Snow removal accident

[jamesmm]

You'd be surprised, I was. I broke 19 bones, and was off my feet for three months. I lost 50 pounds during that time, and I had not started out overweight. The nurses and doctors were excellent, encouraging, and optimistic within reason. It has taken a few years, and I have well exceeded their and my own expectations of recovery. I remember looking forward to 80% recovery with hope - I'm 95% the person I was before, and better in some ways. I don't teach flying any more any more, but I still fly, and do everything else in life I want to do, other than run fast. Now I run like one of the 1960's TV show Thunderbirds puppets (the 5%) - but, I can run!

The advice given to me as I woke up from the coma day four, was move everything I can, as much as I can. Difficult, when the metal rings are around one leg, and your other arm in is a sling, while you lie in bed. But you know, as much as I could, at every stage of recovery, I moved as much as I could, as long as I could. I did rehab as directed for three years, and still do the assigned exercises to this day. So I hope this fellow, and anyone else who suffers a major accident, is simply given the advice to move as much as possible and permitted, as long as your energy allows. Walk when you can instead of any other way of getting around, take the stairs instead of the elevator/escalator, bicycle instead of drive, split your firewood by hand, and wrestle with your grandkids. Each is it's own reward, but simply by doing, you will be able to do more. I pity the somewhat able bodied people who allow themselves to become more a victim by relenting to difficulty in moving - fight to move, be healthy, and enjoy life, rather than allowing some immobility to define you.

And, as I have said, I always apply the parking brake, and lower all implements to the ground, or otherwise lock them out, because, I have learned the truth of: If you think safety is expensive, try an accident!

Thank you for sharing your experience bro.
I think people have to really invest in safety. Cuz we don't know accident happen. Just like what happen to hawk eye. So glad that he was able to save his nephew.

 

[Jstpssng]

Report on accident investigation findings:
Jeremy Renner was crushed by snowplow as he tried to save nephew from injury, sheriff's report says | CNN

That's different than one account I've read someplace, which stated he crawled to his neighbor's house for help.
What I don't understand is that if it was sliding sideways, how would the brake have stopped the accident? I suspect that part of the account is inaccurate.

 

[Jstpssng]

Well, now that he's gonna be OK...

Reminds me of my friend when we were little kids. He kept bugging a neighbor girl to let him ride her new tricycle. She kept saying no, but finally gave in. He got on it at the top of a hill, started riding down, took his feet off the pedals and could not stop. It was a dead end street. He disappeared into the bushes and we heard crashing noises, as it was another 30' down an embankment. He survived with nicks and scratches, but I can still picture it on my head all these years later.

How did the tricycle survive?

 

[MossRoad]

How did the tricycle survive?

Had to get a huge tow truck with a rotater.


Just kidding. We pulled him out of the bushes and had to get someone's dad to pull the tricycle out of the multiflora roses and barbed wire. Yikes that kid was scratched up. But we all survived.

 

[Alan46]

Had to get a huge tow truck with a rotater.


Just kidding. We pulled him out of the bushes and had to get someone's dad to pull the tricycle out of the multiflora roses and barbed wire. Yikes that kid was scratched up. But we all survived.

How we miss the good old days

 

[MossRoad]

How we miss the good old days

Reminded me of a kid that used to ride his bike down our street, stand up on the seat, and put his arms out like he was flying. Well, one day he crashed onto our mailbox. He got up crying. His bike was broken. And he proceeded to yell at my siblings and me that his dad was a lawyer and he was going to sue us. We didn't even know what that meant.

His dad came down and talked to my dad about placing the mailbox in a different location so kids wouldn't hit it. My dad asked him of he knew his kid was standing on the seat with his arms out like an airplane when he hit it? No. Dad then asked if the guy was going to pay for the mailbox damage.

 

[jmc]

Update. Excerpts from a paywalled site:

{Avengers star Jeremy Renner has given his first interview since he was critically injured in a snowplow accident in early January.

In the interview with Diane Sawyer, set to air on ABC News on April 6, Renner recounts how he was crushed by his seven-ton snowplow while trying to help his nephew free the actor’s car after it got stuck in the snow near his home in Nevada. He was run over when he tried to stop the PistenBully plow from rolling and hitting his nephew.
He said he stayed awake as responders tried to reach the scene after a night of heavy snowfall that shut down highways and left vehicles stranded.
“I chose to survive,” Renner says in a trailer for the interview.


Sawyer lists his injuries, which included eight broken ribs; a broken right knee, ankle, clavicle and shoulder; and, on his left leg, a broken tibia and ankle. She continues: “Face, eye socket, jaw, mandible broken. Lung collapsed. Pierced from the rib bone, your liver — which sounds terrifying.”
“I have lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience,” Renner says. “But I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.”



The trailer for the interview includes audio of the 911 call from the incident, in which the caller says: “There’s a lot of blood here. He’s in rough shape.”
The 52-year-old actor can be heard groaning in pain in the background. “Keep breathing, man. Keep fighting,” the caller urges.]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/03/30/jeremy-renner-interview-diane-sawyer-accident/

 

[Rustyiron]

I have (since first seeing his name mentioned here) began watching his "mayor of Kingstown" show.
Glad to hear of his recovery.

 

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He was sitting in a picture hinted at some nasty leg scars.
If anything, I hope his example encourages the rest of us to use that parking brake; though I've read here and there that the "snowplow" "slid" towards the nephew, I suspect it was "rolling" (in that tracked fashion)

 

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