Dad sliced open in horror DIY blunder that saw street fill with ‘river of blood’
A dad who was putting up a banner for his wife’s birthday accidentally put his foot through a glass table, severing a main artery and almost bleeding to death.
Dad-of-three Scott Lee had the accident barely 24 hours after getting the keys to the new property in Birchgrove, Wales.
The 30-year-old severed his Achilles and cut a main artery supplying blood to his leg on August 20. Neighbours said his scream in pain was so loud that they thought someone was being attacked.
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Following a four-and-a-half hour operation at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital, Scott is now on the road to recovery but he is unable to work as a forklift driver for at least six weeks.
(Image: Scott Lee)
When Scott discovered he was unable to stem the bleeding, he hobbled down the road in a desperate attempt to seek help.
Luckily, a qualified nurse happened to pass by in her car and saw him in distress, placing one of his wife’s dressing gowns tightly around his leg before relatives could take him to hospital, WalesOnline reports.
Scott was wearing just sliders when he went over to put a banner on the house to surprise wife Paige.
“As I went to put the banner on the window with a scissors and Sellotape, I had to lean across so I stood on one of the doors which I’d stacked up.
(Image: Scott Lee)
“But the scissors slipped out of my hand. I instinctively readjusted my feet and my right foot went straight through a pane of glass,” he said.
He said the blood quirted from his leg and he had to hobble to his old home where his wife was, but feared he was “going to die”.
“I told my wife and my kids that I loved them as I wasn’t sure if I’d see them again,” he said.
Miraculously, within minutes of the accident happening mental health nurse Laura Hayes was driving past and saw Scott and his young family in distress.
(Image: Scott Lee)
She said: “I was running late to take my daughter to her horse riding lesson when, by pure fluke, I saw him. I wondered what on earth was going on, but when I saw this river of blood I knew I had to help.
“He was bleeding so heavily that 30 minutes later he wouldn’t have been with us.”
Meanwhile another neighbour came to Scott’s aid and grabbed his first aid kit.
Surgeons at Morriston Hospital carried out an operation to fix Scott’s Achilles and his leg has been put in plaster.
However, there is a chance he may never walk properly again and have a permanent limp.
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