Some people above have said that cuddle striker is involved in the case, but as posted above, there are apps where medical professionals post their difficult cases for the interest of others, and also advice. Because medical stuff is a fascination of mine I have a couple of these apps that I got years ago. Now some no longer allow non-med people on, but I got one app so early that I’m grandfathered in. (I also don’t post-and think I am now not allowed to post as a layman). I’m sure there are dozens of these apps and our kiwi may be thousands of miles away from Kelly and has never treated her.
If you are squeamish about Kelly don’t look for these apps. There are as equally awful things in them - women who ignored breast cancer so long their breast is eaten away from disease, homeless people with diabetes and have septic feet with bugs in it, burns, and saddest , children injured or diseased. It’s all written in medicalese so you need to be able to read that, which isn’t hard but you have to remember a word that sounds like something you know has a different meaning to doctors sometimes. Gross, for example, does not mean disgusting.
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.Also, there are a lot of boring things like “what is this rash?” etc, so it’s not all interesting. I haven’t looked at the app on a while and I’ve never seen anybody like Kelly, so I do think that whoever our Kiwi sees on the app is her. I know he/she doesn’t want to say much but I wanted to mention (since it was mentioned) that s/he is not breaking medical confidentiality by posting this
I can look at anything. Kelly’s injuries don’t phase me, even the nerve thing. What would bother me is any smell. It’s why I’m not in the medical field-certain smells make me just vomit. Just going into a colonoscopy clinic makes me ill. I don’t know how Infectious disease specialists, pathologists, or gastroenterologists can do their job.
Kelly will probably get prosthetics if she allows the amputation, but being a munchie, I think a wheelchair will be higher visibility. She can join a service dog group, decorate her chair, and probably cause herself sores from never moving positions. It’s not all bad, maybe her doctor should approach it like she’ll be poor disabled girl who will get lots of attention and to prepare herself-then she’ll go for it.
I don’t think you last long with sepsis though, she better make up her mind. She could say no and pass out and that’s the end.
but hopefully learning to regain mobility will give her something to do (and enough attention) that she lays off picking for long enough that her stumps heal. If you’re (still) reading Kelly, just think how much attention you’ll get if you return to ballet with prostheses; wouldn’t that be worth aiming for?
