From the very little she shared so far, that's also what I believe Chantal has, and not a fungus like
@Queen of Moderation posted above.
Por que no los dos?
A "simple" abscess on a morbidly overweight and diabetic person can turn into a real nightmare, the kind of wound that will keep coming back over many months and will be extremely hard to treat (mostly due to diabetes), all while being debilitating and painful.
See: Chance Carmichael, grossly obese fat fetish cow, who developed a skinfold infection that turned into sepsis and nearly killed him.
Or, rather, it did kill him, but medical treatment managed to avert the initial crisis so he could die of related causes a couple of months later.
That's what our gorl has to look forward to, and it should scare the shit out of anybody who has developed a pannus so large they can't easily reach underneath to keep it clean.
Could this be the medical arc we were waiting for? Could the amputation saga become a distant memory and will be replaced by the horror of a never ending painful abscess?
Chantal has been very lucky with all her medical scares of the past few years. Even at her weight the hysterectomy went pretty smoothly, she didn't die from the blood clots and she's eating a ton of sugar while diabetic + fat food with a fatty liver with little to no impact (so far).
She can't always be lucky...?
Luck always runs out, eventually.
And so far, her "luck" has been limited to "not ending up dead, or in a nursing facility." Given the laundry list of ailments that have emerged or started to reach crisis proportions in the last two years alone, I'd say her luck is definitely running out.
The “surgery” she’s referring to is likely a simple I&D. Now, obviously this is complicated by her growing number of comorbidities; add the beetus into the mix and it makes a relatively simple procedure and recovery much more complicated. Not to mention, diet proclamations aside, she’ll likely continue to shove her pie hole full of carbs and sugar which will add to the growing bacteria. An incision and drainage on an infected abscess is insanely painful; they’ll likely push lidocaine and opioids but they will not touch the pain during the actual procedure.
She had an abcess on her back last year, and described it as painful.
That said, it seems our gorl looks forward to her scripts of dilaudid that Canadian emerg seem all to eager to dole out to her. Can you imagine adding a nice opioid addiction to her ever-expanding health problems? I’ve often wondered if she drug-seeks, given the amount of emerg trips for “cramps”. If you watch her videos around the timeframe of her hospital visits, she’s constantly itching her nose(classic opioid tell). Anyway, leave it to Flobby to turn a simple office procedure into an emergent “surgery” for those sympathy grabs.
Nobody hooked on opioids has diarrhea like Chantal does. The day she starts complaining about constipation is the day I'll assume she's picked up an opioid habit. If she loses such an all-consuming interest in food, and actually loses some weight, that'll confirm it.
Mentally, she's ripe for another addiction, however, and opiates would be right up her alley.
ETA: That said, prescribing opioids to her when she already has the breathing problems she does would be a very bad idea.