A woman needed half leg amputated slipped broke leg cleaning bath stil — Michael McGirr, Lost Art Sleep

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A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which she fell cut off circulation to the leg, killing the limb. When she finally awoke, she was close to multi-organ collapse.

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