Amy Purdy
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And I, yeah, then I ultimately ended up,
losing both my legs below the knees, almost lost my hands.
And that was from the septic shock.
So they did everything they could to try to bring me out of that septic shock to try to get more circulation to my feet, because that's just a natural, it's pretty amazing.
It's a natural response to your body trying to save itself is your organs are failing.
So let's pull blood from your extremities to save your organs.
And that's just the body's natural response, which is pretty amazing.
But because of that, I lost circulation to my legs and my hands.
No.
So I woke up and my feet at this point were – the bottoms of my feet were black.
I mean like at my toes, like kind of mummy.
I know.
But to the extreme.
But yeah, I mean, like frostbite really.
I mean, yeah, the balls of my feet or the soles of my feet.
And my toes had just, I mean, zero circulation.
They were dead.
Absolutely.
The tops of my feet were...
purple-ish.