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Freak accidents

tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
edited March 2008 in Social Entropy++
Ok, so I've been to the ER a few times in my life. I'm sure some of you have too.
Have you ever had something completely random happen to you, resulting in a visit to the hospital?

Last night was my least favorite of all of my ER visits (with a close second being my emergency toe surgery after having a keg dropped on my ingrown toenail... oh god the paaaain).

You see, I had finished taking a poo and I lit a courtesy match to ward away the evil spirits. Anyway, much to my surprise, the tip of the "strike anywhere" match decided it would be MORE fun if, after igniting, it shot into my left eye.

You can see where this is going... sort of.

So I spent four hours in the ER after a goooooood flushing and lots of ice (it swelled up quite nice), and my vision is fine, but I have a burn on both my top and bottom eyelids, and a burn on my outer cornea. I was told that if the match fragment had gone any more towards the centre I'd be in a lot more trouble.The doc froze my eye for the examination, which was pretty cool. But now it fucking hurts to blink and it hurts more to just close my eye. The worst part is, though, is that (based on what the Doc told me) it's going to feel like I have something in my eye for a few days. I HATE THAT RARRRRG!

tldr; Have you ever been involved in a freak accident? also, don't play with matches.

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2008
    you.. lit a match?

    i have never heard of this behaviour before.

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    kinky

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    NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    you are a disgusting fucker.

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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    you.. lit a match?

    i have never heard of this behaviour before.

    it's the polite thing to do when your insides destroy someone else's bathroom

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    tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    yeah
    it covers up the stink nicely.

    air freshener is out of the question as I'm athsmatic and that shit killlllls my breathing

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    EinhanderEinhander __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    I've heard of the courtesy match before, but I don't care enough to do anything other than open a window, and then only rarely.

    It's a bathroom. It's gonna smell like poop every once in a while.

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Could you explain the part about lighting a match after a shit?

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    HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I don't light matches that close to my face. It seems like you lit this match right near your eye.

    Prob'ly shouldn't do that, for future reference.

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    tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Halfmex wrote: »
    I don't light matches that close to my face. It seems like you lit this match right near your eye.

    Prob'ly shouldn't do that, for future reference.

    dude

    I held it at waste level. the thing rocketed into my eye.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I got in the habit for like a week of having a cigarette mid-poop. It was the most satisfying thing ever. I had to stop after my roommates made a 'no smoking in the house" rule.

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    The SpecialistThe Specialist Happy Face Happy PlaceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I fell 2 and a half stories once on a construction site and didn't break any bones. I crushed a wheelbarrow like a soda can though. Three days at the hospital and two CAT scans later they told me I was fine. The first night they gave me a morphine drip with my own button... Fun times.

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    HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Halfmex wrote: »
    I don't light matches that close to my face. It seems like you lit this match right near your eye.

    Prob'ly shouldn't do that, for future reference.
    dude

    I held it at waste level. the thing rocketed into my eye.
    Hm. Maybe next time just have someone come along with you and take an even bigger shit to cover up yours.

    Boom, you're off scott free and no major corneal damage to be concerned with.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    man courtesy flush goes a long way. When your mid poop flush the toilet and it soaks up some of the stink.

    Also once when I was yound (6 or 7 I believe) my sister was putting clip on earrings in the mirror on the headboard of my bed, and she dropped one. It went stright into my ear. ER trip, and I have never been able to hear the same out of my right ear since.

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I had a seizure and split my head open on the bathroom floor.

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    tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Bucketman wrote: »
    man courtesy flush goes a long way. When your mid poop flush the toilet and it soaks up some of the stink.

    Also once when I was yound (6 or 7 I believe) my sister was putting clip on earrings in the mirror on the headboard of my bed, and she dropped one. It went stright into my ear. ER trip, and I have never been able to hear the same out of my right ear since.

    that's pretty fucked. how did they get it out?

    I'm imagining you being violently shaken by the head.

