The wife did a number on her heel! (not for the squeamish)

[Metal Masher]

Yesterday afternoon the wife was coming in the back door in a rush and tripped catching her heel on the bottom of the screen door and slicing a 1/2" wide, 4" long swath of flesh off exposing her Achilles tendon!

Luckily no damage was done to the tendon and the doctor was able to stitch it up without surgery.

The stitches need to stay in for 2 weeks and she is hobbling around on crutches with a good deal of pain but the doctors are confident it will heal just fine. it will leave a nasty scar though.

Here is how it looked after the doctor sowed it up.


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Please keep her in you prayers for a speedy recovery.

 

[Zukiiholic]

SOB!!
Thanks for the warning tho..
It doesn't look too bad.
Gonna have to adjust the Screen door stay open longer.
Mine closes fast to keep the cat in but even me or my G/F don't get thru the door fast enough sometimes..
I want to Know why in the Heck do they make the bottom of the screen door soo Frickin sharp!!

 

[Natedog]

Yesterday afternoon the wife was coming in the back door in a rush and tripped catching her heel on the bottom of the screen door and slicing a 1/2" wide, 4" long swath of flesh off exposing her Achilles tendon!

Luckily no damage was done to the tendon and the doctor was able to stitch it up without surgery.

The stitches need to stay in for 2 weeks and she is hobbling around on crutches with a good deal of pain but the doctors are confident it will heal just fine. it will leave a nasty scar though.

Here is how it looked after the doctor sowed it up.

Please keep her in you prayers for a speedy recovery.

Doesn't look so bad and will do...speedy full recovery. "thumbsup"

I've caught my heel that way many times and fortunatley never that bad.

SOB!!
I want to Know why in the Heck do they make the bottom of the screen door soo Frickin sharp!!

x2...always wondered that....that xxxx is sharp!

 

[fr8cture]

We ditched our screen doors. Never use them and when you try to they get stuck on the track or come off the track. :lmao:

 

[wings_of_fire]

Thats bad. Hope she recovers soon.

You might want to write an email to http://www.cpsc.gov/

 

[Peaker]

In manufacturing deburring have gone out of fashion :roll:

Deburring was what i spent much of my time dooing in my first job when i was a kid, but i fear its left out now to be able to compete with China.

 

[Mudsy]

That's it? Thought you gonna to show actual tendons & blood. What a letdown!

But, still pray for speedy recovery for her.

 

[BigSki]

Best wishes for her! At least she didn't have to beat someone over the head with a can of beans this time. :mrgreen:

 

[old man 52]

Prayers sent for a quick recover Buddy.

 

[Mike Flea]

Will do, and best wishes for her! "thumbsup"

 

[Metal Masher]

Thanks for the well wishes guys. she is moving about really good and her range of motion is almost 50% which is where the doctors want her to be right now. It's hard keeping her still. she is not one for doing that.

My father-in-law and I both checked the door and it does not feel sharp at all. it's PVC for that matter, but the edge is a true right angle. the best we could figure, her foot got caught under it while it was mostly open and as it was closing her foot slid diagonally across it like a guillotine.

I've since added a PVC channel to it that has much more rounded edges so this should not happen again.

 

[lostonthetrails]

Oooh, that pretty bad. Hope she is fine. I used to have a screen door at my house and I used to have it run into my ankle all the time but not like that. Ouch.