I've had more than 300 sutures/staples in my life so far. I've had a double lumbar lamenectomy (sp?). I've had my neck broken. I've had my eyes rendered non functional by lightening. I've had my pelvis shattered. I've had my spleen and a lung punctured by bullets. I've had my colon pierced by a knife. I've had my body breached by numerous attacks and accidents.
By rights I should probably be dead. Been damned close to it a few times. But the human body is an amazing thing. It's really amazing what it can recover from. I have actually seen part of my own brain in the mirror thanks to an attack by an enraged person with a baseball bat (he died).
The human body is amazing in the way it heals itself. Given time the human body can heal from damn near anything.
What spawned this article? A hang nail.