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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Bizarre: Meet the woman who asked doctors to damage her spinal cord to fulfill her desire of using a wheelchair



 Gosh, you hear of some stories and you can’t help but wonder why? A Cambridge University educated research scientist is so desperate to live the life of a wheelchair-bound person she is prepared to pay a doctor help her become disabled.  She wears leg braces and uses a wheelchair, even though her legs are healthy.
Chloe spends most of her time in a wheelchair, but has to get out for various household tasks and walk down the steps to her car.

Since childhood, Chloe Jennings-White has made several attempts at injuring herself so she can finally climb into her own wheelchair. In 2010 she even found a doctor overseas willing to help her become disabled by cutting her sciatic and femoral nerves, but she could not afford the £16,000 costs.  ‘I might never be able to afford it, but I know, truly and deeply, I won’t regret it if I ever can,’ she said.

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