Harry Freedman is an avid cyclist. When the weather's bad outside, he brings his ride inside. But for a few years, pain forced Harry to stop peddling.

"It was debilitating. It was hard for me to work. It was hard for me to sleep. You know, it's just hard to live," said Freedman.:

A bulldozer ran over him at work, severing his leg.

"The tires are five feet tall and he hit me with one of the tires."

Harry lived in agony for a year.

"Let's say there's a storm and the telephone pole falls down and there's a live wire sparking on the road, that's what it feels like."

Georgetown University plastic surgeon Ivica Ducic helped to ease his pain with a procedure he developed called peripheral nerve surgery.

"I'm after the source of the pain," said Dr. Ducic.

Doctor Ducic removed the damaged part of the nerve and implanted it into the muscle, basically protecting the end of the nerve so it won't grow back and it won't cause any more pain.

"The cause is the painful terminal end of the nerve."

The procedure is for anyone who's had surgery and who's also experienced pain for at least six months and drugs have failed. After 17 surgeries and several different medications, peripheral nerve surgery was one of harry's last options, and it worked.

"That pain that I had that was so terrible is gone."

Now nothing is stopping him.

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