On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:32:03 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:30:19 -0400, TFM® wrote:
>
>>
>> Blake, I've been seeing your posts for years. Never knew you were in a
>> chair.
>> If I ain't being too nosey, what happened? Email is valid. If you don't
>> care to respond, that's valid too.
>>
>> TFM®
>
>beginning around thanksgiving of '98, i began to become ill. when i
>finally went to the doctor on jan. 3, 1999 (actually i went on dec 31, but
>they wouldn't admit me)

Seems to me that's solid ground for a lawsuit, but I'm not a lawyer.

> my eyeballs were turning yellow and they diagnosed
>me with e. coli septicemia. there were also liver and kidney failure
>problems.
>
>i was in the i.c.u. in a coma for a couple few days. everyone, including
>the doctors, pretty much thought i was going to die. (my father, the old
>fraud, is an even bigger atheist than i am, but he called in a priest to
>give me the extreme unction ('last rights'). he later told me that he
>thought that would wake me up if anything would.)
>
>anyhow, while they were dealing with the liver and kidney, and extremely
>low blood pressure, my legs became gangrenous, and they had to whack 'em
>both off, about 3 inches below the knee (using somebody-or-other's
>guillotine method, as it's charmingly noted in my medical records.)
>apparently they wanted to go above the knee, and my father nixed that. i
>seem to recall them asking my permission also (i said o.k. but i didn't
>really think they were going to do it).
>
>but somehow, just to spite everyone, i came out of it alive and in pretty
>good shape minus the leg portions, so i'm reasonably well satisfied with
>the outcome. now, if i'd had them blown off for me in the army (which many
>people assume) or mangled in a car accident, i might be ****ed off. but
>i've been pretty lucky in life, so it doesn't bother me much.
>

Wow! I knew about the chair but I didn't have any background
information so I assumed you'd been in it since childhood - mainly
because you don't make a big deal out of the situation. In your
(missing) shoes, I think I'd be really ****ed off.

You lost your legs, but how are those affected internal organs doing?

Nosey Too


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