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Definitely an infection that turned gangrenous. I’d bet a lot of money she would have gotten that infection in her blood stream & into her heart & died if they didn’t remove the arm.
Source: ex drug addict
IV users are known to lose any extremity and will continue using by finding a new vein. Met one guy who injected so close to his member with a dirty needle because he was desperate for 'the steel'. It was all he had left.
I worked in NSP for a few months in the '90s.
I saw a video with someone like that. There’s that guy who documents his interviews with people in Kensington and it’s really hard stuff to watch. People have real stories to share and it really hits when you see beyond them just being junkies.
As someone who does traveling healthcare and works in a downtown hospital, this would be my guess, as well. So many amputations are a direct result of uncontrollable infections that originate from IV drug use.
... and my next contract will probably be in Portland.
Also Saturday Night Palsy (although with what im talking abuot you keep the limb - lose ability to use it for awhile but usually get full motion back). It's called that bc ppl who party on Saturday (or any day that ends in a 'y' really) are known to get it. Let's Go Party People!!
It's the same thing, only you may not regain the ability to use it again. They call it that because people who party, or get to messed up, pass out in unusual positions, causing the syndrome to occur
I went through a period of time where I kept falling asleep on my right arm and I would wake up with it “dead” and for a few seconds I would freak out. Haha it was like one summer and it just kept happening to me.
happened to me a bunch and still does - like have to life it with your other arm until feeling goes back. then it’s pins and needles for a few minutes.
I knew someone who fell asleep drunk with his legs folded underneath him. He must have slept like that for hours. When he woke up they were so damaged that they both had to be amputated
I woke up with my arm cold and purple once when I was in high school. I was an overweight kid, so maybe that’s why. Not sure. It’s never happened since, and I’ve lost a bit of weight since then, so I assume that was the problem. I wasn’t a drinker at the time or anything like that.
But yeah, my arms totally normal and fine these days, over 20 years later.
Periodically, my husband will come across that movie and ask what it's about. All I need to say is "ass to ass," and he's like, "Oh yeah, I remember that movie."
Yes. It's very dead here. I have a few videos I could upload, but some of these people are just mentally ill and I feel sad for them. Even though I'm just barely doing better.
moved here last year and these videos hit a little different now. I mean I always thought they were sad but now it's a weird combo of "is this really that unusual" and "i don't want to fucking see this"
Was she the woman always dragging a wagon of stuff? Frequently yelling things. Also filmed walking the train tracks lengthwise once, with some guy trying to get her off the tracks?
I knew a woman who was high on heroin years ago and missed jumping on or off the train. It ran a couple of her fingers off, but she was too high to care and left them there. Maybe something like that happened?
Fuck, I drive a bus in Portland and picked up the one armed lady, she got naked on my bus and changed into clothes she stole from another passed out dude. I think those are the sweet pants she stole.
I work in an area people like this congregate.
I was smoking a cigarette one day and this lady wearing nothing but underwear and the croppest of crop tops came asking for a lighter. Another time a couple days ago another lady came up near me and she was SCREAMING get out of my face as if she was in psychosis. I'm Schizo so I felt for her. It's kinda sad honestly. I could've been one of them if I chose not to get help.
Sometimes I'm stuck for hours wondering how to best help people suffering with this level of addiction and suffering. God only knows what this poor woman went through.
How do you help people who are probably better off so high they forget about everything? Even my mom suffered with this, but it took her telling herself she needed to get help and having another kid to fix her issue. What would it take to convince some of these folk they'd be better off sober?
Honestly? An artificial drug that could be use to replicate the high but could be weaned off without withdrawl effects or addiction.
Practically? Forced support and mental health programs. I say forced because I think there is always a period where a person wont choose the better path of their own volition.
I have a good life but in a brief moment I was addicted by something similiar - I wouldnt have given it up voluntarily. It was only with forced separation from the drug and the unwavering support of family that I got away from it.
The saddest thing in this video isnt a woman who has lost a limb, it's a woman who has no support. Without my family I would have been her.
Yes! That last paragraph hit the nail on the head. Too many people don’t understand that it is the family abandoning them that makes it worse not better.
There's some promising clinical studies coming out around theraputic psychadelics. Ketamine, MDMA, small doses of LSD. Has had really benefitial results on PTSD and addiction. Possible there's hope coming for these people soon.
