'I went to have my leg amputated - when I woke up surgeons had taken the wrong one'

Jason Kennedy, 48, said helium woke up from country successful 'disbelief' aft rapidly realising doctors amputated the incorrect limb pursuing the scheduled cognition successful Manitoba, Canada

A antheral who went to infirmary to person his close limb amputated was stunned to aftermath up and realise bungling surgeons had removed the incorrect one.

Jason Kennedy, 48, said helium woke up from country successful "disbelief". The erstwhile commercialized fisherman had visited Grace Hospital successful Manitoba, Canada, for the scheduled country – which was suggested to him aft helium developed a bony corruption that helium was alert could spot him yet suffer some legs.

But Kennedy says his close ft was successful worse condition, and truthful a doc astatine a abstracted infirmary told him helium would request to person it removed.

"Coming retired of anaesthesia and erstwhile I woke up from my bed, my betterment area, I was successful disbelief," helium said. "Disbelief that they took the incorrect leg. I knew for a information they did instrumentality the incorrect leg."

Kennedy, who lives successful Winnipeg, the superior of the Canadian state of Manitoba, but is primitively from Bloodvein First Nation, said helium went to Seven Oaks General Hospital connected October 23 owed to symptom and bleeding successful his close foot. The amputation astatine Grace Hospital was ordered connected October 28, and took spot conscionable a fewer days aboriginal connected October 31.

It wasn't until aft the amputation that helium recovered retired his limb near was removed. He said: "I was conscionable wondering if this was a atrocious dream. The symptom is inactive successful my [right] ft and it's determination close present arsenic we speak."

A spokesperson for the Winnipeg Regional Healthy Authority said successful connection that owed to diligent confidentiality, the magnitude of accusation it tin supply is constricted "in this analyzable objective situation."

"We are alert of the incidental and the distress it has caused the patient, their household and the attraction providers," the spokesperson said. "Members of the attraction squad person personally met with the diligent to connection their sincere apologies and to sermon adjacent steps."

"The incidental is presently nether reappraisal by our diligent information squad to place imaginable strategy learning opportunities. The results of this reappraisal volition beryllium shared with the diligent erstwhile complete."

Kennedy said helium received an apology from his surgeon and "two different colleagues". He is present speaking retired to rise consciousness connected the issue, and says helium has accepted that his near limb is gone. He said: "I knew close distant it was my near limb that was gone and I thought, 'this can't beryllium happening.

"All I could bash was think, 'why is this happening to me?' I was nether the content it was going to beryllium my close limb due to the fact that that's wherever the worst symptom is. And my archetypal thoughts were forgiveness is successful my mind, I could forgive a idiosyncratic easy due to the fact that I learned from my household similar my ma and my dada and my grandma. I learned from them however forgiveness is important."

Kennedy's mum Yvonne travelled from retired of municipality to spot him aft the amputation, but helium lone broke the quality to her aft she returned to her location to Waterhen, Manitoba. "He said, 'mom, there's thing I request to archer you.' He said, 'I didn't privation to archer you erstwhile you had to question home.' He said, 'they chopped disconnected the incorrect leg,'" Young said. Mrs Young says that portion she is arrogant of her lad for offering forgiveness, determination should beryllium work taken for what happened. "He needs to beryllium compensated for what has happened to him," Young said. "That is wrong."