SWiMBO was recently called in to help deal with a 'situation' involving a motorcyclist that had crashed.
The background story is that he was drunk, very, very drunk and he had left a bar late at night or maybe early in the morning and made it as far as the freeway ramp, before misjudging the curve and crashing at about 50mph. He was wearing jeans, tennis shoes, a wife beater and a comedy skull cap as 'safety gear'.
From the ground up his injuries where as follows.
Multiple fractures in his left foot essentially made it a total loss - but given that his ankle was ground down to almost nothing, the amputation was fairly easy.
His left thigh was skinned, to the bone, from his hip to his knee.
Both hands where also skinned - the back of his left had was stripped to the tendons, two fingers where also missing, his right hand fared better, only his palm was skinned along with his fingertips.
His left collar bone was broken along with a couple of ribs.
Finally his head, or rather his face......
His jaw bone was shattered and most of his teeth missing, his eye socket was shattered and his left eyeball pierced. Most of his lips where destroyed and there was very little 'chin' left.
Oh and his skull was cracked.
He was in surgery for many hours, the amputation and the pinning of bodily parts was simple, the scrubbing of his skin to remove the worst of the gravel took a couple of hours.
Reconstruction of his face took most of the next night. He was 'under the knife for around 19hr'.
His skull fracture required a number of 'pressure relief' methods to be used and basic reconstruction was incredibly difficult.
Long story short, if he had been wearing decent gear he would probably be sore and a tad bruised.
As it was, he spent three months in hospital and he is still 'recovering'.
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