A 48-year-old 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. 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. That part of his tongue is still numb, and he doesn't have taste buds there, 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.