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04-10-2011, 05:08 PM
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Angle Grinder Embedded In Leg
Thursday October 30 2008 DOCTORS say this teenager is "luckier than a Lotto winner" after surviving a horrific accident in which an angle grinder become embedded in his leg. Stephen McGuirk (16) was rushed to hospital 10 days ago with the heavy power tool still jutting out of his leg. However, the resilient teenager is hopeful of returning to his sporting ways in due time, after medical experts saved his leg. Stephen, from Drogheda, had been helping his father in the family home when the angle grinder sliced through his calf horizontally causing severe damage to muscle and tendons. But miraculously, it missed the bone. His mother Geniveve said: "They were tidying up out in the shed when his father, Anthony, went to answer the door because one of our daughters came home. Then he just heard an awful scream from Stephen. "He had been cutting the frame of a bike when the angle grinder backfired and knocked him straight down. "When Anthony rushed back into the shed he could see the blood but not where it was coming from." Geniveve, who was visiting her own mother at the time, was home before ambulance workers arrived and was horrified by the scene. Fire brigade officials were called to help move Stephen into the ambulance and a doctor attended to administer morphine for the pain. Stephen was brought to casualty with the angle grinder still lodged in his leg as medics feared trying to remove it could cause a massive bleed and irreversible damage. Later that night, he was brought to the operating theatre, where surgeons worked to take out the power tool and limit the injuries. "We're just thankful he's alive," said Geniveve. "Doctors said it was the best of a bad situation. "He's luckier than a Lotto winner, that's what they were saying," she added. The St Oliver's Community College student has been told he will make a full recovery. The fifth-year pupil was extremely active before the incident, playing football with Walshestown and on the school running team. "It would have been devastating if he was left with serious damage," said his mother. Sore She added: "He's going around on crutches. He can't really put any weight on it though because it's very sore. "He is trying to do a bit of physio. You can really see the improvement since he has come home. There have been loads of pals in and out of the house so that's kept him busy," she laughed. She added that at the time of the accident, Stephen's sisters stayed calm and helped his father keep the leg elevated and the angle grinder steady until the emergency services arrived. "He's luckier than a Lotto winner" - that's open for debate!  · |
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04-11-2011, 03:55 PM
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Re: Angle Grinder Embedded In Leg
haahahha the fellas fitting our new boiler... he did the same to his leg... put his grinder down b4 it stopped spinning an it jumped up at him hhahaha came back few hours later stitched up  |
