indio in hospital

indio · Post by **indio** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:09 am

Fionn wrote:
Wynna wrote:And Indio, fire walking is so 70's. Get better soon.
No excuse for doing it wrong

May has been a bad month for mortality and injury. Glad to hear this one is recoverable.

How terrific to hear from you Fionn. Many thanks for all the kind words.

Good news. I'm back in business, on crutches.

It's a humiliating tale, but it needs to be owned. We did some burning off on Sunday, clearing out some old tree stumps we'd had pulled 6 months or so ago. So I piled them up over the site of one such pulled-up stump and burned them. All good.

24 hours later I went wandering (in my thongs) to have a little look-see, mistook a pile of orange ash for clay, and sank my left foot about 8 inches into a pothole of burning cinders. I pulled out mt left foot by jamming my right in alongside it (or I was going to fall over), burning it slightly in the process, but the left was smoking by that stage. Ran down to the dam and soaked it for 30 minutes before making my way back to the house, where the skin remained perfectly intact until my goofy dog decided to stand smack-bang on the sorest part, splitting the skin and making a big mess of things. A week later and I'm out of hospital.

Good to be back. I still blame the dog.

Joos · Post by **Joos** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:19 am

Don't mind the clay!

Thanks for sharing your humorous if tragic story. Good to hear you are back in action!

Creslyn · Post by **Creslyn** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:44 am

Welcome back lol

Rumple C · Post by **Rumple C** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:10 am

That sounds so painful.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:20 am

noob ;p

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:44 pm

Bloody dog! Never liked the things

Glad to hear your out of hospital, hope there is no scarring.

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:00 pm

I am my wife too, and so is my wife.

Welcome back on your feet - at least virtually so.

oldgrayrogue · Post by **oldgrayrogue** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:18 pm

Wait -- you were walking around in the woods in a thong and you burned your feet? --- =P

lol -- glad you are feeling better -- and it was definately the dog's fault, no doubt about it *nods* =D

Brother Humphrey · Post by **Brother Humphrey** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:20 pm

Wait -- you were walking around in the woods in a thong and you burned your feet?

Thanks, now I'll never get that mental image out of my head.

Glad you're back in the saddle again, Indio. It's things like this that make me greatful I'm allergic to anything larger, or hairier, than an iguana, and the wife won't let me have even one of those.

Avaz · Post by **Avaz** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:01 am

I thought they were called flip-flops.

Hialmar · Post by **Hialmar** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:23 pm

Ah I haven't seen that thread before.

I was looking for Fionn's sightings and found this message.

Sorry for you mate.

I blame the dog as well

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