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    KrentzKrentz Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I was cutting open one of those packages with a loose straight razor and of course I applied to much force in the wrong direction like a dummy and sent the razor right into the knuckle on my left hand. It left a good 1-inch gash straight to the bone, but I didn't have medical insurance at the time so I just wrapped it up and kept it clean for a few weeks. Now I have this cool scar across my left knuckle.

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    JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    one time when I was little, I went to to give my mom a hug before bed and accidentally poked her in the eye and she had to go to the ER and wear a patch over it for like a week.

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Halfmex wrote: »
    I don't light matches that close to my face. It seems like you lit this match right near your eye.

    Prob'ly shouldn't do that, for future reference.

    dude

    I held it at waste level. the thing rocketed into my eye.

    GET IT, "WASTE" LEVEL

    NOT WAIST

    WASTE

    LIKE THE ACTUAL POOP

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2008
    i sliced a two-inch gash in my left thigh, an inch away from my femoral artery

    it was so deep that i saw a good deal of the fatty tissue in the thigh

    it looked like steak fat

    i got stitches and i have a scar there now

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Jordyn wrote: »
    one time when I was little, I went to to give my mom a hug before bed and accidentally poked her in the eye and she had to go to the ER and wear a patch over it for like a week.

    So you are saying you were basically a dangerous spaz before the epilepsy?

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    FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I got pneumonia once.

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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    when i was six i was chewing on a pen that slipped down my throat and jabbed something

    i started throwing up blood and thought i was gonna die, which according to the doctor i would have give or take an inch in either direction

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I fell off my bike a couple of years ago and took a piece of glass in the soft part of the back of my elbow. Doc said if it was like just a couple millimeters to the left it would of cut some tendons or something and may of never had proper use of my arm anymore. Glad I dodged that bullet but man I got a gnarly scar.

    Chicks dig scars.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Bucketman wrote: »
    man courtesy flush goes a long way. When your mid poop flush the toilet and it soaks up some of the stink.

    Also once when I was yound (6 or 7 I believe) my sister was putting clip on earrings in the mirror on the headboard of my bed, and she dropped one. It went stright into my ear. ER trip, and I have never been able to hear the same out of my right ear since.

    that's pretty fucked. how did they get it out?

    I'm imagining you being violently shaken by the head.

    If memory serves they used what amounts to a long slim pair of tweezers. There was no hook on the earing so they wern't afraid of ripping my skin or anything.

    About a year later I was climbing a slide at my elementry school and got stung my a bee. The next thing I recall I was in an ambulance with a breathing mask on and 2 guys had a big needle and I freaked out. Then I blacked out again and woke up in the hospital that night. Turns out I'm allergic to bee and we didn't know until I had been stung and almost died. Also it triggered my asthma,so I have had that too. Stupid bee.

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    DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    The only "freak" accident that made me go to the ER other than the time I shattered my knee playing football was the time I got a concussion playing football.

    That was the best time.

    Basically, I couldn't remember all of practice but I could remember everything before that. But I did tell my math teacher I couldn't remember that we had homework and I didn't have to do it.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I used to play little league baseball, and my first year playing, I was in the outfield, not really paying attention because damn, I'm a little kid. I hear a crack, look up, and see the ball coming towards me, looking to land a ways ahead of me. So I start sprinting towards it, hoping to catch it. I think I'll make it in time and hold out my glove. Instead, the ball hits me square in the nuts, whereupon I crumple to the ground and start bawling and had to be helped off the field. It sucked. I hate baseball.

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Cat Scratch Fever

    Fishhook was stuck a centimeter above my eye (guy in front of me was casting the line and when he pulled back it snagged me)

    Foot went into the spokes of a moving bike, said bike flipped, split my upper lip

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    God damn now I'm remembering all these repress memories. Repressed due to the massive pain I felt.

    So we use to have a go-kart at this campground my parents had a big old camper at. My sister and I where "Trained" to drive it (We went to an hour long class). This particular weekend I brought 2 of my good friends with me. My mom kept telling me not to let them dive, but I did anyway. I road in the back seat, which faced outwards as opposed to facing the same direction as the driver. Well I wasn't holding on and when my friend Aaron took off, WHAM I fell hard and banged my head on the ground. Concussion time for me. Then we tried to hide it from my parents. Luckily my mom caught it before I took a nap.

