Within weeks, his horizons were drastically reduced: a hospital room, a bed, and a chair. This is the daily life of Mohamed (first name has been changed), 25 years old, hospitalized at the Oiseau Blanc clinic in Mantes-la-Jolie, in Yvelines, for almost a month. The young man now walks only with a cane and, at the foot of his bed, a wheelchair bears witness to the serious handicap that brought him to this room. “Laughing gas” no longer makes him laugh. Nitrous oxide destroyed his previously carefree and carefree youth.
“I was warned, but I didn’t listen”: Mohamed, 25, paralyzed in the legs due to nitrous oxide
