“I was concious up until the ambulance crew got there,” he said.
“I briefly remember being in the helicopter going to Southampton but by then I had drugs put into me. I was so cold but that was because I was in shock.
“Then I woke up after having two lots of surgery. The first operation to remove my spleen was done but they couldn’t stop the bleeding, so I had to go in again for a second surgery.”
The man's stitched up stomach after two surgeries
He spent four days in intensive care and a further four days on a high-dependency unit before being transferred to a normal ward at the hospital.