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Pooja Bhatt’s grandmom held funeral for her amputated leg: ‘What are we doing here?’ | Bollywood News

Pooja Bhatt’s grandmom held funeral for her amputated leg: ‘What are we doing here?’ | Bollywood News

Pooja Bhatt has shared an unusual family anecdote that perfectly sums up her grandmother Betty Bertha Bright’s eccentric personality. The actor-filmmaker recalled how her grandmother insisted on holding a funeral for her amputated leg, leaving the family stunned. During the conversation, she also revealed that Aashiqui, the 1990 blockbuster, was inspired by her parents’ romance. Speaking on Cyrus Broacha’s podcast, Pooja described her maternal grandmother as a resilient woman of Armenian and English-Irish heritage who was known for her sharp wit and dark sense of humour. “So, my grandmother, my mother’s mother, Betty Bertha Bright, was half Armenian and half English or Irish. She was as tough as nails. She grew up in Calcutta during the time of the Raj,” Pooja Bhatt recalled. She went on to narrate how diabetes led to her grandmother losing a leg, but even that became an occasion for her trademark black humour. “She developed diabetes later in life, so her leg had to be amputated. When the leg was amputated, she insisted on a funeral for it. So all …

Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Winter Olympic crash

Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from having her left leg amputated following Winter Olympic crash

Vonn shared in an Instagram post on Monday that her injuries went far beyond the complex tibia fracture in the leg she initially revealed after clipping a gate and sailing off course just 13 seconds into her run on February 8. The 41-year-old Vonn said the trauma from the crash led to compartment syndrome in the leg. Compartment syndrome involves excessive pressure building up inside a muscle, either from bleeding or swelling. High pressure restricts blood flow and can lead to permanent injury if not treated quickly. “When you have so much trauma to one area of your body so that there’s too much blood and it gets stuck and it basically crushes everything,” Vonn said. Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett, an orthopedic surgeon who works for Vonn and Team USA, for conducting a fasciotomy to salvage her leg. ALSO READ | American skier Lindsey Vonn suffers broken leg, airlifted after horrific Winter Olympic downhill crash “He filleted it open (and) let it breathe, and he saved me,” she said. Story continues below this ad …