AMANDA JANE ELIZABETH CLEMENSON
I have 70 percent deafness, I must wear a hearing-aid.  I've had two ear operations, both have failed;  I have got burns on my face which only become visible when I am upset; I have about 90 percent body burns all over.  My whole torso is completely scarred due to the fact that I had a silk shirt on which caught fire;  I have electrical cable scarring on my upper body where the cables fell down on top of me and I was electrocuted.  My abdomen was blown apart from just under where you bra-strap would be to where your panty-line runs across, that whole area was blown open.  I lost half of my large and small intestines;  I lost half of my large and small bowels.
	I was also told that had it not been for the surgeon that was present at the hospital I would have had to have had a colostomy.  I am completely embedded with shrapnel.  My right thigh was completely stripped of flesh and muscle, down to the bone;  my phenol artery was severed, I had to have several blood transfusions.  I now have an acrylic plate covering the few vessels which are still there.  I have no feeling in my right leg;  I had several large pieces shrapnel removed from my leg.  I had a big hole in the back of the right leg which needed to be stitched and there was no muscle left there.  My feet were both burnt;  I had minor shrapnel injuries which I required stitching for on my lower calves.  
	I had such internal that injuries that they do not know yet whether I will be able to carry children.  I have had constant surgery for the last ten years.  I am now currently waiting for an operation to remove the acrylic plate in my leg because it is working its way out and I have been told I stand a 50 percent chance of actually losing my leg from the hip downwards because they do not know if they will be able to do the operation successfully.  
	They plan to cut me from my right shoulder-blade down to my left hip - open my back and take a large muscle out and do a muscular graph on my upper thigh.  But due to the damage to the blood supply they do not know whether the graft will take, so they will not know whether or not I will be able to keep my leg.  I have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and I go for counselling to see a psychiatrist once every two weeks.  I have done so for the last 18 months.  
	I have severe cellusitis in my right leg which causes me a great deal of pain and I am often hospitalised through it.  I have been unable to work through clinical depression as well as my injuries.  I sustained a full nervous breakdown;  I have constant flashbacks and nightmares, and basically my life is in a mess.