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| | | Subject: Accident prone? You'd better believe it!
Posted Jul 25, 2003 by Clairybell, Queen of Lancashire
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 | | OK, so where do I begin? I suppose the womb would be as good as any place. Born 4 weeks early with a severe heart condition, I should really have died at birth (luckily I'm still going strong at 19). But by my 3rd birthday the doctors decided that perhaps they should at least try and correct it, which fortunately they did.
All went well (with the exception of the odd bruise and scratch inflicted by my younger brother) until I was about 7, when I decided to freewheel on the bike of a friend down a steep hill. Needless to say I fell off, snapping my right arm in two just below the shoulder. Later that same day a particularly nasty young boy broke my brother's arm in two doing some mock kung-fu. So my poor parents, as well as being harassed to death by the idiocy of their two children, were investigated by Social Services on suspicion of child cruelty.
The next winter I fell on my grandpa's drive and fractured my left wrist trying to save myself. I should have learned not to try and break my fall, but a few years later, on my dream holiday to Disneyworld I slipped in the bathroom and did the same thing to my right wrist. A few months after this particular event, I found myself in the office of a very nice paediatrician, who told my parents that no, I didn't have brittle bone disease. I was just very very unlucky.
For the next 8 years I managed to stay out of the A&E, until I went on a bike ride with my (now ex-) boyfriend. As I was mounting the bike next to a canal in Lancashire my left knee-cap suddenly discovered a thirst for exploration. So off it went around the other side of my leg. They say that the two most painful places to injure yourself are your knees and abdomen. I can't (thankfully; touch wood) account for the abdomen, but the knees I can. I've been in pain before; when I was a child having the hiccups was excruciating. But nothing ever came close to dislocating my kneecap. I was put on the highest dose of morphine AND gas and air so that they could put it back, because I told the nurse in all seriousness that if anyone came near me I'd kill them.
Since the physiotherapy stopped I've been great. I just hope it lasts!
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| | | Subject: Accident prone? You'd better believe it!
Posted Jul 27, 2003 by Gecko
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 | | I can vouch for the knee deal. My knees used to slide out and then back in. The pain was indescribable and if anyone came rushing in to help me they were likely to be severely yelled at and punched if they tried to touch my knees.
When I went to see the surgeon to get them fixed I would not let him touch them either. He had to determine what was wrong from the x-rays and arthroscopies.
Cheers
Gecko
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| | | Subject: Accident prone? You'd better believe it!
Posted Jul 29, 2003 by Lingamish
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| |  The other day, my wife was sitting on the hammock in the backyard reading to our children. I came over, sat on the hammock, and bang the branch broke. It was very painful. You wouldn't think that falling from such a short distance is painful but we were rolling on the ground in agony (Our kids didn't know what to think). I had a bruised tail bone and we were both taking pain killers for a couple weeks. I think a hammock must act like a slingshot. Your weight is counteracted by the tension of the ropes and if something breaks you are hurled with extraordinary force toward the ground. A pain in the rear for sure.
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