little Black Jack animatic of him and Kei, bc i knew professor venomous reminded me of someone. I recently read 12 chapter fic of them living together and yk man im cringe but i am free; they should move in together or something now raise Tezuka from the dead!!!!!!!
revising for my boards. I will forever be bitter about Tezuka Sensei for influencing my schema of how skin grafts work, in such a way that made learning this in class a straight up paradigm shift and an added barrier to my learning that unit.
In modern science, allografts (skin grafts from other people) are typically used as temporary coverings to protect the wound from infection and decrease pain of the site. Allografts are then replaced with autografts, where the person's own skin is taken from other parts of their body and put over the wound site. The skin can be unaltered or it can be meshed to increase surface area.
Tezuka had to go with the less heard of method of permanent allograft, which currently has less data, but has been reported viable in various cases. It's not completely implausible, but it's also not exactly supported by high levels of evidence. And I had to spend an hour digging through research papers to find that out.
I get why Tezuka Sensei went this route. I remain terribly fond of the idea of Kuro'o getting a skin graft from his dear friend when no one else would help, and of his keeping the graft for sentimental reasons despite others urging him to replace it. But I still had to go through the five stages of grief and research the issue to come to the conclusion that opens up more questions than answers. Is Kuro'o just lucky not to reject the skin? Does he just get up in the morning and at the back of his mind wonder if half his face will slough off today? Is he immunocompromised? Clearly I am not supposed to think this far into it, but I am, and THAT bothers me.
(DNI if you ship bj w/ his adopted daughter; thank you kindly.)