I'm a careful guy who almost never gets hurt...a couple sprains, and a couple cuts that needed 2-3 stiches in 60 years....but I had a friend who told a story about her mother: (the story took 30-40 minutes to tell..I shorten it here!)

seems Mom was gardening...with a pitchfork (the kind with thin, round tines)..and managed to shove one of the tines through her foot...right through the shoe. Well, she stood there, then tried to hobble to the house and found it wasn't easy...then spent 10 minutes getting up courage to pull the thing OUT...then went inside and...called the doctor? No...took off the shoe, sock and washed her foot...then changed clothes...then cleaned up the blood in the bathroom...then put ON new socks, then called her daughter (my friend)...THEN drove herself to the hospital. (There were many details about all this that I have forgotten and left out, but we were all laughing till the tears ran at the recounting of this, as we KNEW Mom and how meticulous and fastidious she was, and KNEW how she wouldn't want the emergency room to see her in gardening clothes with...horrors! BLOOD.. on her! Nor would she want to leave her bathroom spotted!)
she was patched, shot for tetanus, and released and all was eventually ok...but I suspect it is well that she didn't have Deckman's experience, or Susan's ..or she'd never have gotten clean enough to have survived!