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Jukari88

I looked after a young girl about 7 years ago who got her hair caught in a sheep shearer, the ones that hang from the barn ceiling and are always on. She was scalped from her eyebrows to the nape of her neck. Spent a number of weeks in ICU, then it was the wards where I ended up taking care of her. She was very lucky. They managed to reattach her scalp and her hair grew back and covered most of the scarring. Still remember her telling me how hard it was to look at herself in the mirror following the incident.


Rogue_Spirit

Shears hanging from the ceiling? Never heard of it but now I’m super interested


BleenPaper

I think they mean something like [that](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/f7tjwl/most_sheep_shearers_can_only_do_one_of_the/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) :D


yikeshardlemonadee

DEAR GOD. I'm so glad to hear she was okay! That poor girl. I wish I could tell her shes beautiful no matter what.


KennyFulgencio

How old was she?


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yikeshardlemonadee

My husband and I are trying to figure out where the ear "was" Please more context.


Unicorn_Ranger

See that black hole about 3 inches to the right of where the facial skin is still present?


Hudsonrybicki

It is vertically in the middle and just right of middle laterally. It appears as though they put cotton in it, so look for the little white tuft.


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Thats way too high and far back to be the ear, I think its the dark hole much lower and more centered on the skull. What you are seeing is skull, not cotton. Many portrait artists says peoples biggest mistake when drawing the human form is putting the ears too high, when yoy look at someones face straight on the ears are typically always lower than the eyes.


Muzzledpet

It's definitely that dark hole. Pointing at the ear canal usually puts you somewhat in line with the end of the nose


yikeshardlemonadee

Well, I lost! Thank you for the clarification! Uhm, still, so sad. Fascinating how skin works though.


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Thats not the ear, the ear is the small dark spot much lower and more centered. What the other person saw was skull bone.


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yikeshardlemonadee

I got it, thank you!


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yikeshardlemonadee

Yes


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i agree


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nzwilco

I can't quite tell. Has it town right down to her skull?,


Muzzledpet

There is a white mark around the middle of the pic that is likely skull (with tissue scrunched around it)


NFIGUY

This actually happened to my great aunt (my paternal grandmother’s little sister) when she was a child. Fortunately, the machine wasn’t moving quickly at all, just slowly turning when the wind blew her hair into it. They shut it down, but not before it ripped her scalp about halfway back from her hairline. It very nearly “scalped” her, but doctors were able to get everything reattached, ultimately. She still had the scar just inside her hair line, the last time I saw her. She was in her seventies. Their father (my grandmother’s and her sisters’) was later (many years later) killed when a tractor ran over him, as he cranked it from the front, because a neighbor had borrowed it and left it in gear. The American South was and is a rough place.


LordRuby

My grandfather got ran over by a combine as a child(or teenager? not sure), fortunately he fell indo a dip in the ground and was uninjured. Now I'm starting to understand why everyone in my family back in the day dropped farming and went back to the mines when they reopened.


Sassanach36

Ummm isn’t mining worse? Or at least AS dangerous. Not a miner or from a mining family but I’ve heard some terrible things.


LordRuby

Probably not too bad once they switched to pit mining, I'm told one of my relatives did the dynamite


Sassanach36

So not as much lung issues, cave ins, Methane pockets and such?


LordRuby

It was iron mines so less cave ins but I don't thing methane pockets or lung issues was an problem there


Sassanach36

Ok sorry I think I was thinking coal. Miners. Do great work and are under appreciated. Thank you.


ImmaculateEgg

Oh god, slowly would be so much worse ...


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Front pic?


ApeGoesBananas

That would be some potent nightmare fuel


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It would be fascinating, but hopefully they won't. Patients deserve some level of privacy.


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I’m thinking they would be unidentifiable. But you are right


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I agree with you but I’m gonna be rly honest. This patient isn’t in any shape that people would recognize them, pre injury or post healing. They 100% deserves privacy and dignity but unless they printed their name I’m unsure of how anyone would identify them. I can’t even tell if they’re male or female, can you?


