Take a good, long look at Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Todd Coffey’s elbow. Notice how it looks like a perfectly normal elbow, and not like something from your nightmares?
Coffey tweeted a picture of what his elbow looks like now, immediately following Tommy John surgery. For those of you who might not be familiar with Tommy John surgery, it’s a surgical graft procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body and they add a bunch of braces and sew it up to look like the ass-to-mouth-end of a Human Centipede.
That picture has been included after the jump, because I don’t want you to scroll down the main page looking for Kate Upton galleries and start throwing up everywhere.
Hoooooly shit, it looks like a hamburger. It looks like if he moved it whatsoever the entire thing would split and he’d lose his arm guts.
We wish you a speedy recovery, Todd, and we also kinda hope your camera breaks until you’re better.
[gross photo via Twitter]
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He should have doodled some eyeballs above the stitches.
Tommy John’s really only worthwhile if you go for the corpse ligament.
I’m not grossed out by this for some reason. I looked at the picture and said, “Oh that’s not so bad”…
Agreed. The build up made it seem worse.
Yeah, it’s about a 3 or so on my gross-out scale.
Now, if it was a picture of a split-open arm with arm guts falling out, that would put it to at least a 13 out of 10.
Agreed.
I’ve witnessed twins being born. This doesn’t even move the needle on my gross out scale.
However, watching the doctor set my brothers broken arm made me nearly pass out. Bones shouldn’t be able to move like that man.
Having recently given birth, this is about a -2 on my gross out scale. Sorry…
I would have enjoyed this much more if the post was titled “TODD COFFEY’S ELBOW #CANGETIT” and then featured several Instagram shots of his elbow.
Should he really be holding his arm together with scotch tape? I think he needs to visit a doctor that works out of somewhere other than Office Depot.
Yeah, at least go to a guy at Staples! Oh, I am too funny.