Oh Brother!

One thing I firmly believe in is, whenever I am to perform a task of whatever nature, I try to make sure that it's always safe to do so. In other words, I make sure the hammer head is tight and can't fly off. I ensure that the ladder is steady, and well maintained so it won't collapse when I climb it. I always ensure that electrical extensions, etc. are waterproof, and cannot separate at the joints. That kind of thing, which most might take for granted, but I have learned many hard lessons, so do the safety first thing as regularly as possible.

But not everyone, it seems, thinks like this. Take my little brother for example! I have in the past posted about his collection of peak caps. He has a couple of hundred of them, and displays them in his lapa (LIU). This he does by stapling them to the lapa roof beams. It makes a colorful display, and is always a topic of discussion. Saturday morning, he decides to add to his display, as he has over the past few months collected a few more caps. So he puts up the ladder, climbs up with caps and stapler in hand, and promptly gets moered (LIU) across the left ear by the turning fan!! It's one of those steel blade jobs, and turns quite fast, and basically cut his ear in half across the middle! In fact he was probably lucky it didn't hit him a bit higher up as it could have taken his scalp off!!This is the damage!

So his wife rushed him to the doctor who decided the damage was such that a specialist surgeon would have to do the operation. it seem that if the cartilage and stuff is not reset and repaired properly, he could be left with a badly scarred and even deformed ear!

An hour later he was in theater, and it took the surgeon 45 minutes to repair his ear! He was then required to stay overnight, and was released to go home on Sunday morning.After the repair.

He also has concussion, and now the anti biotic he's been given are causing him to have severe headaches, a known side effect. He's off work till about Wednesday this week (maybe longer if he's still in a lot of pain) and the stitches will come out in 10 days!

That will teach him to switch off the fan before he works anywhere near it. Sad but true, it was an unnecessary and stupid accident. But, I suppose it could happen to anyone. He misjudged the distance he was from the fan.

Get well soon Bro!!

Salagatle!