Doctors refused to amputate his hand after suffering great nerve pain so he built a guillotine and did it himself! Poor guy still suffers pain in his arm and now wants that amputated too. Sounds crazy but I think constant agonising pain can drive you to extreme measures just to be rid of it.
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A desperate dad-of-one suffering years of nerve pain from a road accident tried to chop off his own hand - using a home-made guillotine in his back garden.
Mark Goddard, 44, hacked off his own left hand in a gruesome DIY operation when doctors refused to amputate.
Mr Goddard, who had been suffering agonising nerve pain since a motorbike accident 16 years ago, pleaded with doctors to operate, but claimed he was not taken seriously.
His horrified wife Samantha came home ten minutes later and found her husband had tossed the severed limb onto a fire in the garden.
She dialled 999 police but by the time paramedics and officers arrived the hand had been too badly burnt to be saved.
Despite the extreme act Mr Goddard says he is still suffering from pain and is now threatening to cut off more of his arm unless doctors help him remove it surgically.
'There was an alternative and that was having it done properly in hospital. But no one would do anything to help me - so I did it myself.
'So It took it off myself and now there is no reason why the can't operate.'
He tied two tourniquets above his forearm to reduce the blood flow and had a first aid kit nearby if anything went wrong.
After ensuring his wife and son were out of the house, he chopped off his limb and made sure it couldn't be reattached by tossing into a fire he lit in a bin in his garden.
It had been burning for 30 minutes before police arrived and kicked over the bin and tried to retrieve it.
Mr Goddard insist he has undergone three psychiatric evaluations and passed all three.
Police who attended the scene confirmed he was bleeding badly but was 'otherwise rational' before he was taken away by an ambulance.
'The hand was badly burnt and was in a bin. Officers attempted to save the hand but it was badly damaged.'
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The homemade device.
This is his hand before he chopped it off. He suffered agonising pain.
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, it was clearly too painful for him to continue enduring the nerve pain. If it got to that point i would probably do it myself. The Walking Dead teas.
