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A Canadian woman nearly lost her legs due to cut-off circulation after passing out at home following a boozy girls’ night out.
Julia Anderson, 36, collapsed on her bed – kneeling on all fours – after sinking 20 drinks with friends at a bar in Ontario in 2020.
When she woke up her legs had ballooned to double their size and she could not move on her own, needing assistance from her 70-year-old mother Sandra.
Ms Anderson, who is a mother herself, feared she had broken them on the night out. She was diagnosed with compartment syndrome, a rare but deadly condition that occurs when blood does not reach some of the body's muscles and nerves.
The lack of blood circulation to her legs deprived the limbs of oxygen and other nourishment. Doctors said if they had not acted faster, she may have lost her limbs.
Ms Anderson said she usually weighs around 100lbs, but her swollen legs added another 40 to 50lbs to her small frame
Julia said she was carrying 40lb-50lb of excess fluid in her legs. She was hospitalised for a whopping five weeks where she underwent dialysis, had a blood transfusion and a skin graft op on her leg
‘They weren't sore, but they were double their usual size so I called out to my mom, who called an ambulance,' Ms Anderson said.
‘When I got to the hospital my whole body was very swollen. I'm tiny, I'm only 100lbs, to them I just looked like a 140lb girl. I told them “guys I don't look like this, something is wrong”.’
Acute compartment syndrome occurs when the lining of the body's nerves and muscle tissue — called fascia — has pressure placed on it by bruising, bleeding or another injury.
Fascia is not elastic and can not expand to allow fluid to pass. As a result, fluid begins to build up.
Ms Anderson's case erupted in an early morning in 2020 after she went to bed in the prostrate position after a night out.
The woman had gone out with friends with whom she had been ‘drinking vodka all night’ as well as ‘a
