Another HS friend finally had to have his leg amputated. He'd been in a car accident back in the 80s and had been suffering constant infections (so bad he had a pic line for over a year), and the final death knell for his leg was osteosarcoma (I think I got that right) the doctors felt was due to all the trauma and constant infections. So off with his leg! At first he was still experiencing a lot of pain post-op. He's a commercial truck driver so he can't use, but during his time off he figured why not? I hooked him up and he was able to reduce pain meds by 75%, no lie. He'd been taking Vicodin and Oxy's 4-6x/day, and after getting some good weed into his system, 1x/day and 1x at night before bed, and quickly he was off even that.
I call him 6 Mil, for The Six Million Dollar Man. I loved that show.