Dale Whitehurst, 45
Are you ready for your shower?' I asked my partner, Sarah, then 50.
Sarah suffered a long list of illnesses, so I was her full-time carer. Once she fell asleep, I'd call my daughter, then 21, who was studying fashion photography at uni four hours away.
One Sunday afternoon in June 2021, after I set up Sarah in the front room with her laptop and coffee, I stepped out to the pub.
After a few hours, I noticed the time.
I should probably go home and get Sarah ready for bed, I thought.
Leaving, I decided to take a short-cut through a park.
I'd never taken that route before, and quickly realised I was lost.
Seeing a two-metre high security fence, I foolishly began to climb it, hoping I'd find my bearings on the other side.
As I reached the top, about both ankles they brushed the ground.
Seeing an empty coke can, with all my might, to jump over, my ankles became jammed between the metal spikes.
I was flung backwards, smashing my head on the fence and blacking out.
Coming to, I felt hazy and light-headed.
I'm upside down, I realised, my eyes blinking against the early morning sunlight. I must have been here for hours.
Panicking, I couldn't feel my legs. Looking up, to my horror, I saw that the jagged metal spikes of the fence had pierced through both my ankles, impaling me.
'Help!' I screamed at the top of my lungs.
At 182 cm tall, stretching out my arms they brushed the ground.
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