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[AtlantaSue]

Have they ever said what happened to his leg??

 

[momrek06]

 

[momrek06]

Have they ever said what happened to his leg??

OMG...are you talking about the SHOW.."House"....



I am so sorry, I thought you were talking about house fans...you know fans that people use in the summer in their homes...AND then you said "LEG"!! I am stupid....

 

[ElizaB39]

Yes, in one of the episodes when Sela Ward (ex wife) was on, and her current husband was sick. She was making medical decisions for current husband (he was sick and in a coma i think) and they got into talking about how she made a medical decision against House's will when he was in a coma (I think) and that she had him get some surgery that she knew would make him lame but would save his life. So he is/was mad at her for saving his life and making him lame in the process.

Not sure if his leg problem was cancer or something else.

 

[ElizaB39]

FYI...

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Dr. Gregory House (as played by Hugh Laurie)Gregory House MD, a fictional character portrayed by Hugh Laurie, is the protagonist of the television drama House. Dr. House is a maverick medical genius (often quoted as "medicine's most brilliant mind") who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. He is arguably misanthropic and a genuine curmudgeon—in fact, "curmudgeon" was named one of the top television words of the year in honor of the character[1]. Some of his crankiness can possibly be attributed to the chronic pain in his leg (the result of an infarction in his right thigh muscle) for which he requires the aid of a cane. He takes Vicodin frequently for the pain (and usually while dealing with a case that wastes his time or annoys him); whether he takes it too frequently was the subject of an entire episode in the first season ("Detox").

 

[irishbosoxfan]

The explanation was in the "three stories" episode that features Carmen Elektra---If I remember right it had something to do with a clot and he didn't want the procedure but Sela Ward who he was dating at that time made the decision for the procedure to be done and in the process of performing the procedure it saved his life but disfigured his leg causing constant pain and where the vicodin comes into play now

 

[AtlantaSue]

Thanks for the info! I knew they had to have said something more about it....I haven't seen those episodes. He certainly is an interesting character...

momreko6 -- no problem!!

 

[almacdonald]

Episode summary that explains what happened to his leg:

http://www.fox.com/house/episodes/121.htm

 

[irishbosoxfan]

Episode summary that explains what happened to his leg:

http://www.fox.com/house/episodes/121.htm

WOW I just read that! I didn't know you could find such detailed descriptions of episodes!
But that is the episode I was talking about--I love in the episode how House switches up the farmer and golfer(Carmen) when he tells him to take off his pants and the students correct him on this and he asks--Who would you rather see with their pants down?

 

[almacdonald]

WOW I just read that! I didn't know you could find such detailed descriptions of episodes!
But that is the episode I was talking about--I love in the episode how House switches up the farmer and golfer(Carmen) when he tells him to take off his pants and the students correct him on this and he asks--Who would you rather see with their pants down?

I started typing out a summary myself and thought "there's got to be a better explanation out there somewhere." Hence the delay in reading the first couple posts and posting the summary. I guess we're both TV addicts!

 

[irishbosoxfan]

LOL-I got DH hooked on House! He is just so sarcastic yet so down to earth!
He says things that I would never dream of saying and believes he gets away with it because he is "crippled"! I have this photographic memory(though if you ask DH it is "selective memory"(I never remember stuff he tells me-LOL))
ANYWAYS if I see or read something it gets stuck up there pretty tight,I hate it because it ruins seeing or reading stuff again especially if it was something I enjoyed!

 

[MareQ]

I love this show as well. I only started watching in this January so I have REALLY been enjoying this summer as every repeat is a new show for me

 

[disneynutt1225]

We enjoy House here as well. Funny thing is, we used to live in Plainsboro and go to Princeton frequently. It annoys DFi to no end that there's a fictional Princeton-Plainsboro hospital. Of course, over the last year they decided to relocate Princeton Medical Center to Plainsboro....so there may be a real life Princeton-Plainsboro hospital in the future.


That's enough useless info for one day!

 

[Dana49]

This is from the "House" website:
He had an aneurism that clotted, leading to an infarction. Which basically means there was a blood clot in his thigh that blocked blood flow for three days before being correctly diagnosed. The delay in diagnosis lead to death of muscle tissue. His doctors recommended amputation, but House (being the ray of sunshine that he is) insisted that they simply remove the clot and restore blood flow. This option was dangerous because it would wash some pretty nasty stuff from the necrotic (ie dead) tissue back into his system—not to mention that it would be incredibly painful. The upside was that if it worked, he could regain full use of his leg. There were complications following the procedure and he was in extreme pain (like, maxed-out-on-pain-meds-and-still-screaming-like-a-girl pain), so he asked to be put into a chemically induced coma which would allow him to sleep through it. Once he was out, Stacy (his lover/health care proxy) okayed a middle ground procedure that would remove the dead muscle tissue, but allow him to keep the leg. We can debate the ethics of that decision until the cows come home, but for now let’s just stick with the facts—House woke up minus some thigh muscle, plus a limp and chronic pain.

 

[Lachesis00]

I just loaned my first season DVDs to my coworker LOL