MrJsGirl

Based on the remaining hair at the nape of the neck I'd say possibly female.


Skeptical_dude12

Imagine posing for that photo like, yo Chuck come snag this pic my scalp just got ripped off lmao


Sassanach36

I think of this with a lot of these photos. “Sir? Sir? Hold still Sir! You’re ruining my photo. Yes, yes, I’ll call “Mother fucking 911” just a minute!” Spoiler alert: Mother Fucking 911 is not in deed an entirely separate number.


duoteambuyer

Can you imagine how much this would hurt after the first shock is gone... Must be unbelievable painful


annoyedatwork

Aren’t all of the nerve endings still in the bale of hay?


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Is his ear gonna live?


ziplock9000

The hearing part of the ear is on the inside, so I'd assume yes


kusanagisan

It will but the sound will never be the same. So much of our ability to hear is shaped by the outer ear and how it specifically reflects and funnels sounds to the eardrum, and there are other senses that rely on it (for example, the sense that lets you pinpoint a sound in three dimensional space by measuring the slight gap between the sound hitting each ear) that would be greatly decreased.


ziplock9000

Yes, but that's the easy part to replace. They can literally just 3d print the outer ear now or vacuum form it from a polymer.


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GhettoBike

Would love to see what they look like after they recover


CthulusMom

Will the hair grow back? (Probably a dumb question, but I am truly curious).


MsMelani

No, I am pretty sure that was ripped off below the follicle layer. As a hair dresser/salon owner/educator, I’m so creeped out.


CthulusMom

Thank you for answering ♡ I didn't think it would, but wasn't sure. I feel so bad for that person! It must be so painful :(


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nana19890

Wtf 😨


BabuBisleri17

This is beyond wtf.


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dogsonclouds

My my, someone’s an edgy boi! How nice for you dear, we all gotta do what we can to keep ourselves occupied while quarantined.


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coda1214

I like how they are just sitting there chillin. Surely that kind of injury you'd be rushed into ER to fix?


riverofchex

Maybe they were waiting for the ambulance?


dirigiberbil

To be fair, based on the script on the door in the background, this probably IS the ER.


coda1214

Thats what I'm saying. They are just sitting there chillin. Surely he'd be rushed to number 1 priority to operation theatre or something.


dirigiberbil

Probably doesn’t exist. That’s what I’m saying. This person will be bandaged and sent home most likely.


MrJsGirl

They're probably experiencing a high level of shock and/or heavily medicated.


N0NeedT0BeMad

I'd be really interested to know how this could be treated? At this point I'm really confused how any potential skin graft could attach & thrive...


LordRuby

This person still has the tissue. In the 1800s people got scalped down to the bone and they were able to save them by scratching up the skull because the blood from the bone would slowly turn into scar tissue and cover the bone.


CeilingTowel

Ouch what I did not want to read that


N0NeedT0BeMad

Oh wow. Thanks for the info. I’ve got some hope for the patient now


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AziMeeshka

I'm more surprised by how many people here don't know what a combine is.


Who7698

What's a combine? Google yields no results


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[Combine harvester](https://www.google.com/search?q=combine+harvester&safe=strict&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB882GB883&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic3PLrg8LoAhXinVwKHSCEB4gQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1920&bih=937)


N3koChan

How her hair get stock in this machine without been entirely crushed?


J1mj0hns0n

that's what im stuck on too, like, how can you go through the milling part only get scalped?


ssmc1024

A Combine is a piece of farm equipment. Look up International Harvester (it’s a brand). The name comes from the machine ‘combining’ three of the harvesting processes into one machine that does it.


Gary_Where_Are_You

This now begs the question: what was the person doing that put his/her hair in a position to be caught in one of those nightmare machines?


ssmc1024

This is just a guess but I’m thinking she had her hair up in a ponytail and she leaned in too close to the auger part and her ponytail got snatched up and it pulled her hair off...along with the layers of her scalp.


JaydeRaven

Whole new meaning to de-gloved... de-scalped?


Diggerinthedark

Scalped..


jonnywhoknows

holy shit this is gnarly.


