Posted on 01/18/2023 2:41:18 AM PST by jerod
Laurie-Lynn Discoteau went to the University of Alberta Hospital one evening in November 2022, seeking help for a painful and swollen infected foot.
The swelling meant her shoe and sock didn't fit on the foot, resulting in frostbite.
After surgery, Discoteau says she was discharged with only a light bandage.
When she couldn't recall the address of the place she'd been staying, she says the hospital staff put her in a cab to the Hope Mission shelter in central Edmonton, assuring her that the staff there had been notified and would bring her in immediately.
Upon arrival she recalls being told by shelter staff the facility was full and they'd had no call from the hospital.
"I had to wait for two hours outside in the cold. I think it was –40 with the wind chill that night," she said in a recent interview with CBC News.
Hope Mission says after speaking to staff and reviewing CCTV footage, they can't confirm Discoteau came to the shelter.
Regardless, Discoteau spent the night in a nearby encampment, in a damp tent with wet blankets. By morning the skin on her foot had blackened.
"I knew what that meant," she says.
In late December, her leg was amputated below the knee. It was her second amputation: she'd lost the other foot in an accident five years ago.
It's a common situation.
New data obtained by CBC News shows a major spike in the number of frostbite amputations performed in Edmonton last winter — more than the previous three years combined, and more than double any other year over the past decade...
Tracking Data...
The numbers are broken down by fiscal year, from April to March. This means each year of data includes one full winter season.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
I will tell you that it was very cold in Edmonton during December. My mother’s car battery died and had to be replaced. I had to boost mine, which is the first time ever because I buy the biggest batteries that will fit in my vehicle.
But the weather is good now, straight until March.
We are now receiving 53 more minutes of sunshine than December 21st.
It’s mostly homeless. We open transit stations and the LRT stations during times like this and the Shaw Convention centre, which is huge. Police and security is provided for their safety, but most that don’t go would rather do their drugs.
And kids will never again know what snow is. That was supposed to happen around 2015, if I remember correctly. Meanwhile, here in Colorado we’ve been buried in global warming pretty much all winter, and the number of avalanches is at an all-time high.
I got frostbite bad on my hands years ago and like a fool I got into a car and put my hands near the heater and holy cripes, talk about pain! It felt like my hands were getting smashed up by a sledge hammer. I think I had some tissue damage because they never looked the same again, just too wrecked looking.
I think it is Covid Vaccines, these Vaccines damage capillaries causing exposure because the body can’t combat the cold.
Why do I say this? It happened to me.
It is even painful under relatively cold water.
One thing I’ve noticed around me is how many people do not bundle up to go outside. They think they just are going a short distance and they don’t wear hats and gloves. Or sometimes drive without wearing a coat on the assumption that they will not be outside for more than a few minutes. But if something goes wrong and it takes longer than they expect, or it gets much colder than expected, they end up with frost bite.
I have that stuff with me in the car in abag at all times. I may not wear it, but it is with me.
In 2008, Al Gore and the Sierra Club said that by 2014 the arctic might be permanently free of ice. Given the claimed trends, this possibility would be a certainly by 2023. Still waiting. I bet they raised a lot of money and pushed a lot of votes with their scare mongering. It’s past time that Republicans call BS on junk AGW/CC science.
A headline correction is urgently needed. We have only 7.7178 years left. /sarc/
On October 8, 2018, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the “Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 deg. C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways.”
that is standard down here in minnesota, always have a OH Crap bag in the car
Ugh. These guys who get frostbite to the point of gangrene, I wonder if they go through the same agony or by that point the nerves are too destroyed.
Any part that goes gangrene. They cant save it.
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