A mum in Gloucestershire feared her son’s foot may be amputated after a plastic vape pen became impaled in it.
Harley Bennett, 13, was out with friends when he found the used Elfbar pen on the floor in a subway Harley Bennett, 13, was out with friends in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, when he found the used Elfbar pen on the floor in a subway in October.
‘The recovery process was very stressful. The moment where the doctor told me I could lose my foot was very, very stressful.He was left in agony and a friend called Harley’s mum, Samantha Robinson, who rushed to find her son and take him to hospital.Harley said he ‘wasn’t thinking’ when he stood the vape up vertically, thinking he would be able to crush it by stamping on it Mum-of-four Samantha, 34, said: ‘It was really shocking. I felt sick, scared, I didn’t know what was going on.
‘The size and width of the puff bar went the majority of the way in, and jammed into the top of the heel bone, which cracked it. It was a clean cut of flesh gone. Samantha, a cleaner, added: ‘Two weeks after it happened, the surgeon said there’s a high chance of infection and a high chance you might lose your foot. That was what scared me the most.
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