Dr. Cliff Redford
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Her lips are blue.
She's not breathing well.
She ends up waking up in the hospital, something like...
Seven weeks later, she went into a coma.
She had six episodes of cardiac arrest.
So arguably she died six times.
Her heart stopped six times during this coma.
She developed pneumonia.
She developed gallstones.
And while she was in the coma, they had to amputate both of her legs from the knees down.
amputate both of her hands, took out her spleen, took out the gallstone, and they think it's all because she was licked, a tiny little scratch she had was licked by her dog, and the infection quickly developed sepsis, meaning the body's immune system to whatever foreign invader comes in,
The body's immune system becomes severely overreactive, and the white blood cells are produced at massive amounts.
All these different endotoxins are produced, and the body starts attacking itself as a foreign object.
It's like, I'm going to get in a bar fight, and I just start swinging haymakers, and if I hit my girlfriend accidentally...
That's what ends up happening.
That's sort of... I'm not encouraging this, of course.
That is sort of what happens in these sepsis cases.
And it causes necrosis of tissue, especially in the periphery, like the feet and the hands.
She spent 32 days, 32 weeks, pardon me, in the hospital.
But this woman is so...