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  • SoulGateSoulGate Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    When I was like 6, my dad and I were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we were turning in someone rammed us up but good in the back, and the van spun out till it hit a curb, then rolled about 4 or 5 times before it stopped on the passenger side. I remember when it stopped that the van was rocking, I was inside the van, but my left hand was outside, under the door jam, with the van rocking across my hand and wrist. I pulled my hand out to find a bloody mess where my left wrist used to be. My dad was in the back of the van, and when he saw me he scooped me up, kicked the windshield out, and ran for the hospital across the street (a stranger was nice enough to give us his shirt to stop the bleeding).

    At the hospital all they could do was stop the bleeding, where the rushed me to Charleston for a doctor to patch up my wrist. Turned out that a glass shard about the size of a Kennedy 50 cent coin sliced all my veins and nerves, and the doctor did an amazing job patching that up!

    Also, while in the prep room at Charleston, while being surrounded by what seems like 12 people, they hung the IV bag off a hook on the light. apparently they didn't do too good, because the bag fell directly INTO my wrist. Not on, not near, in. Talk about pain.

    TL;DR I had a hole in my left wrist and an IV bag fell into it.

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    well at least your dad was a bad ass

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

    Fram, you're so rad. How'd you get to be so rad?

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    maybe he's black and just types that way you guys

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    mrpaku wrote:
    maybe he's black and just types that way you guys

    How is being black an excuse for typing stupidly?

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The Geek wrote:
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

    Fram, you're so rad. How'd you get to be so rad?

    Probably mostly my mom.

    She was pretty fuckin' rad.

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  • SoulGateSoulGate Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

    Fixed because there's an anal grammar nazi among us.

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The Geek wrote:
    mrpaku wrote:
    maybe he's black and just types that way you guys

    How is being black an excuse for typing stupidly?

    well there's no excuse, geek, i was just trying to be congenial

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.
    I just replace bad grammar in my head while I am reading.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    SoulGate wrote:
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

    Fixed because there's an anal grammar nazi among us.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    Framling wrote:
    SoulGate wrote:
    When I was like 6, me and my dad were going to the grocery store in town in our big Astro van. While we was turning in

    That's as far as I got.

    Fixed because there's an anal grammar nazi among us.

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    Framling, I think you need to change your name to Parker Lewis.

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  • MasterDebaterMasterDebater Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I had a seizure and woke to find myself being wheeled into an ambulance by two very attractive female paramedics.

    I would have found this more arousing if I could remember my name or where I was at the moment.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I had to call 911 once for my dad. He had a siezure in the kitchen, due to brain damage from a stroke caused by doctor error, and his his chin on the corner of the counter, and then his head on the floor. So, I'm holding his head, trying to keep it from bashing into the floor as he convulses, actually remaining quite calm with the telephone operator as I describe how he is bleeding.

    The paramedics complimented my mom on raising such a tough kid, to stay so level-headed while his dad was bleeding and flopping around on the floor.

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I called 911 once for a friend who had had been beaten up and lost part of his ear. His face was dripping with blood but he was otherwise just a bit shaken.

    Can any of you spot what I did wrong?




    Proof that television does affect your mind.

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    one time i almost killed myself by swallowing a pen and it was the shittiest story the internet had ever heard

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    When I was 15 I broke both my wrists at the same time. That was a entire summer without masturbation. For the first month the casts went a bit passed by elbows so I had a struggle bathing myself and wiping my own ass, but I did it.

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    edited February 2007
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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    should've got your mom to help

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    At the time none of it was even that big of a deal, but looking back I can't even imagine living day to day without bending my elbows and rotating my wrists.

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  • rockmonkeyrockmonkey Little RockRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    A week after I first broke them I went back for more x-rays and the left one needed to be reset and so they saw off the cast and tie up my arm giving me a local and I get to watch the doctor try to re-break my healing wrist and at first he was having problems so he put is knee up on bed next to me to get leverage. He then had to set it and take more x-rays and then move it a bit more and take more x-rays

    So they put my arm in a cast and by the time I get into the car in the parking lot I'm in the worst pain in my life because the local had dispersed into the rest of my blood and I just had my wrist broken all over again. So the pain came flooding back 100x worst then originally, because there was no shock or anything else to dull the pain.

