Following up on last month’s US hiker who cut off his arm, this week a farmer in Saskatchewan sliced off his own fingers after his hand was caught in a rock-picker for three days: Trapped farmer escapes by slicing off fingers.
Is this just a statistical blip, or does this sort of thing happen more often than we think?
Several years before the rock-climber cut off his arm, I read a riveting account of a forester who was pinned under a tree he was chopping down and amputated his leg.
In a hiking mag not too long ago, there was the very sad story of a man whose leg was trapped between two boulders. He kept a journal of his ordeal and was not found until after he died. Perhaps he did not have a tool to sever the leg, or perhaps he just wasn’t willing to do so.
It makes me think of whether I would be able to do something like this to save my life. Intellectually, it’s easy to make the bargain – trade a limb for your life – but when it gets right down to it, who really knows what they can and cannot do?
Why can’t someone give themselves reattach a limb so I can start a thread titled “Suture Self”?
Call me gruesome, but this article sounds really interesting. Any idea if it would be available online, or what the guy’s name was?
LOL! That pun should keep me in stitches!
I think it 's [utrl=http://www.pinedaleonline.com/miketurner.htm] Mike Turner, Francesca.
Yes, I believe that was the man I read about. I will try to track down the magazine, which gave excerpts of the journal he kept while trapped.
I was so bored at work last week, that I chewed my own head off to escape.
As for the man in Saskatchewan , I read that he was trapped for a couple of days and was hallucinating quite vividly when he cut off his fingers.