"That for me is the big lesson out of this. "He marched across the road to stab me in the chest… unprovoked. Mr Fletcher says he only hopes his attacker gets the help he needs. Mr Fletcher spent the day providing his statement to officers, but police say there have been no arrests yet. "It's, you know, one in a million, just complete luck or, you know, someone was guiding that to like miss everything but then also to be lodged in my sternum so that he couldn't pull it out again." It nicked my pericardium, which is the sac that contains my heart, but it didn't touch my heart, missed my spleen and missed all the large vessels," he said. He said when they arrived at the Gold Coast hospital the surgeons were ready to operate, but the knife had missed all his vital organs. "But I still didn't know what was actually going on… I knew I had a big hole… and then the knife actually fell out of my chest when I went to sit up to get into the ambulance." Knife just missed lungs and heart "I asked for a pillow and some towels to apply pressure to my wound and my job became hanging on. "I was like, alright, compression, and I walked back to where my roommate was, where he was tending to my neighbours, and laid down on the ground while they called an ambulance," he said. I was just trying to regulate my breathing and I could still feel in my chest and I didn't want to look at it," he said. He said he knew immediately he was in trouble, but that as a physiotherapist trained in trauma he knew what to do. "And then his hand slipped off and then I sort of reached for my chest, and then I had the knife in my hand, and then he saw that and ran." "This knife was embedded in my sternum, and he pulled the knife out but I came with it," he said. He said he thought initially he had been punched, until his attacker tried to pull the knife out. Like, the ferocity and the anger and the intent that that was delivered with," he said. Mr Fletcher said the 15-centimetre blade went through his rib cartilage and lodged in his sternum. "And he walked toward me and as soon as he sort of walked past me, spun around and rammed a knife into my chest." "And as I turned into my driveway, a guy yelled out from across the road, and he said, like, did you hear the big bang? Is everyone OK?" he said. Mr Fletcher said he thought initially he had been punched until the attacker pulled the knife out. 'He pulled the knife out but I came with it' He said once he saw the paver he went outside to check on his own house, which he had left open, and grab a first aid kit for his neighbours. "So I was like OK, someone's trying to break in here, you know, they were a bit shocked and didn't know exactly what happened either." "We were there for about 10 minutes and it wasn't until I started cleaning the glass that I noticed that there was a paver that had been thrown through the window or through the door. "We just took control and tried to look after them to get to get the glass out of their feet, get some shoes on and start cleaning up," he said Mr Fletcher said he and his housemate then walked down to his house to find his 92-year-old neighbour, and his wife, walking around on broken glass. So I was like, something's happened down downstairs." "And he's an old boy and I know him, and I thought he might have had a fall or something. "I looked out from our balcony and saw like a flashlight, and someone rummaging around, and so I went out on my balcony, and I saw it was my next-door neighbour, walking around on broken glass," he said. Transit time depends on distance from the point of origin.James Fletcher, 40, was at home in his lounge room in Palm Beach on Monday night when he heard a noise next door. Transit time after shipment: please add 2-5 days for lighter and smaller items shipped via regular carrier (Fedex, UPS, USPS) and add 5-10 days for heavier items shipped via LTL freight truck. Note: if the lead time is too long for the product you wanted, take a look at our list of fast-shipping brands per product category on our Fast Shipping Page. Please contact us at or 1-855-PET-PRO1 to verify total fulfillment time for your order. In some situations, rush orders may be available. Also, a large portion of our items are made to order - this helps manufacturers keep costs down, ensuring a better price for consumers, and also to customize each order. Note that Covid-19 has created significant logistical issues for our manufacturers and lead times are longer than normal. These are our current lead times per brand:
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