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Oh god, when she peeled the skin back. It actually made me dizzy for a moment there. Shit. You can actually see her shaking while holding those tweezers.
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If you're a healthy person, it's an injury that looks worse than it is. If you're Kelly (or a diabetic smoker with Beurgers disease) it's an injury that's worse than it looks.Also I've seen a similar injury that involved removal of the skin like that. It happened after developing a blood blister on the bottom of the toe. Once the fluid drained from the blister that pocket of skin was left and torn a bit on one end. After bandaging it for a couple days, it turned white and started to peel away. One of those injuries that looked way worse than it was.
Didn't she already have that in her leg? I seem to recall it was mentioned a few inches of picked-off flesh / months ago.Any medfags out there know much about compartment syndrome?
If you're a healthy person, it's an injury that looks worse than it is. If you're Kelly (or a diabetic smoker with Beurgers disease) it's an injury that's worse than it looks.
If you have decent circulation and health, you're capable of healing a wound like that. Ghastly as it looks, it's pretty superficial. But if you lack that circulation and healing capacity, a wound much smaller than that can be a disaster.
Any medfags out there know much about compartment syndrome? Would her mangled legs increase the likelihood of it occurring with an injury like this? I'm curious about the swelling, and how that works when you have such poor circulation.
If you're a healthy person, it's an injury that looks worse than it is. If you're Kelly (or a diabetic smoker with Beurgers disease) it's an injury that's worse than it looks.
If you have decent circulation and health, you're capable of healing a wound like that. Ghastly as it looks, it's pretty superficial. But if you lack that circulation and healing capacity, a wound much smaller than that can be a disaster.
Any medfags out there know much about compartment syndrome? Would her mangled legs increase the likelihood of it occurring with an injury like this? I'm curious about the swelling, and how that works when you have such poor circulation.
There's a wound and infectious disease doctor in her area asking for recommendations on one of the med apps, for help deciding between wound care (debridement and graft) and bilateral BKA for "self-inflicted, gangrenous, non healing wounds with exposed dry tibial surface". He describes the patient as a "non-compliant young female". No images but it's got to be her. Bilateral self inflicted exposed tibiae?
I'm watching the comments to see what he decides to do. He is a younger physician specializing in wound care, as far as I can tell he's not working directly with any shrinks.
Don't want to say where I've found this, can't let that guy lose his job over this. I'd be asking for help too if it was me.
Info I didn't know:
She's had a second graft that didn't take. She's tried to leave AMA (she's intermittently inpatient and out, depending on how much she's fucking with the wounds/her bacterial load). They're very, very aware that she's interfering with wound healing. She's got a 1:1 nurse ratio when she's there. They've repeatedly used a wound vac on two of the holes. They've debrided multiple times but the surrounding skin is compromised and the underlying infection has become compartment syndrome, she's scraped at the bone surface with "a hard implement". She's not currently septic, though she has been.
FYI compartment syndrome is very unpleasant.
She is currently alive. That could change at any time though.
If he posts images/footage I'll bring it.
edit: you don't know how many alerts I've got running for "exposed tibia bilateral self-inflicted" on these sites and apps. You don't want to know.
There's a layer of connective tissue that surrounds the muscles and nerves in your body called fascia. If you've ever peeled the silverskin off a piece of meat, that's the fascia. It binds the muscles into groups, or compartments, based on their function. The fascia is strong and flexible to maintain the tension needed to hold the body together. Unfortunately, the fascia can only stretch so much. When the tissues inside the compartment swell, they squish up against the fascia sleeve. This restricts blood flow in and out of the compartment. Severe cases can cause tissue death, leading to more swelling, leading to more compartment syndrome, etc. This can happen in things like accidents where crush injuries cause soft tissue to swell up.
The treatment for acute compartment syndrome is a gruesome looking procedure called a fasciotomy. Surgeons have to go in and basically lance the fascia to let the tissue under it expand and re-oxygenate. The wound is sometimes left open until the swelling goes down. It looks a lot worse than it is, and it's usually an emergency surgery done to save a limb. For Kelly, I don't really know if a surgery like this would even be possible with all of her other complications and destructive behaviors. She wouldn't be able to keep her hands out of an open fasciotomy wound. It's a mystery if she's actually aware of how much danger she's put herself in or if she knows and doesn't care.
