A woman who nearly had her legs amputated after falling asleep in an awkward position has spoken out and warned people not to repeat her mistakes.
36-year-old Julia Anderson from Canada was enjoying a girls’ night out in Ontario back in 2020 when she and her friends indulged in alcoholic drinks at a local bar.
Shortly after the mother arrived home and cleaned herself up, she collapsed on all fours and fell asleep on her bed.
Hours later, the young lady woke up only to find out that her legs had swollen to twice their original size while she was sleeping. Though she initially thought she might have broken a few bones, Julia was stunned to find out she suffered a deadly condition known as compartment syndrome while she was passed out.
As the doctors told Julia, her legs began deteriorating due to limited blood circulation resulting from the position she was sleeping in. They also insisted that waiting any longer to treat the condition and restore the supply of oxygen and other nutrients to the limbs would likely result in the amputation of both of her legs.
“They weren’t sore, but they were double their usual size so I called out to my mom, who called an ambulance,” Julia recalled.
“When I got to the hospital my whole body was very swollen. I’m tiny, I’m only 100lbs, to them I just looked like a 140lb girl. I told them ‘guys I don’t look like this, something is wrong.’”
While Anderson admitted she was drunker than usual at the time of the incident, she insisted she wanted to warn other people because something like that could happen to anyone.
“At the time I was embarrassed about it, because who wants to be like ‘I passed out drunk like an idiot.’ The shame’s kind of dissipated because it’s been years now, it could happen to anyone,” she concluded.
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