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Lizama hurt in bamboo mishap
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Posted on Jan 17 2006
Superior Court Associate Judge Juan T. Lizama believes in guardian angels, crediting them for the lightness of the injury he received when a bamboo plant he was cutting suddenly snapped and hit him on the head.
Lizama was rushed to the Commonwealth Health Center yesterday with blood streaming from his forehead but the doctor said he was fine and that his injuries would not require stitches.
Lizama told the Saipan Tribune that the incident happened while he was cutting trees in the yard of his house in Papago at 7:45am. He proceeded to an area adjacent to a natural cave located just below his residence where he began sawing a Japanese yellow bamboo tree.
While he was cutting the last bamboo pole, the other one that he already sawed suddenly snapped, possibly due to strong winds. The bamboo, which was about two and a half inches in diameter and 15 feet tall, fell and hit Lizama on the lower portion of the forehead.
Blood started flowing from his forehead. His wife and two workers then came to assist him. He was taken to CHC where a doctor patched him up. Lizama sustained a small cut and bruises to the forehead. He said he was just lucky because he was not hit by the jagged edge of the bamboo.
“I am very lucky because of my good guardian angel. I believe in guardian angels,” the judge said.
Lizama still managed to report to work, presiding over many proceedings with a white bandage on his forehead.
A few years ago, Lizama suffered minor injuries after he was involved in a vehicular accident in San Jose. In the 1980s he was seriously injured in another car accident that prompted him to file a lawsuit. The lawsuit ended up in a settlement.
