Life Update (TRIGGER WARNING: Spooky Scan of my Skull Included) · 11:45pm Jan 2nd, 2017
Good news:
Not working in the night club atm.
Bad news:
That's because I had my head kicked in by three blokes on a night out and now I have an eye socket made of metal. I'm lucky I didn't lose my eye or sustain brain damage. Bone fragments had to be removed from my eye and sinuses, and the operation involved making an incision from ear to ear across the top of my skull, then peeling my face off like a mask until they could get to the aforementioned injury.
(Not my hand).
Lovely stuff, all in all.
So yeah, to those of you that think I'm never coming back to my story: I am, but if shit like this keeps happening, I have no idea when it will fucking be.
Remember how I said I'd keep writing this thing until I finished it or I died? Well, you guys came a little close to being on a permanent cliffhanger there is all I can say.
- Mike, recovering.
P.S.
Holy goddamn fuck, that looks beautiful!..Ahem. Scratch that. Get better!
>the details
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Well... look on the bright side, now you can cosplay as Big Boss from Metal Gear
Seriously though, hope you get better man.
Ouchies -- congratulations on being lucky enough that you survived that without more permanent damage.
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Thanks guys :) I should be back in the saddle soon enough; they said it will be fully healed up in 3 months if all goes well. The metalwork will be permanent unless it gets infected, then they'll remove it. Sort of hoping they don't have to; it'll be useful if anyone goes to headbutt me in future.
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; maybe I'll upload a picture if I can snap one without my face in in, although unlike a scan I think such might be too NSFW for Fimfic lmao.
Oh, and I have exactly 70 staples across my scalp holding the incision together. Total freak show
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Fucking hell, any retribution for these three assholes?
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Hopefully. There was a group of 7+ lads I'm told (was pretty pissed up when it happened, details somewhat patchy). I got attacked and eventually put onto my arse and laid into by 3 of them, whilst my housemates fought the others off. Then I'm told I was kicked (by the surgeons, told me no punch could do that much damage); I remember the impact (and the noise I made when it connected, sort of grunted extremely loudly as if punched in the chest and didn't realise I was the one making the noise until about 3 seconds later because it disoriented me that much). Fortunately I had the presence of mind to keep my teeth clenched, otherwise I might have lost some.
Even more fortunately, a friend of mine came around the corner (according to him, I don't remember what happened after the kick until I was hauled to my feet) and managed to beat them off of me before they could do any further damage. I reckon I could have been killed, or at least lost an eye, if he hadn't found me when he did.
ANYWAYS (rambling a little) given all this, the police have tasked CID with investigating and they want to send them down if (and hopefully when) they get them. It was a Section 18 under the OAPA (Grevious Bodily Harm with Intent to Kill), and if they catch them then they'll almost certainly get around a decade in prison, at a minimum.
4366940 Well damn, I hope they catch them soon! Shitheads like that don't deserve to go unpunished.
In the meanwhile though, hope that your skull stuff gets fixed up fine and that it doesn't leave you in the doghouse (been hearing a lot of fimfic people having money troubles lately
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Edit: Read the previous blog about money issues, but I saw that you had a "largest installment" coming after you moved, so hopefully that'll provide some relief? And maybe if you get any form of workers/legal/etc compensation for the incident itself.
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I'm fortunate enough to live in the UK, so healthcare costs aren't an issue. Despite the state it's currently in, the NHS is certainly the single best thing about this country, in my mind, especially so now more than ever.
And yeah financially I'm semi-stable now anyways. Certainly not living large but I'm making enough to get by relatively well. If the police do catch the fuckers then I should be entitled to compensation for pain and suffering. Idk how much it would be, exactly, but the benchmark I was given back in college when I was studying law is you're looking at around £85,000 minimum if you lose a leg, so for having my skull bashed in I'm estimating something at around £20,000 at a minimum, maybe (potentially lethal, but wasn't, no permanent damage outside of missing bone, no loss of amenity as a result, so the compensation would purely be for the pain caused by the incident, not any loss of quality of life i.e. what might be experienced after losing a limb).
4367129 Gotcha, well I'm glad to hear it then. Both the healthcare as well as the quality of life things. I guess all that's left is to wish you a speedy recovery and swift justice.
Hope your recovery is smooth and without too much pain man.
I hope you get better, I'm more worried about your personal safety than a story
Holy crap dude. That's pretty bad. I sincerely hope the bastards are caught. Be better yet if they just died horrid deaths but I doubt we'd be that fortunate.
I know I'm nearly four months late on this, but HOLY GOD.
I'm sorry. No one should have to experience that.
As someone studying security myself, it certainly makes me uneasy - not that I plan on working crowd control. I'm aiming for cash-in-transit myself.
Anyway, I hope you've been recovering well so far. Both physically and emotionally, because I know I'd be a little shaken after something like that.
I'm way late on noticing this, but I hope you are better now, and do you know if they've got caught?