My Shocking Story - My Big Foot: An Introduction

" Vicki suffers from a rare extreme case of lymphedema, an abnormal swelling of the tissues. Her leg, untreated, has swollen to 102 cm and weighs 39 kilos. This is one of the largest leg lymphedemas in America. She takes a cocktail of medication including pain killers, which causes her to slur her speech sometimes."

" Apparently, it's some kind of bacteria you got in here, some you might have been on antibiotics. Bacteria like sits on her leg and says"

" Oh, hey, let's party!"

" All I get is awful smell to it. I'm probably getting the whiff of it, you know."

" Vicki's leg has been gradually growing since she was a child. She was a very active teenager and lived a normal life despite her leg swelling as she got older. Vicki and her mother are convinced her condition was triggered by a dresser falling on her foot when she was 2."

" One day, I heard a big noise, and I came in and your little baby shifted the old dresser. It was on top of you. You didn't seem to be hurt too much, but you know maybe a week or so later, I just couldn't put your shoe on and I noticed that there was a swelling. I think something happened when the dresser fell on you. It brought it on somehow. In my wildest dreams, I never, never, never thought it would get like it is now and I prayed for 46 years that we could do something about it. Well, even today when I looked at your leg, when I look at pictures, it makes me cry because I can't do anything about it personally. It troubles me when I look at it even now."

" It troubles me when I look at it because it's terrible. It's a terrible feeling."

" It's hard to walk. It's really hard."