• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The prize is a surgery scheduled in advance to remove necrotic tissue from your back.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      This is not a problem for a healthy person, which is presumably why he didn’t need surgery to remove necrotic tissue from his back.

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          3 months ago

          While true in most cases, that doesn’t apply here. They were allowed to have books, their phone, and a break every 8 hours to use the bathroom. Succesptible people can form pressure ulcers in that time frame, but a healthy person with normal circulation and skin, and absent from moisture and friction, will not get bed sores.

          This is the lying down competition, not the bedridden and in a coma competition. No post performance surgery required, or else the $350 prize doesn’t go very far…

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          3 months ago

          Hi there, hello, it’s me, professional bed layer. For a year or so now I could only leave my bed to go shitting. No bed sores.

          There’s a difference between laying completely still and changing your position every few hours.

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            3 months ago

            Then do as Limp Biscuit told told you I guess, idk why yall feel the need to tear down a perfectly good joke.

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    3 months ago

    Best I can tell this is a laying down competition, not a laying down in the same position competition. And they get bathroom breaks. So yeah, seems like you could really stretch this thing out.

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      3 months ago

      Sure, but the prize money stays the same. So not stretching it out but just aa long as needed is much better here.

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    3 months ago

    I once was in a hospital bed for 3 months. Being in bed for 2 and half days is nothing…