Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Ron Leflore, amputated
?English story. French story, with English video (and French subtitles).
It had never occurred to LeFlore that his heavy smoking might cause him to lose his leg.
“I started having problems walking on my right leg and it started swelling up and my toes started turning dark,” LeFlore recalled. “I had trouble getting my shoe on, so I started soaking my foot in warm water and wearing sandals all the time. Being an athlete, I had built up a high tolerance for pain ... I just let it go. “When my toe turned black, I started picking at it — and a piece of my toe came off in my hand. When I saw that, I said, ‘Oh, my God!’ ”
That was when LeFlore decided he had better see a doctor. “I went back to see the doctor who had done my hip replacement (in 2009) and he said, ‘You need to get to the hospital right away. This is serious,’ ” LeFlore said. “No blood could get to my foot,” LeFlore recalled. “That’s when they started amputating.”
LeFlore spent three months in St. Petersburg hospitals and underwent three amputations. “First, they cut off my baby toe. Then they removed the toe next to it, trying to see if they could save my foot,” LeFlore explained.
In an effort to save his leg, doctors transplanted a new artery into the limb — to no avail. “Finally they amputated my leg below the knee in the third surgery,” he said.
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