{"id":348786,"date":"2023-11-23T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=348786"},"modified":"2023-11-23T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T21:02:43","slug":"harrowing-moment-dogs-star-thought-hed-lost-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=348786","title":{"rendered":"Harrowing moment Dogs star thought he'd lost his dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> halfback Toby Sexton says his dad Tony is his hero.<\/p>\n

He doesn't miss any of Sexton's games\ufeff and is the first to hug his son, win, loss or draw.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBut earlier this year, Sexton feared he would lose his father forever.<\/p>\n

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Tony lost two and a half litres of blood in a workplace incident on the Gold Coast, almost losing an arm to a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

"He got three-quarters the way through a hedge\ufeff and he kind of slipped on his platform … with a hedger and cut through his arm, cut through a vein and cut through an artery," Sexton told 9News.<\/p>\n

\"Toby<\/p>\n

It was a life-and-death situation, with Sexton's younger brother Matt, who is studying to be a paramedic, luckily working with their father at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

"There were multiple times\ufeff my little brother was saying he thought dad was going, which is something I can't get my head around to this day, what my little brother must've been going through," Sexton said.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Sexton was a plane ride away after his recent move from the Gold Coast Titans to the Bulldogs, meaning a phone call from his mother left him feeling\ufeff helpless.<\/p>\n

"Mum called me at the time\ufeff and said 'don't stress but I'm not sure whether or not dad's going to make it'.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"I booked the first flight I could\ufeff to the Gold Coast, I was losing it, honestly, there's no other way to say it.<\/p>\n

"I was in tears, I was in shock. I didn't know what to do, whether he was going to make it."<\/p>\n

The plane journey itself\ufeff was horrific.<\/p>\n

"It was shocking\ufeff. Normally I watch a movie on the plane ride, but I just sat there the whole time looking at photos of dad and thinking 'this can't be the last moment'," he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tony has made a near full recovery, months on from the incident that almost cost him his life.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"For it to work out the way it did\ufeff and dad now only being in a brace a couple month on, to be back to working full time again, it's honestly remarkable," Sexton said.<\/p>\n

"It's definitely made me have a whole new perspective on life and just appreciate everything so much more.<\/p>\n

"He's my hero. Everything I do \ufeffis for him."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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