Post by El Loco on Mar 29, 2014 13:33:16 GMT
.....would you go?
Extreme? I don't think so. Following my accident and when I came round from my second operation on my right wrist I contracted a thing called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Look it up: CRPS) which was, quite simply, agony. Even though I was hooked up to a Morphine drip the pain was excruciating to the extent that I ask to be put back under general anaesthetic! I was lucky (didn't feel like it at the time) and my CRPS only lasted for a month or so before the pain was managed.
This poor fecker looks like he has had to put up with it for 16 bloody years!! What I don't understand though is why the NHS didn't elect for amputation? When I had the major op on my arm (aka the 'scaffolding') there was a Tree Surgeon in at the same time who had fallen and smashed his lower leg about a year earlier. He had CRPS and looked like shit. They removed his leg below the knee and the next day, after his first proper night's sleep in a year, you couldn't get the smile off his face!
This guy's actions might seem OTT but I can really sympathise with him and understand where he was coming from.
M.
