How much to lose your legs??

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I'll set the YABU/ YANBU rate to £10m. YABU still keeping them, they're mine. YANBU already picking out wheelchairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75r21ww30vo
Assuming there is truth to this - WTF??? Even rolling myself up to £50m I'm in visceral horror. The money is only useful in my opinion if you can cycle, run, climb steps to change a lightbulb, play football with your kids, and feel your legs there anytime you want.

So do you have a limit?

Almost as nutty as the doctors at NHS Fife.

But I don't think any amount of lolly would persuade me to part with legs. Short as they are, they are mine, and I'm quite fond of them.

It is well known that some people have a body dysmorphia that means they want to be rid of healthy limbs.

Obviously this doesn’t relate to those who want to be rid of healthy genitalia.

Can you link to that? I’d be gobsmacked if a vascular surgeon would remove someone’s legs unless they absolutely had to.

It’s all over the press. He had sepsis, they tried oxygen therapy which didn’t work so they were removed with his consent. They aren’t saying much about where the fraud kicks in but seems to be the nature of acquiring the sepsis.

@Sweetbeansandmochi in the article it says it is nothing to do with how he acted with patients - I think this is all about him/the insurance. Let’s hope that’s correct. Completely weird though …

Interesting article related to this question:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/a-new-way-to-be-mad/304671/

I don’t consider myself overly religious but I feel wrong about the idea of swapping anything god gave me for money.

He he has a amputation fetish, doesn't this cast doubt on the necessity of all the operations he performed? 😳

I think it depends on your life set up.

For me, no amount of money would be worth losing my legs. I live on my own, very rurally and both my job and the hobby I spend 3-4 evenings a week on require full mobility.

But if I lived in a town/city, with a family that I enjoyed spending time with, worked full time from home and had sit down hobbies then yes, I can imagine parting with my legs for a few million pounds.

I wouldn’t swap my legs for any amount of money.
I am concerned as this individual has received press coverage as being an inspirational dr, that there is press coverage all over showing his young family. It now seems really unfortunate given the links to the crimes he could be associated with. I hope some previous press articles are removed.

I still can't wrap my head around this story, I read it before I saw your thread and I've been thinking about it all day. It's one of the craziest stories I've come across.

This was my thought too.

Did he perform unnecessary amputations?

My legs are short and stumpy (excessively muscular due to a medical condition), but they're useful, so I'll keep them, thanks.

I can't get my head around the news story though. It's one of the weirdest and most gruesome things I've ever heard of. The articles I've read about it seem to raise more questions than they give answers.

This is a horrifying thought. I don't think we've heard the end of this story, by a long stretch.

Always get a second Dr opinion, especially before major operations, folks. I dread to think what's going to come out, I think it's the usual press drip feed in preparation.

Trying to work out how he got sepsis from a stomach bug he and his daughter got whilst camping. She recovered quickly thank goodness, but he then developed pneumonia which affected his feet? Or is there a suggestion that he injected himself with toxins? Hence the fraud charges?

Just bizarre. No amount of money because as a 10 year old I happened to catch on the news, after watching the Magic Roundabout, that a young woman who was shopping for her wedding dress in Northern Ireland, lost both her legs following a bomb. I was inconsolable. Lived in Northern Ireland at that time. The news was swiftly turned off after children's programmes after that. I cannot understand why you would have a fetish about that.

I think @MNHQ need to change the title of this one. It’s very ableist to talk about trading money and disability. Many of the comments do focus on the article itself, rather than the title. But it’s quite offensive to make comments about how much money would make disablement bearable for you.
I’m also not convinced people intend to cause this offence, so hopefully a moment of reflection.

Hopper by name . . . .

That's not funny @MeatRaffleRita

It is the body dysmorphia crowd and the Eunuch/null subset of the trans world. It is a pretty sick world and this creepy fraud of a doctor was connected to it. They say that men will never chop off bits of themselves for sexual gratification - well the evidence is that they are lying.

Given that one of the charges against him is for encouraging the Eunuch Maker to carry out amputations, yes.

This is so grusomely interesting. I hope we hear more about this as it progresses.

I lost a leg to cancer last year. At the hip so a prosthesis is much more difficult to fit/use.
I’d like mine back given the choice, but I know of people like him from my research, they have a mental health condition called BIID. He Can’t help it anymore than any other mental health issue.

It has nothing to do with being trans. People with BIID are not trans.