Sentences with phrase «to amputate the leg»

July 2002 — At a court hearing for the confinement of 48 cats in a trailer, Kittles filed a civil complaint against the shelter, accusing the staff of abusing the seized cats: amputating the legs of some of the cats, gouging out their eyes, and selling them for experimentation.

At 15, Horne was diagnosed with bone cancer, which required amputating his leg below the knee to remove a tumor.

Dr. Skinner amputated the leg at cost and the charges for the care were provided through Charlie's Fund.

The difficult decision was made to amputate the leg which would enable Pollyanna to heal much faster, with less pain and be mobile in a shorter period of time.

Accompanying the photos will be Immanuel Kant (2008), sculpted after the Age of Enlightenment philosopher and presented with amputated legs - a fictional disability suggesting that intelligence can be a hindrance when it creates a damaging thirst for conquest.

After amputating his leg and 5 rounds of chemo he is good as new!

Unable to stop the spread of Rivera's sepsis, doctors decided to partially amputate her leg and foot.

You get all his accessories from the TV show, plus an alternate amputated leg, prosthetic leg, and alternate head.

A painful tumor was found in his right leg, and veterinarians amputated his leg.

We ultimately decided to amputate his leg because he was an otherwise healthy dog who at that time showed no signs of metastasis.

After being checked by a veterinarian, it was determined that the best plan was to amputate the leg while he was young to avoid sores that could develop.

The vet amputated her leg.

The Animal Foundation says it didn't amputate the leg right away because the condition wasn't immediately life - threatening and the shelter knew that Dolly would be going under the care of A Home 4 Spot after the three - day legal hold period ended.

Following the collapse, he was trapped inside the cab of the truck for 17 hours before rescue workers amputated his legs in order to get him out.

Before anesthesia, the best indicator of a surgeon's skill was speed (the Englishman James Syme was timed in 1834 amputating a leg at the hip in 90 seconds).

Unable to stop the spread of the patient's sepsis, doctors decided to partially amputate her leg and foot.

The vet said we have two options, letting the bone heal but it won't heal correctly or amputate his leg which is not an option.

A bit after I read your letters, my mind recalled the sadness felt by doctors that must amputate a leg to save a soldier's life.

An amputated leg will not grow on again.

The most astonishing example is the surgeon in England who is prepared to amputate the legs of patients who claim to find sexual excitement in gazing at and exhibiting stumps of amputated legs.

If Ted Kennedy Jr., had contracted his form of cancer any earlier, he might well have died of it; if be had contracted it a few years later, they might have excised the bone area instead of amputating the leg....

Word on the street is if Trainers didn't react quickly and correctly they may have had to amputate his leg.

At one point doctors were close to amputating his leg.

The method is similar to one already tried in people who have lost an arm: The doctors at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago removed nerves from damaged muscle in Vawter's amputated leg and connected them to hamstring muscle in his thigh, which had been left intact.

He introduces us to people facing radically altered senses of identity: an Alzheimer's patient whose life narrative erodes relentlessly; a woman whose schizophrenic world is filled with voices; a man who feels he must amputate his leg to feel whole.

On her first birthday, they amputated her legs below the knee.

His films routinely challenge the viewer through visceral images: the amputated legs of Marion Cotillard's orca trainer in Rust and Bone; the vicious rite - of - passage razor blade attack carried out by Tahar Rahim in A Prophet; the body of Niels Arestrup discovered by his son, Romain Duris, bloodied and lifeless, slumped against his bedroom wall in The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

Jerry Flowers, Police Inspector: I remember seeing that team down there working on that girl to amputate that leg.

We thought our pit mix who was a rescue with old and severe injuries would end up with an amputated leg.

Joey had a severe injury to front right leg, as well as broken teeth and was in need of immediate medical attention to amputate his leg.

If the surgery is unsuccessful, she may need to undergo a second procedure to amputate her leg.

With her being so young, our vet did not want to amputate the leg, in order to prevent her from having hip issues in the future.

Canine wheelchairs are for dogs that have suffered spinal injuries, broken or amputated legs or suffered from an illness that has left them with limited use of their legs.

Unfortunately, this gentleman had limited resources and wouldn't be able to afford either the physical therapy and wound treatments or the surgery to amputate the leg, should it be necessary.

$ 2200 to amputate his leg.

i rescued her after she was abandoned, had to amputate a leg, and had bowel blockage.

Two days after they amputated her leg, Craig Coryell of Maddie's Fund ® agreed to foster her for «a couple of days.»

The shelter was faced with the difficult decision to either amputate her leg or euthanize her.

After trying many different forms of physical therapy and consulting with a veterinary surgeon, it was decided that it was in Tokyo's best interest to amputate the leg and thereby improve her mobility.

I elected not to amputate her leg or do radiation therapy, due to her age and also her arthritis in her hindlegs, but rather administered different nutritional supplements and herbs as well as some painkillers.

After a great deal of thought, the vet chose to put one pin in rather than amputate her leg.

Although the leg itself could not be saved, she was able to amputate his leg to save his life.

When the shelter wanted to amputate her leg or euthanize her, we brought her to the Sanctuary.

The tumor grew fast and in a position on the upper leg where veterinarians could neither remove the tumor nor amputate the leg.

Would you allow your primary care doctor to perform open - heart surgery, repair a torn ACL, address complex skin issues or amputate your leg?

Phantom pain is when the nerves would send wrong signals to the brain and tell it that a certain part of the amputated leg or arm is painful.