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Worst gardening injury/fail?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Good god.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    My worst gardening moment resulted in concussion and a serious lump on my head.

    We built our house on the site of an old sawmill, and once it was finished began to create a garden (still a work in progress after 20 years  :|)

    We wanted to make a sunken garden in the old mill pit, but the planners insisted it had to be capped over with concrete lintels. It seemed a shame to cover up the lovely dressed stone, so I decided to try and take some out.
    As I got each piece out I chucked it into a wheelbarrow at the top end of the pit, about 5ft above me. Of course I now realise I was really only loading the wheelbarrow on one side, and as I bent down to get another stone the whole lot came into the pit and landed on the back of my head.
    I was out cold, don't know for how long, and only came to when my husky, who must have jumped in, was licking my face and barking.
    There was blood everywhere, and I still have a divot in the back of my head. Should have gone to A&E, don't know why I didn't.

    Got some fab stone though.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Fingers in mower clearly not the best idea but hey ho. 67 stitches, all the bone removed from the end of my 2 fingers to the 1st knuckle and amazing good luck and I still have them working and they even look fairly normal. 
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    edited May 2022
    I was holding and standing on the bottom rung of a ladder,while OH pruned a vine type flower,it had been raining and we didnt realise the tiles were slippery. Suddenly the ladder slid,OH fell off the top and I smacked down on top of the ladder,badly bruising a lung and getting a deep ankle cut. Ended up in A+E.
    My latest was when reaching to prune a rose,I lost my footing,fell face down and hit my face on a rock,gouging out my nose and smashing my specs,no one else at home,so had to do all the first aid myself. New glasses cost me a fortune. I'm extra careful now.
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    😮 How are you all still alive? (I'm glad you are!)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Slow-worm said:
    😮 How are you all still alive? (I'm glad you are!)
    didn't you know, " only the good die young " ?
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2022
    This is quite a list of gore and mayhem. I wonder if some of us wouldn't still be here without the invention of antibiotics. Yeay antibiotics.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Hostafan1 said:
    Slow-worm said:
    😮 How are you all still alive? (I'm glad you are!)
    didn't you know, " only the good die young " ?
    😄 I don't care how bad you are as long as you love nature. 😁
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    True, but plenty dead from the misuse of antibiotics, leading to resistance.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    and don't forget the wonderful NHS who have to deal with us eejits and sort out the mess.
    Devon.
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