Dad-of-five has legs amputated after falling ill on holiday | UK | News
The legs of a five fathers were cut after a life -threatening situation after entering a family holiday in Italy for hours. 35 -year -old Alessandro Luciano, on the first day of the summer trip, in August last year with his wife Iljhama and five children landed in the southern regions of the country. Soon he noticed black stains on his limbs and a strange burning feeling and ran to a local hospital.
The family’s prisoner’s escape, rare and serious complications meningococcal type B infection, because of diganosis went downhill. The electrician, the lower legs of the surgeons, four fingers in the right hand and a part of the finger on the left, his hometown Stuttgart, Germany was urgently transferred to a facility in Germany. Iljhama met with her husband at the age of 14, looking at the mother of the family holiday in Italy, following the “many difficult bear”, but instead of a new “nightmare” posing, he said.
“We were not allowed to be happy,” he said. “Our hearts are divided into more than 1000 pieces [Alessandro] Contracted meningococcus nesseria purpura fulminans. [But] He survived and fortunately the nervous system was not damaged. “
The couple renewed their apartments on the fifth floor in Stuttgart before going to Italy last year, but the same house has now become a major obstacle to Alessandro’s daily mobility.
Iljhama a Waof The campaign to help meet the costs of setting an external elevator after learning that putting a staircase elevator into the building is contrary to the arrangements.
“Currently I carry it up and down twice a day using a ladder climber – the total weight is over 100 kg.” He said.
“This not only makes a heavy coercion on my health, but also eliminates the last traces of independence and dignity.
“A staircase increase under building arrangements is not possible, and due to small platform areas in the stairwell, modern wheelchairs with Caterpillar Drive are also excluded.
“The external elevator is our only hope, but it cost tens of thousands of euros – and we can’t finance it.
“Now that he is completely dependent on me, barely mobile, deeply hurts him and tears me from the inside.”
The online campaign has risen over £ 121,596 (140,000 euros) so far (49,826 euros).
