I Was Removing a 6-Year-Old Girl’s Leg C@st When My Saw H!t Something Solid… What I Found Hidden Inside Forced Me to Tr!gger the Hospital Emergency @larm.

scratch an itch—pennies, Lego bricks, the occasional unraveled paperclip. I braced myself to find a harmless, misplaced toy.

But as the gap widened, an entirely different odor assaulted my senses.

It was sharp. Sour. The distinct, coppery tang of oxidized blood and weeping infection, baking in the trapped heat of the fiberglass. It smelled like rot.

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