The picture I am sharing is of an ischemic foot. That means this person has no blood flow to their feet and often lower limbs and it’s dead and decaying while still attached to your body. It’s also called dry gangrene. It’s most frequently caused by lifelong poor lifestyle choices. Like smoking, not exercising at all, and not managing type 2 diabetes. This is just one of the terrible consequences of these things.
My grandma’s foot looks like this now, actually 3 weeks ago it looked like this… now it’s MUCH worse. This motivates me to control my carb intake so I don’t become diabetic or manage it if it happens. It motivates me to never pick up another cigarette! (I smoked when I was very young) It motivates me to stay active for the rest of my life! Sitting and doing nothing is not healthy. My gma is not a candidate for amputation because she cannot tolerate general anesthesia. Her heart is in too poor of condition from the smoking , obesity and lack of physical activity. They could amputate, but she would hv to be conscious, bone saw and all. She will live the rest of her short, pain filled life with her legs dead but attached to her. Sometimes this will auto amputate. That means fall off on its own. I won’t share a picture of that but it looks just like what you think. A limb just breaking off. You see the bone, all the inside tissue. It doesn’t really bleed because there is no blood flow. That’s how this happened. Vascular disease from poor health choice throughout a life time. Take care of your body.
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