“I was talking the whole time, trying to keep the other guys calm,” he remembers. He recalls how the mine’s rescue team had to carry him perched awkwardly in a sitting position on a stretcher, as the metal bar protruding from his body was almost level with De Wet’s feet, making it impossible for him lie down. One afternoon in January 2015, engineering supervisor De Wet was working on washing out a dam 3.5km underground at a mine in Carletonville, using an extended crowbar to stir up the mud, when he suddenly slipped.ĭe Wet looked down and, to his utter disbelief, saw that the metal bar had penetrated his body, entering his groin area and coming out of his back, just below his shoulder blade. On 10 June, however, he will be taking on the challenge of this year’s Comrades Marathon with his running club, the Carleton Harriers, wearing race number 49470. "Before my accident in 2015, I ran the Comrades Marathon six times, and during my initial recovery after the accident it seemed to me that I would never be able to take part in this gruelling ultramarathon ever again," De Wet notes. ![]() I am dedicating my run to every single rescue worker, paramedic, firefighter, and especially to Netcare 911, Netcare Milpark Hospital and trauma surgeon, Professor Kenneth Boffard. "Day by day, I have regained my strength and this year I have managed to qualify for the 2018 Comrades Marathon. To think that I have now successfully qualified to take on the Comrades Marathon once more is truly remarkable and every day I am so grateful for the recovery I have made," De Wet says. "Just three-and-a-half years ago, my wife and colleagues were praying for my survival, and when I was able to walk out of the hospital only 19 days later, we regarded it as a miracle from God. ![]() JOHANNESBURG - When Daniel de Wet regained consciousness at the Netcare Milpark Hospital after a 1.8-metre metal industrial crowbar penetrated his body 3.5km underground at a mine in Carletonville, he never imagined that he would now be making final preparations for taking part in his first Comrades Marathon since the accident.
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