteresting term, I find it difficult to even take it seriously enough to be offended... I don't run into it much, though. I AM those people your momma warned you about... and it's not long before anybody figures that out. I think it's another meaningless and weaselly "relative term", if I'm honest... Some are "more normal" maybe, being relatively closer to that mathematical curve construct, and others are "less normal" meaning further removed. That's all... ;o)
Yep. Same situation. At times I do feel that. Then I remember that my life hasn't changed too much overall. I can still walk, cycle, drive etc. Only difference is taking medication, not being able to do repetitive motions or holding my muscles in the same position for an extended period of time. Maybe the odd day where I feel weak, but realistically everyone has those days.
i find it fascinating that their 6th finger is also somewhat opposable - it can fold inward toward the palm just like the thumb does (though with a much lower range of motion than the thumb). that certainly would make it much easier to grip objects. definitely seems like an advantageous mutation.
i was born with polydactyl my mom decided to get rid of them when i was younger and im grateful she did. i know a lot of the comments are talking about the advantages like typing or playing piano but i personally think the disadvantages are so bad that the advantages dont count. once you get to being a toddler the extra fingers hold you back from doing things like holding pencils and paint brushes, forks and scissors, basic things like that and it can hold back students educationally because of this. im in my last few years of school now and i still cant hold my pencils like everyone else. having polydactyl also comes with a lot of pain from twisted bones, crooked joints, extra and missing tendons, nerves and blood vessels. also if you get surgery to remove the extra finger the bit of skin and nerve that’s left where your fingers used to be can become extremely sensitive i always have to wear gloves even if its only 65° outside because it hurts, aswell as cooking near the flame can cause pain so bad you have to stop cooking
I had a bug in my ear. It's one of the most traumatic things that's ever happened to me and 20 years later I'm still absolutely terrified of most bugs. I can't imagine it happening over 1000 times. That poor girl. My heart absolutely breaks for her.
i had a bug in my ear, it wasn’t that bad and i still love bugs. we’re you scared of them before that happened? i can’t imagine becoming scared of bugs just because of that
@@riskoffailure8857 I mean I definitely wasn't a fan of them before but I wasn't as afraid. There's something about it scratching around in my ear until I killed it that was enough to put me off insects for the rest of my life.
@@riskoffailure8857 well a dog pushed me over when I was little and I was afraid of animals for a very long time, only grew out of it partially when I became an adult. These things can happen, anything can be a big enough trauma for your brain to develop a fear.
I'm 23 now and have been always absolutely terrified that it will be happen to me too. Just the thought of it makes me sick and panic. That's why I always sleep with my blanket tightly on my head
As a occupational therapist myself, I appreciate you bringing light to our profession. At times we are unsung heroes in the hospital and doctors. At time doctors just say patient seen working with PT.
AS I am going through the stages of learning to walk again, after having a right below the knee amputee, I am just bragging about my PT person. They have been amazing and are my truly favorite people right now.
I have dyspraxia (like dyslexia but with spatial reasoning skills rather than reading) and struggle with driving. Unfortunately, I live in a place that doesn't have good public transit. My doctor referred me to OT driving lessons, and it really helped! I'm still an anxious driver, but I'm at least functional. So grateful to my occupational therapist and that OT is a thing!
I was born with a ectopic pancreas inside my stomach that they couldn’t figure out exactly what it was until I was five. At the time, there had only been 5 other reported cases. It prevented me from digesting any food without immediately throwing it up after. Luckily they were able to do a new experimental surgery and I just have a giant scar on my abdomen now. I’ve still dealt with gut issues since then but they didn’t think I was going to make it to adulthood so lol
12:59 "So he does have a normal live, maybe a unique life, but a normal one." As someone who has been an amputee since age 6, this sentence made me drop a tear :)
It's a normal life for you, right? I look fine and can stand and walk a little, but I have an invisible disability and I use a wheelchair often, especially if it is hot. It's normal for me, but sometimes people look and act like they pitty me. What is our normal, freaks others out and they don't know how to act around us.
