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To: Renfield
they found he died from a fracture, he had a fracture on his leg

How does a leg break kill you?

4 posted on 09/18/2012 1:46:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (evry day i'm shufflin')
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

I don't know. I do know that if you break your leg and have no pain killers, you'll wish you were dead.

6 posted on 09/18/2012 1:50:25 PM PDT by Nachoman (I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
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To: bigheadfred
“How does a leg break kill you?”

Depending on the type of break there could have been some internal bleeding at the site with a clot that later broke loose and entered the lungs a/o heart. That makes for a real short day as in dead.

7 posted on 09/18/2012 1:51:55 PM PDT by Polynikes (Hakkaa Palle)
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

Internal bleeding, gangrene, other consequences of being thousands of years from modern medicine.

10 posted on 09/18/2012 1:56:50 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: bigheadfred

Blood clot....That’s how my uncle died...Fell off a ladder...


12 posted on 09/18/2012 2:03:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bigheadfred

Fat embolism.


13 posted on 09/18/2012 2:04:46 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Take two Aspirin and call me in November - Obama for Hindmost.)
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

I forget the medical term, but a blood clot from a major leg injury can travel through the blood stream and get lodged in the Blood vessels supplying the brain and you die from a stroke.

15 posted on 09/18/2012 2:08:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

If it got infected he'd probably die.

21 posted on 09/18/2012 2:21:22 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: bigheadfred

Infection?


23 posted on 09/18/2012 2:32:55 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: bigheadfred

Open fracture -> infection.


26 posted on 09/18/2012 2:48:27 PM PDT by heartwood
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