    Later that night my friends dragged me to a dance party, my concussion lump, whom I named Randal, throbbed with pain to the beat. It was a terrible day.

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    RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Then I was 12 me and a couple friends set up a small mountain bike course in the grass field next to their house. It basically went through the yard, then back around behind some sheds/graineries, then back into the yard and ended at the house.

    So I went first, and it turns out there was a deep as fuck tire rut that we couldn't see in part of the course behind the sheds. All my friends saw was me riding as hard as I could around the back of the sheds, then they hear "OH SHIII-"*crashing noises* and ran back around the sheds to find me, on my back with my bike on top of me. The front wheel was bent 90 degrees in half, and I had a nice long scratch from my gearshifter on my left thigh. Didn't end up needing stitches, but it hurt like a mother for a few days.

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    oh and the time I cut myself on my PSP

    it left a scar

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    tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Later that night my friends dragged me to a dance party, my concussion lump, whom I named Randal, throbbed with pain to the beat. It was a terrible day.

    This is my favorite part of the story.

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    ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    See now getting caught in the eye by a fishhook, that's a freak accident.
    Tree falling and crushing you inside your car, freak accident.
    "Getting tackled in football", not so much

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    HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Cum Hero wrote: »
    oh and the time I cut myself on my PSP

    it left a scar
    Physical or emotional?

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    AslanAslan Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    lostwords wrote: »
    I got in the habit for like a week of having a cigarette mid-poop. It was the most satisfying thing ever. I had to stop after my roommates made a 'no smoking in the house" rule.

    Your roommate is a faggot and deserves to die. How dare he ruin your special time? Assuming he ever gets laid, start going into his room mid-coitus, and just casually start smoking.

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Cum Hero wrote: »
    oh and the time I cut myself on my PSP

    it left a scar
    Physical or emotional?

    Physical. I had noticed that the UMD slot wasn't flush with the back of the PSP, so I opened it and was fiddling with the metal bits to get it to fit a bit better. At the moment I was pushing pretty hard, my finger slipped and it sliced me.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Aslan wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    I got in the habit for like a week of having a cigarette mid-poop. It was the most satisfying thing ever. I had to stop after my roommates made a 'no smoking in the house" rule.

    Your roommate is a faggot and deserves to die. How dare he ruin your special time? Assuming he ever gets laid, start going into his room mid-coitus, and just casually start smoking.

    oh man, i need to do this. Start muttering to myself too. "oh yeah, thats the cream filling. say his name, mmmmmm"

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    StraythStrayth Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    you.. lit a match?

    i have never heard of this behaviour before.

    It kills the stink. My roommate had a colon infection and while trying to discern what it was on his own, the smell of his shit was so indescribably potent that someone told him about the match thing. It worked pretty well.

    I'm not kidding though; his shit could wake me up from down the hall from the stench alone. It was literally that bad.

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    When I was little, I climbed a metal ladder and slipped, breaking one of my frail legs. I think I was jat dangling there and crying for some time before they took me to a hospital.
    Also, this one itme I forgot how to swim....

    Yeah. I don't think I need to tell more about that one.

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    DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Aslan wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    I got in the habit for like a week of having a cigarette mid-poop. It was the most satisfying thing ever. I had to stop after my roommates made a 'no smoking in the house" rule.

    Your roommate is a faggot and deserves to die. How dare he ruin your special time? Assuming he ever gets laid, start going into his room mid-coitus, and just casually start smoking.

    Or you could just not smoke inside, you stupid fucking animal. It's a filthy habit, and it makes the whole place smell. It's rude as hell. What's wrong with you that you think it's somehow your right to stink up the place with your idiotic, unhealthy behavior?

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    FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    In the summer I stuck my pinky finger into one of those rotating cooling fans and I chopped a small bit of my pinky off and blood shot all over me.

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