“Just a Flesh Wound”

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Journalist Miles O’Brien tells his harrowing tale of amputation, made necessary by the complications of acute compartment syndrome in is forearm. A cautionary tale for anyone with steadily worsening pain and swelling in a forearm or calf — never, ever ignore that. [Content has been removed.]

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