House (part 3)

About ten years prior to the series began, House entered into a rapport with Stacy Warner (Sela Ward), a constitutional lawyer. They met at a "Doctors vs Lawyers" paint ball occasion where she blasts him. Five years later, during a match of golf, he suffered an infarction in his right leg, which went undiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug seeking behavior (House was also unable to diagnose his own infarction). An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscles to befall necrotic. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was eager to tolerate agonizing post operative pain to keep hold of the use of his leg. After House was put into a chemically-induced unconsciousness to forty winks in the course of the most evil of the pain, Stacy decided to prefer a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation and a bypass by removing just the deceased muscle. This resulted in the fractional thrashing of use in his leg, and left House with a slighter, but still serious, echelon of pain for the rest of his life. House could not exonerate Stacy for making the decision, so she left him.

When Stacy makes her first facade in the series, she is connubial to a high school guidance counselor named Mark Warner. Even though House and Stacy grow closer mutually and reunite momentarily during the second season, House tells Stacy to go back to her husband, which overwhelms her.