An Arm and a Leg
A person with Body Integrity Identity Disorder has an overwhleming desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs:
Baz remembers first seeing an amputee when he was a 4-year old boy in Liverpool. By the time he was 7 he had begun to think, “This is the way I should be.” It was not until Baz was in his 50s, however, that he actually had his leg amputated. Baz froze his leg in dry ice until it was irreversibly damaged, then persuaded a surgeon to complete the job. When he awoke from the anesthetic and his left leg was gone, he says, “All my torment had disappeared.”
June 15th, 2006 at 2:42 am EST
That is a ridiculous story. That guy doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
June 15th, 2006 at 7:04 am EST
Well, it’s a good thing he got his foot in the door, ’cause now those surguries cost an arm and a leg.
June 17th, 2006 at 5:32 pm EST
not if your insurance FOOTS the bill.