The verdict is in,the judge has brought his mallet down on the drunk driver that left me for dead on the US highway, he got 15 years

Wish there was more sentencing like that around here, then maybe fewer people would do it.

Will he appeal?

Nope he admited all 3 counts, done and dusted deal. Plus i have now heard he has terminal cancer, i should feel sorry but i dont coz he didnt care what he did to me..

Chicks dig scars

Couldn't they have sown in something really cool instead of a piece of skin in the shape of a garden trowel (where did they get it from, btw)?

If that was me I'd have gotten them to install something with buttons, a display and some flashing LED lights. You probably could have had your CB radio installed there, it is 2010, you know

Sorry, I know the thread started off serious but this post did make me smile.

Gremmie, hope you're all recovered and that the judge's decision gave you some satisfaction. Stay safe.

I was thinking Wall's Magnum. I'm glad they locked the prick up & I hope you are well on the road to recovery, both physically & psychologically..

Joe.

I was thinking more of like a cool instrument panel like the Predator allien things they took the meat from my left leg, from just above my knee to the waist band

Wow, do they really need that much skin to then make a trowel/Magnum sized piece? No really - joking apart - does it shrink or something if it originally came from your knee to your waist?

No they take twice the amount, it took 9 hours to sew all the veins & an artery, that is then moniterd every hour with a doppler scope to unser the blood was flowing. If the first had failed they then try the second piece.

... and there was me thinking .... "that's a really nice graft" (but then I work on a plastics unit!)

Again - wow !!! You must have gone through hell.

Its a full flap not a graft, the original graft ( taken from right leg) was replaced with this flap

Can I ask, without sounding too gruseome, what happens to the bit of body where the skin has been removed for the graft? Ie: from your knee to your waist? Does it kind of stay fleshy until it grows back new skin.

You're not obliged to answer and I really don't want to sound unmindful of your pain and ordeal but I am interested and curious. Had I been a bit brighter in chemistry and physics I might have got into something medical. I loved biology but hated chemistry and physics.