Accidents suck !!
OK....details. A couple years back, the wife and I bought the local (and closed) bowling alley with the intentions of eventually getting rid of the lanes and converting it to an archery shop/lanes....something I can do and get out of shift work........
Well for the past several months I've been tearing everything down...from the lanes to the machines, etc....we even found a buyer for all of the stuff, and were sitting pretty good. Well two Mondays ago, when I was working with one of the last machines to take down, a large top heavy piece fell on the back of my left calf.......requiring a nice ambulance ride and two surgeries...
Ened up that I got a upside-down check-mark shaped gouge, 2" by 6" hole just below the main calf muscle.....which thankfully did not damage, but did expose the main artery, bone and achilles tendone.....and all of this damage was done without tearing my jeans !!! They figure that the denim materail softened the edge of the metal and that kept it from severing the achilles and from breaking my leg........
It did do some major damage to the main calf muscle and of course the hide, but I'm doing pretty freakin good, all considering....even granted some STD from work (NO, not the disease ) I'm able to put some light weight on my foot now, but feels weird cause everything is sewn up, which in turn shortened up the calf.....I guess the therapy I'll be going through will be to slowly stretch everything back out, so that I'll have full range of motion again.......
So long and short of it, this happening before Thanksgiving really woke me up to the things a guy takes for granted.......but it does suck, cause I am missing a big part of the remiander of hunting season.....but at least I'll be able to hunt many more.........
PS....this also means I haven't checked trail cameras in over a month....be ready for a ton of pics........also, I couldn't stand just sitting in the house anymore, so I've drug myself out to the truck and did some driving....hunting with camera.......I've seen to flippin awesome Mulies, but could not catch them with enough daylight left to get any pics........they both gotta go around 175-180........my goal is to snap a pic of them before they shed.......and of course share them with you all.....
Good luck to you all and the rest of your seasons......and stay safe.
OK....details. A couple years back, the wife and I bought the local (and closed) bowling alley with the intentions of eventually getting rid of the lanes and converting it to an archery shop/lanes....something I can do and get out of shift work........
Well for the past several months I've been tearing everything down...from the lanes to the machines, etc....we even found a buyer for all of the stuff, and were sitting pretty good. Well two Mondays ago, when I was working with one of the last machines to take down, a large top heavy piece fell on the back of my left calf.......requiring a nice ambulance ride and two surgeries...
Ened up that I got a upside-down check-mark shaped gouge, 2" by 6" hole just below the main calf muscle.....which thankfully did not damage, but did expose the main artery, bone and achilles tendone.....and all of this damage was done without tearing my jeans !!! They figure that the denim materail softened the edge of the metal and that kept it from severing the achilles and from breaking my leg........
It did do some major damage to the main calf muscle and of course the hide, but I'm doing pretty freakin good, all considering....even granted some STD from work (NO, not the disease
) I'm able to put some light weight on my foot now, but feels weird cause everything is sewn up, which in turn shortened up the calf.....I guess the therapy I'll be going through will be to slowly stretch everything back out, so that I'll have full range of motion again.......So long and short of it, this happening before Thanksgiving really woke me up to the things a guy takes for granted.......but it does suck, cause I am missing a big part of the remiander of hunting season.....but at least I'll be able to hunt many more.........
PS....this also means I haven't checked trail cameras in over a month....be ready for a ton of pics........also, I couldn't stand just sitting in the house anymore, so I've drug myself out to the truck and did some driving....hunting with camera.......I've seen to flippin awesome Mulies, but could not catch them with enough daylight left to get any pics........they both gotta go around 175-180........my goal is to snap a pic of them before they shed.......and of course share them with you all.....
Good luck to you all and the rest of your seasons......and stay safe.
