If I may, I’d like to offer a bit of advice to anyone recovering from multiple arm fractures. In so far as I strongly recommend they avoid using, or even attempting to use any petrol powered garden implements. It will almost certainly not end well.
As I can testify from very recent personal experience. Yesterday, I decided to use my petrol strimmer. Lifting it at all with my left hand was mildly challenging, but I decided to attempt to start it anyway. Grasping it as best I could in my injured left hand, I tugged on the rope starter thing with my right hand. This caused a fairly unreasonable amount of pain to shoot from my fingers all the way to the top of my head leading to me letting go of the machine. However, it had caught first time on full choke.
On its way to the ground it spun in mid air and strimmed my legs and ankles on both sides causing me to attempt to leap above it’s apparent trajectory. My right foot must have caught it during this manoeuvre, sending it flying into a flower bed my wife has been cultivating with some erstwhile really quite pretty bedding plants this year.
Being still on choke and spinning at high revolutions, it then managed to massacre a goodly number of those and create a small crop circle in the flowerbed.
It was at this point that my wife got involved, seemingly, and I’d have to say disappointingly, far more exercised by the damage to her plants than the obvious temporary agonies I was then enduring.
All in all, it proved to have been an error of judgment on my part at a number of levels.
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