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We've all bled out.
Yep. RIP 13-year-old me getting my first menstrual period. But probably died long before that after first needle prick.
If you've ever broken a bone, just assume you'd be dead of infection.
Actually let's take this further: multicellular life wouldn't exist. Life wouldn't exist. Cell division requires both cells to heal themselves. This is a silly question.
Very very very dead. The first cut you get would cause you to bleed out and die. It would be a miracle to survive to one year old
People think that the immune system is like this pinpoint accurate machine that kills invaders. In reality, it is more like a carpet bomber that functions under the principle that we can heal and viruses/bacteria cannot. Inflammation is basically your body carpet bombing and healing.
We would also not be able to build muscle mass as the repair of microtears is what leads to hypertrophy.
So we would all be dead. Healing if fundamental to life.
I'm not the first born child, I likely would not be alive
Probably everyone would die from common illnesses in childhood
Does "heal itself" include immune responses? Like, could you recover from a cold on your own or would you need anti virals?
No. Purely physical. I should’ve clarified that.
I'd be very dead.
Very dead.
Sounds like the sort of question someone under 30 asks
Most decent people tend to learn to keep their rude comments to themselves as they age, so the same could be said about your comment.
HVAC tech. My hands would be banana peels.
Add immortality and you've got Elantris.
I give Brandon Sanderson a hard time for being a bit shit, but I enjoyed the premise of this book.
Always felt like the immortality was extraneous. Everyone gonna choose the fire after a couple months of no healing.
Super dead. I would not have survived my teens.
Have you ever read the book Elantris? It sounds very not fun.
This is just too unrealistic. I mean, some people actually suffer from conditions where they have a really hard time healing wounds, like lack of plackettes. And some people bruse extremely easily. But if you were unable to heal at all, you would be long gone. Kids get scratches all the time, and even one scratch would lead to an infection that would overwhelm you immune system.
In the last year alone I pulled a siatic nerve.... Burned my stomach (small scar) and broke the left most bone in my left foot in 3 places and barely dodged surgery as it is... So not great?
I've torn ligaments in my ankles. Tons of large cuts and gashes. I broke three ribs in 2022. I wouldn't be doing too great.
Broken ribs even with the self healing and medical aid can make life pretty rough.
100% dead
Have you read Elantris?
Covers this pretty well.
I have not, but I will. Thanks.
I have spent time lifting weights in the gym, every muscle in my body would be soup.
just accounting for all mosquito bites ive ever had i'd probably have bled to death long ago
I'd be alright
Absurd.
Every one of us a) wouldn’t have come into existence, because birth is a trauma with plenty of bleeding and potential for infection on both sides, and b) you’d die from your first infection or bleed out from your first cut.
Dead.
Well, given I have a bunch of injuries that never healed, I’d say I’m doing alright considering.
Being a young person who hasn’t had one of these yet, you should be aware that older people don’t heal as well as younger people.
Beadridden
When I was 4 or 5 my 300 pound dad fell on me on the street.
Not well.
I basically still have a broken nose since then. The bone is blocking my left nostril for the most part. When I was at the hospital, none of the doctors noticed my broken nose. I did however need to get X-Ray or CT scan (I don't remember which one it was) done urgently. The "urgently" took a month. "Oh, look, your nose was broken. You'll be able to get plastic surgery at 18 for free, since it limits your breathing."
Anyway, I'd still have bleeding face scraped from the asphalt. Perhaps even broken rib(s). It's not unlikely for that to happen in such case, and it's not like anyone would notice.
But this seems to be nothing special.
My dad broke his knee, called an ambulance, they took him to the ER. Then they took an X-Ray of his knee, someone just told him "It's not broken. Go to checkup in a week." He also had to get home somehow, on his own.
Well, anyway, he went to that doctor for the "Checkup" right next day. He looked at the X-Ray, said it's very obviously broken and will need a surgery.
He also had some problem with his spine, took over 10 years for anyone to look at it, at which point it was late. Now his left leg is basically paralyzed and he's on strong drugs.
My grandma had a badly done amputation, it kept bleeding and oozing pus. She also had some infusions recommended, but the doc who recommended those said she'll need approval from GP. But the GP would have to visit her at home as transporting her would be too risky. Response from GP? "Not worth it, she'll die soon anyway."
Anyway, this kinda turned into rant. At the very least my whole mouth would be bleeding as I keep accidentally biting my cheeks and tongue.
Makes you think a bit about how things are. Solid rant 10/10.
Anime character villian looks.
I guess circumcisions wouldn't be a thing, so that would be nice; or they would still be done and male genital mutilation would be more unfortunate.
Circumcised men would just constantly bleed from the penis. Just a bunch of raw, bloody stumps as far as the eye can see.
Bet there'd be free bandage dispensers in the bathrooms though.
I'd be deaf, lame and have multiple missing fingers and toes.
Ran through a bunch of busted glass as a kid with bare feet, plus a bike accident.
Not great! I guess I'd be forever bed-ridden with a giant surgical cut across my chest from armpit to armpit.
ask old people in their 90's
cut myself on a glass desk near my wrist once. bled like hell but it healed by itself. i do live in europe, but my dad thought it wasn't neccesary.
so yeah, i'd be pretty much not alive. other than the occasional cut on my hands, that's probably my worst injury.
I already have screws, bolts, and rods in me. I'd probably have thousands of staples and/or stitches. No healing means no scarring, so there may be some benefits in other ways.
I ould have been dead for more then half a century. I wouldn't have survived my 1st year.
Ded. I'd be nothing but a mass of stitches and have been burned enough times, if that didn't heal id be dead.
Slow healing is the one thing I notice the most about getting older. I'm in good shape and all, well nourished, it's not lifestyle. I broke my finger and it took two years to heal completely. As a kid that would have been 6 weeks, at 50 something it took 104 weeks.