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Kaitie Leone asked that I post that she is in the hospital with an infection in her leg. The hospital is most likely blocking her access to the website. She would like to wish everyone the best with the new setup of BigClose Topshelf. She calls her foot a Hobbit Foot since it looks like the size of a hobbitt's foot due to all the swelling (see picture below). She hopes to back to writing and working within a couple of days. It will take that long to get her white cell count down so that she can come home. I will post info from her as I hear it to let people know how she is doing.
Hugs,
Jennifer Boyle (JennaFL)
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Tell her
to stay there and get it cleared up. My Dad started retaining water in his legs like that after his stroke crippled him up. We fought it for a long time, then it got away from us. It became infected and went gangrenous before we could get it stopped. He lost the leg, and died a month later.It is nothing to play with.
Please forward to her
Please forward to her my best wishes for a quick and complete recovery from this ailment. Thanks!
There are anonymizing servers she can use
Some have been blocked but not all of them. There is that hack using google translate where you try to translate a page to Japanese and if it is not Japanese it just gets returned to you. This may or may not work as some hospitals are blocking it. Public libraries have the same issue.
VPN
Better off using VPN client. They work for any IP not just web browsing.
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
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It is a long road ahead but I will finally become who I should be.
Good point
For some reason I always think of paid VPN but there are cheapo public ones. As long as she uses it only for blocked sites and does not go crazy with her usage (a number of them have limited free usage.)
Get well soon
I hope the cellulitis and swelling reduce quickly. Keep the foot elevated as much as you can when you get home, it helps.
Angharad
Tor Browser
Tor browser tunnels through everything. Not only it bypasses keyword blocks, it also anonymizes a person. Hope Katie gets through this sooner, rather than later.
Please get well soon
How can you crush Gatorade bottles with a bad foot?
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Be involved with any medical decision about your foot
Katie,
I had the same thing, more or less, with the same foot. Mine was the result to too much weight, and a HIgh School sports injury years and years ago. Then they started cutting.Seventeen or eighteen procedures (read general anesthesia in the OR) they cut it all off.
There are several places to chop a leg/foot off. If the damage is limited to the foot, they may choose to remove the foot and ankle. If the damage is any higher the may choose to do a bka (below the knee amputation), this is in most ways the same thing they did during the Civil War. The REALLY bad one is anything higher than the knee.
One thing the doctor never said any F'ing thing about. Phantom Limb Pain. In my case, I can't discern any pattern to it. But 5 or 6 times a month I get hit with a pain between my second and third toes of my left foot (the foot that isn't there). It feels like a cigarette burn that just keeps on going. Once or twice a month the right foot joins in the fun, in the same spot on the right foot..
Nothing helps. Lyrica, is what we're trying this month.
Don't misunderstand me. I was in a peculiar place (a canula opened between the outside and the ankle joint where the ankle meets the leg. I had to go.
On the other hand, the pain gets so bad for so long I wish I could go. One drug choice isn't approved for general use in humans. Ketamine is a horse tranquilizer. In a creme base, I can rub it into the end of the stump and get some relief.
All this again is meant to bring home the fact. BE INVOLVED with your medical decisions. Ask questions. If they're going to cut something off, be certain you know the down side. Chance of phantom pain, prognosis for prosthesis. If they say, oh you'll be up and walking in six to eight weeks time, FIND ANOTHER SURGEON.three years after the amputation I'm still only walking intermittently.
Katie, I really hope you'll get to come home soon. One thing you need to do is loose weight. Three years and I'm still struggling. It's not an adventure, and it's not fun. Yes, it's easier to pass when you're fat. But your life expectancy is drastically shortened by excess weight.
Hugs, Love and lots of blessings,
Beth
Nasty looking
that looks nasty , I hope it is not painful . Hospitals are not fun places so saying that Get Well Soon and get the heck out of there . Hugs Richie2