Dad Mark Nicholson could be the luckiest man alive after slicing through his neck with a diamond disc cutter.The nine-inch blade missed his voicebox by a couple of millimetres.
Mark – a former lifeguard and soldier – said his first-aid knowledge kicked in when the gadget slipped while he worked on French doors at a customer’s home on March 15.
The window-fitter explained: “My foot had gone off the edge of some planks the customer put down to protect his floor.“As I was trying to get my balance, I fell backwards and the blade skipped down my chin and dug into my neck.
I instantly put my hands to my face to assess the situation, and it just felt wet.“I knew straight away then that it was more serious.”Mark, 53, said: “I clicked into survival mode and remembered what I had been taught in the Army.
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