Manufactured body parts: how would you feel if you had one installed, and then it was recalled?

Buyer beware.
I wanted that third hand and now I have to live with it touching me inappropriately instead of helping around the house.

@lucillelucillelucille : I like your third hand when it touches me inappropriately.

@JilltheTooth—Yeah,well that third hand can’t lift a finger to call for second date,now can it??
Not only that,it points and laughs at my bathrobe….and signs the wrong name to me!

Well, you would probably be dead without what they put in you so you’re not going to get much sympathy from me if I was on the jury. Unless it was proved that it was total negligence. Most of the time shit works as planned but it is the edge cases that make you think a product is flawed.

I did, three times, and it was a flop.

After a bad fall, I discovered that I had fractured the stapes bone in the middle ear. It is the smallest bone in the body but necessary for sound conduction..

First surgery; a titanium staple installed in ear. It loosened and began to feel like an insect crawling around.

Second surgery; First titanium staple removed and another installed. That didn’t work.

Third surgery; Yet another and slightly longer titanium staple installed. That was a bust also. It is sitting in there, somewhere, doing nothing but so far not causing any mischief.

The surgeon did not offer me a “three-for-the-price-of-one, ” even though he found the processes “interesting and helpful for his research.”

I used to work for a medical device company (a larger competitor of the company from @ETpro‘s link) and I cannot tell you how loathe I would be to put ANY device in my body. Not just from spending my days reading about studies and failure rates..and people getting unceasing defib shocks due to software bugs in their implanted defib devices… but also from repeatedly hearing my dad’s advice. (My dad is a doctor)
He’ll tell any and all who’ll listen to not get replacement joints at this time because the technology is improving all the time, but the results aren’t good enough (consistently) yet.
I also have a few family members who have had back surgeries (and multiple surgeries at that) without success. In all of their cases they’ve said they were in less pain when they started than they are now. Scary, isn’t it?

So, unless it was a case of life & death (e.g. pace maker because my heart kept forgetting to beat), or unless my original body part was damaged to the point where I lost mobility (e.g. people who are in bad car crashes and end up needing a new hip) I wouldn’t agree to surgery or replacement parts.
Period. Just not worth the risk in my humble opinion.

If I had a third testicle I could open up my own pawnbrokers shop. I’d be ever so slightly miffed if it were recalled, resulting in the business going poof!

Nothing manufactured is really guaranteed so if I agreed to be installed with parts then I’d also assume some risk of recall and downtime or unwanted effects, discomfort that goes with them. I’d be mortified, for sure because I’m organic and any ins & outs are going to be a risk.

I’d be the next Tailypo, in Terminator form.

@Neizvestnaya I think I’ll keep holding out for a third eye. But as @JilltheTooth notes, a third hand might be useful for getting on top of thins at times.

@johnpowell You have a point there. If the original implant saved your life, you could probably be more forgiving ig it became necessary to recall and upgrade it.

@gailcalled I am very sorry to hear about all the trouble you;ve had on the implant front. I sincerely hope the currrent one at least goves you no additional grief. That word picture of a feeling of a bug crawling around in your middle ear is truly creepy.

@geeky_mama Great story. Thanks for sharing such an inside view.

@ucme Ha! Indeed. What a sign that would be. A sign the shop owner is quite mad.

@Neizvestnaya Kudos on the acceptance of personal responsibility/

@Symbeline Sounds like that level of mod. would take lots of implants.

@ETpro Indeed. As long as it creates a gnarly horror tale, I’ll be happy. :)

@Symbeline I have to think that a human sized Tailypo would create a gnarly horror tale. Plus the opportunity to enjoy yourself immensely frightening the wits out of your nagging neighbors.

I was just talking about folk horror, but yeah, masturbating works too. :D

…wait that isn’t what you meant, was it? XD

@Symbeline No, but it certainly works for me. :-)

Sweet. And ’‘horror tale’’, I really didn’t do that on purpose. I’m actually serious; I just realized. Lol.

@ETpro: Titanium stapes prosthesis is only 4.5 mm long and wire-thin. MIne seems to be giving me no trouble, but should I start to hear voices in my head, I’ll let you know.