The agony Army veteran David endures after suffering a knee injury in service affects every aspect of his life. “I can’t sleep, I can’t do anything. I’m on so much medication it affects my memory, my mood, everything,” he said.
“It’s like having red hot electricity pulsing from my knee, up into my lower back and down into my toes. It makes me feel physically sick. “For a grown man who did 16 years’ military service to be curled up in a ball crying, that's the sort of pain I feel daily.
” Help for Heroes is now by David’s side, helping him to take back control and giving him hope for the future. A survey by the UKs leading military charity found that 77 per cent of help-seeking veteran and serving respondents with long-term health conditions live with pain daily*. David served with the Royal Engineers and completed a tour of Iraq (Image: Help for Heroes) David, who served with the Royal Engineers and completed a tour of Iraq, lives with his wife, Joy, and their youngest daughters, Lillie, 17, and Alice, 10.
After spraining his knee badly in the Army, he was forced to go back out on exercises even though a doctor had told him to rest. The nerve damage this caused has affected him ever since. The Army was David’s world.
But unable to keep up with the physical side of military life, he took the heartbreaking decision to leave. He explained: “It’s exhausting being in pain all the time. The nerves are smashed up and there’s nothing anyone can do.
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