Rugby player’s horrific leg wound after doctors slice him open from knee to ankle to cure massive swelling

AN international rugby player lay with a wound the size of a rugby ball after a horrific leg injury.

Ceri Davies, 37, was playing in his team’s first game of the season when he suffered a ruptured calf and had to have his leg sliced open.

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Ceri, who plays for Wales’ international deaf team, said: “I was in a ruck and got stamped on right at the end of the game.

“I was in an offside position but I was trapped and couldn’t move. They were stamping and stamping.

“I felt some pain in my leg and I limped off to the shower. It was when I was in the clubhouse afterwards and I didn’t want any food and I felt pain again, that I knew it was quite nasty.”

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The Llandovery RFC player soon realised something was seriously wrong when his leg began to swell and bruise heavily.

He drove himself to A&E at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, West Wales.

Doctors discovered he had developed Compartment Syndrome, which causes pressure inside a limb, and were forced to slice open his right leg to relieve pressure and prevent internal bleeding.

Medics will now try to rebuild his leg at Morriston Hospital in Swansea with a skin cast and plastic surgery.

A calm Ceri claimed he was taking it all in his stride, saying: “It’s nothing really. But with all the messages I’ve been sent, I feel a bit overwhelmed.”

Llandovery RFC President, Handel Davies, said: “It came as a shock to everybody but we all wish him well. It’s not an injury I’ve ever seen before but obviously we wish him all the best.”

Ceri said he hoped to be released from hospital on the weekend after his second operation.