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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mechanic on March 07, 2009, 12:42:21 AM
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I've broken bones before... and many other stupid hobbies. The feeling of it is strange. It's not like the pain when you slice skin or hit your thumb with a hammer. It's a nausiating sensation that something on your body has gone very wrong and the brain is not quite sure how well this patch up job is going to turn out yet.
Today whilst exploring new places in Darwin's back garden I decided to duck under a waist height wooden beam in my house at some speed, I presume for the same reason the chicken crossed the road. While this didnt seem like a bad descision when I made it, turned out that the metal bracket with a fixing that is shaped like a flat head screw driver which i have always managed to avoid before actualy this time caught me between the vertical back muscle and spine. made a 1 inch hole through the skin and thin layer of muscle that cover the rib sockets type area. It was not too sharp but the speed and angle has actualy punctured me to the inside bits!
After rolling around and spasming on the floor for 60 seconds I started on the walking around and laughing at my stupidty whilst cursing and breathing heavily in and out trying not to pay attention to the last 3 minutes as much as possible. When that was all finished i washed the wound with almost boiling water, made an evil mixture of finely ground salt and tea tree oil and slapped it on what was probably a bit of rib. dressed it and taped round my whole abdomen.
It looks like nothing, but when i move my back it opens. Going to have to get it single stitched in the morning i think. Anyhow, if you're still reading and not laughing at me too much The thing i wanted to share was how strange a sensation it is to have you skin and muscle fat and flesh layers all breached in a delicate part of the body. So little pain, such a feeling of ..of...it just feels wrong. Anyone ever felt that feeling from an injury? Something so small, imagine being lightly stabbed by a blunt screw driver, but it feels sooooo wrong! The blood hardly even gave a valid effort. Dark thick blood started to clot in the wound within minutes, before i even dressed it. The body is such an amazing thing, i wish i could learn more about the subject of regenration and mental sensations without having to injure myself much more.
I could post a picture if anyone needs, or even just wants to go that far.
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ouch! and double ouch!
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Are you current on your tetanus shot? If not, it's a good time.
wrongway
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I went to Mexico a few years back and got jabbed up for that with an all in one shot, im not sure actualy what was in it. I counting on the fact that it was a reasonable clean part of the house and the bracket was stainless steel without a hint of decay. Is that foolish?
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I WANNA SEE PICS NOW NOW NOW :rock :rock :rock
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lol, im making a little compilation now, hold fire 2 minutes.
ok here is my hole! The torn skin that looks like a hole is not infact is the jagged bit leading into the small puncture wound which is already covered by scab and a flap of the skin. The blue is the light in first two pics from my tacky webcam not some hideous blood poisoning. the last picture started gentle oozing blood out the hole :uhoh
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/hole.JPG)
on the whole it is a very disapointing wound. Gushing blood and screaming children, maybe the odd burning house dotted about.. would have seemed more apropriate for the ammount of discomfort it caused.
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EW blood (faints)
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yeah thankfully i am part vampire which makes me ok with blood, but it does make my mind cloud over and my already dark eyes turn completely black all over!
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/eye2.jpg)
I knew what to do though. I grilled myself this bowl of perfectly crispy bacon and everything, including the hole, felt much better.
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/bacon.jpg)
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yeah thankfully i am part vampire which makes me ok with blood, but it does make my mind cloud over and my already dark eyes turn completely black all over!
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/eye2.jpg)
I knew what to do though. I grilled myself this bowl of perfectly crispy bacon and everything, including the hole, felt much better.
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/bacon.jpg)
What are you trying to say with the bacon batty, HUH HUH HUH, i make your mossy squueeeeeeeeeel if you ever post something like that again :D
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:rofl
no pun intended! thats actualy a pic of bacon in my room that i just ate.
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ouch! :uhoh
mmmm bacon :aok
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Get a tetanus shot Bat.
