“I just want to be able to walk again,” says Jesse Gibbs. Three years after being involved in an accident in which his left leg was badly damaged, Gibbs, 28, appears to be giving up his hopes of having a normal life, including being able to provide for both himself and his children.
Gibbs, a former security officer at a private company, was one of two persons injured on April 20, 2014, when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
Since the accident, Gibbs said he has undergone a total of 15 surgeries to repair his leg but he is still in constant discomfort as he is now forced to use crutches to walk. The injury suffered, as he explained it, was an open fracture to his left femur that has left his leg “hanging off” the rest of his body. “I did four bone transport, one blood fusion, changed an external fixator, put in interlocking nail in my foot which end up becoming septic and a lot of more things but still nothing,” the man shared. “The doctor keep telling me that there is nothing else he could do for me but I cannot live like this man. I asked him to give me a medical document, a referral or something, so that I could go overseas and get more advanced surgery but he hasn’t told me anything,” he added.
