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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
You’re smart, and more farmers and rural people should learn first aid or better. My sister had a bad farming accident last fall. She shattered both her lower legs. Over 80 fractures including two protruding bone fractures..one was a femur. It took over two hours for an ambulance. Often people will load up an injured person, call 9-1-1 and try and meet an ambulance enroute. But with injuries like hers she couldn’t be moved. She could have bled out in the harvest field. In that scenario had her husband had first aid he could have at least helped control the bleeding better, which was the biggest immediate threat.
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That's awful. Harvest time is always tough, everyone's in a rush to get it in the bin and accidents can, and sadly do happen.
I hope your sister is alright. Can't imagine it's easy to come back from that sort of injury. Best to her and your family.