My plan was to get so much done today. I am setting up a table of my stuff for the Ridgeland fair. I have 36 bottles of feell-better bubbles (various scents) made, several hot/cold bags made (various scents, including non scented) and am getting ready to make some holiday scented mug cozies for the next couple of hours that I have left. My plans were foiled firstly when my neighbor borrowed my welder, then when I went down to weld, Curt had all the power off to wire some stuff in the breaker box, then while Dean was mowing the grass, he hit something with the push mower and started swearing and screaming while running into the house. He was pissed and hurt. When I went upstairs to see what was wrong, he had a bloody dish towel wrapped around his leg and he was crying. I finally got him to take the towel off, only to see a hole in his leg about the size of a half dollar and something very metallic stuck way in there. I tied the tea towel around his leg snugly and got him out to the car for the 30-mile trip to the ER. He was really crying hard and I had no real idea what it was that was in his leg or how deep it was, if it was in the bone or what. We finally made it and I got him checked in. X-rays were taken and doctors were consulted. it turns out, there was a chainsaw chain laying in the tall grass where Dean was mowing. The lawn mower hit it, broke a tooth of the chain off and lodged it in his leg. Luckily, it was not lodged in the bone, but a connector piece was not able to be taken out and we have to just watch it. It wasn't easily taken out, so they just left it. If it doesn't get infected or anything, it will just calcify over and become part of his leg. He has the actual link of chain saw tooth in a specimen jar as a trophy and a cool x-ray.
The little tiny piece that looks like a broken and backward 3 is still in there.
I'm pretty damned thankful that it wasn't his eye or something that got hit.
However, he is okay, which makes it okay for me to say that hunk of metal
looks very much like a Prius driving up his leg.
oh my goodness! I'd *heard* that something like this *could* happen while mowing, but this is the first time I've known someone who it's happened to! I think I will wear long pants from now on when mowing. I'm glad to hear that he's doing alright --- and that totally DOES look like a prius! heh !
ReplyDelete(incidentally, I did once meet a girl who's foot had been run over by a push mower at age 3 and she lost 3 toes plus ~half of her foot --- unfortunately, this, plus a host of other things in the "what can go wrong will go wrong" vein turned her in to a very pessimistic, not much fun kind of person.... )
Holy! Good thing hes ok! Something like that happened to my aunt, except she ran over a rock and it broke taking the shape of a blade and it got into her foot, the docs saved the foot but she ost all sensation on it and walks funny. She laughs about it now but it was horrid back then.
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