    I looked over at my dad and told him that he needed to get me to the house so I could take my pain pills, which I had for my back since I had hurt it when I broke my wrists making it impossible for me to sleep any decent length of time each night until I eventually just passed out from being doped up.

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I once dislocated and broke my elbow in a really cool direction. It was at the U's gym and their policy is to call the paramedics. I was fine and did not want to go but sigh i had too. Cost me 900 bucks.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    How were you fine after you broke your elbow?!

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have had an injury on my knuckle where I could see my bone

    I have also nearly died a few times

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote:
    How were you fine after you broke your elbow?!

    Well it didn't really hurt due to huge endorphin rush and I could have just got up and held my arm in a car ride to the hospital. Plus I had a mouth piece I was chewing on.

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Silmaril wrote:
    I called 911 once for a friend who had had been beaten up and lost part of his ear. His face was dripping with blood but he was otherwise just a bit shaken.

    Can any of you spot what I did wrong?




    Proof that television does affect your mind.

    I was about to say!

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I've injured myself quite a lot, actually

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I've never broken any bones. The worst injury I've ever had was a sprained ankle.

    Well, I did rip my arm up something fierce when I fell off my bike once, years ago, but that was mainly a flesh wound.

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I shattered my thumb and lost the nail (The home surgery was worse, though, as it involved a safety pin being heated and pushed through the nail to release pressure)

    I've had an appendectomy that was a few hours before the toxicity killed me

    countless flesh wounds, rashes from poisons, infections

    A few twisted ankles/wrists

    I've lost about three and a half finger/toe nails

    uhhhhh probably more

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  • SilmarilSilmaril Mr Ha Ha Hapless. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Janson wrote:
    Silmaril wrote:
    I called 911 once for a friend who had had been beaten up and lost part of his ear. His face was dripping with blood but he was otherwise just a bit shaken.

    Can any of you spot what I did wrong?




    Proof that television does affect your mind.

    I was about to say!


    Needless to say, I felt a little stupid!

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  • JansonJanson Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I haven't had to go to A&E since I was 5.

    My brother, when he was 2, fell down concrete steps and slammed his head on the concrete. There was an almighty crack. Still took 3 hours for a doctor to see him.

    Mostly it's been good, though.

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  • MasterDebaterMasterDebater Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    When I was 10 or 11, I was climbing on one of those metal half-globe thingys when I slipped. My foot got caught in a corner and I twisted around my knee a long way (heard something pop). I just ended up limping around for a month, although it still hurts on really cold days.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    God hates you Fav.

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote:
    God hates you Fav.

    All told it's not as bad as it very well could have been.

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  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I just keep my nails very short now.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I've fallen off of 2 cliffs.
    Hurt my neck a little in the first one.
    But not very much.

    Um. Ambulance.

    We had to call an ambulance once.
    When my mom had a brain aneurysm.
    At the dinner table.
    It was sort of .. dramatic.
    She clutched her head..
    Fell face first into the soup.

    Man..

    Okay don't want to remember that so much. D:

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  • xeroismygodxeroismygod Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    mully wrote:
    I've fallen off of 2 cliffs.
    Hurt my neck a little in the first one.
    But not very much.

    Um. Ambulance.

    We had to call an ambulance once.
    When my mom had a brain aneurysm.
    At the dinner table.
    It was sort of .. dramatic.
    She clutched her head..
    Fell face first into the soup.

    Man..

    Okay don't want to remember that so much. D:

    Wow harsh. :(

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have very good luck, or super hard bones, because I have never broken any thing. And I've fallen off the roof of my 3 story house, out of the top of a rather tall pine tree, I've jumped off cliffs, and made stupidly steep sled runs with jumps at the end. I've also had sword fights with my friends with live blades, and been shot at with a crossbow. The worst I've done is bruise 2 ribs, and that was at a concert.

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