Does near death count?
On a wednesday about 7 weeks ago my hb and I were working on the coop. He needed a small piece of wood to cover the edge of some wire to keep us from getting stuck when we walk by. He had the table saw. It caught the small piece of wood and shot it backward. It hit his abdomen. Well, this was on wednesday. We put ice on it since it appeared to be a bruise, no break in the skin and felt very lucky it was not worse. The next week on Tues. he started vomiting and had upset stomach. He called the Dr. and he started him on a dose pak of antibiotic because he said there was a stomach bug going around. He did not get better and finally the next Mon. he went to the Dr. and the bruise on his abdomen was noted, as was the hardness of his swollen abdomen. After a cat scan we learned has a full obstruction with infection pockets all in the abdomen!!! In the hospital he went. After 4 days of high powered antibiotic and hopeing the swelling would go down and thus the obstruction, surgery was nec. When he went in for surgery, it was with a very irreg. pulse of 42 and white ct. of 40,000. I was truly scared and praying hard. He came through it and now 7 weeks later is doing again. Taking it slow but doing. PLEASE be careful with power tools of all kinds. They could be deadly. Gloria Jean
