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Although Tan Whee Boon now affectionately refers to his wife as his «bodyguard», there was a time where he felt like he'd be better off without her. Tan, 59, had his hands and feet amputated in 2015. Three days after eating a plate of yushen'If she was miserable, she could go': Man who had limbs amputated after eating raw fish once told wife to leave him
Although Tan Whee Boon now affectionately refers to his wife as his «bodyguard», there was a time where he felt like he'd be better off without her. Tan, 59, had his hands and feet amputated in 2015. Three days after eating a plate of yusheng, a raw fish dish, at a hawker centre in Chinatown, he experienced symptoms of food poisoning and was hospitalised. He was diagnosed with severe pneumonia that was complicated by sepsis, which caused gangrene on his hands and feet. Doctors also found three types of bacteria in his body, one of which was Group B Streptococcus (GBS). After his amputation, Tan gets around in a motorised wheelchair, and his wife, Choong Siet Mei, assists him with his daily living needs. «As long as I'm out of the house, she has to be with me,» he said during a podcast interview on radio station Capital 958. «She almost has no time to herself.» The couple, who have been married for more than 20 years, have had their fair share of friction. Read more