Redmaiden's dad fell out of a tree yesterday.
Onto a chainsaw.
Which thankfully as a safety feature cut out when he let go of it.
He's now in hospital with bruised shoulders, fractured hips and a broken pelvis :( So he's going to be flat out for at least 6 weeks.
We shall be spending Christmas at the hospital this year.
Posted by
Brock, 29th November 2005:
Fuckola. Nasty.
I was in a hire shop near here the other week, and there was a similar incident in a newspaper cutting pinned to the wall as a safety notice to make people hire the right kit. In that example the guy didn't let go of the chainsaw. He fell onto his wife who was picking up the branches he'd chopped off below and chopped her head off. She died, obviously. Imagine the guilt of the poor bugger. He only got a broken leg and an arm, but had killed his wife.
Things could have been a whole lot worse, dude, so just in case he doesn't feel lucky (and it sounds like he does from your tone) it so easily could have been much worse. Hard to feel lucky all flat on his back like that, but he is in a way.
Hope he gets well soon.
Yeah. Head off. Blimey. Fuck. O_o
Bloody hell. More-so of the second story obviously. But christmas in hospital could be fun, there could be a patch adams like doctor... wait... no.
I found the one you are talking about Brock,
"Daily Record: I severed my wife's head with a chainsaw
A distraught husband wept yesterday as he described how he plunged a chainsaw into his wife's neck in a gardening accident.
Roland Pudney, 56, told an inquest he believed their one-year-old puppy caused the tragedy.
It jumped up at his wife Pauline, 57, as she held the ladder while he cut branches off some apple trees.
She was killed instantly when Mr Pudney fell and the chainsaw he was using almost decapitated her."
Posted by
ellipse, 29th November 2005:
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best wishes for full and recovery
and give redmaiden extra hugs from us
Posted by
WarHead, 29th November 2005:
Shazbat! The idea give me the willies. I fell from a ladder a couple of years ago while trying to clean the windows and was lucky to get away with just a fractured little finger and a lot of bruising. Hope he's feeling better soon.
what sue said.
and i read the story brock's referring to in the papers at the time. bleah.
re the hips & pelvis, comfrey ("knitbone") will be useful.
depending on his physique, 670nanometer light (usu.via laser) can vastly accelerate bone healing. bike racers with snapped arms under this treatment can expect to race again at National level in less than 3 weeks...
no-one knows WHY it works...
^
comfrey as a tea is not good for the liver if you drink it chronically, but acutely simply drinking it is probably the best way to get it to deep joints/bones like the hips/pelvis (the pelvis has about 5 joints itself IIRC)
Saltation..
Is your occupation nutrition or medical related? Was it one of your studies in higher education?
I broke my arm when I was 16 and I started taking various supplements to try and heal faster so that I could get my drivers license. I forget the exact mixture, but I got the recipe from Earl Mindells Vitamin bible. I used to study nutrition a bit as a hobby when I was in high school. I also ate healthier foods during that time.
My arm didn't heal in time to get the drivers license. I had to wait until the next year, but it did heal faster than the doctor thought it would.
I also owned a stick shift car at the time so driving with a broken arm was out of the question.
Salty seems to be an authority on just about every topic posted on here.
You'd want him in a pub quiz team.
As long as you didn't have to spend the rest of the evening drinking with him. ;)
Posted by
Brock, 29th November 2005:
hehehe
"Let me tell you about the chemical composition of the beer you're drinking. Did you know they make it by having tramps walk on the fermented mixture and throwing in fresh mouse droppings? They've done it that way since 1869 and so bypass health and safety laws on traditional grounds".
cue violent retching
:)
jeffld: no, my occupation is... i don't really HAVE an occupation. other than intense curiosity, a desire to find out anything that improves life, and a weird combination of high reading speed and constant experimentation/testing. i spent many years not studying either of my uni undergrad degrees and instead crawling through the stacks of the Mayne and Central libraries at uni (either of which had more on the shelves than any of the london unis i've attacked have got in their collections).
plus i have a VERY keen interest in improving one's quality of life. one only gets one, after all.
and i experimented a lot of supplements/techniques/enhancements/etc etc etc on myself to see what the actual LEVEL of benefit of them might be, at least for people with my body-chemistry. ("the study of medicine is the study of exceptions")
alfie: offering/giving/passing-on-to other people stuff it took me ages to learn or discover, is not the same as striving for status as "an authority". i'm just trying to help/improve the outcome.
oh, and i'm crap in pub quizzes. i hammer the science questions, but do my celebrated impression of a goldfish through the music and "current popular culture" (which seems to mostly comprise current soap operas and english children's tv 20-30 years ago), since the one bores me stupid and the other is just one tiny aspect of this one particular culture i'm sitting in at the moment (and an aspect i've little interest in).
Chatting about old cartoons from the 80s seems to have become the new bonding exercise for the students and "young professionals" of the 21st century.
Which is fine by me as my degree covered them ;)
Posted by
Brock, 29th November 2005:
Yeah. You can be better at bonding than anyone else Alfie. That makes you a better person.
;)
That's bad news and no mistake.
Did you FRAPPS it though?