Is it really too late to amputate?

edited October 2012 in The Walking Dead
Lee's not showing any serious signs of infection yet (fever, sweating, trouble talking/moving) and the bite didn't seem too deep (IE, Jim getting bit all the way to the bone). Double checked the WD wiki and the people who have had amputations to prevent turning were Allen, Dale, and Morgan. It worked for Dale and Morgan, and Allen very likely died from blood loss due to the amputation.

While I really doubt Lee has any chance of coming out of this alive (and am perfectly content with it), has it been established anywhere how long it takes for a bite to travel from part of the body to the rest and if the severity of the bite has any influence in that?

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  • edited October 2012
    Oh my god this is the new Carley thread, just stop!

    it is too late to amputate, in the comic someone got his arm amputated and 2 minutes was too late, it spreads faster than snake venom!
  • edited October 2012
    It's never to late to amputate, I'm a civil war doctor and let me tell you it's always the right time to take a limb or two off.

    Thanksgiving is around the corner, want to impressive your friends with the weight you lost? chop of a foot, and set that as your center piece, always a crowd-pleaser.

    To much time on your shoulders? cut the shoulders off! with less shoulders you should have less time wasting and more time learning the pleasure of being cut with a saw, let the drunken nightmares haunt you for the rest of your days.
  • edited October 2012
    Oh my god this is the new Carley thread, just stop!

    it is too late to amputate, in the comic someone got his arm amputated and 2 minutes was too late, it spreads faster than snake venom!

    I'm really fine if Lee dies and I'm not at all upset about it lol. But who was it who got his arm amputated and it was too late? It's been a while since I read the comics and the Walking Dead wiki only led me to the 3 examples I gave (Allen was the only one who died from amputation and it was due to blood loss).
  • edited October 2012
    Acadias wrote: »
    It's never to late to amputate, I'm a civil war doctor and let me tell you it's always the right time to take a limb or two off.

    Thanksgiving is around the corner, want to impressive your friends with the weight you lost? chop of a foot, and set that as your center piece, always a crowd-pleaser.

    It is much easier to squeeze into those old skinny jeans if you only have one leg lol
  • ThadeumThadeum Banned
    edited October 2012
    Acadias wrote: »
    It's never to late to amputate, I'm a civil war doctor and let me tell you it's always the right time to take a limb or two off.

    Thanksgiving is around the corner, want to impressive your friends with the weight you lost? chop of a foot, and set that as your center piece, always a crowd-pleaser.

    To much time on your shoulders? cut the shoulders off! with less shoulders you should have less time wasting and more time learning the pleasure of being cut with a saw, let the drunken nightmares haunt you for the rest of your days.

    How much are your services?

    I would like to amputate my head, but I am worried... If I am not satisfied, might I get a refund?
  • edited October 2012
    Lee probably has a lot of time left to go, considering all other bites were amputated (or large in Jim's case). While he probably won't make it he will probably get enough time to find Clem and hopefully get some goodbyes.
  • edited October 2012
    The bite doesn't spread the infection, so yes you can amputate at anytime.

    The bite kills you because of blood loss and germ infection (rotting teeth into your bloodstream isn't exactly sanitary) so technically Lee can still chop it off.

    But then he'd have to find a way to stop his new nub from bleeding out.
  • edited October 2012
    Well if you ask me. Christa has been showing signs of her being bitten and maybe its alot slower to spread in full grown adults. I mean i never have read the comics but from what the video game shows. No adult has died from a bite. The only person to die was duck but he was a child and we actually never saw him turn and it was a bullet that killed him not the actual bite.
  • edited October 2012
    Thadeum wrote: »
    How much are your services?

    I would like to amputate my head, but I am worried... If I am not satisfied, might I get a refund?

    Of course we aim to please, if you don't feel satisfied with your amazing life changing surgery we will of course refund you, and give your entire family a free coupon to our services.




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  • edited October 2012
    I'm not sure. Lee looked like he had a headache when looking for Vernon in the morgue after his bite. Whether that's because of his bite or just because he doesn't know what to do next remains to be seen.
  • edited October 2012
    I swear to god, if I get the option, I will have Lee commit suicide in episode 5 just so I can say "He's really freaking dead, there's no coming back".

    Then again, Carley's brains got splattered all over the side of the road and people still thought she was alive. "Are you SURE, Lee really killed himself? He's only missing HALF of his head."
  • edited October 2012
    codejerry wrote: »
    Well if you ask me. Christa has been showing signs of her being bitten and maybe its alot slower to spread in full grown adults. I mean i never have read the comics but from what the video game shows. No adult has died from a bite. The only person to die was duck but he was a child and we actually never saw him turn and it was a bullet that killed him not the actual bite.

    I'm fairly certain that Christa is pregnant, not bitten. As for the amputation I haven't read any of the comics, so I'm not sure on how that works in the series. I'd love to keep playing as Lee in S2, even if it is a one-handed Lee, but I don't think there is any chance of him surviving.
  • edited October 2012
    I'm fairly certain that Christa is pregnant, not bitten. As for the amputation I haven't read any of the comics, so I'm not sure on how that works in the series. I'd love to keep playing as Lee in S2, even if it is a one-handed Lee, but I don't think there is any chance of him surviving.

    Amputation works if it happens IMMEDIATELY. Only one person survived an amputation in the comics that resulted from a bite, and they sawed off the dude's leg within MINUTES.

