Yesterday, in New Bedford, a fifteen year old boy received a head to toe amputation. The brave patient, Jason Dolby, had a 30% chance of dying during the procedure, but somehow survived unscathed.
Jason had to undergo the procedure because he developed very severe pancreatic cancer which later spread into his lymph nodes and throughout his entire body. The doctor’s only choice was to amputate all of him. The full body amputation procedure is actually quite simple; no cuts have to be made. All of Dolby was carried to medical waste and dumped in.
Dolby’s parents tried to talk to him after the operation, but surgeon Tom Benoit informed them that he wouldn’t be able to talk anymore.
“I’m sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Dolby,” Benoit said, “but he has no vocal chords or mouth. Or anything"
“We still love Jason, but it’s almost as though a part of him is missing now,” said Mrs. Dolby. “He doesn’t really do stuff anymore. Even basic stuff like being visible and existing.
Dolby now attends a school for full body amputees, taught by full body amputees, which is conveniently small and located basically inside of nothing.
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