It certainly can. After seeing the results of a badly done amputation on my mum’s leg (above the knee) and then the results of a 2nd amputation on the same limb ( caused by poor surgical procedure during the 1st op;- UK) I hope never to see that kind of thing again. 
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Oh that’s horrible Ann. Your poor Mum, to lose a limb as an adult must be horrendous.
My younger brother had both legs amputated through the knee as a baby so has never known any different. He copes brilliantly and leads a near normal life.
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That must have took some getting over…your mom sounds like a brave lady…my mom had a hip replacement under epidural that went brilliantly and hardly a scar…but also plates and pins in a broken shoulder that was a total bodge job and had to be taken out during a second op as they were coming out through her skin…
The latest worry has been the threat of amputation due to a diabetic foot ulcer and the added complication of hospital acquired pneumonia…I’ve felt on red alert for a while now and would drive home in a heartbeat to look after her…
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Mum’s here with me now after an horrific time at the hands of a butcher (surgeon) in the UK following a RTA and some incredibly bad decisions by health workers who would have been better employed in an abbatoir!
Once I managed to bring her over then things improved vis a vis health care. Such a difference to what she endured in the UK. I have only ever had praise for the French health system, thanks to them mum is still functioning and my ex is still alive. 
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Glad to hear it all went well. I hope you make a speedy recovery!
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Hi Sarah, long time no hear.
Hope all is well.
Hi Jane, it is! All well here thanks. I hope all is well with you too. 
I am fine, but feeling very downhearted about Brexit.
Europe is very important to me and not to have the right to live here as a a European citizen is very depressing.
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This makes me feel really sad in sympathy with your feelings, Jane, and I do hope that the French people amongst whom you live will recognise the cause of your being downhearted, and help you to feel authentically a European citizen, which - after all - is more an inclination of the heart and mind than a politically sanctioned title.
Since childhood, maybe 8 or 9, I have thought of myself as European, writing my address proudly as 94, West Park Avenue, Northfield, Birmingham, 31, Warwickshire, England, Great Britain, Europe, The World, The Universe. What child hasn’t? And the feeling was deep, and has persisted.
But it’s a crying shame that your sense of belonging should be so mean-spiritedly bruised. But not, perhaps, yet broken?
Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.
Brexit bullies do not give a damn for the higher things in life.
Yes, very well thanks, Im finally off the antibiotics after 6 weeks, the surgeon drained some fluid off post op and all is well. Just a bit sore is all!
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Good news… but do take the time to let things heal properly… worth it in the long run…
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Excellent! Take care. 
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That is a long time to take antiobiotics.
Glad you are on the mend.
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In my experience, infected joints take a long time to recover, and antibiotics don’t get access to joint capsules like other tissues do. If infection persists in the joint capsule the long-term prospects for free (and sometimes ANY) movement are poor. So no chances are taken, and no short cuts to functional recovery, with a risk of life-changing after-effects without well-supervised specialist care. Bloody insects! Poor James!!
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