r/whatif • u/Ton_in_the_Sun • 2d ago
Science What if every wound you ever sustained reappeared fresh on your body all at once?
Would you die or have a chance?
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u/CookieRelevant 2d ago
Not even a minor chance if I was already hooked up to machinery. Injuries in Iraq alone all happening at the same time would likely be enough, I was lucky to make it back then. Now my body doesn't even begin to function as well.
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u/An0nymos 2d ago
Fun fact: This is why you need vitamic C regularly. Scurvy does just that, allows all your old wounds to re-open.
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u/MadameSaintMichelle 2d ago
Damn I knew lack of vitamin c led to scurvy but I never knew THAT could happen
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u/Excellent_Speech_901 2d ago
If wound is specifically a penetration from the outside then I'm... not good exactly but not likely to die. If it includes my tibia popping out through my shin, sprains, bruises, and related sorts of injury then I really want someone else around to call an ambulance for me.
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u/Kimolainen83 2d ago
I’d die really fast. Got hit by a car 8, years ago. How I only got a black eye and a broke. Leg(granted 8, broken bones) the doctor couldn’t understand how I didn’t have internal bleeding. And the nurse that was right there stabilized me til the ambulance arrived 2 minutes out. So yeah I’d be dead pretty fast
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u/Particular-Star-504 2d ago
Does this include wounds from surgeries? Because if those reappear without me being in surgery, I’m pretty sure that’s the end of it.
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u/Willing-Hold-1115 2d ago
as a combat vet with a few wounds, I don't think I'd survive. None of them were super serious (I didn't lose a leg or anything) but all at once would probably kill me. Not to mention all the random cuts, bruises etc.. My hands would probably fall off.
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u/Turbulent-Name-8349 2d ago
With age, the remembered pain from past wounds reappears. I regularly think that I've got a new pain, then realise that it's just a memory of old pain.
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u/blizzard7788 2d ago
No chance. I’ve had 20 surgeries in my 69 years. Most of them in the last 20. They would definitely kill me.
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u/Far_Tie614 2d ago
Fun fact, scar tissue is actually a living thing that needs constant maintenance / collagen to keep them together. One thing that happens in the later stages of scurvy is that your body runs out of collagen and old scars start opening up again. (Like, among all your other problems.l
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u/triflers_need_not 2d ago
I had a baby and after all the blood in my body decided to try to sneak out through the wound the placenta left on my uterus. I'm pretty sure if I didn't have a staff of doctors and plenty of iv drugs asap to stop it I'd drop dead pretty quick.
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u/MadameSaintMichelle 2d ago
Considering I'm kind of holding my body together as is NOW, I'm gonna die. Full stop
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u/Disastrous-Mess-7236 2d ago
I’d probably die. I haven’t gotten that many wounds, but the fact is that I’ve been in quite a few bike crashes. My legs, especially my right, are going to be a bit of a mess, especially because the same spots got wounded several times.
Thanks to some issues when I was little, I needed surgery. The skin in my stomach would open up in 2 directions, while my throat regains the hole it had in it so the trachea thing could work. When I was born, my airway was blocked by my tongue, you see.
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u/SableyeFan 2d ago
I'd be screaming and trying to hold my melting skin from falling off my body. I'd probably won't die.
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u/DefrockedWizard1 2d ago
with all the broken bones and surgeries, I'd collapse and die of dehydration
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u/Ton_in_the_Sun 2d ago
I suppose I should have omitted medical procedures, BUT, I’d probably die of exsanguination from all the bumps and cuts I’ve gotten from being clumsy my whole life.
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u/Illustrious_Agent608 2d ago
All the acne I’ve ever had on my face and back would just turn me into Freddy Krueger instantly lol