Evidently she has an appointment with plastics soon, so I'm guessing those poor bastards.So who gets the assignment to operate on her? An orthopedic surgeon, general surgeon, plastics? I'm guessing whoever draws the short straw.
Could be, but like @Behavioral Sink said, for a healthy personIs it really that superficial? I can't focus on the video for too long, but that seems like a pretty thick layer of skin she's pulling back.
It looks like she burned her toe. And all I can think of seeing her foot in that position is she snapped her leg off and threw it up on the bed. lolShe needs to hit up the emergency room because skin does not slough off like that from a bruise alone. She's deeply bruised an area that already has compromised blood supply. I would be very concerned about necrosis developing since the tissue simply does not have the oxygen supply it needs to heal any addtional wounds on her feet. She's already getting ulcers and has limited sensation.
I'll bet she has at least a half dozen favorite instruments she uses. We know at the very least that she has some metal instrument she uses to scrape her bones, thanks to the Canadian doctor forum leak posted elsewhere in this thread.An obsessed picker whos always picking, I bet those are the tweezers she used to get her legs looking the way they do.
In this toe peeling video, you can see some swelling of the main part of the foot, plus the sallow tone to the skin. Not good.Her feet are already swollen, limp, and sallow looking.
She's going to have all the same healing problems severe diabetics do with this toe wound.There's not enough blood flow getting down to her feet to maintain baseline tissue integrity,
Great summaryI've tried to throw together an overview of Kelly's online presence, but I think I might be missing a few things. Can anyone contribute?
Essentially, she self-posted to the munchies thread on lolcow, which lead to people discovering her. She had a thread made about her, and she contributed to it, pretending to be all sorts of different people including her twin sister, therapists, doctors, roommates, church friends. All from the same IP address, which she was outed for.
She started off by claiming to have a rare blood disorder, and then posted documents that were "hacked from her Google Drive" showing that she was in a mental hospital for years, had been caught bloodletting, had placed sharp objects inside of her own vagina, etc. Kelly denied having ever bled, intentionally or otherwise.
She also claimed that she had DID, and uploaded videos showing her pretending to be a childlike alter and "dissociating" on stage in the mental hospital.
She claimed that her mother had gone missing -- later she changed her story and claimed that her "adoptive" mother had gone missing. Later again, she claimed that a woman she looked up to as a mother while she was in the hospital had cut off contact with her, and that was the "mother who had gone missing."
Then she claimed that she was in a cult where she was a prostitute and forced to eat a dog by a torturer named Paul, and posted "journal entries" to her blog support this. To her, dog tasted just like mashed potatoes. She uploaded a bunch of badly photoshopped images of herself with bruises to prove that she was being beaten. She also drew herself fucking a dog.
Her sister publicly called her out on her bullshit, and Kelly walked back on her claims and admitted that her journals were fictional. Kelly also claimed for a while that she had been pregnant and forced to have an abortion. When her sister called her out on it, Kelly admitted that the "pregnancy photos" were just her playing around with a fake belly in the maternity store with a friend.
Kelly also admitted that she didn't actually have a rare blood disorder, and claimed that the reason she needed blood transfusions was actually because she had fibroids in her uterus that caused heavy bleeding. She claimed that she would be getting an endometrial ablation, and it would cure her bleeding. She has never said whether or not she had the procedure.
Then she claimed that people had approached her in the grocery store, that people had mailed her syringes to the hospital, that someone left a bag of human (later cow's blood) in her mailbox, and that someone had flooded her garden. Many of these claims were accompanied by a video of her crying hysterically.
For a while, she claimed to have multiple sclerosis, and then started photoshopping her photos to look like she had a lupus "butterfly rash". She also continued to post as her twin sister on lolcow, and then completely slandered her sister.
One day she uploaded an image of her legs all bruised up, and claimed that she had been beaten by Paul and the Satanic cult. These bruises progressed into wounds all over her body, and she completely dropped the cult story and focused in on her legs, leading to a tentative diagnosis of behcets disease, which she latched onto.
Kelly received a skin graft on her legs, which she completely destroyed as soon as she was out of the hospital. I have seen a rumour that she actually had a second skin graft that she didn't post about online, but I don't have any knowledge of whether or not this is true.
Her half sister showed up here to “defend” her at one point but that exchange was mostly uneventful and she didn’t supply any new info, if I remember correctly.