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A man is suing a hospital after losing most of his penis to a flesh-eating superbug he caught while recovering from routine surgery.<\/p>\n
Cancer survivor Andre Lane, 61, contracted the deadly necrotising fasciitis following an operation to remove his prostate gland at Southend Hospital in Essex.<\/p>\n
Although he survived, Lane\u2019s genitals were so badly damaged that he lost most of his penis and is no longer able to have sex.<\/p>\n
He was forced to use a catheter and colostomy bag for two years, until he was fitted with a special device to help him urinate.<\/p>\n
The disease also left him with a protruding stomach, where the outer tissue had been \u201ceaten away<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Lane, from Essex, spent eight weeks in the hospital after contracting the bug in March of 2013.<\/p>\n He said that he has only recently started to come to terms with his injuries.<\/p>\n Lane is taking legal action against Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust over claims that a bowel puncture that occurred during the original operation went undetected for days afterwards, which led to the infection.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has just been a horrendous experience. I thought I was going to die. That night I was taken to theatre three times while the surgeons took more and more tissue away. I lost from my bellybutton to just above the groin and I\u2019ve not got much left of a penis,<\/em>\u201d he said in a statement released by his lawyers, Slater & Gordon.<\/p>\n \u201cI was super fit before all this. I had a good body, but now I look like I\u2019m nine months pregnant. I can\u2019t ever bear to look at myself naked<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most difficult bit is not being able to have sex with my wife anymore. We\u2019re a normal couple who enjoyed it as part of a healthy relationship and I do miss that<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Lane married his long-term partner Sue after being discharged from the hospital, but felt unable to return to his job as an architectural draftsman and now works as a carer.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d never even heard of the bug before and had no idea of the damage it could do, but if speaking out can raise awareness and stop one more person having to go through what I\u2019ve been through then it will have been worth it<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man is suing a hospital after losing most of his penis to a flesh-eating superbug he caught while recovering from routine surgery. Cancer survivor Andre Lane, 61, contracted the deadly necrotising fasciitis following an operation to remove his prostate gland at Southend Hospital in Essex. Although he survived, Lane\u2019s genitals were so badly damaged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}