Amy Purdy
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You feel like you're dying, but then you're questioning, am I really dying?
So I remember that.
And actually my feet were really, really cold because I had septic shock.
So you go into septic shock when your body pulls blood from your extremities to save your organs.
And that's what was happening.
So I was losing circulation to my hands, to my feet, to my nose, my ears, and my chin.
I mean, I had no feeling.
Freezing cold and purple.
Like just literally overnight.
Like it happened really, really fast.
But my feet hurt so bad.
So right before they...
put me into this induced coma, I asked my dad or I like demanded to see my feet because I remember saying, my feet hurt so bad.
Can I see what's going on?
And my dad was like, your feet are the least of our worries here.
But I demanded to see my feet.
And so my dad pulled the sheets back and my feet were