Welcome back Treefrog

I've been following your story in the background for some time and I'm really glad to hear your back and recovering well.

Your attitude to life is truly inspiring and I salute you for it :)
All the best
 
Treefrog said:
I went for a job inspecting tickets on the buses, but they told me I was a bad conductor ...

I'll get my coat :D
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My son just came running downstairs to find out what was so funny I was laughing so loud!!
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It's SO good to hear you up and about, Jim. You gave us quite the scare there. I think Freefaller actually gave up ordering fried frog's legs for a while!! ;)
 
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what were you doing in woodlands at dusk though?

I had a bad electric shock when I was younger, got hit with circa 40-50k Volts... was smacked into a brick wall and blinded for a good few days with the zap, the flash can blind the retina indefinatly apparently. Two seperate electricians said I should have been dead.

Similar to yourself all I can remember after was being in my dads van on the way to hospital, not seeing a dicky bird.

However, other than hair loss I never suffered any burns.

One thing I have noticed since then is I seem to have a fair bit more static electricity, quite often. I've had smaller shocks since then, got 240v from one side of my face to the other, once the cable connected it seemed to stick to me and then burn a path across (thats what it smelled like) but it didn't seem to affect me as much as it would have before.

Good to hear you've pulled through, and earlier than what the hospital expected!
 
Mickey_D said:
It's SO good to hear you up and about, Jim. You gave us quite the scare there. I think Freefaller actually gave up ordering fried frog's legs for a while!! ;)
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Well I had some frozen ones from before that I kept ;)


Jim it's great to have you back. Now please don't you EVER do anything like that again!!!!!!! :p
 
Thanks yet again guys :) it's good to be back. I can't believe how many replies this thread has had!

I'm glad you find my attitude an inspiration neverender. Having a laugh beats sitting around moping; like Red says in Shawshank Redemption - you either get busy living or get busy dying.

Thanks Darrin, it could have been worse - R124/LA420 laughed beer over his monitor! :D

Biohazard - my first thought was that I'd gone out for a ride round on my MTB (and was worried what had happened to it) but that was safe at home as I found out later. My best guess is that I'd gone exploring these woodland paths to see where they went, you see a lot of people walking dogs around there.
The doctors and nurses said that I was expected to be in there for three months minimum and six was more likely.

No sense letting good food go to waste Will ;)
Hehe - bet you didn't save me any. Mind you, I've got my own - ready cooked! lol
Although I don't remember it, I hope I never give anyone a scare like that again. I'll stick to climbing trees and running off the top of sand dunes! :)

Although I'd like to claim it as all my own work, the speed of healing may well have had something to do with a clinical trial that my brother volunteered me for, a dressing called Acticote which contains silver. Because of this, they took photos of me throughout my stay to check on how well it was working. And the kind sister also downloaded them onto my USB drive for me. It was only when I looked at them when I got back home that I realised how bad a state I was in while I was sedated. When they take skin for a graft, they put it through some machine that makes lots of perforations in it so that it covers about 150% of its original area, when stretched it looks like one of those netting bags that you get satsumas in. And guess how they attach the new skin to the rest of you? Staples! I'd got more staples in me than W H Smith!
Some of the pics are pretty gruesome - not the sort of thing you want to see while eating spaghetti bolognese.
 
Dont know you but read the thread announcing your injury.. shocking :eek: :D

Good to be alive though I bet! You're probably going to go back out into the world with an even better outlook on life now after that eh!?

I think you need to change your sig to something amusingly appropriate ;)

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I posted in one of the threads we had running for you while your were in hospital, im glad to see your ok and back and hopefully on a speedy road to recovery - all the best.
 
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