Chaser’s World Weird Web: A Man Just Had His Tongue Rebuilt and Now Has to Shave it

Doctor's rebuilt a guy's tongue he lost due to cancer by using the skin from his forearm, and now he has to shave his tongue.

According to Daily Mirror, a 48-year-old man in England named David Billings went to the doctor about a year-and-a-half ago when he had trouble swallowing, and they found a cancerous tumor on the right side of his tongue.

Luckily they were able to remove it before the cancer spread.  But then he had trouble talking, because an inch-and-a-half section of his tongue was missing.

So a surgeon rebuilt it using a skin graft from his left forearm.  Which worked but that part of his tongue is still numb, and he doesn't have taste buds on that part but he can talk again.

He does have to deal with one weird side effect though.  The skin from his arm still grows hair, so he has to shave his tongue now.

He says it doesn't bother him too much, and his wife doesn't seem to notice the hair when they kiss.  So he's going au naturel for now.