Should you have to fight to save your own limb?

If you have followed my whole vascular surgery you will know that I have now equipped myself with some sound Vascular medical knowledge. I am also very self aware, and since the diagnosis was placed in the vascular camp, everything that has gone wrong since, I have known before anyone else. What is more, I have been right every time when I tell them WHAT I think had gone wrong.

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How to prepare for having your leg chopped off

This isn’t yet a certain outcome, but the odds have shortened significantly from 20% likelihood when they first found the blocked artery in March, to just 50-50 when I visited surgeon Jo on Friday. So I really need to start thinking about this properly and how my life might look afterwards.

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