In 1974 in Belfast N.Ireland I was shot and hit by 3 high velocity rounds, all 3 rounds struck me in the lower back and buttocks but were through and through wounds doing enormous damage being high velocity rounds, within 36 to 48 hours gas gangrene started to show, most of the next 5 to 6 weeks is a blurr and the only thing that sticks out is all the staff and my immediate family dressed in surgical robes masks and head covering and my daily visits to the "glass coffin" or hyperbaric oxygen chamber into which I pushed on a stretcher, I was later told that this was a last resort as no drug or antibiotic had any effect on the gas gangrene, my parents were told (I was just 18 at the time) to prepare for my death, I spent 5 weeks in ICU during that time my weight dropped from a muscular 154 lbs (70kg) to 80 lbs (36 kg) and although told I'd never walk again without aids such as crutches, I managed to regain about 85 to 90% of my original fitness and mobility but am left with drop foot on the right due to 70% of my sciatic nerve having been blown away.