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What's the worst thing you've ever smelled? (lemm.ee)

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[–] CareHare 9 points 1 year ago

As a nurse who worked 10 years on the vascular surgery ward: very recognizable. I've seen people, mostly males, go from small toe infection to complete rotting foot and still not being therapy loyal.

Surgeons somethimes refered to it as the salami technique because once you start to amputate the toe in most cases a couple of months later it would be a front foot amputation, followed by an lower leg amputation (most times because of infection or because the patient didn't follow the post-op instructions) and even sometimes an upper leg amputation. Very sad to see.

I'm not native English, so I don't know the correct terms for the amputations.