@@cbryce9243 well I personally think it's just a difference from what maybe you're used to see. I'm sure if I got to know a person that has some differences well I would learn how to behave and it would be normal❤️
The case you were talking about with the Siamese pair were brothers Eng and Cheng Bunker who were born conjoined at the sternum via a flexible band of tissue. At the time (early 1800’s) they were an extremely huge medical oddity and curiosity as they obviously survived their birth and infancy. As they grew older and news of their story spread, they were immigrated to the US and examined by numerous doctors from all over the world. As young adults they did the only job that physically unique individuals such as themselves could do at the time, and joined a traveling circus freak show. They actually earned a small fortune being billed as “The Amazing Siamese Twins”. Later, they retired from the circus and both got married to American women. To compensate for their unusual situation, they settled down on a pair of neighboring farms in the foothills of North Carolina, each owning one. They divided their time between the two farms so each could have time with their respective wives and kids. Sadly, as they grew older, they became increasingly frustrated at their conjoined lives. Specifically, Eng was frustrated with Chang and his health deteriorating and him drinking heavily. This led them to engange in huge physical fights with each other. Doctors at the time speculated they could probably be separated, but as it was never done before, and they had no way of knowing the level of organs and tissue shared between the two, they refused to operate. Eventually at the age of 62, after already suffering a stroke previously, Cheng died of a cerebral blood clot. Upon the death of his brother, Eng said he was going to die shortly after. Which he did from bleeding out into his dead brother. His life could have been saved, some speculate, had they known to tie a string at the point of connection between the two to prevent Eng’s blood from flowing into Cheng’s lifeless corpse. Upon their deaths, their bodies were sent to be autopsied, mostly out of sheer curiosity of their connection. It was determined that their connection was mostly cartilage and connective tissues with only a shared liver between them. Thus, they probably could of been successfully separated. Their preserved liver as well as a death cast of their conjoined torsos can be seen on display at the Mutter Museum to this day.
How terrible. Imagine having someone else share your body, who has an addiction. They didnt share a liver, but the mental strain and a half of yourself being physically weak mustve been a hurdle.
I had a polydactyl cat. They're actually sometimes called Hemingway cats because the famed author had one who...well, wasn't spayed. Since it's a dominant trait in cats there's a colony with lots of polydactyls on his former estate to this day. I can say from experience that for felines it grants an advantage in quickly nabbing food off of dinner plates.
I had a guinea pig with a polydactyl toe. Because of how it formed it could swing around and occasionally it'd swing under his foot and he'd step on it, although it didn't seem to hurt him and he could walk around just fine.
I love polydactyly. Probably my favorite mutation in any species. Every time I see a picture, whether it's a human or a pet, I get overcome with excitement, like seeing a baby bird for the first time. There's just something magical about it.
The bit about extremity crush injuries basically ending in amputation I’ve got a great example, I had probably the most minor crush injury ever, I dropped a deep freezer as I was bringing it in the front door, and it pinched the tip of the middle finger on my left hand right at the tip dead smack in the center of the nail bed. Somehow didn’t rip the nail off just turned everything under it to ground beef and almost took the whole tip of the finger off and left the nail behind without so much as a scratch 😂 the first thing the er folks told me is there was a good chance that half the first digit of that finger was probably going away and I wouldn’t have the nail anymore but they decided to try and fix it so they removed the nail and stitched up the nail bed and then actually stuck the detached nail back up under the cuticle and secured it with a stitch to promote good nail growth. These days the nail is a bit crooked and it has a gnarly scar but it’s got all feeling and circulation so I’m happy with it. It’s my special finger 😂
I don't know much about this stuff to be honest, but here we go. When I was 8, it was discovered I was born with an Enteric Duplication Cyst, or an EDC. It went completely undiscovered throughout many years of stomach pain and constant illness growing up, which didn't let me get a great education as I wasn't in school often but teachers would just assume I was trying to get out of school (which to be fair, a small part of me was cause I hated it). My colon went into volvulus which is what brought me to the hospital where it was finally noticed. I was in hospital for about a month or two, but came out and began physical and occupational therapy to recover the damage to my lower body that the surgeries caused. After being bed-bound for that time I'd lost the ability to walk and had pieces of wire into my stomach to make sure the scars wouldn't open or leak liquid. Of course, I can walk now all well and I've become very physically active. However, this lead to issues with my acid reflux and now I live with GERD & LPR, as well as Rhinitis cause apparently my script writers want me to be a villain. I basically live with an acidy cold nowadays, but I'm just glad to live at all. :')
I would be shocked to look down and see legs and arms dangling from my crotch. That is some straight up horror show stuff. Feel bad for her that’s got to be rough body image wise. Glad she got help
I read about a case like that when I was a kid. A lady had extra legs between hers, and it turned out that she had two uteruses and some of her children were actually her parasitic twin's.