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Yeah, holes really suck. I somewhat recently had a golf-ball sized hole/gash in my right wrist and a 3/4" deep nail-wound in the left wrist from a broken window. If you don't like blood, don't read any further, and respect single-pane windows:
Last September I had a bad experience with a weak window in my apartment (was cracked). I went through it wrist deep like nothing. As the window collapsed my left wrist took a nail-like shard that fell vertically down and into the top of my wrist about 3/4 an inch deep, but only 1/3 inch long, it nailed a semi-good sized artery and it ended up squirting a good 2-feet and onto my face when the shard fell out. I applied immediate pressure with my right hand. I was still bleeding quite a bit, and unknown to me at the moment was my right wrist took a gash on the bottom of it that left a gash you could fit a gold ball into. My tendons took the brunt on the right hand (I didn't go through the window with much force at all (I wasn't intending to break it at all or in any way) and my tendons stopped any critical veins/arteries getting hit in my right hand but unfortunately didn't prevent any damage to my right-hand palm nerves, in particular that meaty chunk below your thumb, though I have started feeling numb pain in it again recently, a sign of the nerves coming back slowly), it had the most damage but was bleeding the least of my two hands). I was testing the window if it was locked, my neighbor had recently been moving and had hit it hard recently with some furniture, when i tested the window for if it was secured my hands barely slipped through the window as it collapsed, but that stuff is SHARP. The same neighbor and his gal came to the rescue, he helped me hold pressure and tourniquet while she called 911. I was bleeding pretty bad and needed to tourniquet my left wrist. It wasn't til I unquieted it with my neighbor did he point out my right wrist's injury. Nothing like seeing the inside center of your wrist ( :rolleyes: ), it was 1/2 inch deep and clean cut towards the center and as it went towards the outer side and under my thumb the cut got messy and shallow as it hit tendons.
The ambulance rushed me right in, didn't bother to remove any of the tourniquets or clothing I was holding pressure with since they saw the amount of blood loss and knew it was keeping me conscious, they just grabbed gauze and helped me hold pressure on the wrist i wasn't holding. I was really white by the time I got to the hospital and thy started IVs immediately and gave me a tetanus shot also. I told them about the bleeding on my left hand from such a small but deep wound, but in the time since the injury and the time the doc removed my tourniquet and i removed my right hand holding pressure on my left, the artery had sealed itself and the nurse cleaned it and used this medical Superglue to fill and seal the nail wound. My right wrist that luckily escaped with only some sensation-nerve damage to the palm took a total 16 stitches and over an hour for the doctor to stitch. Almost three hours and 2.5 bags of IV fluid into my ER visit the nurse finally asked me if I would like something for the pain. The nurse returned with a smirk on his face as he explained the doc told him to give me a max dose of morphine for my body weight/height ratio (6'4", 280 lbs, hadn't had a thing to eat the entire day :cool: the nurse was my "friend"). The ER was full and busy, so as soon as I stopped taking down the IVs so quickly and was nice n stable in my vitals for 5 hours they released me.
My neighbor ruled when I returned home, he cleaned up the broken glass (secured my window and made it safe for my cat) and cleaned up the blood that was everywhere so my wife at the time didn't have to even see that awful mess. I promptly bought him a 12-pack of his favorite beer. Early the next morning my landlord had the window replaced and all in all the medical insurance came through but I still owe 4-grand for the whole ordeal as my share.
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Lol sorry to hear you got nailed by your own house Buttfink, but :lol
Before you feel too sorry for yourself just remember our squadmate Stumpy. He is flying around with a grin on his face and dreams of nurses :)
Get back in the cockpit!
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after looking at those pics of your backside, all I can say is DUDE GET A TAN!! some kind of sun, ya look like a ghost :O
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Damn man, that's not right. I once had a nail go almost all the way through my right foot, but never anything like that!
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I used to race semi-professional snow cross, and I had something like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AY8TJ0c58o&playnext_from=PL&feature=PlayList&p=58D3A6D05E261A2C&playnext=1&index=78) happen to me. Snowmobiles set up for this style of racing have 96 sharp, 2 inch metal studs in the tracks to get better traction. As the track landed on my back leg it got me pretty good. I ended up with 7 holes about .25-.5 inches deep.
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idiot :D :P <G,D,R>
how old are you batty?
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A little checklist for you:
Is the puncture closing or looking more like a dried-out...hole?
Is it warm around?
Are you allright, - no fever or drowsyness??
