- Title Loose Toothpick Nearly Caused This Woman To Get Her Leg Amputated
- Summary This young woman recalled the story of how she nearly had her leg amputated, after falling on a toothpick which then got stuck in her knee and infected. On April 8, Lilith Engler, 23, was at her home in Minneapolis, when she began to recount the story of when she was 12 years old and fell onto a toothpick which became lodged in her knee. Unaware that the toothpick had become stuck in her leg, Lilith continued with life as normal and had minimal pain until a year later, when she hurt her knee in dance class after doing the splits. Lilith went to the doctor who informed her that a cyst had formed around the toothpick in her knee, but as she is afraid of blood and needles, Lilith decided to leave it alone for the time being. However, it wasn’t until later when she decided to ride on a kid's mall rollercoaster, that the cyst burst and bruised her knee. After a few weeks, Lilith was at school when she felt something running down her leg and realised her knee was leaking ‘bright orange’ pus, so she went to the hospital to get it checked out. Doctors informed Lilith that her knee was infected from the toothpick and needed emergency surgery to get it removed. Luckily after surgery, the doctors informed her that the infection was worse than they thought but if it had gone any further into her leg then they would have had to amputate it. Lilith said: “I got a toothpick stuck in my knee for a year and a half and I revealed the medical issues it caused me as well as my mistakes along the way. “This is why you should clean your room.”
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- Filming Location Minneapolis
- Country United States
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Date Posted: 7th June 2024
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