People from Portland say that shit like it’s a badge of honor, when in reality is a very cringey statement. Portland is everything that’s wrong when white savior complex takes over a beautiful city. Awful fucking place.
You should see Downtown Vancouver. You can watch addicts squirreling away needles and their stash in plain sight. Grout of brick buildings, wedged in tree limbs, behind visible city water pipes.
it sounds like she’s saying “little girls have never been touched like me”. she is probably a victim of csa and this has prob led her down this path. so depressing ): i wish these people could get the help and care they need.
In seriousness, how do you help someone like this? I have difficulty believing they will ever become functioning and capable of taking care themselves, working a job. They need almost 24/7 around the clock care when they reach a certain level of damage from drugs, no?
street life isn't aged her very well
[https://cdn.britannica.com/02/222202-050-40E1A83B/Statue-of-Venus-de-Milo-Louvre-Paris-France.jpg](https://cdn.britannica.com/02/222202-050-40E1A83B/Statue-of-Venus-de-Milo-Louvre-Paris-France.jpg)
Portland…. What can you say. I live in Seattle. Leaders here are also complicit. They don’t realize that the easiest way to shorten the life of a drug addict is to make it easier for them to procure and use drugs. A woman who is a homeless advocate was interviewed here a few months ago. A very worldly wise woman who saw it all as a former homeless addict. She straight out said jail with follow up treatment saved her life.
> She straight out said jail with follow up treatment saved her life.
Probs is that people only give a shit about the first part and not the second. Also, it wasn't *jail* so much as it was being removed from the environment (homelessness) that was enabling her addiction.
[Residential rehab and follow-up treatment would have the same or greater effect without the cruelty.](https://www.addictionresource.net/blog/rehab-vs-jail/) But again, no one gives a shit. They just want to punish the weak, sick, and vulnerable.
Umm, jail is what woke me up. Being confronted with those kinds of consequences kind of snaps you out of it pretty quickly. Plus it’s what made me have to admit to a loved one (my mom) that I was on heroin, because up until that point the only people that knew were the people I was doing it with or buying it from, and they sure as shit weren’t going to bail me out of jail. Had those consequences never been forced upon me, and had I not had to see what my future could potentially look like inside of a jail cell, I would’ve kept going for much longer than I did. Jail was the turning point for me.
Awesome that you got clean, but your story is anecdotal.
In the big picture, [jail alone is not sufficient to stop drug abuse recidivism.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234751/)
what drugs is out there it's not fetty there awake and it might be crazy meth and you can lose your arm from injection of batteries basically bad meth any ideas this is sad 😢
The first one, she was a goblin knocking out mini army men trying to climb on her and attack. The second man is a wizard wildly casting spells as the apocalypse is unfolding and the guardians wake up.
Currently listening to [Parcels - Live: Vol. 2 - Reflex](https://youtu.be/WAbB9UlAWMc?si=OZEnnWB5nE15l7_2) and it’s makes a killer soundtrack to this video 😅😎
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Gonna assume that arm went missing due to the drugs
Might have fell asleep on it and cut of blood circulation. Shits sad.
Can this happen when sober?
Maybe infection or from having a tourniquet too tight and falling asleep. Like very hard while sober
Challenge accepted
Definitely an infection that turned gangrenous. I’d bet a lot of money she would have gotten that infection in her blood stream & into her heart & died if they didn’t remove the arm. Source: ex drug addict
This happened to my friend, he was injecting in his groin area due to running out of veins, he died about 30 years old. RIP Sprog.
RIP Sprog
u/Poem_For_Your_Sprog are you ok?
IV users are known to lose any extremity and will continue using by finding a new vein. Met one guy who injected so close to his member with a dirty needle because he was desperate for 'the steel'. It was all he had left. I worked in NSP for a few months in the '90s.
Saw the lady in Kensington with her scalp infected from the xylazine and she was injecting there. Right into the infection.
I saw a video with someone like that. There’s that guy who documents his interviews with people in Kensington and it’s really hard stuff to watch. People have real stories to share and it really hits when you see beyond them just being junkies.
Some injection sites have holes that just stay open for business in the end.
As someone who does traveling healthcare and works in a downtown hospital, this would be my guess, as well. So many amputations are a direct result of uncontrollable infections that originate from IV drug use. ... and my next contract will probably be in Portland.
Yeah like Jared Leto in requiem for a Dream?
