Plush model of artist's femur

Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 24, 2009 10:38 PM | permalink

Becky Stern sez, "I made this large-scale model of my femur in plush. I used pictures from inside my knee during surgery and looked at anatomy pictures to get the shape. I had a flap of cartilage that had to be removed, then the doc drilled little holes in the underlying bone to stimulate scar tissue growth for padding in the area."

Plush Femur (Thanks, Becky!)

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#1 posted by aeon , February 24, 2009 11:11 PM

How about some big, plushy bacteria to grow on it?

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/

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#2 posted by Takuan , February 24, 2009 11:12 PM

little kids with serious medical problems might benefit from having stuff like this to explain to them with.

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#3 posted by vetlemakt , February 25, 2009 1:36 AM

#22 Takuan
And it's being done in just about every hospital in the world. Approaching children through play, often using dolls or toys to calm and assure. That plush femur wouldn't calm many children though, but I reckon it's good fun for when in a pillow fight!

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#4 posted by arkizzle , February 25, 2009 4:42 AM

Looks like a set of plush truck nutz :)

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#5 posted by Tim , February 25, 2009 7:51 AM

#2 Takuan

My 5 year old son with leukemia has a plush red and white cell from giantmicrobes.com. His white cell (and sometimes a team of Starwars figures) regularly fight the "bad cells" in battles.

I wish they had platlets too.

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#6 posted by Takuan , February 25, 2009 8:36 AM

We all do Tim.