All news on the topic: Amputation

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Forklift driver forced to amputate foot after vehicle crushes it in accident
A woman who was a few weeks into her new job as a forklift driver is now regretful as she's forced to have her foot amputated after an unfortunate accident, which left the limb bloody and purple.
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'I chose to have leg amputated to end crippling pain - now I feel normal again'
James Moore meets the veteran set to represent Team UK at the Invictus Games, who lost his left leg following a horror football injury
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Man has hands and feet amputated after catching Victorian disease from a flea
Michael Kohlhof from Houston, Texas caught typhus from a flea bite and doctors had to amputate both his hands and parts of his feet. But his family says he is staying strong
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'My arm was chopped off at work - now I've got world's first bionic arm'
Dad-of-four Tonney Forsberg has the world's first fully bionic arm and can manipulate each finger as if it is his own arm after he lost his limb in a tragic accident at work
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'I thought I had a common cold - weeks later doctors amputated both my legs'
Matthew Hicks thought he had a cold but was diagnosed with sepsis, Strep A and pneumonia and when blood stopped getting to his feet doctors had to amputate both his legs
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Man cut in half by forklift goes swimming joking wife 'panics' if he goes under
Loren Schauers had his body amputated below the waist in a hemicorporectomy after falling 50ft in a forklift and being crushed while working, but he hasn't let that hold him back from enjoying life
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Woman loses all four limbs after catching disease from concert's mist machine
Evelyn Davis, 22, went to a concert in June and became unwell several days later before being rushed to hospital and diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia and ending up in a coma
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Mum who passed out drunk and woke up with rotting legs issues alcohol warning
WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE: Julia Anderson, 36, was enjoying an evening out drinking vodka with pals before she passed out in an awkward position and woke up in agony
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'I was bitten by a mosquito on holiday - when I woke up I had no arms or legs'
The memories are hazy, and Tatiana Timon can only recall snapshots - like being wheeled into an operating theatre and seeing a "big saw" before the operation to remove her lower legs
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Bionic girl, 6, born with no fingers to be youngest to receive robotic arm
Parents' delight as Caitlin Hutson is lined up to be youngest person in Britain to receive bionic 'Hero Arm' device... but they need to raise £13,000 for make their daughter's dream come true
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"I watched my leg being cut off - and now I'm free of 'suicide disease' pain"
The slightest touch of Andrew Lawton's leg would result in severe bruising and ulcers as he was left in excruciating pain for 24 hours a day which left him suicidal
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Hero dad loses both legs diving in front of snowplough to save his two daughters
Australian Defence Force veteran Dave Miln threw himself in front of a snowplough to save his daughters Isla, three, and one-year-old Anna at a ski resort in California, USA
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British backpacker may need leg amputated after huge moped crash on Thai island
Arron Rouse was riding a scooter in the dark on his his home after work when he skidded and flew off on the island of Koh Yao Noi in Phang-nga province, Thailand
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