@@Am0ha yea but I feel like if you were fairly observant person you’d catch on pretty quick that humans aren’t meant to have a swinging mass of appendages between their legs
I am trying to imagine finding out at the age of 11 that you are literally the only person in the country with extra legs Just imagine what a bizarre day that would be for the poor girl
But honestly that's her parents' fault. You can tell your child that this trait is something unique, without making her feel like an outsider. It's just a very important information.
@@werbeagent6003 yes, I wonder if it's because of the location at the front of her pelvis that they didnt? Or just cultural norm to not discuss medical anomalies?
Those parents suck for letting her find out the hard way that she isn't, in fact, "normal." I hope it at least happened when she saw her classmates changing etc. and realized they didn't look like her, instead of those classmates seeing *her,* which, knowing how nasty 11 year-olds can be after years of teaching them, would have made it a very "hard way" indeed.
@@rickwrites2612 I know in some cultures at least its a lot more accepted to just hide or not talk about certain hardships, family issues or just in general anything abnormal about them/their family.
There was a boy at my school who lost a large part of one of his finger because he jumped of a fence whilst his ring was stuck on the fence. They were not able to put the piece it on again. He also had his hand in his stomach for weeks to let it heal. A lot of kids saw the part of the finger that got ripped off (including me) and everyone followed the 'no climbing on the fence-' rule after that
This happened to a boy at my high school who jumped to touch the exit sign up in the top of a doorway and his ring snagged and pulled his finger off with the gravity of his body coming down!
When my dad was 16, he worked in a papermill. This would have been 72 years ago. Machines often had no guards then, and the back of his hand was sliced off. He had his hand stiched inside a flap on his abdomen and a plaster cast on the whole arm to keep it immobile. My dad was a musician. He won the British championships when he was 13, this after a year in hospital from peritonitis that almost killed him. His hand was important to him. He played the French horn and later joined the army and went into the band. The back of his hand had a hairy square, the skin of the abdomen obviously was the same, and when playing in the band, he wore white gloves. 20 years after he had this skin graft, a wire like thread started growing out of the middle of the hairy patch on the hand. It turns out it was a stitch that hadn't been taken out, but it left a hole in the hand that was quite noticeable. There's no doubt that if this hadn't worked out, he would have lost his hand, his fingers were a little stiff but with time they became less so, and not been able to continue his musical career as he signed on to an orchastra when he left the army.
as somebody who has met many doctors with many harmful or inaccurate views about disability [because of my disability], I love the respect & empathy Dr. Mike has and how he sees the person first before the condition
Yes. I could see why many surgeons would be uncomfortable using this technique. It seems like there would be risks with the possibility of infection and the many surgeries required. For many the possibility to save the hand might not outweigh these risks.
The attaching the hand to the inside of the abdomen is a procedure my husband had at Vanderbilt more than 30 years ago after his hand was crushed in a corn picker implement. His middle finger and the back of his hand were completely gone, every bone was shattered in what remained. He let them do experimental procedures to try and save it and he regained 70% use of the hand. A lot of what they know about procedures to save a crushed hand came from that experiment.
I had two: there was a hole in my skull where my brain water was leaking out from (cranial CSF leak) and my entire stomach moved up above my diaphragm and was crushing my lungs (paraesophageal hernia). Both were freak one-off things that are now fixed and I feel great :D
As a biomedical engineer with a specialization in tissue engineering, I will now refer to cerebrospinal fluid as brain water for the rest of my career.
Fifty-five years ago, I went to school with a pair of conjoined identical twins who had the most remarkable link: they were born joined by sharing one of their toes! One small surgery, and they were free. Whew!
When I was in kindergarten my best friend had a condition with her hand, everyone thought it had been very cool! On one of her hands she didn’t have any fingers, just a thumb. Sometimes when we partnered up I’d grab that hand and we both would start giggling, what a memorable year. Sadly I changed schools so I’m no longer friends with her, she was so sweet.
Those stories of one or both conjoined twins dying after separation break my heart. You know it was far from an easy decision. They did what they thought would be the absolute best for their children, and unfortunately, complications arise.
the family with polydactyly is really cool, polydactyly is a dominant gene (it was on the high school biology curriculum in the UK) so it totally makes sense. Awesome that it's something they can celebrate
The parasitic twin case really makes a good argument for 'body duplication practice surgical devices'. A replica of the patient internally and externally, as complete as possible to practice something this complex. Basically a one-off 3D model made from all scans/x-rays... It's some really cool tech.
When I was in first grade, there was a girl in my class who had six fingers I remember during recesses one time, everyone got around her and started laughing at her. I still feel sad how everyone treated her.
