The Way To My Heart reposted this
For those who see me fighting for life and limb on a daily basis, it may come across that I may be unaware of cases in which Amputation is treatment. Truth be told, I have supported and continue to support doctors and patients on a path to amputation, through amputation, and long-term management - when it's a case of life or limb and when a patient decides they want to move on with a different path to stop a revolving door of wound care, endovascular, and surgical treatments. In my posts, my goal is to raise the voice of the patients and their experiences to help create the change patients want to see. For Dawn, she knows it was her life or limb. She ended up with an AKA. It was not an easy pill to swallow for either she or her doctor. The decision was not made lightly. Both wish there was another way. But all efforts to save her leg were exhausted. She says that she hears stories all the time of other amputees who were not offered advanced limb salvage options prior to ending up on the 'chopping block' (her words!) So, she asked that I share this video as a reminder to all PAD practitioners, what life is like for an amputee, especially in the first 6-months to a year as their incision heals and prosthetics are fitted. She hopes it'll maybe inspire doctors to just take that extra opportunity to find a a way to help patients walk to live another day and live to walk another day. She says, "𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑠. 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑦."