A resident of the English city of Bournemouth, Dorset, suffered a leg amputation after he developed a blood clot as a result of infection with the coronavirus. The Daily Mail reports.
In late October, 56-year-old Lee Mabbatt contracted COVID-19. He could no longer distinguish between tastes, and his whole body ached. After ten days of isolation at home, Mabbett’s health improved. The man decided that he had recovered from his illness, but later realized that he could not feel his right leg.
The Englishman called the specialists of the National Health Service, who advised him to take painkillers. After a few days, the pain in his leg worsened, and this time he was advised to go to the emergency room. Computed tomography revealed a 15 cm blood clot in the patient’s upper thigh.
Surgeons promptly performed surgery to remove the blood clot to restore blood supply to Mabbet’s leg. But a few days later, the toes and the arch of the patient’s right foot began to turn black. After the operation, Mabbett remained in the hospital for 13 days. The blood supply did not resume and his leg slowly began to die off.
Doctors decided to amputate the patient’s leg in January, and the man was temporarily discharged from the hospital. However, on December 15, he was taken back to the hospital and urgently amputated a limb, as it turned black.
“In three months I will be able to walk with a prosthesis again. I just want to walk with my dogs and lead a normal life, but now everything has changed. I am very lucky with the lifestyle: I live in a bungalow and can work from home, sitting in a wheelchair. The loss of a limb will not affect me in the same way that it affects other people, “he said.
Mabbett stressed that he was absolutely healthy before the coronavirus disease. He urged others to maintain social distance to avoid contracting the coronavirus.
Previously it was reported that a resident of the English city of Whitstable who had recovered from COVID-19, Kent County, complained of a distorted sense of smell and taste, which makes her think that any food smells like rot. The Englishwoman compares the taste of meat to floral soap or perfume, toothpaste to gasoline, and coffee to the smell of car exhaust or tobacco smoke.