Evening All, well today didn't quite go to plan. Kneeling down using a cordless angle grinder it decided to jump and cut straight through my work trousers and into my leg, just above my knee.
I climbed down the ladder and was taken to hospital by a very good friend of mine.
The cut is about 100mm long and 40mm deep. I managed to cut all my skin, the fatty fleshy lumpy bit underneath, the mesh gauze type fabric we have over our muscles and scored the top on the muscle tissue.
23 stitches later and a ton of swelling my good lady got me home. This puts me out of action until next week at the earliest :doh: so theres me thinking "what the hell am o going to do because I cant work on the layout like this, I cant bend my leg very well, then my saviour has turned up in the post today The N Gauge journal :claphappy:
So hopefully after a full on read of this, probably a bit of internet based shopping to help ease the pain and plenty of feet up action I'll enjoy a lazy weekend
So people PLEASE PLEASE be careful when using any tools as stupid accidents cost quite a lot of healing time which many of us can Ill afford.
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Ooooh.
That looks nasty.
Take it easy and hopefully you'll make a full recovery.
Martin
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Yeah it's not the best!!!! But not a drop of blood as apparently the red hot diamond blade would of cortozoned the blood vessels as it hacked through me.
Just a superficial flesh wound :-[
Yikes! Get well soon Craig. :beers:
Take it easy, buddy. :beers:
That's pretty awesome it cauterised you as it cut. Looks nasty though, GWS.
Nice!
;D
I'm laughing in that 'thank christ it wasn't me this time' way.
You'll be fine, don't forget, 'Chicks dig scars'.
Get well soon bloke.
:beers:
Quote from: njee20 on November 21, 2019, 09:20:18 PM
That's pretty awesome it cauterised you as it cut. Looks nasty though, GWS.
I knew I'd spelt it wrong!! Yeah apparently a diamond blade spinning at 2700rpm with the heat it generates would just seal everything off as it tears through you.
So even an experience like this teaches you something new!!!!
A bit further round and it would have hit an artery and that would not have sealed and we might have been sending flowers.
Have a stiff drink and contemplate your luck, then think about what rolling stock you can now work on :D
Makes me think of the Monty Python "Black Knight" - "Tis but a scratch!"
Ouch... hope it heals up as quickly as possible.
Quote from: Snowwolflair on November 21, 2019, 11:15:31 PM
A bit further round and it would have hit an artery and that would not have sealed and we might have been sending flowers.
Have a stiff drink and contemplate your luck, then think about what rolling stock you can now work on :D
Couldn't agree more... a lucky escape. Get well soon.
Jeez - a couple of 16th's more and we'd be hoisting a glass to Ex-Exmouthcraig! Get well soon. Now excuse me while I go throw up.
Hi exleg (nearly) craig,
Hope you got some sleep. Looks nasty and lucky they could stitch it. I won't list my wounds but have been fighting in the self inflicted wars for many years.
I'll be using a chainsaw today so will think of you and take extra care.
You take care and I recommend drinking spirits rather than beer as you don't want to be up and down to the toilet all the time and put stress on it :).
Stay lucky,
Cheers weave :beers:
Quote from: weave on November 22, 2019, 07:00:48 AM
Hi exleg (nearly) craig,
Hope you got some sleep. Looks nasty and lucky they could stitch it. I won't list my wounds but have been fighting in the self inflicted wars for many years.
I'll be using a chainsaw today so will think of you and take extra care.
You take care and I recommend drinking spirits rather than beer as you don't want to be up and down to the toilet all the time and put stress on it :).
Stay lucky,
Cheers weave :beers:
One assumes, of course, that one will be wearing the appropriate chainsaw trousers and boots?
Don't forget, chainsaw blades WON'T cauterise a wound.
Be safe.
No more pictures please!
:thankyousign: :thankyousign: :thankyousign:
For all the best wishes, its nothing that hasn't been done before, (I've never done it but have lost 2 finger tips to a Stanley knife) but as annoying and frustrating as it is i do consider myself very lucky to of got away lightly.
I was chatting to Peter as he was pulling and pushing everything apart to clean and stitch and he said "a hedge cutter or chainsaw would of obliterated my flesh and would of been hemorrhaging blood as quick as they'd probably of been getting it into me".