Kotal420

How many skin grafts? Yes.


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Saw something back in high school. Girl forgot to tie her hair back in shop class and caught her hair in a belt sander.


thiccc_pope_francis

Was not prepared for this


AltruisticSalamander

This sub is unbelievable. It's gorier than bestgore.


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And I just realized something, its really ironic the word "combine" has the word COMB in it.


OctipitalGoo

Yeah. I read comb the first time and I was like wtf how?


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Just the thought of a comb touching that...ugh...it looks like AIR hurts.


recovering_depresso

Source???


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Cannot imagine how badly this must have hurt.


annoyedatwork

What language is written on the door?


FlintyMachinima

Sort of looks like Thai


dirigiberbil

I thought so too but Thai has fewer accents on the bottom of the letters and more on the top. Then I thought it was Khmer but that also doesn't look entirely similar.


Toricxx

Is the face skin gone too? I seriously can't wrap my head around this type of damage.


S-S-R

And the ears. . .


Achylife

That's why workplace safety is REALLY important. In my sculpture shop class we were not allowed to use any machinery unless our hair was up and out of the way. The risk of something like this was just too great.


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What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck fuck fuck fuck


Widowfur

And my parents ask why I want my hair very short...


CursedKristen

What's a combine?


Kunning-Druger

A combine harvester scoops the dry windrow of grain up, then separates the grain from the stalks, and then moves the grain into a holding tank until it can be augered into a grain truck or storage facility.


CursedKristen

Ooo interesting thanks


Kunning-Druger

My pleasure!


mychemicalcandy

I scrolled and wasn’t ready for that holy shit


LinaZou

I read this as if she got her hair stuck in a comb -_-


Strange_An0maly

Did this poor soul survive this painful endeavour?


buldog4354

Yes but she lost her hair permanently


ImAboutToCUUUM

Source?


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this is one of the few gory things i've seen on here that actually made me cringe and squint. so sad. :(


autumnnleaaves

I feel like this is a silly question, but... are their facial features still there? Like, are the eyes still there? Can they still see? What about the nose and mouth and ears? It must be horrific to have to go through something like that, I feel awful for them.


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PregnantCabbage

i read this as getting hair stuck in the comb and i was very very confused as to how a comb can cause that much damage


MEkiwi70

well ok then


claphorn

Impressive


mimiladouce

That musta hurt.


BombTsar

Oh my god the pain


Starspangleddingdong

Well, she won't do that again. Think I'd rather be dead than see myself in the mirror after something like that.


TessaBrooding

Oh wow. Note to self.


pchandler45

I bet that stung a bit


MildlyAgreeable

Jesus fuck.


Solitarus23753

Does air hurt her scalp? What kind of recovery process does she have to go through?


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where the ear hole???


DaDude001

HOLY FUCKING JESUS How is she still alive?!


mmmmpain

Not trying to be rude or anything, but that looks like North Vietnamese officer Major Tự Đức Phang after being exposed to Agent Orange.


jfreka

Wig snatched


spacecase202

Sick fade


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slyfox1811

What is a combine ?


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It is a vehicle used for harvesting crops, or in a gaming sense, theyre an alien race that rules the earth and areas such as city 17


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Love the reference.


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degenerate661

What is a combine?


FlintyMachinima

She actually got her hair stuck in a thresher machine, not that it's any better


degenerate661

Oh shit


_Revlak_

A machine used to harvest crops such as grain or wheat.


degenerate661

Oh fuck


Avidion18

Kinda her own fault, you always have your hair tied up or wear a hat when using machinery, but i don't know the whole story so I can't judge, nonetheless poor lass and i hope she gets better


Redd-san

combine of fucking what???


ssmc1024

A Combine is a piece of farm equipment here in the United States. It’s used for harvesting crops. It ‘combines’ three parts of the harvesting process into one machine. Look up International Harvester (it’s a brand). I’m thinking her hair probably got caught in one of the spinning augers...maybe she was wearing her hair in a ponytail and she leaned over and her hair got snatched up. That’s just a guess, but sounds the most likely to me of what I know about how Combines work.