A young lady ended up with half of her arm tattoo on her tongue after she had to undergo treatment for cancer.
The woman, who writes under the username "4percentage," noticed what she thought was a cancer sore under her tongue and took a trip to the doctor where, some tests later, she was informed she actually had tongue cancer.
The doctors were forced to remove the tumor and, unfortunately, half of her tongue with it.
The process to rebuild her tongue consisted of taking tissue and fat from her wrist, as well as muscle from her chest.
She explains that on the day of surgery, her doctor came to mark the areas of her body that would be affected by the procedure when he noticed the Harry Potter "Deathly Hallows" tattoo on her left wrist.
"He looks at me with an amused expression, " she writes on Reddit, "and says, 'Are you left or right handed?'"
She continues, "I said right and he's like, 'Well, we will want to take the skin graft from your non-dominant hand so it looks like you'll have a tattoo on your tongue soon.'"
That's precisely what happened.
The woman snapped a picture of her scarred wrist, a small portion of the "Deathly Hallows" triangle still visible, as well as her healed tongue which now sports the good majority of the tattoo.
"Of all the crappy things that happened to you in this situation," another users writes, "I feel like all this turned out pretty rad."