I am no doctor, but being in the farming I have seen things that doctors haven't. Anyway, if the hole closes and bleeds or seeps out a bit, and you have no fever, you should be okay.
BTW, I have repetetive experience of stepping on nails, and some almost going through my foot. And exactly those were not so bad at first, but gave me weeks of pain and infecton afterwards. A key issue is if it goes near the bone.
Just my little 5 cents. good healings.
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tis just a flesh wound..........
NOT
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Indeed a mere scratch! Hardly much to moan about. Funny story more than anything and i enjoyed trying to write about it with a touch of humour.
These other painfull stories are much more gruesome! Thanks for sharing. Arterial wounds must hurt like hell! the slice factor....ewww. Holes in leg from ski mobile? im just an ameteur obviously!
Wldcard, the bright light doesnt help there, though you should try living in a country with two weeks of sun and 50 weeks of cold and damp a year. Nilsen, true! Flyboy, im 26. Angus, thanks for the check list, I'm fine by all accounts. Didnt even need to get a stich as i just woke up and it's healing well. Just a dark scab really now, not much inflamation. Feeling fine.
edit: healing ok, in blue is the area of the deeper wound with some slight infection and swelling but that is to be expected in a healthy body. I currently live alone for most nights of the week so inspecting, dressing and pictures have to be taken whilst attempting mild yoga possitions.
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/Ahole.jpg)
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Get a tetanus shot Bat.
Yes. If it's been more then seven years since your last one, you need to get another.
Got lockjaw, had to go to bed.
Sneezed and he blew off
the top of his head.
P.S. Also look for streaking around the wound.
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thanks Xargos and others for good advice, I'd still rather chance it and not have to see any doctumers on the weekend. I'm pretty sure I'm still covered. If I start grinding my teeth i will let you know.
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Are you current on your tetanus shot? If not, it's a good time.
wrongway
Well at least you didn't have to throw a red hot branding iron on it. Get to the doctor fast though. I'm a bit worried about infection.
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Well at least you didn't have to throw a red hot branding iron on it. Get to the doctor fast though. I'm a bit worried about infection.
yup branding iron would fix that right up, friend of mine got braneded....TWICE! :O
It is part of his fraternity thing from college. The first time was his initiation the 2nd was cause a friend of his was sceered to do it so my fiend did it with him.
He said the initial branding didnt hurt like you would think due to the nerves being overloaded. The smell of burnt human flesh....well that was a different story. He said that for the next 8-10 weeks while it was healing is when it hurt.
The ironic thing is, he is black. When I asked him WHY the hell he would subject himself to being branded both for the physical effect but also for the fact that he is black and the whole slavery thing, he said it was to show true commitment to his fraternity. Guess I have a fear of commitment cause I wouldn't do it.
and just to be clear it's not some small little branding either it goes from his shoulder halfway to his elbow on his right arm and again from his shoulder about to the bottom of his shoulder blade on the right side of his back.
No friggin way would I do it....nope nadda fugetaboutit!!!
My own personal story of new holes in my otherwise young and pristine body <age 10 or so> I was climbing a tree and slipped, I slid down trying to catch myself and got "caught" on a broken branch. It went all the way to the bone on my right arm between the elbow and arm pit with about a 1.5" diameter hole.
My friends and I ran home, the whole time I was holding my arm with my left hand trying to keep the muscle (meat) from falling out as some kinda got pulled out when I got myself off the branch blood was EVERYWHERE especially all over me. It didnt really hurt for the first few minutes but on the way home it hurt like hell, especially for a 10 yr old. Plus the fact that when I looked at it my muscle was hanging out kinda freaked me out at first but, at the hospital (once I got a shot for the pain I tought it looked pretty cool, cracked the Dr. and my dad up, mom wasnt too enthused :lol
Only took about 10 stitches to sew it up. The plus side was I got out of school for a couple days :D
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ouch, we have fallen along way from the primate skill set :D
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Please keep us posted with day-by-day shots of the injury and how you feel. If you go to see a doctor you should record everything and post it here.
Maybe you could even start a real blog about it Buttfink :aok
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yeah yeah nils very funny. I just thought you might laugh at it ;)
Also as my first true perforation wound it was a new and wonderfull experience for me.
dont bump it if you dont want to!
