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Well, that day didn't go to plan.

Mike G

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I've just returned from a fun 4 hours in A&E, with my right leg in plaster up to my knee. I have ruptured my achilles tendon, by tipping off a saw horse as I was wiring up a switch for my extraction system. I landed on the foot of another saw horse. I won't know for a week whether or not I need an operation, but either way, I won't be doing very much of a physical nature in the next 3 months.
 
Have you an aversion to stepladders? :eek:
We have all stood on the most inappropriate objects and some of us have even fallen off stepladders.
Hope you can recover without an op.
Please don’t worry about posting stuff, that can wait.
Get well soon.
 
Bloody hell Mike thats not good news, I hope things go well and you recover quickly.

Reminds me of when I did my quadriceps tendon and you had a hip.

Pete
 
Ouch, we've all been there but most of us got lucky.
Looking on the bright side Mike you could easily have collided with something very sharp or harder than your head and had a much worse situation, doesn't bear thinking about. I hope you avoid an op and heal quickly.

My wife has had both Achilles done as she had some spur bone and the tendons calcified to the bone, extremely painful, awkward ops in her case, 6 weeks in plaster then another 4 in a boot and months of physio for each one, hopefully yours is simpler.

I've had to start taking blood thinners due to very slow and erratic heartbeat - A-fib - so my family had supposedly banned me from using ladders, yeah right. :ROFLMAO:
 
Oww man, that's not good. I hope the pain isn't too bad. I tore my hamstring a long time ago (you should have seen the ball on the back of my leg). That really wasn't nice. So, I at least can imagine a bit of what it is you are going through now. I wish you a quick recovery!
 
I'm OK Adrian, but I'll let you know if anything crops up. Thank you kindly.
 
Really sorry to hear that Mike, hope you have a speedy recovery and avoid the surgery.
 
So sorry to hear that Mike, take things easy and rest.

Reminded me of a chap I was at college with, him and his mate would come from the same firm for their two week block release. One week Joe didn't appear, he had broke his arm. Fast forward a few weeks and we are back in college Joe and his mate are there for the 2 week block then it would be Joe's first time back on site since breaking his arm. Next block at college came round and no Joe so his mate was quizzed as to his whereabouts, he proceeded to tell us of the most unlucky joiner apprentice ever, Joe...

On his return to site (the firm he worked for were renovating high flats) he was put on to boxing the service risers and forming the bathroom cupboards. Its worth noting that the service risers were large square holes in the corner of the bathrooms that all services ran up, Joe was to form these out. As space was tight he could only cut his top and bottom partition rails and studs place the bottom rail in position and jump up on his trusty joiners stool to hold in the top rail and jam in the first stud. This all went to plan until the top plate on his stool gave way as he partially cut through it. Joe fell into the service riser and luckily caught himself on the edge of the concrete, he proceeded to start to pull himself out of the hole when his elbow hit the stud and knocked it out, the stud fell as did the top rail onto Joe's fingers breaking 3 of them in the process. He fell back at this point into the service riser and down 4 storeys breaking his arm (again) his leg and his pelvis. Joe gave up wanting to be a joiner at this point and we never saw him in college again.
 
Chuffin' hell man, that's rough. Commiserations.

My colleague Robin had this particular affliction Mike, after a similar misadventure. Based on his experiences, I would advise extreme, as in paranoid extreme, caution in coming anywhere near load-bearing on that leg.
 
Well it's a good job you came over before you did that, you wouldn't have made it in to my shop with a cast,
A video of the work will go up, once I have edited it down to a reasonable time.
Take it steady and you probably need to keep that leg up.
 
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

DaveL said:
Well it's a good job you came over before you did that, you wouldn't have made it in to my shop with a cast,
A video of the work will go up, once I have edited it down to a reasonable time.
Take it steady and you probably need to keep that leg up.
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I've cut that piece of sycamore, Dave, so if you want it in the next 3 months you'll have to pop over and get it. I won't be driving for a long time.
 
Hard luck Mike!
I guess the next few months are going to be both worrying and frustrating.
Hope that the injury turns out to be less serious and an operation isn’t needed.
Get well soon
 
My goodness Mike, this must be a nightmare blow to a man such as yourself.
Your can do and get done attitude stopped dead in its tracks.

Hopefully you will be able to occupy yourself with designing and drawing up plans of future projects for yourselves, did I previously hear mention of boat building ? Are you even in a position to be able to do this sort of thing ?

Wishing you every success for a speedy and complete recovery.

Andy
 
I hope your road to recovery is as hasty as your work rate Mike.....Good Luck!
 
toolsntat said:
My goodness Mike, this must be a nightmare blow to a man such as yourself.
Your can do and get done attitude stopped dead in its tracks.

Hopefully you will be able to occupy yourself with designing and drawing up plans of future projects for yourselves, did I previously hear mention of boat building ? Are you even in a position to be able to do this sort of thing ?

Wishing you every success for a speedy and complete recovery.

Andy
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What it actually does is remove all my excuses for not finishing my work. I will get most of my drawing work done in the next few weeks, leaving me with very little left to do in my professional life other than deal with queries from site.
 
Good luck with your recovery. Happened a friend of mine a couple of years ago and he was in an air boot for a while, avoiding surgery. Know accidents are all a bit different but he seems totally fine now
 
Ouch, sounds painful Mike but very glad it wasn't worse as it might well have been.

You're a tough old bird, you'll recover quickly and be back at it in no time! 💪🏼
 
Did you do blow by blow photos or video of the incident Mike? Promise not to laugh at your pain and misfortune - honest. More importantly did you finish the wiring before going to A&E? 😉

Seriously though a warning to us all about makeshift things to stand on, we all do it and it's not worth the risk. My father in Law's mate fell off a 3 step stepladder so not high, hit his head and his wife found him dead when she got home. He was a fit early 60s so you don't need to be old and decrepit (like me).
 
Lons said:
Did you do blow by blow photos or video of the incident Mike? Promise not to laugh at your pain and misfortune - honest. More importantly did you finish the wiring before going to A&E? 😉

Seriously though a warning to us all about makeshift things to stand on, we all do it and it's not worth the risk. My father in Law's mate fell off a 3 step stepladder so not high, hit his head and his wife found him dead when she got home. He was a fit early 60s so you don't need to be old and decrepit (like me).
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When I was doing my workshop internals I stood on the top of a stepladder and instead of moving it to reach I stretched, it toppled beneath me, landed on its side and I landed on the upturned side ribs first, from 6' up! I laid there for a few seconds checking every part of my body to see what was inevitably broken, but luckily I'd just badly bruised my ribs. Christ knows how I didn't break something because I was high, and I'm not light!
 
TrimTheKing said:
When I was doing my workshop internals I stood on the top of a stepladder and instead of moving it to reach I stretched, it toppled beneath me, landed on its side and I landed on the upturned side ribs first, from 6' up! I laid there for a few seconds checking every part of my body to see what was inevitably broken, but luckily I'd just badly bruised my ribs. Christ knows how I didn't break something because I was high, and I'm not light!
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Heck Mark you were lucky to stand up after that fall!
 
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