severed

A scan showed he had also suffered a severed nerve in his left bicep and arrangements were made for specialist surgery in Glasgow.

She still feels a sense of loss over those strained and severed personal connections, but tries to put things in a literally global perspective.

He also severed ties with former mentor Kanye West when he ran for president, suspecting it was part of a wider Trump campaign to "siphon" black people's votes away from the Democrats.

"I was lying by the side of the road with a severed artery bleeding to death," she told BBC Scotland News.

The cable was severed in November last year.