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===What the Water Gave Me=== Alternatively known as What I Saw in the Water, Frida is shown in a bath, with a bleeding toe and her right foot shows abnormalities common to the spina bifida she was born with.<ref name="FineArts">{{Cite book | title = The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neuro-Historical Dimensions|isbn=978-0-444-62736-0| date = 2013 |editor-first = François|editor-last = Boller|chapter=Frida Kahlo's Neurological Deficits and her Art | first = Valmantas | last = Budrys | pages = 241-254|chapter-url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1CI_RS88uPwC&lpg=PA241&ots=laIBBP3P4O&lr&pg=PA242#v=onepage&q&f=true| publisher = Elsevier}}</ref> Her right leg has a volcano over it, with lava streaming from the top, which may represent either burning or unpredictable chronic pain in her right leg, which suggests nerve pain.<ref name="Courtney2016" /> Her right foot had been crushed during the streetcar accident, and the pain in her right leg could be the rest of [[post-polio syndrome]], which commonly causes moderate to severe pain although Frida had polio as a child or is not known whether she had post-polio syndrome.<ref name="Courtney2016" />
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