Thread: Beware at boat ramps.

G'day everyone, i want to share little story with to all that would care to read it.
Last Saturday i wanted to have the day with my 8 yo young fella so we thought we would take our boat out for the day on the Maroochy River departing from the Fishermans Rd ramp. We had a great day catching bugger all but still a great day until it came time to put the boat back on the trailer and go home. I had backed the trailer down the ramp to the prescribed depth to the top of the trailer mud guards. I then put the boat into position and went to hook it up and winch up the trailer. As i moved down the ramp to hook it up i have put my foot into a knee deep hole in concrete of the ramp, at the bottom of the hole there was what felt like a pyramid shaped rock. The rock went through the thong i was wearing about 30mm into my left foot. The air turned blue and my son became frightened because he was unaware of what had taken place. To cut to the chase...i had to finish loading the boat on and drive home. Once home, Nursey Wife irrigated the wound and dressed it and advised me that it needs stitches and further looking at, at hospital. I did not accept this advice and thought a couple of beers and the medicine cabinet would fix it. This is wear it starts to spiral out of control... since then i have had 5 days in 2 different hospitals on the Sunny, many bags of drip fed antibiotics, a general anesthetic surgery to remove necrotic tissue and debridement of the foot and a drain installed after all of this as i am at high risk of amputation,as i am a diabetic. I have been sent home in my wifes care with a drip for more IV antibiotics and **** loads of Endone. My wife can administer this as she is a Nurse Practitioner. After all of this, the risk of amputation is a very real one.
If anything is to be learned from this it is 1) Wear the boat shoes that your wife bought for you when using the boat. 2) Listen to your professional wife's sage advice. The i told you so's are just not worth it! 3) Buy some Tiger Balm to place under my nostrils to attempt to block some of the smell of the infection.
At the end of the day if i had of been wearing the boat shoes i would not be in this predicament.

Everyone wear something other than thongs when you are in scuzzy water.

Boxhead.

I go everywhere barefoot. The Mrs hates it and all my mates have a go at me about it. Maybe I should think about upgrading to thongs... I dont like being sick.

I hope you recover fully and quickly! Your lucky to have a trained nurse to care for you... although... if she is like our neighbour she would just say "suck it up princess, I see worse than that at work" lol....