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Many Chiefs fans who suffered frostbite at bitter cold playoff game need amputations

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    The medical director at the Grossman Burn Center at Research Medical Center says 70% of patients referred for frostbite injuries suffered during the bitter cold in January are now being advised to schedule amputations.

    Majority of them are Chiefs fans who attended the team’s frigid playoff game.

    Burn survivors gathered at Research Medical Center for a second annual reunion Tuesday evening. Jack Daly came to the Grossman Burn Center in July when he recalls the heat index was 110.

    “I had a lighter that I light the grill with and I also had an aerosol can of spray paint due to the heat with the grill the lighter exploded and then it ignited the spray can,” Daly said describing the situation that led to second degree burns now mostly healed over 17% of his body.

    But the burn center is now dealing with injuries from far different weather conditions.

    “People think of burns, they think of fire, they think of hot thermal injuries. But burns can happen from many different causes,” said Dr. Megan Garcia, Grossman Burn Center Medical Director.

    Garcia told FOX4 in January she’d already seen dozens of frostbite patients. Many of those were Chiefs fans who attended the playoff game against the Miami Dolphins where it was -4 degrees with a wind chill of -27 degrees at kickoff.

    It was the fourth-coldest game in NFL history and coldest in Chiefs franchise history.

    HCA Midwest Health shared images of the hand of one fan who took his gloves off for just five minutes in order to put up a tent in the parking lot outside Arrowhead Stadium.

    “The patients who had their frostbite injuries along with the Chiefs game, they are just getting to the point now we are starting to discuss their amputations that might be necessary,” Garcia said.

    The estimated 30% lucky enough to avoid amputation after undergoing treatment the past few weeks in hyperbaric oxygen tanks will have plenty of reminders of their frostbite injuries.

    “It’s still a lifelong process. They’ll have sensitivity and pain for the rest of their lives and always will be more susceptible to frostbite in the future. So we are also educating them to make sure they stay warm for the years and months to come,” Garcia said.

    https://fox4kc.com/news/70-of-chief...at-bitter-cold-playoff-game-need-amputations/
     
    #1 Reeko, Mar 7, 2024
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Speaking of Grossman Burn Center, the co-founder, Rebecca Grossman, was just convicted of murder after street racing while under the influence and running over two young boys in a crosswalk (and attempting to drive off, her Mercedes turned off itself after the airbags deployed). Tony Buzbee unsuccessfully defended her.

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-23/rebecca-grossman-verdict
     
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  4. DonnyMost

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    What. The. ****.
     
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    Insane.
     
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    Gives meaning to diehard fans that would give a limb to see their team win it all. Good for you Chiefs fans.
     
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    I really care about my sports teams, but at -27 wind chill, I can just watch from a TV.
     
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    Those football games really do cost an arm and a leg.
     
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    NFL games in 2024 = cesspool/Thunderdome vibes.

    Fights in the stands.

    Grown adults with stupid ass face paint on.

    Millionaires jumping in and out of luxury suites without clothes on like apes.

    Loud, billion dollar jets (weapons) flying over the stadium for no ****ing good reason.

    Long lines.

    Shitty Food.

    Piss all over the floors.

    Minimum 5% of the stadium at any given time should be given a PI.

    It's disgusting.

    Yall have got to ****ing grow up, man. Classless ****s.

    SEC. SEC. SEC.
     
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    LOL, you act like this stuff hasn't been going on for decades
     
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    That is true. Football games = they take all the worst cliche parts of America and make a hot dog out of it.

    Not to mention watching football on TV = you see way more of the action and can actually understand what's going on.
     
    #11 Ziggy, Mar 7, 2024
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    Except possibly for the food (I never eat at Rockets/Texans/Astros games) and the long lines, the Browns playoff game here was nothing like this. I only go see the Texans ~once every 2-3 years.

    It was festive, the two fan bases tastefully and loudly clowned each other and the Browns fans were silent walking to their cars. It's too bad the
     
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    In Colombia, they make the losing team's scapegoat give up a limb. Now that's fandom.
     
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    unfortunate, but that's the reason why they won the Superbowl. no success without sacrifice.
     
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    link?
     
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    I'm trying to picture that.
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    I came for the frostbite but **** that’s a terrible story.
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Good. Can she take Buzbee with her?
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    I was actually at this game.

    Dropped some of my most bussin' W lines on Taylor.

    ...she gave me the cold shoulder
     
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    Holy Moly, that is crazy!! You would never get me out there for a cold game like that
     
    #20 ROCKSS, Mar 8, 2024
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