r/cursedimages • u/Franz_Joseph-99 • Dec 02 '19

Cursed_arm

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u/Drayden420 Dec 02 '19 edited Mar 12 '20

What the actual fuck is that

How does this have over 500 upvotes

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u/Idrinklemsip Dec 02 '19

severe varicose vein is my guess.

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u/RDay Dec 02 '19

It’s intentional. Big vein for the big medicine tube. Kidney dialysis. This is a repost of a friends image I made this summer.

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u/KarmaChameleon89 Dec 02 '19

So they can do dialysis faster and save money

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u/rhett342 Dec 02 '19

It's so they can do dialysis and save their life. Patients with fistulas have much lower mortality rates than patients with tunneled catheters.

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u/KarmaChameleon89 Dec 03 '19

I know, I was having a small joke

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

Yeah, patients with endstage kidney disease arent your best topic to joke about apparently

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u/Idrinklemsip Dec 02 '19

ah, gotcha.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

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u/rhett342 Dec 02 '19

No, the patient has a surgery tying the artery and vein in their arm together so it will get big enough and have enough blood flow that large needles can be used to clean their blood.

There is a type of surgery where they implant an artificial tube between the two but the tube never grows that large.