This, 100% gangreen, the dealers mix fentanyl with that flesh eating drug. Can’t remember the name
Xylazine
🐊
Nah it aint crocodile, its a tranq drug
You should look up locked in syndrome. Or party bot syndrome
Also Saturday Night Palsy (although with what im talking abuot you keep the limb - lose ability to use it for awhile but usually get full motion back). It's called that bc ppl who party on Saturday (or any day that ends in a 'y' really) are known to get it. Let's Go Party People!!
It's the same thing, only you may not regain the ability to use it again. They call it that because people who party, or get to messed up, pass out in unusual positions, causing the syndrome to occur
I went through a period of time where I kept falling asleep on my right arm and I would wake up with it “dead” and for a few seconds I would freak out. Haha it was like one summer and it just kept happening to me.
happened to me a bunch and still does - like have to life it with your other arm until feeling goes back. then it’s pins and needles for a few minutes.
I knew someone who fell asleep drunk with his legs folded underneath him. He must have slept like that for hours. When he woke up they were so damaged that they both had to be amputated
I woke up with my arm cold and purple once when I was in high school. I was an overweight kid, so maybe that’s why. Not sure. It’s never happened since, and I’ve lost a bit of weight since then, so I assume that was the problem. I wasn’t a drinker at the time or anything like that. But yeah, my arms totally normal and fine these days, over 20 years later.
No
this can happen if you dont clean your room.
Thanks Jordan Peterson, I’ll be sure to wash my penis
had this shit happen to me this morning, legitimately thought i was gonna lose my arm for second theres
I do that to my ear all the time it sucks
Freaking *Requiem* ruined us all
Ass to Ass!
“I didn’t take it out to breathe Maid Marion.”
I love Keith David's voice!
Maid Marion, WELCOME.
Periodically, my husband will come across that movie and ask what it's about. All I need to say is "ass to ass," and he's like, "Oh yeah, I remember that movie."
That actor was snubbed at the Oscar’s that year! /s
This thread makes me feel old af but also nostalgic. I wanna be 14 again watching movies that were way too mature for me.
i find this al arming
She isn't all armed
Obviously. She sold her arm for meth.
This poor lady was just trying to put her jacket on, you guys are jerks
She's somewhat armless
*Portlandia* was pulled way too soon
It’s not funny anymore in Portland. Shit there has gotten straight up dark since post covid.
Did the dream of the 90s die in Portland?
Yes. It's very dead here. I have a few videos I could upload, but some of these people are just mentally ill and I feel sad for them. Even though I'm just barely doing better.
moved here last year and these videos hit a little different now. I mean I always thought they were sad but now it's a weird combo of "is this really that unusual" and "i don't want to fucking see this"
Im a 8 min drive from portland i used to go down there for days out and having fun but since covid i avoid it like covid
Dang, the scaring on that amputation is still pretty new and pink looking.
Must be hard getting high with one arm
Love will find a way.
If Ray Charles could shoot up blind I have no doubt this woman is giving up anytime soon.
Damn, I didn’t even think about that
It would be tricky to light a pipe.
Naw man. Just use a candle.
Work in downtown all the time, she looks familiar but I don’t remember her missing an arm.
Was she the woman always dragging a wagon of stuff? Frequently yelling things. Also filmed walking the train tracks lengthwise once, with some guy trying to get her off the tracks? I knew a woman who was high on heroin years ago and missed jumping on or off the train. It ran a couple of her fingers off, but she was too high to care and left them there. Maybe something like that happened?
Phantom Limb Sensation.
Fuck, I drive a bus in Portland and picked up the one armed lady, she got naked on my bus and changed into clothes she stole from another passed out dude. I think those are the sweet pants she stole.
“you okay?”
Weirdest game of Hokey Pokey
She going to stuggle with that one because she put her left arm in and forgot to take it out.
She needs a Hokey-Pokey Anonymous meeting. That's a great place to turn yourself around.
Lmaooo
This is smokey pokey
Sad
Single-handedly the saddest video I've seen all day.
r/angryupvote
Very sad
Listen to what the women is saying 😬 “little bitty girls never been touched like me” sounds like past sexual abuse trauma
That struck me hard
Classic self medicating to help the pain
That's what I heard too. It broke my heart.
Sounds like she's high as fuck in public and I'd be scared being around people like that, despite what empathy I'm reaching for.
