An Australian grandfather was forced to drive himself nearly 33 kilometres to the nearest hospital after chainsawing his face and tongue in half.
Victorian man Bill Singleton, 68, told his wife Lynette he was just going out to chop some firewood and would be back home soon after.
But within a matter of hours, surgeons were desperately working to sew his face back together, Bill's fight for life detailed in the podcast 'How I Survived'.
A grandfather has miraculously survived having run a chainsaw through his own face
Bill says he drove his ute through a solitary, winding dirt road before stopping to chop wood.
'I sussed out a couple of good logs of timber and went back to my ute,' he said.
'I had two chainsaws, a small one and a big one. I got the big saw out, started it up, and of course it roared into action.'
But instead of chewing cleanly through a log of wood, it ricocheted off and back towards Bill.
'I heard this crack. I didn't feel anything at the time, and I thought "oh my goodness".'
The chainsaw tore through his bottom lip and into his tongue, splitting his jaw and leaving blood pouring out.
The 68-year-old tore through his jaw and tongue when the chainsaw ricocheted towards him
To stem the blood, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and held it to his face.
Quickly losing blood, Bill began losing consciousness and dropped to his knees in the brush.