    And Jim, a character bitten early on in the comics, got sick within a day. I think he held on for longer than Duck did, but he asked Rick's group to leave him and let him reanimate so he could "be with his family again". They walked away before he died.
  • edited October 2012
    Rock114 wrote: »
    Amputation works if it happens IMMEDIATELY. Only one person survived an amputation in the comics that resulted from a bite, and they sawed off the dude's leg within MINUTES.

    And Jim, a character bitten early on in the comics, got sick within a day. I think he held on for longer than Duck did, but he asked Rick's group to leave him and let him reanimate so he could "be with his family again". They walked away before he died.

    Thanks for the clarification. I figured Lee was done for.:(
  • edited October 2012
    Thanks for the clarification. I figured Lee was done for.:(

    Look on the bright side dude.
  • edited October 2012
    Rock114 wrote: »
    Look on the bright side dude.

    Yes if you act now, I'll give you a two for one special! pay for one hand and get the other off!
  • edited October 2012
    Rock114 wrote: »
    Then again, Carley's brains got splattered all over the side of the road and people still thought she was alive. "Are you SURE, Lee really killed himself? He's only missing HALF of his head."

    Lee would probably believe that himself. Remember when he asked the police officer at the beginning if he was dead after blowing his head straight off with a shotgun?

    Priceless.
  • edited October 2012
    Viner16 wrote: »
    The bite doesn't spread the infection, so yes you can amputate at anytime.

    The bite kills you because of blood loss and germ infection (rotting teeth into your bloodstream isn't exactly sanitary) so technically Lee can still chop it off.

    But then he'd have to find a way to stop his new nub from bleeding out.

    Ok, let's clarify this please. Yes the bite itself does not spread the infection since it is inherently residing in all of us. However, the bite of a walker does cause that virus to react aggressively, killing you and turning you into a walker before death by natural causes would have.

    The fact that Lee could amputate his arm and be ok is plausible, highly unlikely but worth a go if you wanted to do so in hopes of surviving. The one thing that has been shown that isn't the same is how fast people turn after being bitten (even the CDC guy from the TV show said it was all different if I remember correctly). I would be really pissed if I had my wrist/arm/leg hacked off and still turned in a few days.....really pissed.
  • edited October 2012
    Demonseed wrote: »
    Ok, let's clarify this please. Yes the bite itself does not spread the infection since it is inherently residing in all of us. However, the bite of a walker does cause that virus to react aggressively, killing you and turning you into a walker before death by natural causes would have.

    The fact that Lee could amputate his arm and be ok is plausible, highly unlikely but worth a go if you wanted to do so in hopes of surviving. The one thing that has been shown that isn't the same is how fast people turn after being bitten (even the CDC guy from the TV show said it was all different if I remember correctly). I would be really pissed if I had my wrist/arm/leg hacked off and still turned in a few days.....really pissed.

    Especially because, in the time it takes to recover from the full amputation of an entire limb, the walkie guy may very well have killed/tortured Clem.
  • edited October 2012
    I agree and also realize surviving is hard enough with both arms after the ZA, I don't think I'd risk trying to make it with one arm!
  • edited October 2012
    Oh my god this is the new Carley thread, just stop!

    it is too late to amputate, in the comic someone got his arm amputated and 2 minutes was too late, it spreads faster than snake venom!

    Send me a private message, who got thier arm amputated and died?
  • edited October 2012
    codejerry wrote: »
    Well if you ask me. Christa has been showing signs of her being bitten and maybe its alot slower to spread in full grown adults. I mean i never have read the comics but from what the video game shows. No adult has died from a bite. The only person to die was duck but he was a child and we actually never saw him turn and it was a bullet that killed him not the actual bite.

    she's probably pregnant, not bitten.
  • edited October 2012
    Lee's so screwed he may as well be made of steel and threaded.....
  • edited October 2012
    Read the title for episode 5.
  • edited October 2012
    Read the title for episode 5.

    Heh, which is why I figured this would happen ages ago. lol

    They were a little too clever when giving E-5 a title....
  • edited October 2012
    It won't stop the virus from spreading, but there will be an amputation in the next episode. It turns out Molly is working for the Radio Guy, who wants Lee's infected hand, because it carries a particularly potent strain of the zombie virus, which he believes can be used to create a life-prolonging elixir. Early on in the episode, she'll sever and steal Lee's hand and in the process end up leaving her hook thingy behind. Lee will then attach it to his wrist, giving himself a handy "hook-hand," which he will mainly use to pick locks. And then he'll meet a helpful race of androgynous mer-people and...

    Okay, I'll stop.
  • edited October 2012
    It won't stop the virus from spreading, but there will be an amputation in the next episode. It turns out Molly is working for the Radio Guy, who wants Lee's infected hand, because it carries a particularly potent strain of the zombie virus, which he believes can be used to create a life-prolonging elixir. Early on in the episode, she'll sever and steal Lee's hand and in the process end up leaving her hook thingy behind. Lee will then attach it to his wrist, giving himself a handy "hook-hand," which he will mainly use to pick locks. And then he'll meet a helpful race of androgynous mer-people and...

    Okay, I'll stop.


    All i could think of when i read hook was captain hook. I wonder then who would be peter pan. Maybe ben. He's pretty child-like. Clem is too intelligent and mature lol.
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