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Les McLean

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I've just spent 10 days at Leeds General Infirmary, most of the time immobile , on my back, experiencing levels of pain I never thought humanely possible.

Why........because I'd been a complete d*ckhead

Every year my next door neighbor and myself lop a few stray branches that overhang our shared drive, and every year we do it without protective clothing , or any of the other normal precautions, because we'd been doing it for so many years, we were too cocky about it, anyway the inevetible happened, and I fell from about 12 feet directly onto my hip, resulting in (as the doctor described it), a magnificent fracture of my pelvis, so complex that they had to delay the operation until they got a specialist team together.

I'm now home , looking forward to weeks of painful readjustment before I can even think about walking unaided. I rationalize things by thinking, I can get that lens review i'd been meaning to do for some time , or get my image libraries sorted into some kind of order, knowing it,s all bull ,when all I want to do is to be out walking the highways and bye ways with jack & Jess and a camera slung over my shoulder.

Eddie Izzard does a classic comedy routine about the very fine dividing line between looking cool and being a d*ckhead, I clearly crossed the line, so please, please especially over this festive season, don't be a d*ckhead, trust me it's very, very painful.
 
Here's wishing you a speedy and full recovery Les.

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Sorry to hear that. Get well soon. :)
 
Hope you are taking it easy, as instructed ... and I hope you make a swift recovery Les :thumbs:
 
sorry to hear that Les and wish you a speedy recovery, alas I fear you will continue to be a d*ckhead :D
 
I hope you make a full recovery
A friend of mine was planning to cut a tree down, it's taller than his house so I went to have a look at it, his plan was to cut it down in small pieces, when I pointed out it probably weighs 5 tonnes because it's huge and the chances of destroying part of next doors garage were fairly high he gave in and is getting someone in to do it

I don't do heights, 10 years ago I spent £100 on a ladder to paint the gutters, put it up, got to the top, thought you stupid sod, got down and paid somebody else to do it :lol:
 
On occasions like this, sometimes it's hip to be square. :D

Sorry, that wasn't very funny. Get well soon. :)
 
Hope you have a speedy recovery mate. You wont do that again anytime soon.
 
Good job you didn't land on your head, might have knocked some sense into you. :bonk::lol:

We all do stupid things and mostly get away with it.

Guess your luck ran out.

Still at least you're on the mend. Get well soon.

Ken
 
I'm not sure who to feel sorry for ....

Les or the Nurses at Leeds General :naughty:




Get Well soon Les (I hope you don't feell too S***e) ;)
 
Gargh! Wishing you a speedy recovery Les.

Get well soon matey.
 
I once had to jump off a ladder when lopping a large branch off a tree. Gust of wind came out of nowhere and the branch was coming down on me. Escaped with only hurt pride, but it made me learn what a damned stupid thing I had been doing. I leave tree work strictly to the professionals now. Much too dangerous.
 
Ouch, sounds like it hurt. As a Health and Safety expert (well not an expert exactly more an apprentice) I can tell you hundreds of stories of people doing daft things and sometimes even coming to a sticky end (especially that bloke who fell into a vat of jam :naughty:), but everyone does it sometimes.

Hope you heal fully and quickly Les, those country lanes won't be the same without you.

Cheers

Andy
 
also an H&S person,

had to laugh the other day when we were sent a safety dvd about contractors working on site (civil engineers) and the dvd was going about safety whilst digging trenches etc and the guy on the dvd was digging away with a shovel (to find buried services) and he had all the correct PPE on except for the trainers on his feet lol, if a safety dvd can't get it right, what hope is there?

did anyone see the geordie falling off the ladders during a safety demo? it's not available anymore but was very funny (even tho you shouldn't laugh)

hope your recovery is swift, and as pain free as possible. Are you on warfarin?
 
you muppet!

Hope you make a speedy recovery....
 
Hard luck Les but don't worry most of us have been there at some time and being a d***head is part of life.

I once decided to de-frost a fridge with a sharp knife to get the ice off quickly - went fine until I heard a "sssss"!

Yup I'd punctured one of the pipes with the Freon in it.

However not having learned THAT lesson and not being inclined to fork out for a new fridge I decided to repair it and save some money - YUP you read that right.

So I dried it all out and sealed the area with some silicone sealant then turned it back on.

It got a bit colder but nowhere near as cold as it should have been so I decided to replace the Freon.

But found out you can't buy it anymore so having read that Propane or Methane was being used instead it was easy peasy to get a small can of propane for camping with a little valve on it.

So all I had to do was open the pipe on the fridge and pump the Propane in.

