By LoveIsOneSided - 18/08/2015 04:39 - United States - Framingham
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Hi! I'm the OP of this. I lost my leg because of a clumsy accident. In 2013 I tripped walking into my kitchen, and cut my foot on a piece of tile (we were redoing the floor, and only had half the room done). I ended up in the hospital for about a week with an infection. Two weeks after getting out of the hospital, I suddenly got a fever that spiked so quickly, and got so high, I couldn't remember my own name. I was in the hospital that time for 84 days. This second infection got out of control. To this day, they don't know why or technically what it was (on record it's a severe case of cellulitis), but within twelve days of being admitted, I started getting small blisters from my toes to my knee. At thirty days, I was running a fever almost every night (fine during the day), and had lost feeling in half my leg. By sixty days, the blisters had ruptured and I had bigger blisters in some areas, and holes in other areas. They did a surgery where they basically shaved my skin off, thinking that would stop the blistering. Which it did. Once they did that, I was able to go home. But what should have taken a few weeks to heal, took almost a year. I had infections off and on throughout the year, and was on antibiotics at least once a month, every month. In December of 2014, I got a cut on that same leg. Within a week, it was blistered up again. I was back in the hospital, and back on heavy antibiotics. At this point, I had massive nerve damage in the leg, and couldn't feel most of; what I could feel was painful. I'm 28, and there were days when I couldn't walk, because every step felt like I was splitting my skin apart. They never got these blisters under control. The blistering never went past my knee. There was almost a line where they stopped, around my leg. I've had cuts on other parts of my body without an issue, so we don't why this happened or what technically caused it. When they couldn't get the blistering under control, they upped the antibiotics. When I started to show signs of kidney failure, we discussed options. I was able to keep my knee, but lost the leg a few inches below it. I don't have a prosthetic yet, and for the most part I'm okay with it. It's not pain free, but it's not like it was before. One of my brothers, from the minute I woke up from surgery, has been calling me Peggy (my name is not even close lol), but it's all in fun. To keep my spirits up. I'm not overweight, not diabetic and was never really sick until this. It just happened. I guess sometimes things just happen.
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Why would anybody vote this as YDI???
This makes me so sad, I am speechless. 1) Your Dad is an Complete idiot. 2) I wish I knew where you live; I would send you flowers or a box of chocolate or something. All I can do is thumb your FML up but it is VERY heartfelt, OP. I wish I could give you a hug!
Your dad is a dick, disown his ass.
I am truly sorry for you. It's not the exterior of a man that makes him attractive, but the interior. Forgive my blunt statement, but: He is not a true father for not loving you as you are.
Can't believe a father would do that! A "so called" father!! Forget him! He's so not worth it!
I'm so sorry OP
Your father needs to be told off that is so mean if my family lived where you did my dad would tell your dad that he's a disgrace to the role father
Hi! I'm the OP of this. I lost my leg because of a clumsy accident. In 2013 I tripped walking into my kitchen, and cut my foot on a piece of tile (we were redoing the floor, and only had half the room done). I ended up in the hospital for about a week with an infection. Two weeks after getting out of the hospital, I suddenly got a fever that spiked so quickly, and got so high, I couldn't remember my own name. I was in the hospital that time for 84 days. This second infection got out of control. To this day, they don't know why or technically what it was (on record it's a severe case of cellulitis), but within twelve days of being admitted, I started getting small blisters from my toes to my knee. At thirty days, I was running a fever almost every night (fine during the day), and had lost feeling in half my leg. By sixty days, the blisters had ruptured and I had bigger blisters in some areas, and holes in other areas. They did a surgery where they basically shaved my skin off, thinking that would stop the blistering. Which it did. Once they did that, I was able to go home. But what should have taken a few weeks to heal, took almost a year. I had infections off and on throughout the year, and was on antibiotics at least once a month, every month. In December of 2014, I got a cut on that same leg. Within a week, it was blistered up again. I was back in the hospital, and back on heavy antibiotics. At this point, I had massive nerve damage in the leg, and couldn't feel most of; what I could feel was painful. I'm 28, and there were days when I couldn't walk, because every step felt like I was splitting my skin apart. They never got these blisters under control. The blistering never went past my knee. There was almost a line where they stopped, around my leg. I've had cuts on other parts of my body without an issue, so we don't why this happened or what technically caused it. When they couldn't get the blistering under control, they upped the antibiotics. When I started to show signs of kidney failure, we discussed options. I was able to keep my knee, but lost the leg a few inches below it. I don't have a prosthetic yet, and for the most part I'm okay with it. It's not pain free, but it's not like it was before. One of my brothers, from the minute I woke up from surgery, has been calling me Peggy (my name is not even close lol), but it's all in fun. To keep my spirits up. I'm not overweight, not diabetic and was never really sick until this. It just happened. I guess sometimes things just happen.
I'm sorry that your father said that to you, that's just horribly rude and shitty of him to do, especially after reading all this that happened to you. You are a strong person. for going through this situation and I'm sorry about your father.
My diabetes also just happened. Low risk, but type 2 sometimes hits for no real reason. People don't deserve disease or injury. Everyone fights their own war. The only thing we can control is our actions and kindness, which your father has massively failed to do. My condolences.
Oh my. I hope you fully recover from this someday. Shame on your dad for not supporting you durning this difficult time.
OP you are an angel! I can't say that I would be as accepting and understanding if that were to happen to me. You are a hero!!!
wow, now i've read this, your dad is even a bigger asshole. You had to go through illness and losing a leg but a party to share the happiness of a loved-one is not possible ??? How did the act when you had the accident, did he care?
OP you are awesome. That's all I have to say. You went through hell and back, some people are just to arrogant to see it. He might be your father, but you should be his hero. Major props dude.
I would honestly cut my father out of my life for something like that. REALLY?!?
Oh my god OP that sounds horrible! It's even worse that your dad feels the way he does about it. FYL
I hope you crashed the wedding and then cut that asshole out of your life. It may be a hard thing to do, but somebody who thinks of their own child like that just because of an amputated limb isn't somebody I would want as a parent, and it isn't something that anybody deserves. Congrats on the recovery by the way.
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If he didn't want any guests to feel uncomfortable he shouldn't have showed up either. I'm sure they don't want a giant dick in their pictures.
Well it's only logical to cut off one of his legs