Do you have any nonhuman parts in your body?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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Radrook's thread about teeth got me thinking. We're all 50-60+, so we've been bouncing around for a while. Do you have any nonhuman parts in your body?

I can't got through a metal detector without setting the damn thing off. I have steel nails, a metal plate in my back and bracing. Then there's artificial teeth, and eye lenses.
If this keeps up, in a few years, I'll be waving my arms and shouting, "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger".
 

I have a titanium rod from shoulder to elbow... with 13 screws, when I did my Humpty Dumpty impression, had to be put back together again with an ORIF (open reduction, internal fixation) of my left humerus. thought I had set off metal detector at the Liberty Bell in Philly... nah... was my phone.
 
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The hip replacement was the easy bit. What blew me away was the scene out of Star Trek, which to me was akin to science fiction.
After the successful hip replacement I had to spend a few days in hospital. My surgeon wanted to check that all was well before allowing me home, by which, he wanted to see an x-ray.

My experience of x-rays goes back fifty years. Back then an A4 size floppy negative was put under a strong light, nowadays it's an image on a computer screen, a very clear image, even to an untrained eye like myself. What really surprised me was the reply of the radiographer when I asked her if I could have a copy of my x-ray.

"Of course you can," she replied, adding: "Give me your phone number." She then typed in some sort of code, followed by my phone number and....................."Ping!" There's my new hip, on my phone. Star-Trek.....or what? The material used for my new hip is called: "Cobalt-chrome." What the small screws holding it in place are made from, I never thought to ask.
 
I have stainless clips in my left shoulder on an artery from being struck by a sniperā€™s bullet in Vietnam. They donā€™t set off any alarms at the the airport. And, being that they are stainless steel used for operations, they are non magnetic, so they wouldnā€™t set off any alarms.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Radrook's thread about teeth got me thinking. We're all 50-60+, so we've been bouncing around for a while. Do you have any nonhuman parts in your body?

I can't got through a metal detector without setting the damn thing off. I have steel nails, a metal plate in my back and bracing. Then there's artificial teeth, and eye lenses.
If this keeps up, in a few years, I'll be waving my arms and shouting, "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger".
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My mouth is full of fillings but I have never set off a metal detector alarm. At an airport, the lady behind the metal detection conveyer belt counter told me it was OK to walk through the metal detector with my metal Kubotan after I had given it to her. It was detected, I was detained by security, interrogated, for 20 minutes, and slapped with a $300 fine for having attempted to smuggle it onboard the plane.:censored:
 
Yikes, I was reminded of the mesh in my abdomen, because after years since the surgery it had finally stopped hurting. Then there is also my full dentures.
 

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