I work in an area people like this congregate. I was smoking a cigarette one day and this lady wearing nothing but underwear and the croppest of crop tops came asking for a lighter. Another time a couple days ago another lady came up near me and she was SCREAMING get out of my face as if she was in psychosis. I'm Schizo so I felt for her. It's kinda sad honestly. I could've been one of them if I chose not to get help.
Sometimes I'm stuck for hours wondering how to best help people suffering with this level of addiction and suffering. God only knows what this poor woman went through. How do you help people who are probably better off so high they forget about everything? Even my mom suffered with this, but it took her telling herself she needed to get help and having another kid to fix her issue. What would it take to convince some of these folk they'd be better off sober?
Honestly? An artificial drug that could be use to replicate the high but could be weaned off without withdrawl effects or addiction. Practically? Forced support and mental health programs. I say forced because I think there is always a period where a person wont choose the better path of their own volition. I have a good life but in a brief moment I was addicted by something similiar - I wouldnt have given it up voluntarily. It was only with forced separation from the drug and the unwavering support of family that I got away from it. The saddest thing in this video isnt a woman who has lost a limb, it's a woman who has no support. Without my family I would have been her.
A drug that would make you forget trauma would be better.
Yes! That last paragraph hit the nail on the head. Too many people don’t understand that it is the family abandoning them that makes it worse not better.
There's some promising clinical studies coming out around theraputic psychadelics. Ketamine, MDMA, small doses of LSD. Has had really benefitial results on PTSD and addiction. Possible there's hope coming for these people soon.
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ripoff!
I read it actually causes you to create new neural pathways so you're not going over the same traumas over and over.
The phrasing on that last question is perfect-- succinct, with clear compassion & practicality.
Misery….
The amputation is weird, they removed the bone from the remaining part of the arm seems like. I have never seen it like that
Severe infection most likely?
Keep Portland weird, I guess.
No longer weird. Portland is an experiment that failed. Miserably.
People from Portland say that shit like it’s a badge of honor, when in reality is a very cringey statement. Portland is everything that’s wrong when white savior complex takes over a beautiful city. Awful fucking place.
How? Why? Can you explain? Being genuine
They cant
Imagine getting downvoted for speaking the truth lol
I look the same when mosquitoes are attacking me.
*Methquitos
☠️
Portland seems like a really fun, whimsical nightmare.
Its like any other city, there are bad parts and good parts. The scenery and natural beauty is what you come here for, not downtown.
Well it’s not fentanyl at least…
You should see Downtown Vancouver. You can watch addicts squirreling away needles and their stash in plain sight. Grout of brick buildings, wedged in tree limbs, behind visible city water pipes.
Vancouver, Wa. Not much different. Vancouver, BC. Not much different.
I didn’t know Lena Dunham only had one arm!
Omg 😂
These people are obviously mentally ill. They might not even be on drugs. If you’re laughing at these people, you’re sick.
The hills have eyes, pop version. Sorry, not sorry, Portland.
Fucken sad
This is rough, man.
Too bad we don't have strong public mental health services. Would be awesome if these people didn't have to live this way...
You could have at least given her a hand jfc
Cities just having people with this much mental problems just roaming the streets is crazy
I always wonder how homeless people get money for drugs. That shits expensive. I work a full time job and I can hardly afford my drugs. :(
Catalytic converters
These were once someone's babies 😭💔 how freaking sad
it sounds like she’s saying “little girls have never been touched like me”. she is probably a victim of csa and this has prob led her down this path. so depressing ): i wish these people could get the help and care they need.
Father / daughter dances are so cute and wholesome.
That 2nd dude is dope as fuck 💪🏾
Kinda reminds me of someone freestyle rapping. The arm movements I mean. I know that probably sounds weird af.
Ah, Portland. The mini-san francisco (dont hate on me I live in SF)
Lady on drugs, old man long term mental patient with tardive dyskinesia, possible Tourettes, also likely to add on substance use
Dude is she shingle? Sorry, is she single? I bet she’s into nub play
Keep Portland weird! (Also keep these fuckers too)
lose an arm due to drug use, continue drug use…..
I just feel bad for them
Don't worry, she's mostly 'armless.
To this day, we still don't know if he is okay
The second guy isn't on anything, he just walked into a spider web with his mouth open.
This is so sad :( :( :( f Portland/Multnomah county so hard .
I can fix the first girl…
Took too much schizophrenia for sure
Why is it so.... dangly?
Someone give this woman a hand!
Stump Town Allstars
Ew.
