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In a freak accident, a 42-year-old woman from Lancashire had to amputate her foot after she dropped a perfume bottle on it causing it swell to twice its size.
Gill Haddington spent two years in excruciating pain after the incident in 2015, and decided to get rid of her foot in 2017 after she developed sore ulcers along with her foot turned to the left and toes curled underneath. A mother-of-two and a former nursery nurse had to use a wheelchair to get around and rely on her two daughters, aged 20 and 18, for support.
Surprisingly, after dropping the perfume bottle, Haddington visited hospital but X-rays showed no broken bones. She was instead diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a condition dubbed as 'suicide disease' because of the unbearable pain.
Narrating the freak accident, Haddington said she was getting ready when she knocked the empty square-shaped bottle off a chest of drawers in her bedroom. "When I first did it I cried out in pain, I lifted my foot to look at it and it hurt so much I couldn't put it back down again. Initially, I thought I must have broken it - I wish I had," Haddington was quoted as saying in Daily Mail.
When her foot got worse over time, her GP suggested, Haddington was possibly already suffering from fibromyalgia. The condition causes pain all over the body, believed to be caused by abnormal levels of certain chemicals in the brain and messages communicated in the nervous system. "All the while I was becoming a prisoner in my own home. I was in constant excruciating pain. I could not walk at all. I don't think I slept at all at that time. It hurt too much to be laid up in bed," she said.
"My leg was already dead to me, it was the cause of so much pain and unhappiness and I just wanted to get on with my life. I wanted to be able to walk again and to go swimming. I love open-air swimming," Haddington said.
In May 2017, she got her leg removed from under her knee. "As soon as I came round my partner said to me, 'I can see I've got my Gill back'. I felt so happy," Haddington said, adding she got her first prosthetic leg in September 2017. "I hadn't walked for almost three years. The prosthetic isn't perfect but I love it so much, having my leg removed was the best thing I ever did," she added.
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