US gardener survives being impaled in eye with shears - Polidicks

[quote=The BBC] [h2]US gardener survives being impaled in eye with shears[/h2] [B]An 86-year-old US man impaled through the eye socket with pruning shears in a freak gardening accident is expected to make a full recovery, doctors say.[/B] Leroy Luetscher said he had been trimming plants in his yard in Arizona last month when he lost his balance and fell on the tool. One handle of the shears went into his right eye socket and down to his neck, leaving the other resting on his face. Surgeons were able to remove the shears and save Mr Luetscher's eye. He dropped the tool, which landed point downward, while working in his backyard on 30 July. [B]'Lucky'[/B] When the Wisconsin native bent down to pick up the shears, he fell face first and one handle impaled his right eye socket underneath his eyeball. After the accident, the retired dairy industry executive managed to walk back into his home and ask his partner to call for help. He said he is lucky to be alive. "I didn't know if my eyeball was still there or what," Mr Luetscher told the Associated Press news agency. "I never had pain like that in all my life." Lynn Polonski, a clinical assistant professor of ophthalmology, said the end of the handle inside Mr Luetscher's neck was resting on his external carotid artery. The medical team made incisions underneath Mr Luetscher's right upper lip and sinus wall, allowing them manually to loosen the handle of the shears. "Once we were able to loosen it up, it went fairly easily," Dr Polonski said. The only injuries that remained from the accident after surgery were swelling and minor double vision in the affected eye, the University Medical Center in Tucson said in a [URL="http://www.umcarizona.org/body.cfm?xyzpdqabc=0&id=260&action=detail&ref=572"]news release[/URL]. [/quote] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55030000/jpg/_55030954_55030953.jpg[/IMG] My head hurts just seeing that picture. [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14725367[/URL]

Oh god the pain.

Ohh god ouch. That, that had to fucking hurt. Ouch. [i]Ouch[/i]

how do you even manage to do that

[B]JESUS FUCKING CHRIST[/B] Words cannot describe how fucking painful that looks.

oh my fuck

TIS BUT A FLESH WOUND!

How does one even get impaled in the eye with shear handles?

that surgeon must have been one amazing guy

That's amazing, I can't believe he didn't lose his eye!

[QUOTE=SamPerson123;32032813]That's amazing, I can't believe he didn't lose his eye![/QUOTE] He must have landed on it just right to slide it under his eye. Damn, he's really lucky, and that doctor is amazing.

Eye injuries always seem to bother me the most

That X-ray is painful to look at.

Never thought I'd hear the phrase "freak gardening accident"

How the fuck.

Not only was that potentially deadly, but he's 86 as well, he's lucky as hell to have lived.

seriously how do you get shears stuck in your head at that angle?

holy shit.

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

That Xray is plenty interesting

My dad makes me clip this [B]huge[/B] bush once a week. I have to stand on a bench just so I can trim the top of the bush. The ground beneath the bench is rather weak and uneven. The bench feels unstable. What was this guy's reality is something I've been fearing of ever since my dad made trimming the bush my responsibility.

Did they say US gardener to make sure we don't think he is Mexican?

This is a true Hot Fuzz referrence... Remeber what they said about the woman in the flowershop?

Holy shit that's crazy! Glad he made it.

It must not feel quite nice having shears inside your eyes.

[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;32033982]This is a true Hot Fuzz referrence... Remeber what they said about the woman in the flowershop?[/QUOTE] "She tripped and fell on her own shears."

I bet it took some cutting edge treatment by the doctors to save that guy's eye.

I'm surprised this didn't happen in Sandford.

ow ow ow OW OW OW OW OWWWWWWWW

Oh god, I cringed when I read the title.