Gross Kelly Ronahan - Vampire Munchie Who Destroyed Her Own Legs

[heavycream]

There's some pretty amazing stuff available for wound care these days

All totally wasted in this case.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I'm surprised she's allowed outside this soon after with very little dressing on the legs. Someone I knew years ago lost a leg and they were covered with a plaster cast for weeks, going outside before being fully healed was a big no-no. Looks like Kelly is just out there with some gauze and plastic wrap.

It looks like opsite/tegaderm. It should be fine. It might even be one of the super high tech dressings which monitors wound temperature. There's some pretty amazing stuff available for wound care these days.

From the pictures right before the boardwalk, it's some kind of VAC therapy; you can see the black and white foam and the tubing. It looks similar to the 3M Prevena incision closure mini-VAC, except a different brand/Canadian [the colors and the pump are slightly different].

The pump is keeping tiny amounts of negative pressure on the incision to increase blood flow; the clear dressings are air-tight (and the pump will beep like hell if they aren't). Throwing a lap blanket over the whole mess before going outside would still be the classy decision, though.

 

[Blonde Bomb]

From the pictures right before the boardwalk, it's some kind of VAC therapy; you can see the black and white foam and the tubing. It looks similar to the 3M Prevena incision closure mini-VAC, except a different brand/Canadian [the colors and the pump are slightly different].

The pump is keeping tiny amounts of negative pressure on the incision to increase blood flow; the clear dressings are air-tight (and the pump will beep like hell if they aren't). Throwing a lap blanket over the whole mess before going outside would still be the classy decision, though.

Lord, could you imagine being a parent taking your child to that hospital for some sort of procedure? Maybe to get their tonsils out or an appendectomy. You're walking through that little area and then you see Kelly. Your child just starts screaming, running, thinking if they go to the hospital, they'll take their legs.

 

[stands with a stick]

Is that blood? Is she already picking at the stumps?

 

[WeOrderedKeys]

Is that blood? Is she already picking at the stumps?

She replied in an Instagram comment asking this and said it's just normal wound leakage, but knowing Kelly, maybe we should watch and see if that's the stump that starts losing pieces first

 

[stands with a stick]

She replied in an Instagram comment asking this and said it's just normal wound leakage, but knowing Kelly, maybe we should watch and see if that's the stump that starts losing pieces first

I'm not buying it from her. She went from these minimal pristine bandages just 2 days after surgery, to now having bloody vac ones. She's fucking with them.

 

[Empyrea]

Oh, they’re keeping her there for another two months? Great, she won’t be able to tear apart her legs in that time.

I feel like this is by design. After the beautifully healed grafts went the way they did, it could be a tactic to get her as healed and functional with them as possible before letting her out of doctor supervision.

Too optimistic to assume it is a "see? She was fine until she was out of sight" sort of thing, but even if it's medical pride it seems plausible.

 

[Ruin]

And so it begins. Torso with head saga when?

 

[Plague Dog]

I'm not buying it from her. She went from these minimal pristine bandages just 2 days after surgery, to now having bloody vac ones. She's fucking with them.

Definitely possible, but we could also be comparing 15 minutes after the dressings get changed to 5 hours after. Or if she'd doing physical therapy, I imagine that could also minimally pull at the wounds too. Not enough to really open them, but enough that it could tear at any scabs forming there.

 

[multiverse]

I'm not buying it from her. She went from these minimal pristine bandages just 2 days after surgery, to now having bloody vac ones. She's fucking with them.

Maybe the staples were removed? I'm not certain how soon that would happen after amputation. She mentioned they were stapled up.

But it's more likely her messing with it as soon as she was awake enough and alone.

 

[VisceraNexus]

And so it begins. Torso with head saga when?

I do genuinely wonder about her actual prognosis. Cases like hers aren't unheard of and many of her early "illnesses" (urine retention, mysterious anemia) were some of the most common and recognizable signs of factitious disorder. Relatively speaking, she did escalate quite quickly.

The optimist in me wants to say the physical therapy and essentially learning how to live without legs and potentially getting prosthetics may slow down her ability to hurt herself, especially given we gave no idea where or how she will be living after the hospital stay. But reality and her history say none of that will matter and the moment she is no longer in direct care of a doctor or nurse, she will fuck herself up all over again.

Regardless, she will make for a pretty fascinating guinea pig/"case study" for how quickly this disorder spirals out of control regardless of the level of care received. In the absolute worse case scenario, she still is an insane trainwreck of a person that can probably teach some people a lesson in just how bad this disorder goes and how suddenly it turns. Cautiously intrigued about torso and head saga.

 

[Oreo1687]

I'm not buying it from her. She went from these minimal pristine bandages just 2 days after surgery, to now having bloody vac ones. She's fucking with them.

@Swagstika thoughts?

 

[stands with a stick]

@Swagstika thoughts?

What happened to her thigh gap?!

 

[Blanche]

2 months, they really don't want her fucking up their handiwork this time.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

What happened to her thigh gap?!

The gap's between her thighs and her knees now.

 

[Potato Cat]

Regardless, she will make for a pretty fascinating guinea pig/"case study" for how quickly this disorder spirals out of control regardless of the level of care received.

I think her case should also be published to highlight the various medical ethics issues. I don't envy her doctors. Her case would keep me up at nights.

 

[Kelly's Leg Nerve]

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[Crimewatcher 44]

I think an understanding of Munchausen is quite important in order to understand Kelly. Thanks to the poster who sperged a bit on it earlier. I was a little surprised to hear that it's not 'curable' in any meaningful sense, and not really even manageable even if the patient is fairly open to support.

The book Playing Sick?: Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy, Malingering, and Factitious Disorder by Dr. Marc Feldman tells of at least 1 patient with Munchhausen who was cured. Maybe more, it's been a while since I read it. I know for sure there was 1 patient cured and one whose doctors were managing it successfully.

 

[Deleviania]

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So, why do we think that stump is so red already? They were both clean & fine a few days ago...

 

[Iron Hamster]

What happened to her thigh gap?!

This pic really puts in perspective how much of her thighs they took. damn

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The red spot on top of her left nub is interesting.