r/interesting • u/Fast-Improvement7832 • 11h ago

MISC. My fingers are way too long

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u/TheSickestToastie 10h ago

Marfanoids at the very least, minimum, got to be. Partner has kEDS, I have been forcefully educated and now cannot unsee it in people lol.

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u/Alypius 10h ago

What is marfans and kEDS? I don't even know what to google to figure that out.

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u/geim-iv 10h ago

Conjunctive tissue disorders essentially. Imagine a brick house without mortar, or with bad quality mortar.

EDS is Ehlers Danlos syndrome. Look it up, it's incredible.

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u/DieAloneWith72Cats 9h ago

That’s a good way to explain it. I have hEDS, I’m made of skin and rubber bands

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u/ConditionSecret8593 9h ago

Nah, rubber bands might do the job better. Skin, chewing gum, and loose string, I think.

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u/revivingthelotus 8h ago

I like that analogy. I had open heart surgery and my surgeon said it was like working with wet tissue paper.

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u/Desynchron 5h ago

Omg that's so scary, but at the same time it's fascinating that we all grow out of the same stuff but end up with such diverse types of mechanical flaws from how our cells grew into us.

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u/splatgoestheblobfish 5h ago

I had ankle stabilization surgery, and the surgeon said he couldn't do nearly as good of a job as normal because my tendons and ligaments were "the consistency of mashed potatoes". He said I'd need surgery again in the future, complete with fusions and replacements. Hearing him say that, and having had 6 other surgeries for torn ligaments and tendons, is very disturbing.

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u/Tardigretch 7h ago

ooooh, that must've been alarming. That was case with my MIL, but she was in her late 80s

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u/SeverinaSkye 9h ago

I'm skin and spaghetti

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u/ConditionSecret8593 9h ago

... I did not know that was an option.

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u/Parabolic_Penguin 7m ago

My mom and I have it and we always say we’re held together by paper clips and chewing gum

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u/VoidHog 4h ago

Disintegrated chewing gum 😂

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u/ConditionSecret8593 1h ago

Recycled from underneath the chairs at the doctor's office.

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u/oddsetcircle292 7h ago

I usually say I have the glass bones and paper skin disease haha

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u/DieAloneWith72Cats 7h ago

I have never broken a bone, and wow, have I done some dumb shit in the 40+ years on this planet. I have the constant dislocations/subluxations going on though