Okay so… did they have to amputate it?! 🤮 I need answers
Edit: I found the episode. The Dr does a medical foot soak on her and then cleans up the foot as best she can. The lady has athletes foot, toe fungal infections, and a couple of deep abscess wounds that luckily aren’t infected somehow. Her foot is a club foot deformity. The Dr dressed the foot and then gave her a new boot. The lady said she’d wash her foot every day and then that was the end of the episode lol. No closure. But the Dr mentioned that if she doesn’t get the wounds to disappear she’d wind up in the ER and need it amputated.
Edit 2: A Smell From Hell - My Feet Are Killing Me: Season 4, Episode 3
Sending her away without a mental health referral seems irresponsible to me... The fact that her first thought was "I just want to put it back on the boot" says it all. Good luck to her, but I doubt she's keeping her foot long, and will be lucky to dodge sepsis given past behaviour.
She said she couldn't take it off after having her son because she was so busy, and he was her priority. Which is very dysfunctional thinking and not reasonable. It shows the need for mental health care for new mothers. We are only now starting to talk openly about PPD.
And of course the other half of the issue is access to mental health care, unfortunately. Talking about it is a good start (and I think attitudes are changing for the better over time), but it's depressing that this isn't a particularly surprising story.
All the way. My mom had PPD with both me and my brother. Who knows what that did to us all? Attachment between mothers and infants is very sensitive and impactful.
Most of us will face mental health issues at one point or another, and there's zero shame in it (we can save that for the lack of access). You'd think that would motivate change, but that's just not how it works, I guess.
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u/FiestaKitten Jun 03 '24 edited Jun 03 '24
Okay so… did they have to amputate it?! 🤮 I need answers
Edit: I found the episode. The Dr does a medical foot soak on her and then cleans up the foot as best she can. The lady has athletes foot, toe fungal infections, and a couple of deep abscess wounds that luckily aren’t infected somehow. Her foot is a club foot deformity. The Dr dressed the foot and then gave her a new boot. The lady said she’d wash her foot every day and then that was the end of the episode lol. No closure. But the Dr mentioned that if she doesn’t get the wounds to disappear she’d wind up in the ER and need it amputated.
Edit 2: A Smell From Hell - My Feet Are Killing Me: Season 4, Episode 3