Well that'll be me out of action for a while. Managed to trip on a piece of wire embedded in the ground & fell awkwardly, net result being my Patellar tendon has been torn clear off the bone of my tibia & the quad tendon has sucked the patella up above the ball of my femur...
Few hours spent in A&E (ER for you guys on the sane side of the Atlantic) and to my surprise have been released home in a splint for the moment awaiting a 'phone call with a date for surgery.
Not the way I'd planned spending my Sunday afternoon but could be worse I suppose, at least it happened with the rest of the family around so we managed to get the land locked up and me loaded in the car in a half hour or so. Out of interest, how long do you guys in the US expect to wait on an ambulance generally? Here, roughly a 20 minute drive from the hospital, on a Sunday afternoon my ambulance ETA was 1hr40-2hrs. about 15 years ago when I was taken out off my motorcycle & badly fractured my right tib/fib I was sat on the road probably 45minutes before ambulance came. Just curious how your guy's wait times compare (also interested what a 20minute ambo ride would cost you/your insurance)
Cheers, better luck to you all!
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DMiller wrote:
First job when I get back to the land is rooting out that damned wire at either end & chopping it (and it's conduit) into tiny harmless pieces! and Dirt Farmer, everything crossed it stays that way with the lack of experience for you.
