Richard Bradley
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He'd split me like a banana.
He basically ran it from the sort of down near my wrist all the way to the back of my elbow.
He'd flayed it open.
There was a whole team of them.
They spent four or five hours doing what's called a debridement and they basically peel your arm open and they've all got those little microscope glasses on and they pick all the foreign bodies out.
They remove a lot of the excess fat and they just give it the best possible clean they can.
I had this arm that was pinned open and have you seen the Terminator?
You know where he's repairing himself?
It was like that.
And my mates came around and it was definitely worth a photo or two.
They were building this new skyscraper and it's a BHP skyscraper.
It was an amazing edifice of glass and steel, super high.
If it's not the highest in Perth, it certainly was back then.
And I knew that of a night time, mates of mine were breaking into it and going up the top of it and jumping off it.
And I was looking at this building and thinking, as soon as I get out, I'm going to go jump this building, you know, it's got to be done before they finish building it.
And then I just had this sort of acute moment as I'm sort of getting FOMO and thinking about all that sort of past stuff.
I'm like, really?
I mean, come on, mate, you've just had a close rush.
Is that really something you want to go and do and poke fun at your good fortune?
Like, do you want to continue to play that card?