A young Cork woman who cut off her own right index finger after suffering eight years of chronic pain has said she is in now in “a bubble of brilliantness”. She first began experiencing extreme pain in the finger after it became jammed in a car door when she was eighteen. She threw her finger in the bin at her home after performing the amputation. Megan Cullen (25) cut off her own right index finger after suffering eight years of chronic painMegan has a diagnosis of Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) which involves severe pain confined to one area. “I threw my finger away so that they could not grab it and sew it back on.

Source: The Irish Times February 21, 2019 09:56 UTC