Does everything taste like you-know-what now?

I can't help but laugh at this report from Poland. The translation's a bit rough, but the meaning is clear.

His misfortunes began the day Yarislav Ernst, 23, of Glivich, found out that his tongue had developed a malignant formation and that surgery would be inevitable. After the doctors finished operating on the man’ organ of speech they decided to attempt to completely restore it.

There have been cases previously where a patient who had lost his tongue would receive a donor’s organ and the procedure would end successfully. By the way, a similar incident took place in Austria not too long ago. But this time the surgeons’ achievement was truly unique: they managed to compose a new tongue for the young man out of … his own buttocks. “We removed the tumor and made sure that no malignant cells remained in the area. Then we collected skin, fat and nerve tissue from his buttocks and put it all together to form a new tongue, which we later sewed into his mouth,” – reports Stanislav Poltorek, the head surgeon of the oncological hospital in Glivitsi.

According to a specialist, this patient quickly recovered the ability to use the newly reassembled organ. “The new tongue is lively, it receives full access of blood, and the patient is doing just fine putting it use,” - one of the doctors shares the good news.

There's more at the link.

I don't know quite what to say about this . . . except that, for once, I'm really, really glad this article didn't have pictures attached!

Anyway, if things taste a bit s****y, he'll know why . . .



Peter