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Health
John Elder

Seven amputations in six months: The common heart disease you’ve never heard of

Danielle Slater suffered through 10 operations to save her right leg. It was eventually amputated in seven stages.

Over the past six months, Danielle Slater, aged 50, had seven operations where her right leg was removed in stages.

“Every week and a half they’d come to me and say: ‘Nah, there’s no circulation there, Danielle, we’ll have to go in and chop a bit more off’,” she says.

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