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A FARMER died after failing to get a leg injury treated when a sheep attacked him, an inquest heard.
John Vickers, 69, was working on his land when the ram bashed into him — but he shrugged off the wound.
Mr Vickers did not believe in seeing doctors and simply took a few days off work when his leg swelled up, his wife and daughter told the inquest.
But he had suffered deep vein thrombosis — and four months later he was dead after a blood clot went into his lung and triggered heart failure.
The farmer was injured as he tended his flock near Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria, on April 6. His health did not begin to suffer until July when his breathing got worse and he could not talk for long without coughing.
When a horse brushed against his leg he almost fainted. He was admitted to hospital two days later but died on August 3, the inquest in Barrow was told.
Recording a narrative verdict, deputy coroner for South and East Cumbria Alan Sharp said: "The circumstances that led to Mr Vickers' death are quite tragic in that he suffered what he would have shook off as a minor injury.
"It looks as though, during the course of his recovery, that minor injury resulted in his pulmonary embolism, which led to the cardiac arrest."
John Vickers, 69, was working on his land when the ram bashed into him — but he shrugged off the wound.
Mr Vickers did not believe in seeing doctors and simply took a few days off work when his leg swelled up, his wife and daughter told the inquest.
But he had suffered deep vein thrombosis — and four months later he was dead after a blood clot went into his lung and triggered heart failure.
The farmer was injured as he tended his flock near Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria, on April 6. His health did not begin to suffer until July when his breathing got worse and he could not talk for long without coughing.
When a horse brushed against his leg he almost fainted. He was admitted to hospital two days later but died on August 3, the inquest in Barrow was told.
Recording a narrative verdict, deputy coroner for South and East Cumbria Alan Sharp said: "The circumstances that led to Mr Vickers' death are quite tragic in that he suffered what he would have shook off as a minor injury.
"It looks as though, during the course of his recovery, that minor injury resulted in his pulmonary embolism, which led to the cardiac arrest."