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I think her ankles were relatively normal prior to this latest outrage she has unleashed on herself. Even if she recovers from this... well, this fucking sickening self-inflicted horrorshow, she's always going to have some edema making her lower legs look stumpy. There's zero way all those tiny lymph vessels can ever go back to normal, healthy function after something like this.
Yeah, there is zero sense in responding to her directly. She's an unusual case - a Munchausen's case combined with a complete lack of dignity and a willingness to say or do anything to get us to pay attention to her.
I echo your theory that losing her legs may be an actual end goal for her. It will give her an excuse for repeated life failures AND she will have a very unfortunate disability that visibly manifests to non-medical folk (unlike her bleeding herself out to achieve a "mysterious" blood disease), cannot be relieved by common sense (not living with abusive cult members and a boyfriend who carves her up), and isn't so repulsive other people wretch when they are around her (her current state is visibly revolting and smells like rot and gangrene). A woman in her thirties who loses both her legs to rot can be assured of deferential treatment for a while, feeding her need for attention and care and she will be able to give the impression she would have been a prima ballerina had she not suffered the loss of her legs.
I just wonder what she will do once her legs have been gone for a couple of years. By then people will have expected her to have shaped her life around the loss, to become active again, finding work, learning to care for herself. She will have to develop another chronic condition to get the sort of sympathy she needs but lacking legs she may find it harder to execute a Munchausen's sham or to find one that will get her the attention she needs without rendering her a Johnny-got-his-gun husk.
