UPDATE: Authorities identified the suspect in the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi.
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One year ago, Melanie Wilford's son Dillon began experiencing horrific leg pain. After a year of hospital visits, the 11 year old was finally diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome – or 'suicide disease'.The condition leaves sufferers in so much agony, they’re at risk of taking their own lives. Here, doting mum Melanie, 47, from Bolton, tells her story...
"It’s impossible to describe how I felt as a mother when my son, Dillon, was diagnosed with suicide disease at the age of 10. “What the hell is that?” I thought. I’d never heard of it.
But having now watched my beloved son cope with the condition over the past year, all I know is that I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It was almost a year ago, in November 2021, when Dillon’s problems began. For eight weeks night after night, I listened to him crying in unbearable pain, clutching his leg.
In agony, he sobbed, “Just please let me die, Mum.” Naturally, I was horrified. And now, sitting in front of a consultant, we finally had a diagnosis – complex regional pain syndrome, also known as suicide disease. As the words sank in, my mind swam with all sorts of horrific possibilities.
I wasn’t sure how or if I could keep him safe and I had never felt so helpless. Dillon was a perfectly normal kid until last autumn, when one morning he woke up with a limp. “What’s the matter?” I asked, as he slung his schoolbag over his shoulder.
“My right leg,” he said, frowning. “It hurts.” I didn’t worry too much. I was a busy single mum to Maddie, now 24, Ben, 20, Oliver, 14 and Dillon, now, 11, so I knew that aches and pains usually vanished just as quickly as they came.
“Probably just a strain,” I told him. “Or maybe growing pains. See how you are at school today.” I dropped the kids off
.UPDATE: Authorities identified the suspect in the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was violently assaulted early on Friday morning during a break-in at their San Francisco home, her office said.
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experiencing a career renaissance thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, which is allowing both fans (and the actor himself) to go back and consider those films he made back when he was a star the first time around. There’s been a lot of talk about Fraser’s time with The Mummy franchise, but the actor took a recent opportunity in the San Francisco bay area to apologize for something that went wrong while filming George of the Jungle, and in doing so made a brand new error. Fraser recently attended the Mill Valley Film Festival (via SFGate) where The Whale was set to be screened.
Bendan Fraser is making amends with the city of San Francisco.
Zack Sharf Brendan Fraser’s awards season with “The Whale” continued over the weekend at the Mill Valley Film Festival, where he was on hand for a screening of the film and to accept the annual event’s lifetime achievement award. Speaking to SFGATE on the red carpet (via Entertainment Weekly), Fraser issued a humorous apology to the city of San Francisco due to a traffic jam the “George of the Jungle” production caused over 25 years ago. Mill Valley is about 14 miles north of San Francisco. “When we were doing ‘George of the Jungle,’ George goes to rescue a parachutist tangled in the Golden Gate Bridge,” Fraser said, citing the Golden Gate Bridge instead of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge which was featured in the film. “That means Disney put a mannequin hanging by a parachute from the uprights. It brought traffic to a standstill on either side of the bridge.”
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A 30-year-old Texas police officer in San Antonio committed suicide in early October, marking the fifth suicide in the department by an officer or recently retired officer in the past seven months, which experts tell Fox News Digital is a stark reminder of the growing struggles police face doing their jobs amid the defund the police movement that has demonized officers nationwide.
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