 "In
my business, working late was par for
the course. One evening, alone in the
plant, I went to answer a phone, tripped
over a cable and fell into a working
industrial cement mixer.
By complete fluke, a wagon driver came on the scene and stopped the machine - by which time, my left arm had been severed, as had my left leg beneath my knee, and my right arm damaged.
Paramedics took over an hour to extricate me from the mixer. Helicopters took me to Professor Gus McGrouther at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. I was in extreme shock and I'd lost a great deal of blood, but 20 hours of surgery put me back in the land of the living.
When I woke, I couldn't believe I was still alive. The long haul has been the rehab. I can't convey the gratitude I feel towards the people who've helped me; my family, in particular, but also to the amazing work of the surgeons.
With the help of prosthesis and a working thumb fashioned from the toe of the leg I lost, just one year later I could walk, get about and drive.
Thanks to Professor McGrouther and his team, I have been given a quality of life I would have never dreamed possible."
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