FORMER Sea Eagles hardman Terry Randall has spoken about his brush with death after suffering complications from a burst appendix.
One of the toughest and most uncompromising forwards to have ever
pulled on a pair of boots “Igor” said it some of the worst pain he has ever experienced.
“I had an abscess about the size of a lemon growing around the appendix and it burst open and I’ve been in a bad way,” Randall said.
It was when he got home from a wedding on March 10 Randall knew he was in trouble.
“I thought someone had machinegunned me to the ground,” he said.
“It just hit me with pain across the stomach and I knew there was something wrong so we got the ambulance.”
The next morning, he had his appendix removed at Mona Vale Hospital.
“I remember when I was pushed into the theatre with the bright lights and thinking ‘your fate is in other people hands now’,.” he said.
“You hear about how these things nearly kill people and when you go through it you realise what they are talking about.
“It was like a poison all through your stomach.”
Randall spent a week in hospital, came out for three and then was readmitted for another day a half after his wound that stretched from his chest to below his belly button became infected.
“They told me they would start off with keyhole surgery and I could end up with a shark bite in my stomach.
Randall was released from hospital yesterday and is on a course of antibiotics.
“I’m feeling a bit better, I think I’ve got it covered,” he said.
Randall, who runs an excavating business, reckons he will be off work for another couple of weeks.
Jon Geddes
Manly Daily
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