The Life of Sylvia Plath

Why was skin-grafting necessary in this patient? (why not just let the skin heal on its own)

Dorrance Darling an 18 year old college football player, who was injured during a play and was rushed to a small accredited Emergency room, where a general practitioner, Dr Alexander, treated his wounds (Pozgar,2013). Dr. Alexander had not treated a major leg fracture in three years (Pozgar, 2013). An x-ray was performed that showed a tib/fib fracture, followed by Dr. Alexander reducing the fracture and applying a plaster cast from below the groin to the toes (Pozgar, 2013). Shortly after the reduction, the patient complained of pain, the cast was split and staff continued to visit patient (Pozgar, 2013). After two weeks, patient’s care was transferred to an orthopedic physician at a larger hospital, where they discovered considerable amounts of dead tissue requiring eventual leg amputation (Pozgar, 2013).

In her poem, “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath uses dark imagery, disturbing diction, and allusions to shameful historical happenings to create a unique and morbid tone that reflects the necessity of life and death. Although the imagery and diction and allusions are all dark and dreary, it seems that the speaker’s attitude towards death is positive. The speaker longs for death, and despises the fact the she is continually raised up out of it.

Osteomyelitis, the infection of bone, would cause swelling in the foot, limiting the movement in her foot. It also

In the case of Darling verse the Charleston Community Memorial Hospital, Darling presented to the hospital’s emergency department with a broken leg. The hospital treated Darling’s leg with a cast and he was sent home to heel. The attending physician had put Darling’s cast on too tight and the circulation of his bottom leg was cut off. Because of this a portion of his leg had to be amputated.

The bacteria spread fast, leaving the leg unsalvageable. The question on all of our minds was why the patient had waited so long to seek treatment. Surely she was in a lot of pain, and that odor... why wait? The answer was purely financial. Money deterred her from seeking treatment which caused a

The 12-year-old, who contracted the deadly infection as a 17-month-old, chose to have his lower leg amputated last year after the pain of operations to repair damage to the limb became too much.

On April 14, 2016 Police Constable Luciano Santoro (90199) was working in a uniform capacity assigned to the Mounted Unit. At approximately 11:20 A.M., the Officer was participating in a training exercise on horseback in High Park. While doing so, the horse tripped on a tree root, causing it to lose its footing and both the horse and the officer fell to the ground with the horse rolling on top of the Officer. As a result, the Officer sustained injuries to his left ankle and was subsequently transported to Saint Joseph Hospital for an examination. At the hospital, the Officer was diagnosed with a broken left fibula.. The leg was casted and the Officer was released from the hospital shortly after.

The injuries he suffered were overwhelming, and so sudden that at first, he didn't know anything was wrong. Only when he tried to put weight on his leg did he realize the extent of the damage. He jokes about it today. "I found that I didn't have a leg to stand on," he chuckles. Most of the flesh on his leg was ripped away, leaving his foot attached only by the tendons in the back of his calf. Bones were exposed and the bleeding was profuse. He also suffered head and internal injuries.

The father decided to do the biopsy and they took her back. Studdert removed an inch long ellipse of skin and tissue stretching from the top of the foot to the tendon. Then, he removed some of the muscles at the center of the redness. Both samples were sent to the pathology department where a dermatopathologist had later confirmed their suspicions. When she was taken into surgery, the destruction was obvious and they had questioned the need for an AKA or BKA. However, they decided to trust their guts again and did a debridement and flushed out the muscles. Two hours later, she was transported to another hospital and put in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for two hours to boost muscle repair. The following day, she was taken back into surgery to remove more of the infected muscle and they decided to increase the oxygen treatment to twice a day for two hours. Twelve days later, she was released from the hospital bacteria free. A patch of skin, about sixty-four-square-inches, had been removed from her thigh and used as a skin

A pre-existing health condition started to intensify. He could hardly walk due to the inflammation in his foot, on top of this, flaring red patches were showing up on his skin. He was eventually diagnosed with an auto-immune disease known

will have to walk with a cane for the rest of his life because of his

His Lame leg

The span of this narrative takes place Thirty years prior to current time, in Two Thousand and Seventeen. At the time I was a young and well educated Osteopathic surgeon, however I had quite little experience with the field as the majority of patients came for infections in the foot rather than bone and muscle pain. I remember I had a child patient on the first week of 2017, a young man no older than 5 with a horrid infection within his big toe due to the digging of the nail. But nitrogen wasn’t able to fix it, so he had to have a quarter of his foot removed in an unnecessarily long procedure. This wasn't the first time this had happened, however I had grown tired of infection. Only people who deserved a bad condition should have it.

Christopher James was at a trouble call replacing a cable line and placed his foot in between a bunch of coiled up cables that were laying on the floor. He foot became tangled up with the cable and tried to free himself by pulling his leg out and shaking it loose. he then felt a sudden pain on his knee that continue thru the night. He placed ice on it and rested while at his house but the condition did not improved. .