Silvershed Blog » injury http://blog.silvershed.co.uk Meanderings Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:18:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Deadly Aubergine http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/06/20/deadly-aubergine/ http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/06/20/deadly-aubergine/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:20:00 +0000 stuart http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/06/20/deadly-aubergine/ Continue reading →]]> I discovered on Saturday night just gone how dangerous the humble aubergine can be! I was barbecueing some for a dip, but had not read the instructions properly and I (of course) knew exactly what I was doing.

Anyways, one of them was squishing down beautifully as it cooked but the other one was just sort of sat there changing colour but not squishing down. After they had been on for several minutes and turned several times I went to turn the one that was not changing and there was a loud bang and a burning sensation on my leg. The purple sod had just exploded and thrown its fiery hot content in all directions.

Several pieces landed on my leg and I now have some ace blisters just waiting to pop. Fortunately none of them are particularly big enough even they they are quite nasty burns. Even the fence got it and there bits hanging from plants that were in the vicinity.

I saw the funny side of it and ended up laughing fairly hard for a couple of minutes. I think Miriam was a bit more upset as I had just exploded half of the base for a dip she was making, eeek!

So, aubergines are dangerous, be careful people!

]]> http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/06/20/deadly-aubergine/feed/ 0 Ouch! http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/01/31/ouch/ http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/01/31/ouch/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:56:00 +0000 stuart http://blog.silvershed.co.uk/2005/01/31/ouch/ Continue reading →]]> Ouch indeed.  Don’t ask how but we managed to be in the situation yesterday where we were locked in our garden.  Our back door was locked and our side gate was locked and the keys for both of these exits were in the house!
Being the daredevil that I am I thought it would be a very simple thing to climb over our gate to get to out and back into the house through our front door (the local criminals don’t seem to struggle so why should I).  So, I climb the gate and get onto the top of the fence next to it and suddenly realise that I am six feet off the ground.  Not a problem, I’ll just get down on the other side, it is ONLY six feet after all.  Being the daredevil that I am I jump.  This was, with hindsight, perhaps a mistake which I realised quickly as my left ankle buckled under me as I managed to land pretty much entirely on that heel (ouch they say).  At that point the realisation of the pain in that joint had not set in so I hobbled in to the house and opened the back door to open everything up again.
It now feels as though I cannot put any weight into that foot if it involves pulling on the achilles tendon.  Ended up in the local A&E department for three hours on Sunday afternoon getting it looked at to make sure if it was nastier than I suspected it got sorted.  It appears that that there are no fractures but it is still bloody sore so I was sent away with some crutches and tubigrip and told to rest it.
After spending a night on it it does not throb as much but it still hurts like hell to put much weight into it.  Hopefully though it will sort itself out in the next couple of days as hobbling around on crutches is such a pain in the backside.
A big thank you to all the staff at Eccles Hospital A&E department who were absolutely brilliant and got me sorted.
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