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An employee at Tammy’s Nails 2 in Tampa cut Clara Shellman’s foot during a pedicure in September 2018, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The cut became infected and spread quickly, partly because Shellman had severe peripheral arterial disease, a circulatory condition that causes narrowed blood vessels to reduce blood flow to the limbs, the newspaper said. Shellman, 55, lost her home after being burdened by medical expenses from the amputation, the newspaper quoted her lawyer, Paul Fulmer, as saying. She needed help caring for herself and now is living with relatives, Fulmer said.

Bitter Afghan winter kills 650Last Modified: 10 Feb 2008 Source: PA News More than 650 people have died and others have suffered such severe frostbite they have had limbs amputated in Afghanistan's most bitter winter for years. Afghanistan's statistics mark this year as the coldest in a decade - but that is only as far back as the national weather records go, and many believe it is the harshest winter in 30 years. In a hospital in Herat several men lay side by side in hospital beds, their arms and legs freshly-bandaged stubs after being amputated.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A teen whose feet were severed at Six Flags' Kentucky Kingdom has had one foot reattached according to a statement released by her family. The family of Kaitlyn Lasitter, 13, whose feet were cut off when The Superman Tower of Power malfunctioned at Six Flags’ Kentucky Kingdom last month, issued a statement updating the details of her medical condition Tuesday. The statement reports that Kaitlyn’s right foot has successfully been reattached at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she remains in stable condition. “We were not able to reattach the left lower extremity due to the severity of...

A German professor who went on a dream holiday to Costa Rica woke up in an airport departure lounge to find his leg had been amputated. He is now seeking to take legal action against the hospital in San Jose.

Climber describes how he amputated his own arm The Associated Press GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Hopelessly pinned by a boulder that rolled onto his arm in a remote canyon, adventurer Aron Ralston says he first took a dull pocketknife to his forearm after three days, but couldn't cut the skin. In his first meeting with reporters since he walked, bloody and dehydrated, out of a remote Utah canyon, Ralston described Thursday what it took for him to eventually do the unthinkable -- cutting off his own arm to save his life. "I'm not sure how I handled it," the mechanical...