Carol Carrington’s collarbone was broken when a huge branch from a mahogany tree fell on her while she was walking through St Leonard’s Anglican churchyard last Saturday. But the 77-year-old still considers herself lucky.
“I?am so lucky it did not hit me in my head,” she told the DAILY?NATION while resting at her home in President Kennedy Drive, St Michael. She also suffered a puncture to the left hand.
Carrington said she was walking through the churchyard around 10 a.m. when she heard a creaking sound.
“I did not know where it was coming from but when I get to the spot a big piece of branch came down and hit me on my shoulder. All I could say was ‘Lord have mercy’. I fell down and some fellas who were liming in the churchyard came and pulled the branch from on top of me. I was in a lot of pain and blood was coming from a wound on my left hand.”
Carrington, whose right hand is now in a sling, said the police, who were summoned to the scene, took her to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital because there were no available ambulances. However, after realizing that she would have a long wait, her relatives decided to take her to Sandy Crest Medical Centre in St James.
“They did an X-ray and the doctor told me that my collarbone was broken. I also had a puncture on my left hand. I have to go and see a specialist,” she said, pointing to the still swollen area around her collarbone.
Carrington, who attends St Leonard’s, said its rector, Canon Jeffrey Gibson, visited her while she was at the hospital and the congregation also said prayers for her last Sunday. (MB)