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So, you've got scars...

LostBoi said:
Hi by a speeding meals on wheel van , sent me up higher than my mates transit n got me again on the way down sending me flopping down the road 15 / 20 meters braking the tibial plateau on my left. My nose , bust the skin behind my ear. Verious other cuts bruses and abraisions 1 on my left shin they though they may have to skin graft. Its the main reason 20 years on im in the condition i am. Still going to fight it though
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That was a hell of accident buddy …. Lucky to be alive… 🙁😳
 
general grievous said:
Ok here goes …
I’m 57 and Ive been skiing since I was 10 so I get along ok. This last December I was staying in Aosta in Italy but had driven about 50km to ski Cervinia next to the Matterhorn. I haven’t tipped over for about 5 years but it was day 3 and late in the afternoon and I was caning it so I fell. I had brand new skis and as I went down I slid over a ski and did this.

At the time it felt like a dead leg but I knew Id cut myself because I had a hole in my trousers and could see blood. My boy looked at it and said “we’ve got to go to a hospital dad” so powered by adrenaline I skied down the hill on one ski and he carried the other. At the bottom, we got my boots off and rang my brother who was still skiing and told him to get down quickly. He’s a dentist so he wasn’t phased by it but I then had to drive the hire car back to the regional hospital in Aosta with my brother leaning on the wound to try to stop the bleeding.
When we got there I dumped the car and hopped in to triage. The nurse sitting behind the desk couldn’t see and said is it a knee or ankle injury? I said that I had cut my leg and she stood up to look and immediately called for a doctor. 2 hours later and I’d had 28 stitches with 21 of those inside to try to save the thigh muscle.
The crazy thing was I had almost zero pain and watched it all. The surgeon kept calling people in to look as it was such an unusual injury for a skier.
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OH! My GOD…..🥶😨😱
 
HMM said:
Some serious s#1t here, plenty of which happen in folks younger days.
I shall try to lighten it up.
Last Sunday I took my 8yo to the skatepark for his ( and my ) first visit, we went early so it wouldn't be busy* , after 30mins of repeated falling off, he concluded he wasn't Tony parks after all
I noticed that someone had left their stunt scooter behind ( kids today😉 ) and the boy discovered he was, his words, " a natural " at that, That looks like fun thinks I, and easy.
Down I went, landing on my coccyx 🤢,
5 mins before I could stand, now nursing one 90% one 30% bruised black butt cheeks.
Moral, soon to be 55yo don't bounce like 8yo.
* Luckily No one there to laugh

Good luck

Ps, scar's, I have about a 3x2 inch scar that centre's on my right bicep, it covered the whole top of the arm when it happened to me , aged 8/9 something exploded in my family homes open fire as I sat Infront of it, setting fire to me, luckily my father was only in the Kitchen and put me out , all the smaller burns faded , that one remains to remind.
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Elasticity & rebound ability seemingly depart upon arrival of reading glasses...possibly slightly before ?
 
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I've done my pelvis both femur tibia and fibia in right leg lower back l2 and l3 bones collar bone right wrist left ankle 3 ribs and left collar bone. 2 car accidents (i was passenger) and motocross accident where i was ripping in 2nd place and a stupid kid ran across the track so I half braked but was at the foot of a good sized jump and didn't make the land ramp I hit the face of it instead both femur hit the bars and I ended up in a pile hematoma from the ribs and internal bleeding from the pelvis a load of blood bags and some pins I'm still here 🤪
 
Collarbone x2, nose - lost count - still more mobile than it should be, cracked orbital - that was a big ouch, jaw - bigger ouch but great for weight loss, ribs - loads - stupid fragile sods, metatarsals - most of them multiple times - my bad though, have needed heart surgery, various holes needed patching over my body - it's amazing how fast skin and bone grind down when you fly off a motorbike, managed to get my finger bones pushed back over the knuckles, Have little thumb strength as a result and a bone in my hand has shifted/rotated but not causing problems . . . . yet, multiple tendons some requiring plastic surgery, knee surgery to remove bone fragments and bursal sack, torn rotator cuff on the right side, torn meniscus also right side, massive bruising that caused blood to migrate into my genital area giving me a very sore aubergine and two purple spacehoppers, lost feeling down part of left hand due to ulnar nerve damage - cause unknown, internal bleeding left a large scar on stomach and a very odd belly button, toenails removed, loss of sight in right eye as result of repeated trauma but none - none of this compares to the time I got a jellyfish sting across my face.

Oddly I've never broken one of the bigger bones that most people seem to break.

All pretty normal stuff if you work in IT, huh?

I do live with pain because of some of these things but other than the sight and the odd mobility issue I function normally.

These are all just side effects of the life I chose live and I have no regrets. Still here and loving it
 
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chouchin66 said:
Right wrist - fractured once, compound fractured once
Left wrist - once fractured, once shattered - each permanent pins & screws. Broken ribs x 4, broken collar bone x1, broken patella x1, fingers x4, jaw x1 , nose x2, ankle x1, toes x 3,
Two rotator cuffs shot, assorted cuts & avulsions...Construction, Horse, motorcycle & rodeo wrecks 😊
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Thought you listing the injuries from your last rodeo.😄
 
FPoole said:
I just looked at that picture again and decided to delete. It's just too terrible. She was up above Steinhatchee, FL, scalloped. Little spot called Keaton Beach.
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Surfing or just swimming ? One of our favorite surf spots, back in the day ( Jalama Beach) was populated with dolphins, thus no real worries about sharks...
 
That's insane - poor girl - where are you based that you have sharks like that? How old was she? I guess you can bounce back easier if you're young
 
SerenePace said:
That's insane - poor girl - where are you based that you have sharks like that? How old was she? I guess you can bounce back easier if you're young
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She was 16 at the time. She was on the big bend area of west Florida. I think they said it was an 8' bull shark. Her older brother saved her life, seem to remember him jumping off the boat and beating the shark in the head. Either her brother or someone else was a paramedic and managed to keep her from bleeding to death. I saw her give an interview for the news, from the hospital, amazing attitude.
 
Will any of us leave our bodies to medical science so they can try to figure out how any of us feckwits lived for so long?:D
 
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Not visible, but I had a pulmonary embolism 10 years ago which has left (according to the specialist) "significant" scarring on both lungs.

The absolute worst pain I've ever felt, was like someone was slicing my chest open woth a blunt knife!
 
I was breaking fence panels up one-day, forcibly bringing them up to my knee & breaking them over it, I was a machine & then in slo-mo up came that rusty nail. I'll tell you, the excruciating pain, I threw an instant whitey, right in it went, I felt hollow. This was before the scamdemic, after I stopped feeling sick I phoned my local GP & enquired about my tetanus status, they said come on up now we'll give you a shot. The nurse said I didn't look well, she made me wait with her for 15 minutes, oohh errr.

I can count the time's I have been to Mc'Donalds on my hands, that morning however I went straight there after GP's, it was an instant repair job.

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