I'm A Starfish!

If anyone read the post about the raccoon bite, you'll know I lost a bit of fingertip to a scared little beastie. Good news is...it's almost grown back, nail and all. It's super sensitive, and I still protect it...and can't type half as fast or as accurately as I used to, that's for sure...but at least it doesn't scare small children into the arms of their mothers.

I'm amazed at the regeneration, to tell you the truth.

I've watched the metamorphasis of a nasty, ragged bite into a whole new fingertip, fingerprint and all. Just amazing. While I left a big dollop of DNA behind, somehow, all that was magically reproduced and you almost can't even tell I was bitten (except for the mounting medical bills).

Too bad our bodies don't regenerate whole new limbs...repair damaged organs on our own...but then, if that happened, who knows if we would even die.