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Injuries & OperationsSorry Cameron, meant to post this up earlier. (In some semblance of order though towards the end I started remembering things that had happened earlier)
Hernia operation on right hip area before the age of one. (My first patchy memory is of the nurses face as they were knocking me out. My second memory is of the stitches bursting a couple of days later.)
At secondry school, multiple ribs broken multiple times playing rugby and also not being all that popular with a certain group of blokes. Ribs now sit permenantly off to one side.
Badly gashed right foot and lower leg putting it through the plate mirrors at the end of the dojo wall as I wasn't paying attention while sparring.
Broke the index and middle knuckles on right hand punching through a bus shelter window when the chap I was aiming for ducked after he jumped me one evening.
Knife slashes on both hands after a young gentleman attacked me with one when I was working the door one evening. (Took it off him and had a quiet word with him)
Almost knocked out and a blinking sore skull after getting half a pool cue over the back of head at the cashline machine one night. Got him too.
Broke ribs again against steering wheel, broke nose going through windscreen and damaged ankle as engine came through dash and crushed it (I was wearing a seatbelt) when a car hit me at a junction as I was waiting to turn right. (Luckily all the arrows from my archery kit in the boot stuck into seats and roof lining rather than me. (The traffic cop asked if I'd been attacked by Indians after sticking his head in). Also that the ciggy I was smoking stubbed itself out going through the windsreen as there were two jerry cans of chainsaw fuel in there too.
Broke thumb and had to reset it myself half way up a climbing route. (Never got it fixed and it's still squint.)
Shot myself in the head (luckily small calibre) when a bullet bounced back after going through a rabbit and into the rocks behind it. Pretty spectacular on the blood front that one.
Burn on right upper arm when bed caught fire after a halogen clip on spot light fell on it whilst I was asleep.
Sliced forehead open with butchers knife cuttng cloth. Never fold cloth over a large blade and cut upwards!
Have dislocated both shoulders playing rugby and falling out of bath.
Came close to dying from a tick bite as heart & organs failed.
Infection got into my joints and destroyed my left hip and nearly sterilised me.
Pacemaker fitted to help heart after the lymes disease.
Total left hip replacement with a rather fancy titanium and ceramic job.
Almost forgot there was a ruptured achilies tendon again playing rugby... it's a great game you know!
Bruised my bladder (luckily that was all) falling about twenty-five feet vertically off a climb.
There have been a few other scrapes; like the odd shotgun pellet coming my way when we took Italian shooters out on the estate - luckily I always wore a US Vietnam issue flack vest on those days. Oh and there was the day my head got set on fire.. Oh and I got knocked off my motor bike and through a fence into a field by a speeding car once.
I slipped whilst using a gerber multi-tool to cut some carpet, hit myself in the groin (narrowly missing anything important) and sliced into my femoral artery, luckily I didn't sever it or I'd be dead. Lots of direct pressure, ambulance ride to hospital, tetanus jab just in case, spot of super glue on the surface wound, and back to base for tea and medals. All good fun but wouldn't want to do it again
Cheers,
Stuart.
Ouch!
I hate ladders - accidents waiting to happen!
Injuries & OperationsSorry Cameron, meant to post this up earlier. (In some semblance of order though towards the end I started remembering things that had happened earlier)
Hernia operation on right hip area before the age of one. (My first patchy memory is of the nurses face as they were knocking me out. My second memory is of the stitches bursting a couple of days later.)
At secondry school, multiple ribs broken multiple times playing rugby and also not being all that popular with a certain group of blokes. Ribs now sit permenantly off to one side.
Badly gashed right foot and lower leg putting it through the plate mirrors at the end of the dojo wall as I wasn't paying attention while sparring.
Broke the index and middle knuckles on right hand punching through a bus shelter window when the chap I was aiming for ducked after he jumped me one evening.
Knife slashes on both hands after a young gentleman attacked me with one when I was working the door one evening. (Took it off him and had a quiet word with him)
Almost knocked out and a blinking sore skull after getting half a pool cue over the back of head at the cashline machine one night. Got him too.
Broke ribs again against steering wheel, broke nose going through windscreen and damaged ankle as engine came through dash and crushed it (I was wearing a seatbelt) when a car hit me at a junction as I was waiting to turn right. (Luckily all the arrows from my archery kit in the boot stuck into seats and roof lining rather than me. (The traffic cop asked if I'd been attacked by Indians after sticking his head in). Also that the ciggy I was smoking stubbed itself out going through the windsreen as there were two jerry cans of chainsaw fuel in there too.
Broke thumb and had to reset it myself half way up a climbing route. (Never got it fixed and it's still squint.)
Shot myself in the head (luckily small calibre) when a bullet bounced back after going through a rabbit and into the rocks behind it. Pretty spectacular on the blood front that one.
Burn on right upper arm when bed caught fire after a halogen clip on spot light fell on it whilst I was asleep.
Sliced forehead open with butchers knife cuttng cloth. Never fold cloth over a large blade and cut upwards!
Have dislocated both shoulders playing rugby and falling out of bath.
Came close to dying from a tick bite as heart & organs failed.
Infection got into my joints and destroyed my left hip and nearly sterilised me.
Pacemaker fitted to help heart after the lymes disease.
Total left hip replacement with a rather fancy titanium and ceramic job.
Almost forgot there was a ruptured achilies tendon again playing rugby... it's a great game you know!
Bruised my bladder (luckily that was all) falling about twenty-five feet vertically off a climb.
There have been a few other scrapes; like the odd shotgun pellet coming my way when we took Italian shooters out on the estate - luckily I always wore a US Vietnam issue flack vest on those days. Oh and there was the day my head got set on fire.. Oh and I got knocked off my motor bike and through a fence into a field by a speeding car once.
I blame the parents1
The one that stands out is that you were smoking in a car whilst carrying fuel..
Your accident sounds a bit like a script for a 1970's public information film. Hope there's no nerve damage.