On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:22:44 +0100, JonG
wrote:

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A cautionary tale.(crossposted if you need to care)


Over the weekend I spent nearly 2 days in a traumatic surgery
specialist unit.

In the next bed was a man who had destroyed a toe on one foot and a
lot of the flesh on the opposite shin. He had slipped on a sloping
lawn, using a Flymo and slid his legs under the blade.
General anaesthetic and foreign holiday cancelled.


I came very close once. Stopped a flymo on a slope, wanted to move it a
short way, so grabbed the handle and pulled. It was one of those ones
with twin power grab-handles, so hard to pull by its handle without
pulling the power trigger too. Should've been OK, but obviously the
blade had not quite come to a standstill and so the safety cutout button
had not kicked it. FLymo lifts itself into the air again and follws
gravity downhill, and I did not have good enough grip on it to stop it
til it went over its own power-lead, fortunately missing my feet on the way.


And why was I there? I was ambulanced 60 miles to Morriston after
tripping in my greenhouse, falling into and demolishing 3 panes of
glass with my left hand and falling into the shards.
I almost sectioned a large slice of my left hand and somehow took
another entry wound to my right shoulder, with sundry superficials of
a cosmetic nature.

I was lucky. Jobs done under local anaesthetic, cleaned out and
stitched up, no tendon damage.

On antibiotics, painkillers and whisky now.

Oooh, ouch.
GWS, Ron

Cheers Doc


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