Well, given I have a bunch of injuries that never healed, I’d say I’m doing alright considering.

Being a young person who hasn’t had one of these yet, you should be aware that older people don’t heal as well as younger people.

I already have screws, bolts, and rods in me. I’d probably have thousands of staples and/or stitches. No healing means no scarring, so there may be some benefits in other ways.

I have spent time lifting weights in the gym, every muscle in my body would be soup.

HVAC tech. My hands would be banana peels.

When I was 4 or 5 my 300 pound dad fell on me on the street.
Not well.

I basically still have a broken nose since then. The bone is blocking my left nostril for the most part. When I was at the hospital, none of the doctors noticed my broken nose. I did however need to get X-Ray done urgently. The “urgently” took a month. “Oh, look, your nose was broken. You’ll be able to get plastic surgery at 18 for free, since it limits your breathing.”

Anyway, I’d still have bleeding face scraped from the asphalt. Perhaps even broken rib(s). It’s not unlikely for that to happen in such case, and it’s not like anyone would notice.

But this seems to be nothing special.
My dad broke his knee, called an ambulance, they took him to the ER. Then they took an X-Ray of his knee, someone just told him “It’s not broken. Go to checkup in a week.” He also had to get home somehow, on his own.
Well, anyway, he went to that doctor for the “Checkup” right next day. He looked at the X-Ray, said it’s very obviously broken and will need a surgery.

He also had some problem with his spine, took over 10 years for anyone to look at it, at which point it was late. Now his left leg is basically paralyzed and he’s on strong drugs.

My grandma had a badly done amputation, it kept bleeding and oozing pus. She also had some infusions recommended, but the doc who recommended those said she’ll need approval from GP. But the GP would have to visit her at home as transporting her would be too risky. Response from GP? “Not worth it, she’ll die soon anyway.”

Anyway, this kinda turned into rant. At the very least my whole mouth would be bleeding as I keep accidentally biting my cheeks and tongue.

Yeah, i would be boned. Even just recently i had a wrist reconstruction

ask old people in their 90’s

Dead.

I think that’s just what diabetic patient have to deal with, wound that never heal will get infection sooner or later. So i’ll just die from paper cut.

I’d be very dead.

I’d be deaf, lame and have multiple missing fingers and toes.

Ran through a bunch of busted glass as a kid with bare feet, plus a bike accident.

Not great! I guess I’d be forever bed-ridden with a giant surgical cut across my chest from armpit to armpit.

Does “heal itself” include immune responses? Like, could you recover from a cold on your own or would you need anti virals?

Very very very dead. The first cut you get would cause you to bleed out and die. It would be a miracle to survive to one year old

Have you ever read the book Elantris? It sounds very not fun.