man walked around with broken leg for 29 years!

[Amby 490]

An Essex businessman has discovered he has been walking around with a broken leg for 29 years.

Steve Webb, 49, broke his left leg in a motorbike crash when he was 20 but has now found it never healed, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Mr Webb, a plumbing merchant from Dagenham, only discovered he still had the injury after it showed up on a hospital scan.

He had feared the leg might have to be amputated under the knee but instead he is about to have an operation to stretch the broken bone back together.

"I think it's extraordinary. Everyone tells me that having a broken leg for nearly 30 years is unheard of," he said.

"I've had trouble with my leg ever since the accident but I was repeatedly told the bone had healed so I carried on walking on it."

Five years after the accident he was still in pain. Doctors then found his leg was still broken so they put it in a metal plate.

Mr Webb had the metal plate for 24 years, then last year he suddenly had pains in his leg again. Scans showed an infection in the bone and when the metal plate was removed the bone was still broken.

He will now have a metal Ilazarov frame fitted around his leg and foot to stretch the bone 1mm each day for seven to nine months. Then he will be in plaster for a further three months.

He has been told the new procedure, which he will have done at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, has a 99% chance of success.

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[Peikko 1,575]

With his luck, 99% chance may not be enough. Poor git

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I've had a crooked ####### longer than that.

[Ladylethal 12]

Wouldn't it have some really weird bone formed healing the place after that long? I mean, all twisted and with excess bone around it that is ...

[john & jean 37]

I've had a crooked ####### longer than that.

quiet!!! someone will screw a metal plate to it

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Wouldn't it have some really weird bone formed healing the place after that long? I mean, all twisted and with excess bone around it that is ...

My #######?

[mawilson 2,133]

Just shows how wonderfully effective government-run healthcare systems are

[Peikko 1,575]

I wondered when someone would say that. It had to be you too.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Just shows how wonderfully effective government-run healthcare systems are

Yeah but in America he wouldn't been able to afford the treatment....

Edited June 16, 2009 by JimandChristy

[mawilson 2,133]

Just shows how wonderfully effective government-run healthcare systems are

Yeah but in America he wouldn't been able to afford the treatment....

You and your wife are the only people in America who can't seem to afford treatment.

[Ban Hammer 13,347]

Just shows how wonderfully effective government-run healthcare systems are

Yeah but in America he wouldn't been able to afford the treatment....

might i suggest joining the military for free health care?

i'm sure that would be more friendly than the alternative - be an incarcerated prisoner.

[Nagishkaw 510]

I've had a crooked ####### longer than that.

They say bent is better.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Just shows how wonderfully effective government-run healthcare systems are

Yeah but in America he wouldn't been able to afford the treatment....

You and your wife are the only people in America who can't seem to afford treatment.

Very soon most Americans won't be able to avoid it anyway if the private insurance companies get their way.

Edited June 16, 2009 by JimandChristy

[mawilson 2,133]

You keep going on and on about how "people in America" cannot afford treatment, as if all Americans

are unemployed broke-аss deadbeats who ain't got two plugged nickels to their name.

Edited June 16, 2009 by mawilson

[Amby 490]

I've had a crooked ####### longer than that.

I've told you so many time, if you stopped using it as a crutch it wouldn't be crooked!