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Originally Posted by Deb1  First of all I don't ever mow but my DH does. Our dogs are small & could easily be run over! I don't even let the kids in the grass when he is mowing. They have to stay on the deck or in the house! I know a Grandma that backed over her granddaughter and cut her up pretty bad!  |
Same here
When I was at university, there was a woman there that was going back to school after she had kids. Her father backed over her youngest son on a riding lawn mower.
The young boy, lost his leg. It's stuck in my mind ever since, partially just from the horror of it, but also from what the surgeons did with the leg. The ankle was ok, but the lower leg was mangled and the knee destroyed. She was faced with having to chose, in a matter of minutes, whether to have his whole leg amputated, or go with an experimental surgery, which if successful, might improve is mobility, but if it wasn't, he'd end up having the leg amputated anyway, and there was an increased risk with each additional surgery. She chose the experimental surgery. So, the surgeons took the boy's ankle and put it as the "new knee" by attaching the ankle backwards. They told her this would be the boy's best option for having the most functional artifical leg attachment, as he'd have a "knee" joint. I'm incredibly squeamish, so I hated listing to her talking about it, but at the same time was so fascinated by the procedure. It stuck with me all these years and scared the heck out of me about lawn mowers, which is why I chose to be extra cautious.