What is your worst accident in your life?

[coyote blue]

I cringed at some of the stories... I haven't had much:

Head on collision while friend was driving - she turned to make fun of a guy in an afro... Car was totaled, but other then soreness and shaken up, everyone involved was fine. That was about 2 years or so ago..

2 emergency surgeries, one to save my daughters life (while she was in the womb), and my own.
Another to remove gall bladder, otherwise in a few months I would of needed a new liver and that is a bad thing, I would imagine.

Umm.. I got a small scar on my right knee Twirling in circles at my grandparent's ranch and decided I could leap over a horse shoe pole (for playing horse shoes) Basically a metal pole. Didn't quite make it.. me being 6 or so.

[Spongiform]

I split my nose open on a piano bench when I was... dunno. less than 5.

I still have the scar, although it's nowhere near as clear now as it was 2 years ago. But I can feel the crease when I feel my nose with my finger...

[coyote blue]

Eeew you pick your nose

[Seir]

Mentioned the worst accident in my life in a previous thread. I work as an EMT and a 3 year-old gear ran in front of my ambulance, she died instantly. The image of someone's 3 year old daughter or twin sister behind your ambulance and underneath the bumper surrounded by a pool of her own blood is something that won't get out of my mind for ages. No physical scars, but emotional and mental scars, yes.

[Doc Giggles]

Seir, I know how you feel. I watched my aunt die in head on collision. It happened almost 20 years ago, but I still remember it as if it happened yesterday. She would have survived if she had worn her seat belt.

[AzraeL]

my appendix ruptured inside me. i could have died like houdini...but it seems small fish compared to watching people dying. speaking of which, my friend's dad just killed a man in a ute by hitting him with the freight train he drives. there was nothing he could do, the man should have been on the tracks.

[Koeniou]

When i was little (like 5) i fell in a pool. I went into a state of shock and just sat down on the bottom of the pool. My dad ran across the backyard, jumped the poolfence & dived into the pool fully clothed to get me out. I think that's pretty freaking cool of him. My dad's a superhero

My sister when she was 8 ran face first into a tree while running down hill (I don't know how she managed it). She needed stiches & she lost two of her fron teeth.

[gravity]

When I was 11 my cousins and I decided that having a tree house at our grandparents place would be ultra spiffy. So I, as the eldest, tallest, and possibly worst choice, was chosen to go up 10 feet and begin nailing down the first board. 50+ foot Cottonwood tree. Our grandparents had already okayed the entire project thinkinking we would build on the 5 foot tall branches. They didn't realize we could get up over 30+ feet into the tree yet.

So, I stuffed my pockets with all the nails I could find (about 30), and climbed up, and began nailing. I have no depth perception, a problem I haven't gotten rectified until about a year ago. So, as I got up to signal one of my cousins to bring up another plank, I didn't actually grab the tree to balance. I grabbed half a foot to the right, mid air, and began my infamous plummet to the ground.

Nails hurt. A lot. Especially when in your pocket when you land on them from a ten foot tall. I couldn't use my left side the entire summer (I wa slucky not to have broken something, I was well over an hour from the nearest hospital), and still have not regained full feeling in my left side.

Which is why I don't notcie when my left hand catched on fire (happened QUITE a few times in the past thatnks to me reaching for things over candles), and if I cut into it too deep, of if anyhing in general really happens to it at all.

A year later I climbed to the thinest, highest branch in the same tree and carved my initials. Eight years after that my grandparents sold the farm and I've never been back.

[EznocDOTcom]

I'm the king of tragic accidents. Its a wonder I'm still alive. In fact, I actually was dead for 9 minutes once.

Lets see which you all think was the worst

age : 35 months. Mauled by a dog : Dog put my entire head in his mouth and tried to eat me. - Skin graft from thigh -> head to replace the missing flesh that he actually did get. Permanent scar : I have a 4 inch long, 2 inch wide, 1 inch deep dent in my head- So you can imagine this, a "thick slice" of canned spam would fit nicely into it.

Accident 2. Age.. 3 1/2 or so : Getting into back seat of family car - Brother pulls door closed as I'm entering. - Broken arm.

