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I have to use these gutter crutches because of my permanently crooked elbow. They are taking their toll on my elbow but I must not complain...

Whilst I was in hospital I met a man who was 36 years old and paralysed from the waist down. He's not always been like this, in fact at one one time he was a young successful businessman who lived and played in some of the best places in America. One day / night he was at a party. The party was fuelled by drink and drugs. The cocaine he was taking made him high happy then depressed and so without any thoughts or cares in the world he decided on suicide. He opened a second floor window and jumped. Luckily or unluckily someone on the ground spotted him and managed to half catch him as he landed on the footway below. He was taken to hospital where he was told that he would never walk again. He hasn't. He came back to the UK in order for his parents to better look after, however they were getting on in years and found they couldn't cope. Now the NHS looks after him. Being passed from one hospital to another living in the hope that he will be placed somewhere that can help help him. Somewhere like Stoke Mandeville Hospital which manages people with injuries such as this.
He arrived in our room one night having been transferred from another local hospital who couldn't fund his stay any longer and had more or less evicted him.
Despite him being full of regret for what he had done it was almost with pride that he told us his story and the fact that at one time he was spending £100,000 pa on his cocaine habit.
The question is what should happen to people like this ? Is it right that the NHS fund his care and treatment for the rest of his life - I leave that for you to ponder....
He still works, from his hospital bed writing Apps for phones and Tablets and by all accounts is reasonably successful - what happens to his earnings, well I really don't know....