They literally cut my leg off, they severed a body part, then what happened? And the question that may have plagued your mind is, is Joe keeping her foot in a jar somewhere in the house? Well guys, allow me to introduce you to! The time has come to answer the question that you have been asking me for 18 months. The question that no one ever really wanted to ask, but as soon as they saw my video about saying goodbye to my foot, they couldn't get out of their little lines. The question I didn't even remotely consider until I learned my leg was going to get hacked off. Awww, where is the gunna- where do they go? Where do the- where do the- where do severed body parts go? What do they do with them? Do they give them a nice funeral ceremony? Do they donate them to the zoo to feed them to the lions? Lions get hungry, I would understand it. Is there a ritual sacrifice that we are unaware of that happens in the back? Do you get to keep it? Now that is- that is the real question that people want to know. Do you get to keep your severed body part if you so desire? I have the answers for you guys today and we are going to dive in deep. Are you ready? I'm kind of ready. I'm not entirely ready. This is actually still kind of a weird subject for me, considering the fact that someone actually cut my leg off and did something with it. But here's the answer for you. Weirdos, because you wanted to know, I'm just kidding, you're not weird. I actually very curious about this subject myself. Before we dive in, if you want to give this video a thumbs up, it really helps the engagement that helps YouTube get out to more people. And it would make me feel great. Let's just go ahead and address the elephant in the room. Now, as many of you know, this little puppy right here, we name her Sunshine because I'm walking on Sunshine. She ain't a real leg. I lost my actual leg about 18 months ago, due to a variety of complications that led to me eventually having to make the decision to just be done with it so I could hopefully live in less pain. So far so good, but they literally cut my leg off. They severed a body part. Then what happened, and the question that may have plagued your mind, is is Joe keeping her foot in a jar somewhere in the house? Is there a basement in this residence that carries a severed body part? Or maybe it's stuffed? Maybe it's not like sitting in a jar from aldehyde. Maybe it's stuffed on a mantelpiece somewhere. Well, guys, allow me to introduce you to! Alas, only a prop severed foot. Let's get real, guys. This has kind of grew some for Amazon to sell as a prop. I wanted to get one that was a little less disgusting, but if we're real with ourselves, that's probably pretty close to what it looked like. Can we agree on that? Ew. Also, I hope that my foot did not look like a total veiny man foot. But hey, I'm not going to discriminate if that's the case, so be it. So, to get the weird question out of the way, I did not keep my foot. Let's talk about what actually happens to severed body parts after they're amputated the majority of the time. I feel like we should put this on a pedestal behind me, as we're chatting. Okay, so what happens in the majority of situations is when you go through a limb amputation of some sort, your body part is then bagged up, and this is kind of weird to me. And it's sent over to get like disease tested from my understanding it's sent over to pathology, and then it is incinerated. It's burnt up. And quick sign note, this is a real story when I woke up from my amputation. I immediately felt like my foot, the one that had just been cut off, was on fire. Like, that was a very real sensation that I had, and I learned that it was like literally on fire, probably about that same moment. I don't really believe in things like that necessarily, but I can tell you that that's actually what happens. Perhaps my nerves were communicating telepathically at that moment. Disphosing of body parts that will eventually be rotting and decaying if they're not properly kept is really important. It's a health hazard if it is not done appropriately, and so incinerating body parts. So weird sentence to say is the best way to do it in many situations now. However, there are some exceptions to that. I'm not gonna lie, mostly because my husband had some art ideas for it. My, we wanted to know if there was like the possibility of me being able to keep that body part if I wanted to. Like, what if we wanted to have a burial ceremony for it, or what if we wanted to, you know, stuff it and turn it into a door stop because hey, that's a conversation starter. I'm glad we didn't do that for the record. The hospital system that I was treated with that I was in said a hard note. They do not return body parts to you, which does seem kind of weird considering it's literally the definition of your property. Like it can't get more personal than your own body, but for health reasons, they will not give you that body part back. There are some exceptions to that. If your religion requires you to be buried with all of your body parts, I understand that there are some religions that do function that way. There can be exceptions made under extantuating circumstances such as that. However, that is not the norm. But there are other hospital systems where rules are a little bit more lax and people have actually been able to bring them home. I know two stories in particular that I would like to share with you that were shared with me right before my own surgery. The first is the foot taco guy. I am guessing you can probably figure out the rest of the story from the title, but a guy had a leg amputation. He brought his leg home and then he had a cookout and he made tacos out of his leg for his friends. And they had a taco foot party. The like the epitome of dark humor also is it safe to eat human meat? Oh God, I hate that sentence just came out of my mouth. Flattacos are just not my cup of tea. I'm just gonna go ahead and say that. The second story that I'm aware of, the story of a Russian man, who is a very large man who requested his leg back. He had an entire leg amputation and he wanted to make a leg lamp like a Christmas story except he put his entire leg in a big old vat of formaldehyde, put a light on top of it. I believe it was a purple light bulb and then tried to sell it on eBay, but here's the thing guys, you can't sell body parts on eBay so it was a real bummer for him that he couldn't make any money off of it. That had to be a disappointing day for him. So his leg lamp, I'm sure, is still sitting at home or sold on the black market. Also, you might be familiar with this story from Instagram, I think it's kind of a cool one. A gal by the name of Christy Loyal got her foot back in a bag after her amputation. God, that just said, oh, that really makes me uncomfortable to think about, I don't know about you. Let me know in the comments section down below. Apparently Christy kind of made a joke about wanting your foot back and I was like, no, actually I want it back, it's my freaking foot. She got it back, had it properly preserved and taken care of, had the skeleton taken out. And now it has an Instagram account called One Foot Wanderer in which she takes pictures of her, the bones of her feet, the bones of her actual foot in different places all around the world as she travels around, which I mean, is fairly badass. One article I'm reading on BBC right now says that if she leaves it anywhere, dogs will often try to take it because it's like chewing on bones. That's a funny problem to have. Long story short, I did not keep my foot. I don't really regret it. I parted ways with it, it's gone. I did make a video a while ago in which I did find out through hospital reports that there were photos of my severed foot floating around in hospital networks somewhere which is, oh yeah, which is bizarre to think about. If I ever wanted to retrieve those, I bet I could probably fight to get those back. But I don't think I actually want to see that at least at this junction in my life. Just personal preference. Generally speaking, limzer incinerated is the healthiest, safest thing to do in many situations, but depending on what hospital system you're going through, what their particular regulations are, you might be able to fight to get your body part back if that's something you really want. Also, please note, you can't sell body parts on eBay so don't try to and please, for the love of God, don't make foot tacos. Thanks for listening, guys. I really appreciate it. 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I just feel like there are so many potential uses for things like this around Halloween and Halloween costumes. Give me some ideas if you have them guys. Okay, actually, bye now. Bye guys.