Some stories just make you cringe...
47-year-old
Zheng Yanliang, from Boading city, China, began to experience bouts of
pain in his abdomen that traveled to both of his legs. He was diagnosed
with massive arterial thrombosis in both legs. As
the pain worsened, he decided to remove the infected limb himself using
a metal saw, a small fruit knife and a back scratcher wrapped with a
towel towel because he couldn't afford hospital bills.
According
to Shanghaiist.com, doctors told Mr Yanliang the disease was very
rarely seen, and he wasn't likely to live more than a month. For three
months, Mr Yanliang was tormented by pain to the point of fuzzy
consciousness, screaming so loud that his neighbors could not sleep.
'It
was very painful and they gave me medication but it didn't help.
Sometimes the pain was so intense I would pass out, then after three
months when it was really bad, they told me that an infection had set
in, that I had gangrene, and that I might lose the limb. Ideally I
needed it to be operated on, but I could not afford it. They just gave
me medication. They sent me home to die.
One
night, after his wife had gone to bed, Mr Yanliang found a fruit knife,
a metal saw and a towel-wrapped back scratcher and began amputating his
own leg. Fortunately, because of the thrombosis, there wasn’t much
blood during the amputation.
The operation saved his life, but now the open wound that still shows a stump of bone has led to a fresh infection, this time in his left leg.
His
wife suffers diabetes and heart disease. The family's only financial
support comes from their 17-year-old daughter, who dropped out of school
to take a job.
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