My worse injury happened about a year ago. I was cutting firewood and got tired. So I pulled up a lawn chair (next to the pile) and cut the logs while sitting. This was working OK for a while, but my loose-fitting trousers got a bit close to the blade. It pulled my leg right into the chainsaw blade as if it was a yoyo. Unfortunately, I had just dowsed the blade with bar-and-chain oil. The cut was much the same shape as a quarter-moon. I crawled around on the ground, picking up leaves, and searching for any piece of flesh that I might be able to bring with me to the emergency room.
Unfortunately, my wife was in the shower and the kids were sleeping, as this was early Saturday morning. So I knocked on the front door, got my wife out of the shower, and asked for a big beach towel to wrap around my leg to stop the bleeding. Once I did that, I got in my car (a stick shift) and drove to the emergency room. [Yes, I got behind some slow drivers!] I spent a long time there, while the doctor cut away tissue and cleaned out the oil from the wound.
When I was fixed up, I had twelve stitches. The doctor told me to see my primary care physician immediately on Monday morning. However, when I went there, the receptionist told me they couldn�t possibly see me for two weeks. I went to work, but a few days later, my leg swelled up and became infected. Fortunately, the guy in the office down from mine directs the Physician�s assessment program and could give me medical advice. He looked at my leg and told me to elevate it and see my doctor immediately. I eventually got on some antibiotics and all was well.
But for a while, I was seriously concerned about loosing my leg (e.g., loss of feeling, swelling, etc).
Here�s how it looked, after getting some antibiotics (much better, actually).
