Student gets her legs amputated, will lose hands due to flesh eating bacteria - Polidicks

[video=youtube;HoLs0V8T5AA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA[/video] Gentlemen, we can rebuild her, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic woman. Instant reminder.

How did she get it?

[QUOTE=Occlusion;36041495]How did she get it?[/QUOTE] Maybe you should read the OP?

People like her are one of the main reasons why I am applying for Cybernetics/Robotics on university. I would just love help her, one day, get legs and arms as good, if not better, than her natural ones. She's a clear example of somebody I would just love to perfect my work with. I know she would appreciate the limbs, while keeping enthusiasm and will to keep the work going.

What's with all the flesh-eating bacteria incidents recently?

[QUOTE=Koenigsegg;36041441]Gentlemen, we can rebuild her, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic woman.[/QUOTE] They're going to fit her with prosthetic limbs, and they talked about it like it's normal. This stuff was only science-fiction just a couple years ago. [img]http://www.zupdates.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/prosthetic-hand.jpg[/img] Gentlemen, we have entered the future and didn't even notice.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36041565]People like her are one of the main reasons why I am applying for Cybernetics/Robotics on university. I would just love help her, one day, get legs and arms as good, if not better, than her natural ones. She's a clear example of somebody I would just love to perfect my work with. I know she would appreciate the limbs, while keeping enthusiasm and will to keep the work going.[/QUOTE]Yeah right, you just want to get laid cause she's hot.

Firstly, I am already taken. Secondly, I would like to keep my cock away from even low probability sources of flesh eating bacteria. Robotic cocks will stay only very bad replacements for quite a while, apparently.

[QUOTE=Marbalo;36041950]why do you people always have to be so fucking politically correct why do you always fish for arguments over semantics that deteriorate into page after page of shit flinging[/QUOTE]Because sexual discrimination, internet white knights!

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36040598]What? You lose your legs and hands and you don't shed a single tear over it? Biggest female bad-ass of the decade.[/QUOTE] That doesn't mean she isn't like totally pissed off about it.

We really need to get a handle on these fucking flesh eating bacteria. I'm afraid to go anywhere near a hospital now.

[i]Hey baby, do those stumps go all the way up?[/i] [sp]I'm sorry, I had to.[/sp]:v: Poor girl.

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;36042468]We really need to get a handle on these fucking flesh eating bacteria. I'm afraid to go anywhere near a hospital now.[/QUOTE] We need to get a new handle on any type of bacteria, these antibiotics are handed out like flyers on a street and they're becoming resistant Antibiotics were great, but they've since been abused by people who take them for colds (even though colds are viral => unaffected by antibiotics) and people who don't completely finish their antibiotic dosage because they start to feel better (seriously if you're ever given antibiotics FINISH THEM) Thankfully, money is being poured in to new solutions and hopefully we'll be able to combat these resilient bacteria again (hopefully before the black death gets us all)

[QUOTE=Trumple;36042548](seriously if you're ever given antibiotics FINISH THEM) [/QUOTE]Why is that

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36042597]Why is that[/QUOTE] Because a doctor will prescribe a certain dose for a reason. If you start to feel better and say "hey, I don't need these anymore! I feel fine!" then you fucked up. The cure was not complete, the bad things will return and the antibiotics might no longer work because skipping them made you develop an immunity.

[QUOTE=Marbalo;36041950]why do you people always have to be so fucking politically correct why do you always fish for arguments over semantics that deteriorate into page after page of shit flinging[/QUOTE] what do you mean "you people"?

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;36042597]Why is that[/QUOTE] Resilient genes within bacteria have been around for centuries, long before we started using antibiotics. When antibiotics were first discovered, it was found that repetitive treatment eventually led to removing 100% of the bacteria, even the resilient ones. Note that the resilient ones and not 100% immune to it, it's the equivalent of wearing a fireproof suit which isn't, in reality, completely fire proof. Expose the fireproof suit to fire for long enough and it will burn/disintegrate. It's a similar principle with bacteria, only with antibiotics instead of fire. Finishing the course of antibiotics helps to ensure these resilient ones are eliminated, too - otherwise the only remaining bacteria in the subject will be the resilient ones, since they are (on average) the last to be killed off. Those will multiply and suddenly you need a new antibiotic for a different strain

