Woman shares horrifying before and after images of foot amputation after mistake caused gangrene

A horrified pistillate developed gangrene successful her ft and was forced to person it amputated aft contracting a deadly bacterial corruption successful hospital.

In a Facebook station that's been shared widely, Alicia Johnson documented the unspeakable ordeal that astir outgo her life.

Ms Johnson was successful infirmary for a spinal fusion surgery, which connects 2 oregon much bones to assistance relieve terrible backmost pain. 

But unbeknownst to her, the infirmary she was treated successful was battling an infestation of  methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)—a highly contagious bacterial infection, usually caught successful hospitals, that tin origin life-threatening problems if it enters the skin.

If near untreated it tin dispersed deeper successful the assemblage and pb to insubstantial harm which causes it to die, known medically arsenic necrosis. 

This insubstantial decease tin besides beryllium triggered arsenic the corruption limits humor proviso to the limbs, erstwhile it is referred to arsenic gangrene.

Ms Johnson explained how, aft she was discharged from the hospital, she fell unconscious wrong a mates of days owed to the infection.

A week aboriginal she woke up successful the intensive attraction unit, and was horrified to spot her ft bleeding uncontrollably. 

She claimed that the caregiver on-call ignored her pleas for help—until the wounded yet progressed to necrosis.

She said successful the post: 'I fell dormant astatine location 2 days earlier Christmas and woke up aft caller years successful the ICU...with this. It happened conscionable arsenic I woke up.

'I told the caregiver my ft was bleeding but she evidently didn't judge maine and it started to blister and swell up and crook purple. Then it progressed to what you spot successful the picture.'

She added that she is learning to set to the amputation, which she was forced to person erstwhile doctors identified gangrene.

'I americium walking now. My equilibrium is not truthful large but I americium blessed to beryllium up and around.' 

In England, MRSA is highly rare, with lone 1 idiosyncratic successful each 100,000 contracting the bacteria during the April 2022 to March 2023 period.

Symptoms see boils, abscesses, oregon coiled infections that may leak pus. It tin participate the bloodstream, starring to humor poisoning, known arsenic sepsis, a life-threatening condition. 

It occurs erstwhile the body's inflammatory effect to an corruption damages its ain tissues and organs, which can pb to organ nonaccomplishment oregon adjacent death.