I wanted my legs amputated, says MEP Crowley

Fianna Fáil MEP Brian Crowley asked doctors to amputate his legs after undergoing 25 different surgeries in the last two and half years.

I wanted my legs amputated, says MEP Crowley

The Cork-based MEP had been absent from public view in recent months and explained that debilitating leg sores kept him in hospital for months at a time.

“For the last 33 years, I have been in a wheelchair,” said Mr Crowley. “About two and a half years ago, I started having problems with wounds on my legs that wouldn’t heal and the difficulty was that, because of the paralysis, circulation was bad, the muscle tone was bad, and the skin was getting thinner and thinner.

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