I went to elementary school with a girl whose mom must have taken thalidomide. She had really abnormally short arms. Kids picked on her and I hated that. Susie seemed like a nice person. I've forgotten the names of almost everyone else but her.
I just would like to point it out that the procedure that was carried out in Brazil was "free" (money came from tax). No Heath insurance, no insane amounts of money, no debt, just universal Healthcare.
My mother has been a nurse for 30ish years. I remember when she mentioned caring for someone who had a similar surgery as the hand guy. I remember thinking it was totally wild then. It’s definitely interesting to see these different kinds of approaches.
"The pair had to be separated as Heitor's bodyweight was pressing on Artur's spine causing him frequent pain and pressure on his internal organs." Found this in a news article, for those wondering why it was worth separating the two at all. Artur, the one who did not survive, have a life that was still going to be at risk even if they stayed conjoined.
Heitor was the one that didn’t have a kidney or intestines? Seemed like he would’ve had the harder surgery. Maybe I misunderstood. Crazy how life works
it’s possible that Artur was weaker because of the same things causing him pain, which may be why they chose to let him keep the organs, to attempt to compensate.
7:55 My uncle had to undergo a surgery like this after his hand went through a rice grain separator. Doctors were able to reconstruct an arm like structure because two of his fingers were functional.He is doing fine now and can do most of the daily tasks.
As a 6-year-old girl, I had a fly go into my ear when I was sleeping. I remember my ear feeling "weird" and hearing it in my head. 😖My parents remember me complaining about my ear non-stop and thought I was having a tantrum. They used an otoscope to look, hoping it'd pacify me. They had an "Oh my god!" reaction before calmly saying we were going to the hospital. The doctors didn't help at first. They kept shoving tweezers in my ear to get it and I kept freaking out because it REALLY hurt as they shoved it in. And the tweezers just made the fly go deeper in my ear. (Yes, I felt every second of it.) I remember crying because of the tweezer pain and how scared I was because of the fly noises/movements I kept hearing/feeling. Eventually, the doctors put me under to calm me, and the fly went too far in for tweezers to get to. They got it out, but I have a phobia of flies and buzzing sounds. Even though I'm an adult, I pretty much have a panic attack every time I hear a buzzing sound or see a fly. And I sleep with my ears covered or plugged in. NEVER getting over THAT.
Having a foreign object like a fly enter your ear is already a frightening experience, especially for a child. The sensations of something moving inside your ear, combined with the amplified sounds, would have been disorienting and terrifying. The ear is a highly sensitive area, and any disturbance within it can cause significant discomfort and pain. The fact that you felt every moment of the fly’s movements and the subsequent attempts to remove it would have made the experience even more traumatic. The pain you described when the doctors tried to remove the fly with tweezers is significant. The ear canal is narrow and delicate, and any invasive procedure, especially when done without proper care or anesthesia, can be excruciating. The repeated attempts likely exacerbated the situation, both physically and psychologically. At six years old, your understanding of what was happening was probably limited, which would have made the experience even more frightening. The sensation of something moving inside your ear, coupled with the pain and the sounds you were hearing, likely led to a sense of panic and helplessness. Children often rely on adults to protect them and interpret their experiences, so when your parents and doctors initially dismissed your concerns or handled the situation poorly, it could have deepened your fear and frustration. Your parents’ initial reaction, thinking you were just throwing a tantrum, might have left you feeling misunderstood and unsupported. When they finally recognized the severity of the situation, their reaction-while calm on the surface-probably conveyed some of their own fear and concern, which you might have picked up on. The hospital experience, where the doctors' attempts to remove the fly caused you even more pain, likely added to the trauma. The combination of physical pain and the perceived lack of help or understanding from the medical professionals could have led to lasting feelings of anxiety or distrust in medical settings. For a child, such an experience can be overwhelming and may contribute to lasting fears or anxieties about similar situations in the future. Your story highlights a critical aspect of childhood experiences-how adults respond to a child’s concerns can significantly shape how the child perceives and copes with the situation. Initially, your parents’ assumption that you were having a tantrum, rather than recognizing the seriousness of your discomfort, could have made you feel dismissed or even doubted your own experience. This is particularly impactful because children look to adults for validation and understanding of their feelings. When your parents finally realized something was wrong, their shift in behavior likely caused a mix of relief and increased anxiety for you. While it’s clear they were trying to remain calm to avoid alarming you further, their reaction also signaled that something was seriously wrong, which might have heightened your fear. The doctors' approach, which involved painful attempts to remove the fly, seems to have been more traumatic than helpful. This part of your story suggests a lack of appropriate care or understanding of how to handle the situation, especially with a young, frightened child. The repeated unsuccessful attempts would have felt invasive and violating, contributing to a sense of powerlessness. An experience like this could have long-lasting effects. You might have developed a heightened sensitivity or fear regarding your ears or any kind of medical examination. It’s also possible that this experience contributed to a broader anxiety around situations where you feel out of control or misunderstood. On the other hand, your ability to articulate this memory in such detail indicates that you’ve processed the experience to some extent, though it remains a vivid and impactful part of your past. Your experience with the fly in your ear as a child is a powerful example of how seemingly small incidents can have a profound impact, especially when they involve pain, fear, and a lack of understanding or proper response from those around you. The combination of physical pain, emotional distress, and the feeling of being dismissed or not taken seriously by adults likely left a deep impression on you. However, your ability to recount this story and reflect on it suggests resilience. You’ve managed to process a traumatic childhood experience, even if it still holds a significant place in your memory. It also underscores the importance of listening to children and taking their concerns seriously, as their experiences can be far more intense and impactful than adults might realize.
