What, we don't have to murder a baby to do this, bump?
Say, how successful has the "create a mountain of dead embryos to live forever" approach worked?
When you lose the main arteries in your legs, it's quite problematic. Those arteries (I may have it reversed (the blood vessles headed back to the heart, possibly veins) actually have valves in them.
When standing these valves keep the blood from pooling back into the lower extremities. If you lose those arteries, the periferal arteries (veins?) expand and suppliment blood flow. They don't however have those valves, and this allows swelling if a person stands too long or exercises too much.
When this takes place about the only think you can do is lay down and wait for the blood to flow out of your legs.
Compression hose helps. It does not compensate completely.
Swelling can cause sores. Once those sores errupt, they can become nearly impossible to heal. Consider a sore on the inside of your ankle. A sore the size of a pinhead forms. You cover it and it heals during the day. Even then it may be rubbed raw by shoes. In the evening you pull of your socks, and the scab often comes with them. At night your bed clothes can disturb the scab. Then you get up in the morning and shower. The scab disolves and gets bigger. A pinhead scab can go from that size to the size of a quarter in about a week.
In certain instances a person will have to take off work for upwards of a month just to get the wound to heal.
What would be nice, is if they could find a way to generate a new artery (vein?) with valves. Otherwise the increased flow could help, but would not be the ultimate fix.
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I'm a candidate too, notably in my LLE. Unlike Mr. Reynolds, when I get a shooting pain in my buttocks, it's not venostasis disease, it's liberals.
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