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Bat, I think you'll find your not meant to modify the current plans - extra holes are not for hero's lol.......
Hope you get healed nice n quick
Wurzel
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I actually did a similar thing years ago when I was working construction.
I had to carry a bunch of re-bar that had been thrown off a truck over to the large stack of rebar on the other side of the site. I decided to do a short-cut on this particular occasion, past two large piles of discarded lumber. At one point there was a really narrow gap, but I was/am farly skinny so I decided to go for it.
I didn't see the large rusty nail poking out of one of the boards.
It got me in the stomach as I tried to squeeze through and the wound looked very similar to yours, although it didn't go as deep.
I got the rebar over to where it was supposed to go and then dropped. The owner of the company yelled at me and threatened to make me shovel sand for a week if I didn't get up and get back to work. I was really lucky, it didn't get infected which meant that it was a clean cut.
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funny story there Bat. I know we all have a story where we did something that we should have known better than to do.
My most recent which ended in pain was me doing some minor renovation work on an apartment to get it ready to rent out. I had gotten a few of those self adhesive tiles to put down in the bathroom where the plumbers had put down a small piece of plywood around the toilet when they fixed the leaky connection. I was down to the last cut (normal I know) and realized "Hey dumby you are cutting right towards your arm with that utility knife" and just as I was getting that split second thought out the knife slipped. It madea nice laceration in my arm that started about 2 inches above my wrist and went down 1 inch in length, cutting down to my radius (bone for those that don't know). This required 2 staples, which I found to be much nicer than stitches.
Now ordinarily this would not be too bad, but I think I severed a nerve. It has been over 5 months and I still have numbness from the cut all the way to the tip of my thumb. What a weird feeling that is too. The worst though was when the nerves started to make their initial re-connection about a month after the incident, it felt as though I had my thumb in a boiling pot of water. Oh well maybe someday I will get the feeling back in my thumb, until then it is usuable I just need to watch where I put it since I can't feel if it is in the way of something bad or not.
I too have always wondered about how different injuries cause different feelings of pain and how different people cope with those injuries. I have seen people have severe injuries ranging from many different broken bones (some small some larger ones), lacerations from chainsaws, car accidents, plate glass windows, baseball bats, gunshots, and even some I have still not been able to explain and it always seems those with the smallest wounds seem to be handling the pain the worst.
In my line of work you can't be afraid of blood, since half of what you do brings you in contact with it.
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thanks for the funny/painfull stories, chaps! Keep em coming, we got two threads for this currently, its a hot topic. :rofl
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This is a really gross thread. Gladly, I don't have any injuries to contribute. :) But my sons have had plenty.
One month I made three trips to the ER with various sons who had sustained various head injuries. I was surprised CPS didn't make a house call after those.
#1: One son whacked another on the head with a toy, split that little sucker right open. One staple needed.
#2: One son was playing at the crick, girl threw a rock (chihuahua sized) off the bridge & hit him on the head, split that sucker right open also. Staples this time as well. Also, it's the first time I saw anyone go into shock, which was scary for me.
#3: One son was doing backflips on the couch (from the side arm, then landing flat on the couch). Funny how it don't work out so well if you do those backflips from the couch short-ways. Your head ends up on the coffee table when that happens. Split that little sucker right open again, no staple needed this time.
TxDad was in the Army back then and was, of course, deployed. We filled his email box full of pictures that month. Those boys started their own "staple club."
That all happened in November, and I cancelled Thanksgiving that year. I think that was a mistake now that I think about it, as I had more friends offering a helping hand or encouragement that year than any other. We should have made it our best Thanksgiving celebration ever.
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young boys and casualty wards are destined to be companions :)
Just for my good friend Nilsen (and to grose out TxMom) the hole day 3 blog:
extreme close up shot of hole on day three, roughly 50 hours since injury:
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/hole_day_3.jpg)
again, the blue light is my webcam. I would say it is healing nicely.
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young boys and casualty wards are destined to be companions :)
Just for my good friend Nilsen (and to grose out TxMom) the hole day 3 blog:
extreme close up shot of hole on day three, roughly 50 hours since injury:
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/hole_day_3.jpg)
again, the blue light is my webcam. I would say it is healing nicely.
