![]() ![]() Luckily for us, the math puts our chances of being hit is about 1 in every 300,000 strikes. Some of us may have even been casually driving down the road one rainy day when we see a lightning strike one of the trees on the pavement, splitting it clean in half!Īnd then seconds later, it starts smoking and, if the wood is dry enough, it catches fire.Ĭertainly, lightning is one of the more terrifying weapons that Mother Nature will casually dish out at the world around her.Ĭonsidering just how powerful a lightning strike can be, it is no wonder we are scared of getting struck by it. I think a lightning bolt would be a very meaningful symbol to use now.The idea of getting struck by lightning sounds like an incredibly scary thing to experience.Īfter all, we have all seen just how dangerous lightning can be. In blacksmithing, we use a “touch mark”, where you put a signature in the metal. I was even thinking of making lightning bolts my signature for my work, too. I’d like to get a commemorative tattoo over the scars on my arm. I can’t say yet whether experiencing lightning will be triggering now, as we haven’t had any since, but I’ll be more wary and shut the windows. ![]() The burns are on the mend, but I will go to a physio to work on the long-lasting effects. I have tingling in my fingertips where the nerves are starting to heal. I’m a blacksmith and the accident has affected my ability to work, as I still don’t have full sensation or strength in my arm. I was so lucky to have my husband and other family there, but they were in as much disbelief as I was. Ten hours later, when my heart rate had slowed to normal, I was discharged with a letter that said I had been through a “lightning strike”, which felt even more surreal. It was such an unreal feeling, like nothing I had experienced before. My heart rate was all over the place and I was given an IV drip with medication for the pain. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been “grounded” and my story could have ended very differently. One doctor said I was lucky that I had my foot on the floor while I was playing the game. It then ran through my body and exited out of my foot, hence the burn there. It was decided that the lightning had first hit some water droplets on the open windowsill behind me and bounced on to my shoulder. When I took my shoes off and they saw the burn on my foot, they confirmed I had been struck by lightning. It took nine doctors from different departments to find out the best way to treat me. The nurse in the assessment room said it looked like an electrical burn, but they couldn’t be sure. ![]() It felt like a movie, the room went quiet. When my husband said, “I think he might have been struck by lightning,” everyone in the room turned around and stared. All I remember is mumbling something about the lightning outside. I couldn’t think straight when we got to A&E. I, too, was trying to piece together what had happened, holding my arm in agony as it continued burning. He rang his parents, who live up the road, and they agreed to take me to the hospital. He ran to the living room, thinking the TV might have exploded, and was stumped when everything seemed to be fine. He was horrified and went into rescue mode, grabbing a wet towel and trying to piece together what had happened from the state of my arm. I was looking for my husband, Aaron, to get help. I stumbled upstairs in shock and burning pain, struggling to put one foot in front of the other. Next came the smell of singed flesh – I looked down at my right arm and saw that it was burning and blistering. I felt hot and cold at the same time – I had never felt anything like it before. Then it was as if something extremely heavy suddenly dropped on my body. At 11pm I heard a crack of thunder so loud I thought it was an explosion. ![]()
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