smokeysmoo
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- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
Working for a drainage company as I do I was cleaning drains on a building site today when the high pressure jetting hose ruptured at 2000psi - right in my face!
Upshot was me being thrown sideways, losing my balance and falling onto a kerb edging with my side.
Initial panic was severely blurred vision in my right eye and severe abdominal pain from the kerbing.
Taken to Fairfield A&E in Bury by ambulance, (on the insistence of the sites H&S man), but thankfully my vision was returning by the time I got there, and was almost 100% by the time I left. I was seen by an ophthalmologist who said I've been very lucky but has prescribed antibiotic eye drops anyway just in case.
Abdo pan diagnosed as 'just' muscular, or in other words, "shut up you girl and take some painkillers!"
Face looks like I've been in the ring with Mike Tyson
lips and cheeks are swollen and my eyes are blackening nicely 
plus I've got various cuts, scrapes and grazes from where I hit the hardcore surface like a sack of spuds.
The face, eyes, cuts and scrapes I'm not fussed about as they aren't causing me any great discomfort, but my side feels like it did a few years ago when I had a big MTB off and bruised a load of ribs! Suffice to say deep breaths hurt and getting up off the couch REALLY hurts, in fact I've just had to get on my knees and crawl to the bloody stairs to get myself upright!
God knows how I'll feel tomorrow, but I'm guessing probably like a train has gone over me in the night
Happy Friday everyone
Upshot was me being thrown sideways, losing my balance and falling onto a kerb edging with my side.
Initial panic was severely blurred vision in my right eye and severe abdominal pain from the kerbing.
Taken to Fairfield A&E in Bury by ambulance, (on the insistence of the sites H&S man), but thankfully my vision was returning by the time I got there, and was almost 100% by the time I left. I was seen by an ophthalmologist who said I've been very lucky but has prescribed antibiotic eye drops anyway just in case.
Abdo pan diagnosed as 'just' muscular, or in other words, "shut up you girl and take some painkillers!"
Face looks like I've been in the ring with Mike Tyson
lips and cheeks are swollen and my eyes are blackening nicely plus I've got various cuts, scrapes and grazes from where I hit the hardcore surface like a sack of spuds.The face, eyes, cuts and scrapes I'm not fussed about as they aren't causing me any great discomfort, but my side feels like it did a few years ago when I had a big MTB off and bruised a load of ribs! Suffice to say deep breaths hurt and getting up off the couch REALLY hurts, in fact I've just had to get on my knees and crawl to the bloody stairs to get myself upright!
God knows how I'll feel tomorrow, but I'm guessing probably like a train has gone over me in the night
Happy Friday everyone
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