I was working on my kitchen extension - not really doing anything important, just sweeping up. I had no protection on because I wasn't doing much... but of course, that's when it gets you!
A concrete block fell from a height of 7 feet high, bounced off the wall, and the corner hit me on the head, a glancing blow. I was squatting, and it threw me off my feet back onto my behind. I immediately held my hand to my head, and it was covered in blood.
My girlfriend rushed me to A&E, and she was talking to me the whole time to check I remained conscious and not concussed. I was still losing blood, it was running down my face, but it was clotting up and matting my hair.
I waited for the doctors to see me - not long at all - because of the Warfarin i was high on the list and went past many others. It had stopped bleeding by the time they saw me, so they super-glued it back together - i had a half inch gash on top right of my head.
Here are my INR results... I think I was lucky it was low! Not sure that a 3.5 would have been so kind to me.
Anyway, I recovered fully, obviously, with no futher negative effects. However, I was carefully monitoring myself for the week after.
A concrete block fell from a height of 7 feet high, bounced off the wall, and the corner hit me on the head, a glancing blow. I was squatting, and it threw me off my feet back onto my behind. I immediately held my hand to my head, and it was covered in blood.
My girlfriend rushed me to A&E, and she was talking to me the whole time to check I remained conscious and not concussed. I was still losing blood, it was running down my face, but it was clotting up and matting my hair.
I waited for the doctors to see me - not long at all - because of the Warfarin i was high on the list and went past many others. It had stopped bleeding by the time they saw me, so they super-glued it back together - i had a half inch gash on top right of my head.
Here are my INR results... I think I was lucky it was low! Not sure that a 3.5 would have been so kind to me.
Anyway, I recovered fully, obviously, with no futher negative effects. However, I was carefully monitoring myself for the week after.
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