Your positive outlook and your unwavering support for people going through medical crises are some of the most amazing qualities I've ever seen in a person. God bless you, Doctor Mike!
Wow doc, I'm from ethiopia,addis ababa and I really liked your explanation of the case. And this surprised me,ive never heard a case like this. That is why I like to watch your videos they are educating and inspiring.thanks for all your hard work.
So, I have a medical condition that isn't extreme but it's incredibly rare (read newly discovered and therefore likely, underdiagnosed) called LPAC Syndrome. It was discovered in France and is a genetic condition where your body doesn't create enough of the enzyme needed to break down cholesterol leading to a build-up of "calcules" (Like stones) in the liver and gall bladder. It can't be seen on a regular Echography (ultrasound) but needs to be looked for by someone specifically trained for it. The reason I mention it is because I am 41 now and have led my whole life in pain, and discomfort and passed from one doctor to the next for all kinds of digestive complaints which led to some pretty intense anxiety. Someone else could be saved from the frustration and pain by learning that this condition exists and being treated for it. It's not curable but it can be managed. Anyway... a great video and thanks! :)
I was born with six fingers (an extra pinky). I was born premature, and if I was not, I probably would have had properly formed bones in them. I hope my children have six functioning fingers.
As an OR nurse from a level 1 trauma facility in Texas, I’ve done many a surgery where the hand is implanted into the abdomen, it is very common. It’s about the vascular structures and sufficient skin to cover the digits/hand. Very common.
@Caitlyn Carvalho Dominant means that it will always be the phenotype when paired with another recessive, or another dominant allele. Dominant traits can be rare because they may not show up as often in the gene pool as recessive traits, whether it be due to natural selection, or just in the way humans evolved.
@@caarlosss_-8836 Plus dominant traits do not necessarily get passed down to the next generation if the mutation is only found on one of the two alleles. (you get one set from your mum and one from your dad, so chances are that the mutated allele isn't given to you) Or if it's specific to the X or Y chromosome (if it's only found on the Y chromosome for example, then women in the family won't ever get it)
@Caitlyn Carvalho Dominant means that you have two copies of the gene for this trait, and only one gene is used. For example, if you have one gene for blue eyes and one gene for brown eyes, your eyes will be brown because the brown gene is dominant over the blue eye gene, but your children could get a blue-eyed gene from you. Similarly, if you have a gene for five fingers per hand, and a gene for six, you will have six fingers. The gene for six fingers is dominant over the gene for five fingers, so it wins.
@@cassandrabelyeu2419 that’s not accurate you can have two copies of the dominant allele. In the case of brown vs blue or green eyes it’s because the brown allele is coding for a higher production of melanin, so it overrides the blue allele (blue eyes look blue because they have less melanin).
I like the no-nonsense factual explanations. What's more, I love the end where you straight up called the dude out, "So he DOES have a normal life. A unique life..." No sugar coating, just honest. Nice work! You've got my sub!
9:22 Before I was born, my uncle had this happen to him, he worked for International paper, and his fingers were cut off at the knuckles, they did the same thing to have them heal.
