Have you ever thought what it would be like if you lost a limb (a non vital limb)? How different life would be without a finger, or toe, or arm, or leg? Its not something that I every though would cross my mind but over the last little while certain events have prompt my thought about this; specifically about cutting off a limb. Assume that one of your toes had a frost bite and that it was infected pretty bad. If the doctor said that there is a small possibilities that with a new change in season that you wouldn’t have to worry about it refreezing and that it could heal. But when analyzing the overall progress of the frost bit that there is a big chance that it will progress no matter what, putting other parts of your body at risk.
What do you do? Do you just suck it up and cut it off, knowing you will probably not be able to enjoy the things you’ve taken for granted. Loosing a toe would probably put yourself off balance, would potentially mean that you can’t really play certain sports (soccer), that you might have to go to therapy to relearn how to walk. It would probably look/feel odd if you wear sandals. At the end of the day, its just a toe, many people have lots them and have been perfectly fine, but this is your toe. A part of you which, you never really imagine having to live without. But a part of you which recently has repeatedly slowed you down and caused you pain and which has been recommended to cut off. How do you know when it’s the right time to give up on it healing and just take it as a dead potentially infectious part of you which you need to let go no matter what that means? How long after you cut it off will you keep pondering if it was indeed the right choice?
What do you do? Do you just suck it up and cut it off, knowing you will probably not be able to enjoy the things you’ve taken for granted. Loosing a toe would probably put yourself off balance, would potentially mean that you can’t really play certain sports (soccer), that you might have to go to therapy to relearn how to walk. It would probably look/feel odd if you wear sandals. At the end of the day, its just a toe, many people have lots them and have been perfectly fine, but this is your toe. A part of you which, you never really imagine having to live without. But a part of you which recently has repeatedly slowed you down and caused you pain and which has been recommended to cut off. How do you know when it’s the right time to give up on it healing and just take it as a dead potentially infectious part of you which you need to let go no matter what that means? How long after you cut it off will you keep pondering if it was indeed the right choice?
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ur toes will heal... mine did. and yea it will return every winter, but just gotta keep warm (or so they say).
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