And it worked - up to a point - it got a lot colder but still not as cold as it should have done so i tried again.

Unfortunately this time it didn't go in properly and a bit of the propane (in fact quite a lot of the propane) squirted all over the kitchen floor.

Then ignited in a sheet of flame all over the kitchen floor!

Fortunately this flame burnt out in a second or so and the canister didn't ignite and even more fortunately my partner was watching TV and didn't even notice the pyromaniac in the kitchen.

Ten minutes later and there was no sign of anything amiss and only the faintest odour of something strange.

So she got a brand new fridge/freezer and I learned the dangers of sharp knives and propane cylinders.

But it was a very near thing!

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Ouch! Sounds very painful. Hope you have someone to walk the dogs for you, if mine are anything to go by they punish the furniture after a couple of days lol. Hope you get mobile soon :)
 
Best wishes for a speedy recovery Les, it's never too late to learn an important lesson....even at your age.
 
I feel for you Les at least you're alive to feel the pain I shudder to think what I'd be typing if you'd landed on your head.

On the plus side you now have ample free time to plan another TP weekend in the dales:thumbs::thumbs:
 
Speaking as a bloke who once demolished a temporary traffic light with his hipbone, I feel (well felt) your pain... Ended up with a Large Titanium plate and a bunch of stainless steel screws holding me together - oh - and a 19" pin down my thighbone and one of those "climbing frame" gizmo's on the leg so they could keep breaking/stretching the bone back until my thigh was the same length as the other.

A few years on, all the metalwork's out, and I can ride 100miles in a day on the bike, walk 30 miles or so before getting a bit of an ache in the hip, and barely think about it anymore. All for one reason - I did EVERYTHING the physio people told me to. They've got you back in one piece, now the important part is managing the recovery.

You did the important part in the first instance - you landed on your HIP not your HEAD - at least you're still here to tell the tale and feel a little foolish. Hope the good luck continues with the recovery :thumbs:
 
Les McLean said:
Eddie Izzard does a classic comedy routine about the very fine dividing line between looking cool and being a d*ckhead, I clearly crossed the line, so please, please especially over this festive season, don't be a d*ckhead, trust me it's very, very painful.
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OUCH! :( over the festive period....like the guy I saw last night whilst driving past his house, after dark, he is up on his sloping porch roof attaching the reindeer christmas lights, just him, Rudolph and his ladder from what I could see.

hope the recovery isn't too painful and complete Les
 
get well soon. My mother in law is still in hospital after breaking her pelvis in two places a couple of weeks ago.
 
Post count will go through the roof :D..... take it easy ,sounds painful .
 
I once saw a guy on the roof of his house, he must have been 20 stone, walking along the apex then he lay down over the edge of the gable end and started painting the fascia boards,, I've never seen anything like it

A couple of weeks ago I walked out of my front door , a voice said hello Darren , I looked around then my neighbour said up here, I looked up and he was stood on the apex of the roof with a foot either side fixing an aerial to the roof

If he'd lost his balance and fallen forward,instant death, crazy
 
Ouch, hope you are soon back to your walks, but don't rush it.
 
Thanks for the usual TP irreverent response :) also those kind words of encouragement , I think it's mark's tale of woe that's given most hope, to have such a serious disagreement with a traffic light, and finally come out at the end being able to all that physical activity, helps me no end :thumbs:

I'm gradually getting stronger as each day passes, although it will be sometime before I'll be able to walk unaided, I'll get there


It's dead easy to knock institutions like our Health Service, but when something like this happens, they are the best in the world, everything just locks into place like a well oiled machine, all the separate disciplines making sure it just works as it should.

And I genuinely appreciate the change of text above my avatar :lol:
 
Les McLean said:
Thanks for the usual TP irreverent response :) also those kind words of encouragement , I think it's mark's tale of woe that's given most hope, to have such a serious disagreement with a traffic light, and finally come out at the end being able to all that physical activity, helps me no end :thumbs:

I'm gradually getting stronger as each day passes, although it will be sometime before I'll be able to walk unaided, I'll get there


It's dead easy to knock institutions like our Health Service, but when something like this happens, they are the best in the world, everything just locks into place like a well oiled machine, all the separate disciplines making sure it just works as it should.

And I genuinely appreciate the change of text above my avatar :lol:
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I agree with that assessment - real life savers.
 
Sorry to hear of your predicament, and wishing you a speedy recovery.

A very good piece of advice ...

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All for one reason - I did EVERYTHING the physio people told me to. They've got you back in one piece, now the important part is managing the recovery.

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... because I didn't take heed to this years ago, I now have a couple of useless appendages :cuckoo:
 
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