Steel pin pierces granny’s knees as she trips on pavement
She was using a knee-stroller as she had undergone a heel and ankle operation
Well on the road to recovery after a heel and ankle operation, a Kerk Street grandmother suffered a serious knee injury after falling over a broken kerbstone on February 17.
Adri Slabbert’s (52) knee was pierced by a steel pin protruding from the tar next to a concrete block on a sidewalk on Pascoe Avenue.
“The doctor said the pin narrowly missed a main artery. Had this happened, I could have bled to death,” she said.
“I decided to go for a walk since my daughter and granddaughter came to visit. I was walking very slowly with a knee-stroller when I lost my balance and fell,” Slabbert said.
The pin ripped open her left knee, leaving a wound so deep that the bone was visible. Her daughter, Angelique Potgieter, who is trained in first aid, assisted her.
She received six internal stitches and seven stitches on the outside.
Slabbert was using a knee-stroller as she had undergone a heel and ankle operation on January 16. The procedure was part of corrective surgery for an injury she suffered in 2015.
“Since 2015’s fall, I’ve undergone at least 20 operations to my ankle,” she said.
She wished to thank the Super Cops security officer and two men from a nearby pub who came out to help lift her off the ground. She was taken to a doctor’s consulting rooms on Monument Road.
