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Originally Posted by Teacake
Breadfish, did the people in hospital intentionally cause you pain or were they causing you pain as a byproduct of trying to save your leg and life? Torture is a pretty strong word.
It makes sense to me that you cling to your ball If you laid down a memory of wanting to hold It as you were in great pain and distress.
How are you adjusting to the loss of your leg?
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My leg wasn't all that bad before they did their thing, I just couldn't use it. It wasn't life-threatening by then, nor could one expect it to become life-threatening.
And I don't think they would have hit me if they were just trying to do the right thing. They wouldn't have locked me in and held me down when I wanted to leave. (Which was all very much illegal) They wouldn't have shouted abuse at me all the time. They wouldn't have lied to me.
Torture isn't a strong word for sound-proofed rooms with even then still a note on the door that people shouldn't react to screams. It isn't a strong word for denying someone his every comfort. It isn't a strong word for hitting, pinching, kicking. It isn't a strong word for three-against-one. It isn't a strong word for denying a 14-year-old visits with her parents. It isn't a strong word for trying to manually break the bones in a hyper-sensitive leg. It isn't a strong word for making someone stand on one leg for hours. It isn't a strong word for excruciating, unnecessary pain. It isn't a strong word for forcing someone to hop on one leg for half a mile without breaks, and laughing when she falls. It isn't a strong word for laughing when someone asks, demands, begs to be allowed to leave.
Medical torture also covers torturous scientific (or pseudo-scientific) experimentation upon unwilling human subjects.