Imagine someone slipping and breaking their leg almost completely off. Well, Jane Noble did this and lived through struggling with a bent leg, having to walk on it without a cane. It took months of her struggling to heal a single leg. Thankfully, she had great friends and doctors by her side. Even strangers made a difference in her life following her accident. A compound fracture is an injury in which a broken bone pierces the skin causing a risk of infection. Dorsalis pedis artery is a blood vessel of the lower limb that carries oxygenated blood to the dorsal surface of the foot. Losing it is sometimes necessary when a limb is infected and will not heal. Damaging one of the four (nerves, vessels, bones, and soft tissues), can create deep
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After many months of the leg not healing, her friend Marlene took her back to the doctors and they said they’d have to amputate it. Marlene told her “Now Jane, I want you to know that whatever they do it is not the end of the world. I’ll still be your friend.” One friend of hers told her that she was going to the Apostolic Church and asked if she’d like to come with her. Jane said, “I don't know, but, okay.” When she went there she said she just loved the pastor. She also became good friends with the pastor’s wife. One Sunday a lady that whom Jane had waited on for years at Chief’s deli came up to her quietly at church and said, “Is it okay if I pray for you,” and Jane replied, “absolutely!” Very quietly she closed her eyes, folded her hands and started to pray. A few weeks later Jane visited the doctor and her leg had started to heal. After that, she went back to the doctors and they said she was free to go. Still, she had to go to therapy, but other than that, she was healed.
It still hurts her and she does have a limp still, but she did not have to go back to the doctor since. Jane Noble is the definition of someone who has overcome adversity because of her strength in the face of falling and breaking her leg and almost being amputated. To herself, she said she is just a normal person, but to a lot of her friends and family, she is more than a survivor she
After many months of the leg not healing, her friend Marlene took her back to the doctors and they said they’d have to amputate it. Marlene told her “Now Jane, I want you to know that whatever they do it is not the end of the world. I’ll still be your friend.” One friend of hers told her that she was going to the Apostolic Church and asked if she’d like to come with her. Jane said, “I don't know, but, okay.” When she went there she said she just loved the pastor. She also became good friends with the pastor’s wife. One Sunday a lady that whom Jane had waited on for years at Chief’s deli came up to her quietly at church and said, “Is it okay if I pray for you,” and Jane replied, “absolutely!” Very quietly she closed her eyes, folded her hands and started to pray. A few weeks later Jane visited the doctor and her leg had started to heal. After that, she went back to the doctors and they said she was free to go. Still, she had to go to therapy, but other than that, she was healed.
It still hurts her and she does have a limp still, but she did not have to go back to the doctor since. Jane Noble is the definition of someone who has overcome adversity because of her strength in the face of falling and breaking her leg and almost being amputated. To herself, she said she is just a normal person, but to a lot of her friends and family, she is more than a survivor she