The 6 fingers family has me jealous 😅 As a gamer, an extra finger would help me cover more buttons, but it's wholesome that they treat it as a gift of sorts. It just looks like they're growing an extra hand out of their hands, except for the piano part... I already have arachnophobia
fun fact: dead ants release pheromones that attract more ants. maybe an ant died in Shreyas ear and more kept coming to investigate, but once all were removed with the dead one, they stopped coming because there were no more pheromones.
the story of the man with the crushed hand reminded me of my grandfather. He worked at a Ford factory and his hands where partly crushed in a machine there, leaving him with only a few fingers left. As kids we loved how creepy they looked and he always joked with us abour them. But now as an adult, I often think how difficult it must have been for him to lose them.
What I find most intriguing, is that from what medical science has found, six fingers is a dominant gene, in every instance where it’s found. Meaning that humans may be evolving to have more fingers, which is a direct contradiction to what many evolutionary predictions suggest.
Those are unrelated things though. Like, just because a gene is dominant doesn't mean it's going to be selected for. Like, there are plenty of diseases that are autosomal dominant--NF1, Marfan's, Huntington's etc
12:06 We all felt that, Mike. It's really sad and emotional when it's a child suffering from these deformations. I know we all felt that feeling with him.
The way Dr. Mike is explaining complex cases like these in layman's terms is so cool, even therapeutic for me. I could just listen to medical topics for days if Dr. Mike's the one talking about them.
most people just go on and on and on about stuff that people wont understajnd. he does an amazing job of making it so that people want to listen to him talk, and talking about things in a way that is soothing and interesting. truly a special person.
I had a cockroach problem when I was a kid and everything he said about bugs in the ears was so true. It nearly drove me mad with not only the pain but the noise, best way to get them out btw is drowning them with water or saline solution and carefully pulling them out with tweezers
I was surprised to hear the twin with functioning genitals and bladder was the one having trouble after the procedure. Poor kid. I hope Atur can remember Artur fondly after everything they went through together.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. That was surely unfortunate... And I cannot even imagine all they had been through just in preparation for the surgery.
@@sleepyninjarin7971 Really? Most people have sexual relationships, have children. Men don't usually want the same high- pitched voice they had as a child. Difficult without reproductive organs.
@@00jyjsarangi mean… he’s a child (as of this presented interview). sex isn’t really on his priority list anyway 😅 I’m sure once he’s more interested in getting intimate with others he might have some things to think about, but wondering what a child should do with his genitals is kinda weird
I have polydactyly on my left hand but its completely unfunctional. Really wish I could have a functional extra finger, imagine how cool that would have been
@@Anelemahlatsi it was under consideration for some time, especially when I was around 18 as I was considering enlisting in the army and in my country you can't qualify for it if you have polydactyly but ultimately I decided to pursue the medical field instead. I honestly like it now, it's a good conversation starter for people and my mom always said it was a lucky charm and I have started to see it as such to be honest.
My brother is special too! So he got a tonsilectomy when I was about 9-10 years old, but he had an extremely large blood vessel right in that area. The surgery itself and the following day and a half went fine but, he ended up in the ER the night after due to blood loss and lost about 3 LITERS of blood. The anastesiologist came to talk to my mom after the ER surgery and apperantly that's a really big deal from what I've heard. He was kept in the hospital for another day or two after that for observation. He's doing good now and actually better than he had been before, he's got about 2-3 other things along with that. He is our family's messed up medical mystery miracle!
As a Brazilian I've seen all those cases on either tv or internet, and it's good to see that other people get to know that our medicine is getting better and better
@@jannamagpie8324 Here in Brazil we constantly talk about "winging it" and finding uncommon ways to deal with problems. So of course the doctors would find a way
You should do Lemellar Icthyosis! I struggle with it daily and have my whole life, it's super rare and affects the whole body. It's interesting to learn about though not many know what it is or that it exists, it needs alot of more awareness braught to it. :))
It must be a great and scary challenge for medical professionals to see such unique cases and conditions they have never worked with, and still decide to treat them. Much respect to the brave doctors and nurses !
8:00 one of my cousins recently had an accident exactly like this but at a packaging factory. They sewed his hand into his stomach for a few days/weeks while it healed a bit because it was so mangled. He was more than relieved to finally undergo his first surgery and not have his hand stuck to his stomach 😅 his mom said he sat for hours with his hands up in the air just because he could.
6:11 i used to make those exact blankets all the time! i'd spend time in the hospital making some and send them out to all sorts of places, including Ethiopia. a friend even made one for me and surprised me with it before i had my gallbladder removed. it makes me tear up seeing that they are used and loved.
One time a roach went inside my ear, and I couldn’t get it out without a doctor’s help. Hearing it was the WORST part. It was deafening every time it moved. Moral of the story is wear earplugs to bed.
