May 26, 2023
Just a simple leg
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Just a simple leg
Ephebopus murinus | Skeleton Leg (adult female, 5.5″)
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Yes, that’s a real skeleton leg that used to be attached to that real, live person. Yes, it’s legal, and usually perfectly safe to keep your amputated limbs! Since I wrote for PBS @newshour about Kristi Loyall’s adventure having her cancerous leg amputated, and then keeping the leg and having it professionally cleaned and articulated, Loyall’s Instagram OneFootWander has gone from a few hundred followers to nearly 18k. Daily Mail got a hold of the story, NYMag, BBC, Distractify, Oddity Central, Mirror.co.uk, Huffington Post, and countless local websites wrote about it too. Now if you google “amputated foot” her story comes up first! (Sadly not my original, but the BBC version.) I actually was trying to focus the story on whether an individual can keep their own, so I interviewed a human remains lawyer and a bioethicist too, but the internet loved Loyall!
Sadly, despite her popularity, Loyall’s GoFundMe to pay medical bills is still underfunded.
Ephebopus murinus | Skeleton Leg (adult female, 5.5″)
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Ephebopus murinus | Skeleton Leg (adult female, 5.5″)
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Ephebopus murinus | Skeleton Leg (adult female, 5.5″)
Fresh molt!
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Ephebopus murinus | Skeleton Leg (adult female, 5″)
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My baby's first dubia roach <3 :}