On 23 May, 20:53, Kate XXXXXX
wrote:
On 23/05/2010 12:06, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:



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.

Just further away a professional gardener was hedge trimming at his
own property (using his employer's equipment). Using it one-handed, he
tried to catch a falling bough with his free hand but it had the
blades attached to it and destroyed a swathe of flesh on his free arm.
General anaesthetic and sick note

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.

Funnily enough, it was only horticultural glass, but a couple of quite
large pieces in the rubbish bin had to be attacked repeatedly with a
vigorous large hammer to reduce them to disposable fragments

Ooer! *Get well soon, and all that stuff.

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Kate *XXXXXX *R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttonshttp://www.katedicey.co.uk
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The wife has just come out of yet another fruitless stay in Morriston
Hospital, each time she goes in all they can do is to tell us what
isn't wrong with her.
So you had a local nurse, I wonder if there are any local Docters in
the place.
The last twice she was discharged with medication and has been told
"if it doesn't work, then go to se your GP.
Glad your treatment was more succesfull.
David Hill