Drone_pilot
27-05-04, 18:59
CAPTAIN Courage Jim Bonney looked his doctor straight in the eye and ordered him: “Please cut my leg off.”
Super-tough Royal Marine Jim decided to gamble on the amputation after smashing his ankle when he fell down a mountain.
And he even threw a party for his Commando comrades a week before the operation to celebrate all the “leg-less times” they had shared together.
At first, orthopaedic surgeon Mr Patrick Loxdale refused to perform the op and urged Jim to try an ankle fusion.
This would have involved putting pins in the joint but would have left him with no movement in his foot and finished his Commando career.
So Jim, 26, who has now battled back to full fitness to become Britain’s first one-legged operational Marine, kept pleading for a BKA — below the knee amputation.
He recalled: “My surgeon wanted me to have the fusion and to see if it would work. He saw a BKA as a last resort.
“But I was convinced the fusion would not give me the result I wanted. I argued that I didn’t want to waste another 18 months of my life — and he agreed to the operation.”
The op was booked for December 9, 2002, at Derriford NHS Hospital in Plymouth.
The Sun Read More (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004241448,00.html)
Comment: "one hard B*****D :D "
Super-tough Royal Marine Jim decided to gamble on the amputation after smashing his ankle when he fell down a mountain.
And he even threw a party for his Commando comrades a week before the operation to celebrate all the “leg-less times” they had shared together.
At first, orthopaedic surgeon Mr Patrick Loxdale refused to perform the op and urged Jim to try an ankle fusion.
This would have involved putting pins in the joint but would have left him with no movement in his foot and finished his Commando career.
So Jim, 26, who has now battled back to full fitness to become Britain’s first one-legged operational Marine, kept pleading for a BKA — below the knee amputation.
He recalled: “My surgeon wanted me to have the fusion and to see if it would work. He saw a BKA as a last resort.
“But I was convinced the fusion would not give me the result I wanted. I argued that I didn’t want to waste another 18 months of my life — and he agreed to the operation.”
The op was booked for December 9, 2002, at Derriford NHS Hospital in Plymouth.
The Sun Read More (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004241448,00.html)
Comment: "one hard B*****D :D "