Really random question but it just confuses me how it ends up causing someone to lose a body part
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I used to work in a microbiology lab, and we would cut up specimens from surgery and try to grow out whatever bacteria was infecting them.
I once got a toe from a diabetic patient that had been amputated in surgery. As I went to start hacking with the scalpel, the toe twitched. And it kept twitching.
Finally after a minute or so of watching it and saying “wtf is going on?” I went in and starting cutting. As soon as I made the first incision, maggots started squirming out of the hole.
I invited the surgeon that sent the toe down to come look, and he gathered the maggots into a sealed tube and took them back up to show the patient why they need to take care of their wounds.
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