Then he made lunch as usual. Horrible accidents happen all the time. I just sat on a settee as the captain turned the boat around to take us back to port, which was eight hours away. He seemed most upset about losing half his gear overboard. By now, the pain had really kicked in, and when I moved, I could feel the blade rubbing against bone, which made me shiver.
All I could do was take a lot of aspirin and wait. That eight-hour trip to port felt like a lifetime. I was just desperate to get to a bar for a drink. The doctor told me that the blade was only two inches from my heart. He injected my chest with local anaesthetic before pulling out the blade, but it still hurt a lot. I had a few stitches and antibiotics, and was fine in a few days.
By the following summer, I was back on a boat in Alaska, this time fishing for salmon. Do you have an experience to share? Email experience theguardian. Experience: I stabbed myself in the chest. Steve Grove at the Columbia river gorge, in Washington state. The external examination revealed only 1 deep incised horizontal wound in the third left intercostal space beside the sternum. There were no hesitation marks or defense injuries. On both flexor sides of the wrists, the forearms, and the arms and on the right and the left side of the neck, there were several old transversal cut scars.
At the autopsy, once the single-edged knife was removed, and after a median sternotomy, the penetration depth of the stab wound revealed an incision of the left pleura, the pericardium, and the transfixed heart, from the anterior to the posterior side, ending on the seventh thoracic vertebra.
Toxicological screening resulted as negative.
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