True, but plenty dead from the misuse of antibiotics, leading to resistance.
I was thinking along the lines of historical innovation. I was pondering us getting these injuries in 1289. Admitedly most of us would be long dead by 50 anyway. But still - perhaps we are (I am) more off hand about injuring ourselves and the fear of injury, knowing that in the UK today we will probably survive the above list.
Farming rather than gardening, but a friend of ours was on an old tractor, before the days of safety cages etc, when it rolled and trapped him underneath it. Somehow, and even he doesn't know how, he managed to get himself out from under it. He then managed to drag himself about half a mile across fields back to his house and call an ambulance. He had broken most of the ribs on one side along with the arm and leg, so literally used one arm and leg. It's hard to imagine how he managed that - the wonders of adrenalin I suppose.
All my personal injuries have been extremely trivial by comparison. The doctors said it was only the fact that he was extremely fit that saved his life.
There was a farmer round here some years ago who purposely took his own head off with a tractor. You've got to be in a pretty messed up state to do that.
Farming has one of the highest suicide rates in the UK, in part due to their isolation from other people and from support. One report I read states that they make up 1% of all suicides in England. They certainly don't make up 1% of the population.
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I was thinking along the lines of historical innovation. I was pondering us getting these injuries in 1289. Admitedly most of us would be long dead by 50 anyway. But still - perhaps we are (I am) more off hand about injuring ourselves and the fear of injury, knowing that in the UK today we will probably survive the above list.
I don't think I'd have made it much past the age of four without the wonders of modern medicine and the NHS (free at point of provision).
I don't think I'd have made it much past the age of four without the wonders of modern medicine and the NHS (free at point of provision).
All my personal injuries have been extremely trivial by comparison. The doctors said it was only the fact that he was extremely fit that saved his life.