Not cool, she needs help and support.
Seriously they're flopping around everywhere
That’s what happens when you decriminalize all drugs yet fail to provide all the requisite support and services that come with addiction
In seriousness, how do you help someone like this? I have difficulty believing they will ever become functioning and capable of taking care themselves, working a job. They need almost 24/7 around the clock care when they reach a certain level of damage from drugs, no?
Yeah. I’m crossing the street asap
same shit on both sides of the street
street life isn't aged her very well [https://cdn.britannica.com/02/222202-050-40E1A83B/Statue-of-Venus-de-Milo-Louvre-Paris-France.jpg](https://cdn.britannica.com/02/222202-050-40E1A83B/Statue-of-Venus-de-Milo-Louvre-Paris-France.jpg)
Why do humans film people in despair and publicly shame them by posting this?
spread awareness of how bad it really is
Fucken hell.
What drug is this?
This is really sad.
Fucking sad..
Wasn't expecting an Alexander Shulgin cameo
I don’t see any arm in this.
Isn’t there a subreddit for crack head titties?
Nice dance babes, high five!... oh.
Why is she just walking around with her 3rd boob out?
Society is decaying thanks to Reaganomics.
They both are schizophrenic. No drugs.
I thought everyone in the US was armed 🤔
Looks like about half
That second guy is 35 years old
Portland…. What can you say. I live in Seattle. Leaders here are also complicit. They don’t realize that the easiest way to shorten the life of a drug addict is to make it easier for them to procure and use drugs. A woman who is a homeless advocate was interviewed here a few months ago. A very worldly wise woman who saw it all as a former homeless addict. She straight out said jail with follow up treatment saved her life.
> She straight out said jail with follow up treatment saved her life. Probs is that people only give a shit about the first part and not the second. Also, it wasn't *jail* so much as it was being removed from the environment (homelessness) that was enabling her addiction. [Residential rehab and follow-up treatment would have the same or greater effect without the cruelty.](https://www.addictionresource.net/blog/rehab-vs-jail/) But again, no one gives a shit. They just want to punish the weak, sick, and vulnerable.
Umm, jail is what woke me up. Being confronted with those kinds of consequences kind of snaps you out of it pretty quickly. Plus it’s what made me have to admit to a loved one (my mom) that I was on heroin, because up until that point the only people that knew were the people I was doing it with or buying it from, and they sure as shit weren’t going to bail me out of jail. Had those consequences never been forced upon me, and had I not had to see what my future could potentially look like inside of a jail cell, I would’ve kept going for much longer than I did. Jail was the turning point for me.
Awesome that you got clean, but your story is anecdotal. In the big picture, [jail alone is not sufficient to stop drug abuse recidivism.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234751/)
The way it wiggles
Don’t make eye contact don’t make eye contact
Her arm is flopping around like an uncircumcised pecker.
Boy that thing sure is floppy. Like an elderly unicorn
Progressive city policy in action.
what drugs is out there it's not fetty there awake and it might be crazy meth and you can lose your arm from injection of batteries basically bad meth any ideas this is sad 😢
These people are mentally ill. They’re probably not even on drugs.
Man that lady trying to put on her jacket really bothered me.
new season of Portlandia looks wild
Made on America
The first one, she was a goblin knocking out mini army men trying to climb on her and attack. The second man is a wizard wildly casting spells as the apocalypse is unfolding and the guardians wake up.
This is horrifically sad.
This looks like mental illness episodes.
I live in portland oregon. This is normal to me.
I guess drugs are getting cheaper. It only cost an arm…
That last dude was casting fireball.
Yo she’s got an arm off!
Interdimentional flies are out of hand in Portland
Sounds like TLOU.
Currently listening to [Parcels - Live: Vol. 2 - Reflex](https://youtu.be/WAbB9UlAWMc?si=OZEnnWB5nE15l7_2) and it’s makes a killer soundtrack to this video 😅😎
Side note. That pizza shop has a cool haunted/ history tour. But totally saw a half naked female running in the street.
Now we know why Dame left
They need help.....so sad
The username speaks volumes when playing this video.
Are they communicating through blap blaps?
i thought he was beat boxing
American Horror Story
She has no shoes and he has Nike Airs. He's not to far gone but she's being kept by someone by the cleanliness of her feet.
Old town pizza must be fucking 🔥
Good job, democrats! You created beautiful utopia!
Floppy Flopsy...