Close call - SO glad you weren’t hurt worse!
My biggest issue mowing is running over stuff that “a certain person” tends to drop or leave laying in the grass where it’s all but invisible. I avoided tearing up the mower deck on a heavy metal grate of some sort that had been dragged into the grass for some unknown reason when mom spotted it going to dump garden debris. The “certain person” spared me running over some old fence wire - not enough to roll up so it was folded. He ran the golf cart over it & got it all caught up underneath. I had to jack it up with a shop jack & use bolt cutters to work it loose. Imagine what that would have done up into the mower blades (deck is 60”, 3 blades).
Still, no mower damage is as bad as “people” damage. Hope you heal up fast & Mr. Beau makes it up to you somehow!
I know you dodge bullets every DAY, LOL!
And you BET I’m going to milk this one for all it is worth; I might just punch myself in the face a few more times for good measure, LOL!
Hope I don’t scare the children and livestock when I go into town to pick up groceries tomorrow! ;)