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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 10:52 PM Apr 2020

Broadway star Nick Cordero has leg amputated (covid related!)

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/2020-04-19-coronavirus-news-n1187266

The Associated Press

6h ago / 3:28 PM CDT
Broadway star Nick Cordero has leg amputated

Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero has had his his right leg amputated after suffering complications from the coronavirus, his wife says.

Amanda Kloots on Instagram wrote late Saturday that Cordero “made it out of surgery alive and is headed to his room to rest and recover.”

Cordero had been treated with blood thinners to help with clotting in his leg, but his doctors had to stop the treatment because it was causing internal bleeding.

Kloots on Sunday posted an Instagram promising that the couple "WILL dance again.

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