HORROR STORY OF DRUG TEST GONE WRONG!! THANK GOODNESS FOR THE FDA (sometimes we dont think so))
"I've lost everything"

(London Daily Mail) ON THURSDAY Ryan Wilson will go to hospital to have the third and fourth fingers of his left hand amputated at the second knuckle. It will be a relief, he says, to get rid of them. They are blackened and shrivelled through blood poisoning, with the appearance of severe frostbite, and he does not dare get them damp because wet gangrene - unlike dry gangrene - spreads and he doesn't want to lose his whole hand......

...The trials at a special unit in Northwick Park Hospital, North London, went disastrously wrong within minutes of the volunteers being injected with the drug. All Ryan remembers is the terrible pain which erupted in his body before everything went black and he fell unconscious.

It was the first time he had volunteered for a drug trial and he wanted the GBP2,000 fee for driving lessons.

Today, how he regrets not listening to his father Billy, who phoned him at the hospital the night before the trials began to say: 'Don't do it, just walk out now. Your body is more important, forget about the money.' As it was, Ryan paid a terrible price for what he thought would be a virtually risk-free way of making a bit of extra cash.

His body swelled to three times its normal size and he was in a medicallyinduced coma for two and a half weeks.

He spent 147 days in Northwick Park Hospital. He suffered multiorgan failure, pneumonia and septicaemia which caused his fingers and toes to turn gangrenous. He also lost four stone in weight.

There were so many tubes and wires attached to his body that there was no space left for his family to touch.

He remembers, despite being in a coma, being able to hear doctors saying to his relatives: 'He is so critically ill, we don't think he'll make it.' He also heard another of the seriously ill victims, Mohamed Abdelhady, tell doctors: 'Don't worry about melook after him, he's dying.' Ryan's mother Marion, 50, recalls a doctor crying as he told her; 'He's only 20 and I just don't know how to save him. He's slipping away from us and all we can do is watch and wait.' Against all the odds Ryan survived.

When he came round, stunned doctors told him 'You shouldn't be here.

You should be dead.' Ryan returned home in August to the Islington flat he shares with his Irish mother, who is separated from his Scottish father Billy Wilson, a carpenter and joiner. But he is not out of the woods yet - and may never be....

TeGenero filed for insolvency in July - citing the 'unforeseen' results of the tests as the reason.

The company had a GBP2million insurance policy, but lawyers have called that 'wholly inadequate'.

The men are now taking legal action against Parexel, the U.S-based company that ran the trial.

Ryan says: 'I had 45 years of work ahead of me, earning GBP100,000 a year, now I don't know if I am ever going to work again.

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