So please everyone stay safe, Christmas break is 4 weeks away, and I for one dont want to be unable to do anything till then. My good lady reminded me last night that I had to get fit for then or how was I going to manage cooking Christmas Dinner!!!!!
Quote from: exmouthcraig on November 21, 2019, 09:44:40 PM
Yeah apparently a diamond blade spinning at 2700rpm with the heat it generates would just seal everything off as it tears through you.
So even an experience like this teaches you something new!!!!
Quite right.
Thanks for the post. Now I know how to amputate something correctly.
Better get one of them there diamond blades.
Who's in charge of carving the turkey?
Off to work in 20 mins. I'm scared now :worried:, :no:, ;).
Hope to be able to type later. We'll see.
Cheers weave :beers:
:laughabovepost: me with my diamond bladed grinder :D
Stay safe!!!
10 working digits on hands
10 toes in boots
2legs in trousers
2 arms in sleeves
1 head in hard hat and visor
Make sure you come home with the same!!!!!
You are, of course, assuming that's what he's starting the day with.
He's been self-employed for years. Who knows what he has left.
:worried:
There's the old one about the dim factory worker who lost two fingers in an accident.
He didn't notice until he was saying goodnight to the foreman :D
Well 2 weeks on, stitches have literally just been taken out, the 15 internal stitches have all dissolved and these were the top 8. Everyone happy with how everything came back together and healed.
I am now back to work and driving everything with no dramas. A short hard slog run in to Christmas now to get everything sorted so we can have a few days of not doing much, apart from the layout!!
The NHS doesnt get the recognition that it truly deserves and we only ever realise that when we need and use it.
Faultless every step, I'm hoping some of our forum members are NHS professionals who will take some thanks from me!!!
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Glad to see you're on the mend. :beers: I fully agree with you on the NHS.
Now all you need to do is get it tattooed with a zipper pull at one end.
;D
Only just caught up with this thread... Oooer, it made me come over all wembley.
Sounds like you were lucky a) that it wasn't worse, b) that you had a mate on hand. Hope you continue to heal up quickly.
Keep safe!
Cheers,
Chris
Thanks Chris, the consultant who had a poke around in it reckoned I was probably about 25mm from femoral artery and I'd of not made it off the roof, but we didn't so basically I've had 2 weeks sat in the house not being able to do much hence the push on with the layout,.
Every cloud and all that ;D
I´ve nearly done the same thing twice. Just managed to stop the grinder before it made contact. Just a few weeks ago I was joining two pieces of wire together and without looking grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron. I didn´t half say flipperty gibbert! Same day I was trying to de-solder something and use the soldering iron as a lever. You got it. Iron slipped and the newest, pointiest tip I own went into the skin between two of my fingers. Said oh bother at that. That seemed to cauterize it´s self. Don´t know if it´s an age thing or what but I told the other half I was getting too old for DIY. Didn´t tell her one incident involved N Gauge trains :-X
Quote from: David Asquith on December 06, 2019, 07:56:43 PM
Same day I was trying to de-solder something and use the soldering iron as a lever. You got it. Iron slipped and the newest, pointiest tip I own went into the skin between two of my fingers. Said oh bother at that.
Another common one when soldering - especially knocking up circuit boards on veroboard - is picking up the reel of tinned copper wire instead of the solder.
The general train of thought is "Hmm, why won't it melt....yeeeeow!" :D
I hope you're on the mend. :)
This reminds me of when I decided to use an angle grinder when I was 16. I was cutting through concrete blocks in the garage, ready to fit a double glazed window, when the grinder shot out of my hands. I stupidly grabbed the cable to pull it back and it came back towards me like a pendulum of a clock, going past my thigh (just like yours)! I couldn't look down from fear for some time, but eventually I looked down and.......nothing! the back side of the grinder must have brushed against me! I've never forgotten that moment and hold on tight whenever I use an grinder! :worried: :D
All the best to you.
@Tank (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=2) fighting fit thanks Tank, a stupid mistake caused by rushing, a very long time ago someone once told me "we haven't got time to short cut" and that is so very true.
I have full mobility and nothing more then a bright purple scar line on my leg and 18 spots where the top 9 stitches came through.
The only good thing that came out of it was 10days sat solidly working on the layout :claphappy:
Glad to hear it! I hope you've been able to use an angle grinder since. :no: :D