To all the people complaining about how the overuse of antibiotics have lead to this bacteria being hard to treat, you're wrong, mind you, I'm not saying that there isn't an overuse of antibiotics and that it hasn't created more resistent bacteria. There was an earlier article on this, and if I recall correctly, the bacteria she's infected with is Clostridium Perfringens which is everywhere, even on your very skin at this moment, it needs a deep gash to enter the body, and once inside it begins decomposing the tissue. It's classified as a gas gangrene due to the pockets of gas it creates as a byproduct of its metabolisation and it's always been hard to treat due to the fact that it resides in the deep tissues, where antibiotics can't reach. Additionally, the atrophied arteries and veins make transport of antibiotics to the infected limbs nearly impossible. Edit: I just read through the section on it in my biochemistry books, and I have a number of corrections; The ineffectiveness of antiobiotics is mainly due to how the bacteria restricts bloodflow to the affected limb, it interrupts regular cellular function by inserting toxins into the cellular membrane, after a while the tissue is almost completely unable to metabolise glucose, and the affected area starts to collapse in on itself, this also affects the bloodvessels, which in turn collapse and restrict bloodflow.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;36042661]Because a doctor will prescribe a certain dose for a reason. If you start to feel better and say "hey, I don't need these anymore! I feel fine!" then you fucked up. The cure was not complete, the bad things will return and the antibiotics might no longer work because skipping them made you develop an immunity.[/QUOTE] It's not your body that develops the immunity, it's the last remaining little buggers who pop back up next time and say "hey-oo, new antibiotic please"

pointy elbows wnf

[QUOTE=FlyingDog;36042679]To all the people complaining about how the overuse of antibiotics have lead to this bacteria being hard to treat, you're wrong, mind you, I'm not saying that there isn't an overuse of antibiotics and that it hasn't created more resistent bacteria. There was an earlier article on this, and if I recall correctly, the bacteria she's infected with is Chlostridium Perfringens which is everywhere, even on your very skin at this moment, it needs a deep gash to enter the body, and once inside it begins decomposing the tissue. It's classified as a gas gangrene due to the pockets of gas it creates as a byproduct of its metabolisation and it's always been hard to treat due to the fact that it resides in the deep tissues, where antibiotics can't reach. Additionally, the atrophied arteries and veins make transport of antibiotics to the infected limbs nearly impossible.[/QUOTE] There I go getting shot down by the people who actually know a deep level of what's going on here - reminds me to keep my nose out of things I don't fully understand!

[QUOTE=parket;36040650]Because believe it or not there are behavioural differences between men and women![/QUOTE] social*

Think of it as the bright side: In 25 years, she'll have pretty new augmentations that are even better than the real thing!

[QUOTE=parket;36040650]Because believe it or not there are behavioural differences between men and women![/QUOTE] Except none of those have anything to do with this.

Any time Facepunch gets on a kick about something like this, I absolutely despise being around here. I suffer from borderline debilitating nosophobia and hypochondria, so these threads send me in to panic mode. I refused to even look at the previous threads, and could barely force myself to look at this one.

[QUOTE=Webby2020;36043540]Think of it as the bright side: In 25 years, she'll have pretty new augmentations that are even better than the real thing![/QUOTE] If she can afford them that is.

A true role model. In my opinion, although the amputations are terrible to go through, I think the most significant change in her life may come from the tracheotomy. Not only has she been robbed of mobility, but also of speech.

[QUOTE=Trumple;36042706]There I go getting shot down by the people who actually know a deep level of what's going on here - reminds me to keep my nose out of things I don't fully understand![/QUOTE] Nonsense, stick your nose in anything you don't understand that you come across, you might irritate people but you'll learn something.

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;36040629]why is her gender of any note here i am madly impressed with her courage as a human being[/QUOTE] Because it's STILL more socially acceptable for women to cry than men, despite the enlightened era we live in.

[QUOTE=JC Denton;36043723]A true role model. In my opinion, although the amputations are terrible to go through, I think the most significant change in her life may come from the tracheotomy. Not only has she been robbed of mobility, but also of speech.[/QUOTE] What a shame.