Accident 3. Age 5. Was at what is known as a "strip mall" - bunch of stores side by side. Was running from a toy-store towards a pet-store. Heard a friend call my name : Turned to look back (while still running) but could not see them, turned face forward, BANG.. Right into a concrete pole. - Unconsciousness took me immediately - My head was split open, still have the "split" in my forehead to prove it. This is the one that killed me. - Paramedics on scene picked me up living, my heart stopped in the ambulance a few minutes prior to arrival at hospital. - ER doctor revived me with those electric paddles.


Accident 4. Age 6 or 7. My brother and I [older brother,mind you] Built not only a "log cabin" playhouse in the woods, but also a treehouse. We were young and stupid. Built tree house WAY too high in a tree. One trip up the tree-ladder, I fall. - Fortunately, this area was a soft packed sandy, dried up river. - Don't know exact distance of fall, but, according to my brother, when I landed, I bounced BACK up above his head.
Broken legs, Broken ribs. - 3 months in traction

Accident 5.. age 11? Learning to roller skate with a friend. - Come to a road on a hill [think san francisco streets - except this was new jersey hills] - Start to head down hill. - Pick up immense speed. Notice "Hey, were heading for traffic" - Try to turn to slow down - No go. Grab a door handle on parked car. - Yeah, that stopped me. - then I slide another 40 feet or so on my chin. Dislocated shoulder, permanent scar where I scraped the skin off my chin. Which is why I usually have a beard.


Accident 6.. Age.. 14-15? Freshman highschool year. Science Lab : Alchohol burners. - Pick one up, the top isn't screwed on. - It falls, the flame (from it being lit already) mixes with the splashing liquid, I pull a michael jackson, and head catches on fire. Friend is hitting me on the head, I don't know why. then I smell the burning.


Now, these are just the signifigant accidents. I won't talk about the three other times I fell out of trees. Or got hit by cars. Or blown out knee from football, But, suffice it to say, I've broken practically every bone in my body, at least once. Some twice, some three times.

We also won't talk about the 4 or 5 "Naps" i've been given from working on monitors. Which is why I don't work on them anymore. When I used to work at a local college, I got hit 4 or 5 times (one isn't absolutely certain) when working on monitors and getting a nice little "zap" from them. - Anyone else, they would have killed. for some reason, they just knock me out.






Posted Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:25 pm:

[quote="wocket";p="473230"]I wouldn't suggest that. It was a small dose on the helicopter. As soon as I got to the hospital, it was replaced with extra extra extra strength Tylenol.[/quote]

Probably the ones with codeine (Tylenol 4)

[edge]

About the worst I was ever involved in was years ago. It either junor or senior year in HS (senior year I think), I was riding with a coupple of buddies of mine in the back of the one guy's minivan. Well, there was a pretty long line of traffic on the road we took, and everybody was doing 55-60. I believe there were 10 cars one after another, spaced appart pretty well. The first car (not somebody we knew) slammed on their brakes and made a sudden right turn, so ofcourse everybody behind did the same thing. Well, unfortunatly my buddy had looked down at the stereo or something just before this, and by the time he looked up it was too late. We slid right into the pickup truck in front of us. The truck didn't have a scratch on it, but the grill of the van was level with the trailor hitch on the truck, which went straight through the grill, the radiator, and into the engine compartment. The van was tore up pretty good, needless to say, but nobody was seriously hurt.

I think the worst I've ever been in while I was driving, was when I was rearended at the mall a few months back. Nothing too bad, but apparently the guy had just had eye surgery and things were blurry....so I wan't to know why he was driving in the first place

[E2]

When I was 4 or 5 I managed to flip a folder off the table and it made a cut over my nose. Mum thought I broke my nose and thought my brother had done it to me, but no, it was just a boring cut. I still have a very visible scar though (head over to user pictures thread if you want to see it )

Also when I was 8 or 9 I was skiing, and there's this metallic pole that we always ski under coz we dont bother goign around, and I was going udner it, but there was this extra lump of snow under it so I went BANG right into the pole instead. Only time I've ever been unconscience (too bad I dont talk to the girl who was with me anymore, I always wonder how long that faint was) and when I woke up I had a bloody forehead and a bloody eye (no scars from that though)

And no, I didnt really go to hospital from any of these, just to some... Dont know what its called in English

[gravity]

/me puts EznocDOTcom in a nice, safe padded room

[G.C.1129]

oh man! okay.... anymore???

[Fixer]

Been shot
Been stabbed
Been in way too many fights
Been in two car accidents

Strangely enough, only the stabbing caused hospitalization.

[G.C.1129]

what??? you've been shot fixer!!!????