The gardener was cleaning up piles of leaves and branches from the local park – previous night’s storm debris – when the eucalyptus tree fell on him. There’s no scratch-or-cut on the body. Only he couldn’t wiggle his toes.
He went to the nearby hospital himself on foot. Later, I was surprised to find him in emergency ward. He looked fine, with no apparent pain, his wife sitting alongside.
I met the Doc on rounds: “Irreversible damage to thoracic nerves in the back”, he said. “Paraplegia has set in. It’ll soon affect his heart and lungs. His life is in God’s hands.”