The following was posted by me as a comment on my original blog entitled "Smoking", but I know a lot of people didn't see it...
The acute problem with my mother's legs has been diagnosed as Cellulitis - a bacterial infection of the underside of the skin (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulitis ) though believe me her legs looked a lot worse than the pictures shown on Wikipedia). The Cellulitis was probably brought on by Stasis Dermatitis (the brown patches on her legs) that in turn is caused by her sitting still all the time and by the poor circulation in her legs.
She is now using the nicotine patches and tells me she has stopped smoking - Horray! I wonder how long it will last. We are not out of the woods yet. Her legs are still in a terrible state and she still needs to see the specialist but I feel she has made some progress in the right direction.
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