Within an hour, he got my wife's consent to amputate both of my feet.

I don't think there's any link of us all having gotten it at the same place or even in the same way.

For a couple days before I'd just been feeling lousy, like getting the flu. At one point they went and told my wife and daughters to say goodbye because I wasn't going to make it.

I thought I had a bad case of the flu and I got a bad pain in my right leg and went into the ER just to have that checked out.