Because there's only so many times you can watch the same re-run of a television show. Sometimes the content becomes so predictable that you grow weary of the series entirely. I'm wearing out on Amber the way I wore out on watching hoarder shows. Eventually you realize it's the same broken people with the same shit buckets and the same excuses and the same rotting cat carcasses under the couch. Almost none of them get better, they're cruel to everyone, almost all of them are delusional, and they all cling to whatever trauma that caused them to collect empty margarine tubs and Sears catalogs until the hoard damaged the structural integrity of the house. Amber is every fucking hoarder and every idiotic MSHPL "mug laigs!" screamer. It gets old watching her do the same thing every day.
Well, she ended up in the ER with a massive bladder infection during the time Becky was away. Four days without a servant to wipe her ass and holding it in all day, because she probably needs a snack to help her on the arduous journey to the bathroom and Becky wasn't there to fetch it, and she became very ill. If Amber is changing clothes, then Becky is having to help her with pants removal because managing lymph leakage is no joke and without someone managing it for her, Amber would be in so much agony she would be discussing it, unless it falls into the category of issues she inexplicably is too ashamed to talk about. Maybe all that laig pain she complained about was related to a poorly managed lymph leak site. Who knows. But Becky is doing a lot for her or she'd be even nastier than she currently appears to be.
Leg infection. Here's how:
--At some point, she is going to suffer a minor skin abrasion in a leg area she and Becky cannot clean very well. It may come from a dog clawing her, from the skin just breaking under all the pressure, an intertrigo infection causing complete skin breakdown under a fold, or mismanaged lymphorrhea.
--That skin abrasion will lead to cellulitis, which will not be treated properly because Amber is bizarrely irrational about her legs, sometimes showing them in their lumpy, leggings-clad glory and sometimes being so ashamed she tries to hide them. She will absolutely wait until she has a raging infection and nearly unendurable pain before she lets a health care professional see the horror of her legs.
--By that time her organs will begin to fail and she will very likely, initially, be dealing with kidney failure. Every fat person like Amber has a max of three cellulitis infections before they go completely septic and all their organs shut down. I do not know every fat fuck who ever died but the ones I have known followed this pattern. First episode they lose kidney function, second episode (which will happen - once leg or fupa cellulitis happens it never stops unless the fat person loses a lot of weight very quickly and even then maybe not) will involve sepsis, third will result in death.
Fat care sperg: Lymphorrhea is the leaking of lymph fluid. It is full of protein and sticky to the touch. Clothes absolutely stick to lymph and if pants are pulled off after a spot dries, the skin can often come with it and any break in skin integrity in someone's Amber's size leads to the leg death pattern above. But luckily the fucking lymph doesn't stop seeping until proper steps are taken to make it stop, and Amber ain't doing none of that, boo boo, leg wrapping isn't cute! So she may not have to deal with it drying completely every day - she may be permaleaking.
Becky would need to make sure the site of the leaks are very clean. She would need to apply a nice, absorbent bandage that will be easy to remove if it gets soaked and dries a bit. She would then need to wrap Amber's legs up in compression bandages or compression stockings. She would need to do this several times a day if the bandage got soaked and began to leak through the wraps. Properly treated, lymphorrhea can be stopped in a few days with just compression, but AL isn't leaking because she's got an ouchie shaving her legs or skinned her knee. She's leaking because her legs are full of lymph that can't make it back up the lymphatic vessels, breaking down her skin integrity, so she's leaking any place her leg gets overly swollen with lymphatic fluid.
There's nothing that leads me to believe Becky's wrapping her to deal with leaks. I think Amber leaks enough constantly that her leakage sites don't dry to stick to her pants in a painful way. But that also means she's leaking in the bed, when she sits on the sofa, when she sits in the car. It's gross, for anyone as vain as Amber it's humiliating, neither she nor Becky have the fortitude or intelligence to deal with it without a home health aid teaching them and by the time Amber admits it's a problem (and it is, look up "stage 3 lymphedema" - Amber's got serious ankle overlap and the "elephantiasis" in the huge lump on her left leg and she's never once attempted to get help for it), she's gonna start enacting DP3D's grim leg death scenario.
Amber could lose 450 pounds tomorrow and her lymphatic system in her legs will never recover. Once's it's wrecked, it's wrecked. One can manage it with leg wraps and gentle exercise that encourages lymph fluid to move back up the legs (think of lightly bouncing on a gym trampoline or taking several slow walks a day with the legs fully wrapped). But she won't get to that point. She's gonna die in the next couple of years. She has no intention of changing anything about her diet or way of life.
