Please drink to a guardian angel.
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:24 am
I need you all to raise a glass to a guy who saved my brothers life on Friday morning.
It was a bizarre freak accident on Oxford Rd Reading. He fell off his push bike (we don't know yet if another vehicle was involved) but he came down and the handlebar end pierced his groin and severed his main artery. A guy in van across the road watched events unfolding and when his jeans tuned red in a matter of seconds he ran across to help.
This guy (we now know his name) was ex-forces and trained in battlefield emergancy first aid. He kept my bro talking and applied pressure but couldn't stem the flow. He resorted to plunging his finger into the wound, finding the artery and plugged it with his finger, occassionally releasing the flow because he realised his leg was starved of blood. He had to scream at the people standing by to call 999.
The ambulance took 4.5 minutes to get there. The surgeon said if not for this guy Bro would have passed out in 3 minutes and been dead after another minute or so.
This morning the surgeon has said when he arrived at A&E the options were so poor the the loss of his leg would been the best they could hope for.
He's doing well this morning and has his leg and his life.
God bess those good men and women who fight for our country and serve the public in any way they can. God bless this man especially. It seems especially appropriate today of all days.
Cheers.
It was a bizarre freak accident on Oxford Rd Reading. He fell off his push bike (we don't know yet if another vehicle was involved) but he came down and the handlebar end pierced his groin and severed his main artery. A guy in van across the road watched events unfolding and when his jeans tuned red in a matter of seconds he ran across to help.
This guy (we now know his name) was ex-forces and trained in battlefield emergancy first aid. He kept my bro talking and applied pressure but couldn't stem the flow. He resorted to plunging his finger into the wound, finding the artery and plugged it with his finger, occassionally releasing the flow because he realised his leg was starved of blood. He had to scream at the people standing by to call 999.
The ambulance took 4.5 minutes to get there. The surgeon said if not for this guy Bro would have passed out in 3 minutes and been dead after another minute or so.
This morning the surgeon has said when he arrived at A&E the options were so poor the the loss of his leg would been the best they could hope for.
He's doing well this morning and has his leg and his life.
God bess those good men and women who fight for our country and serve the public in any way they can. God bless this man especially. It seems especially appropriate today of all days.
Cheers.
