Graphic Image Warning!!! I cut my leg today........

[exmouthcraig]

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  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 

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.

[port perran]

Ooooh.
That looks nasty.
Take it easy and hopefully you'll make a full recovery.
Martin

[exmouthcraig]

Cheers Martin @port perran

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 

[RailGooner]

Yikes! Get well soon Craig.

[Bealman]

Take it easy, buddy. 

[njee20]

That's pretty awesome it cauterised you as it cut. Looks nasty though, GWS.

[emjaybee]

Nice!



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.

[exmouthcraig]

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!!!!

[Snowwolflair]

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 

[JonHarbour]

Makes me think of the Monty Python "Black Knight" - "Tis but a scratch!"

Ouch... hope it heals up as quickly as possible.

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 

Couldn't agree more... a lucky escape. Get well soon.

[LASteve]

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.

[weave]

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 

[emjaybee]

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 

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!

[exmouthcraig]

 

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!!!!!

[NinOz]

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.