Story of someone who achieved it

 

As long as I can remember me, I hated my hand. I always thought it doesn't belong there, and I have done a lot to destroy "that thing". 

As a little child, when we played soldiers, I was always the "victim" who lost his hand. I taped it with ducktape and made a hook from a coat-hanger. 
Later I tried lot of other things, like putting my fingers between a door and kick it hard to close, but the only results are four broken fingers. 
I tried many times to "kill" my hand with a tourniqette, made from a rope, tie-raps, bandages etc, but that hurts to much, so I couldn't go "over the edge". Even when I drunk lots of alcohol, I magaged it to remove the tourniqette before it could damage my hand.

 

I bought a cosmethic glove and used it once for a whole week, just to see how it is so see to have a prosthetic hand. I 'played' a lot with it.

 

After reading about a man who lost his feet by frostbite, I decided to try this too. Finaly I managed it it with a frozen coldpack. 
I put two normal coldpacks in the freezer, and when they are frozen, I took a number of drinks (alcohol). Then I wrapped the frozen coldpacs around my wrist and coverd it all with a bandage. After an hour or so, I removed the packs and my arm just above the wrist was deep frozen. (The first stage doesn't hurt, but when the wrist starts to defrost, it burned like hell, no alcohol or painkillers help at that stage).

 

This process destroyed the bloodvains in my arm (and I helped it a little by pushing on the frozen skin, so the cells are crushed) so it started to die soon. The next (so the can't do anything at the first-aid anymore) day I went to the hospital, and told them that I used a coldpack because I hurt my wrist with boxing, but felt asleep with it round my wrist. Because the damage the couldn't do anything to 'save' my arm, and the had to amputate it.

 

Now I have a beautifull prosthesis with a stainless-steel hook and a cosmetic hand. I never regret this, and I really love my stump and prosthesis. I have no pain or phantom-pain, and a very beautifull healed stump with almost no visable scarfs. 

But I must warn the people who want to try to do the same. Know that there is no way back, and you are very disabled with only one hand. Even the most stupid things give you problems, cutting your meat, making your bread, doing little things at home, like using a screwdriver and a screw, making love like I was used to do, and much more things, you maybe not thinking of before you lose a hand. 

Hereby I invite everybody who is thinking seriously to do the same, to come over for a day (or longer if you want) and see how I have to manage things in daily life, so you know for sure that you want to live like me, because again, there is NO WAY BACK. And you always may ask me how I have to manage the things you doubt about. (but remember, I am not looking for a gay relation!)

Your life really changes more than you can imagine before. People will always see your 'disability' before the see you, (a leg amputation is something you can hide, cover your leg with trousers and you are not different from people who limp a little) but a shiny hook, always get the attention. You can loose your work, friends, and you maybe can't do the things you also like to do (like in my case modelbuilding, haute cuisine cooking, playing ice-hockey).

 

I don't want to scare you off, but I want you to be shure you can live with an amputation. If you think it is hard and doubt about it, DON'T DO IT!! In that case you better 'play' to be an amputee, and continue with your 'normal' life when you want to do the things you need two hand for. Remember, you are still an amputee when you are 65 or so, and your body is not any longer in a good shape, so you can't do the things you need two hands for. You are disabled for the rest of your life !!!

 

For those who, after reading my story, prefer to stay a pretender, I can imagine that, and think it is better to be an pretender than have regrets after the amputation. You can buy lot's of equipment on the internet, to look like a real amputee, but you can go back to normal life at the end of the day. (I sell my gloves also on the Internet, because I receive them every 4 months but don't use them, and also sell my used hooks, because I don't need a spare one, I receive a new one when I need this)

 

For me, I love it to be an amputee every day, and if I have to make the choice again, I will do it immidiatly ! Two days of imhumanity pain, maked me the man I always wanted to be.

 

ArmAmp.

 

this is a tourniquet youtube.com/watch?v=wCXYkral5zg

hello, the turnstile does not help you to do what you want, the turnstile serves to stop the bleeding for a short time, to amputate a precise hand or finger something sharp and fast.

Hi, im back with a new idea. If i do the « salt and ice challenge » on my hand and finger and i keep it a long time, it could work i think. What do you think about it ?

Hi. Little update. So I really think about it and i didnt freeze my hand because, for me, starting by a hand amputation is too much. I think 1 or 2 fingers is better. In my right hand, i have 2 broken fingers, did you think i can pretend to have a hard pain to amputate it in a hospital instead of did it myself ? I tried a garrot but its really painful after 2 hours so i cant let it a long time. So, what i can do ?

Why not use an ax and pretend an accident, is it going to be faster and painless?

youtube.com/watch?v=_Lf2-0A9pAE

She did it with an axe

Yes.
You should pretend it to be an accident and then go to the hospital to have them properly amputated.
Freezing would be a better and easier option though.

I've been trying this icepack trick the last couple days and I don't seem to be getting the same results, is there something I'm missing?

thats a fantastic stpry, you are very brave, hooks look so sexy too....