"Tis but a flesh wound" :D
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funny story there Bat. I know we all have a story where we did something that we should have known better than to do.
My most recent which ended in pain was me doing some minor renovation work on an apartment to get it ready to rent out. I had gotten a few of those self adhesive tiles to put down in the bathroom where the plumbers had put down a small piece of plywood around the toilet when they fixed the leaky connection. I was down to the last cut (normal I know) and realized "Hey dumby you are cutting right towards your arm with that utility knife" and just as I was getting that split second thought out the knife slipped. It madea nice laceration in my arm that started about 2 inches above my wrist and went down 1 inch in length, cutting down to my radius (bone for those that don't know). This required 2 staples, which I found to be much nicer than stitches.
Now ordinarily this would not be too bad, but I think I severed a nerve. It has been over 5 months and I still have numbness from the cut all the way to the tip of my thumb. What a weird feeling that is too. The worst though was when the nerves started to make their initial re-connection about a month after the incident, it felt as though I had my thumb in a boiling pot of water. Oh well maybe someday I will get the feeling back in my thumb, until then it is usuable I just need to watch where I put it since I can't feel if it is in the way of something bad or not.
I too have always wondered about how different injuries cause different feelings of pain and how different people cope with those injuries. I have seen people have severe injuries ranging from many different broken bones (some small some larger ones), lacerations from chainsaws, car accidents, plate glass windows, baseball bats, gunshots, and even some I have still not been able to explain and it always seems those with the smallest wounds seem to be handling the pain the worst.
In my line of work you can't be afraid of blood, since half of what you do brings you in contact with it.
Yeah, sounds like ya nailed a nerve good, it may come back (limitedly or fully). Early last month (about 6 months after the accident) the constant numbness in my right hands lower-half of my palm is starting to be replaced by some feeling/sensation. Primarily pain/discompfort and being more sensitive to hot and cold now. I think the doc did a damn good job stitching it back up and the swelling in the region of my gash that the chewed-up tendons were at has gone down recently and the nerves in that region might be healing up a bit now.
The downside though... is that it's a lot more painful and uncomforitable now than it was just a couple months ago. It hurt immediately after the accident, but that went away. Now it's this constant numbing pain in my right wrist and palm. I avoid regularly taking pain meds for it because then I don't know if I'm overworking it or not. When I overwork it, or don't tuck it under my blanket on a cold night, it gets very (VERY) painful and unhappy with me, and that's when I use the pain meds. I hope if your nerves return they won't be as uncomforitable an experience for you as it's been with me so far.
This is a really gross thread. Gladly, I don't have any injuries to contribute. :) But my sons have had plenty.
One month I made three trips to the ER with various sons who had sustained various head injuries. I was surprised CPS didn't make a house call after those.
#1: One son whacked another on the head with a toy, split that little sucker right open. One staple needed.
#2: One son was playing at the crick, girl threw a rock (chihuahua sized) off the bridge & hit him on the head, split that sucker right open also. Staples this time as well. Also, it's the first time I saw anyone go into shock, which was scary for me.
#3: One son was doing backflips on the couch (from the side arm, then landing flat on the couch). Funny how it don't work out so well if you do those backflips from the couch short-ways. Your head ends up on the coffee table when that happens. Split that little sucker right open again, no staple needed this time.
TxDad was in the Army back then and was, of course, deployed. We filled his email box full of pictures that month. Those boys started their own "staple club."
That all happened in November, and I cancelled Thanksgiving that year. I think that was a mistake now that I think about it, as I had more friends offering a helping hand or encouragement that year than any other. We should have made it our best Thanksgiving celebration ever.
I broke my brothers arm horsing around, had to get stitches in my feet three times (old-school glass juice jars and a tile-reflooring project ftw), had to get 5 stitches on the back of my right-hand pointing finger thanks to a pumpkin carving knife stuck in the drawer, and a concussion from riding my bike extremely fast down a sloped driveway and into the side of my neighbors explorer (I still don't remember the accident or what we covered at school that month) all before I turned a teenager.
Parenting pro-tip: make your kids wear the bike helmet and organize all your knifes so that they're easy enough to access and put away without anybody cutting themselves.