What Happened To You? Thread

[Lenny]

Thought id start up a thread where we can share personal current accident stories

[Lenny]

Yearly medical in work last Monday,

Nurse taking three vials of blood,

Vain collapsed on second vial

resulting in a bleed under the skin and me looking like a junkie,

She then had to start on other arm

[WES180]

Strange reaction, i thought it was a tattoo at first!

[Lenny]

Strange reaction, i thought it was a tattoo at first!

No that's been there eight years 😁

[simcor]

Slipped on some ice in 2010 and broke my ankle big style, 3 days in hospital, several attempts to manipulate the bones into place, followed by a plate and screws, 3 months on crutches, diastasis screw taken out under local anaesthetic, never again horrible feeling him unscrewing the screw.

But I got to wear a cool air cast boot after a couple of weeks in a pot lol

Just noticed the "current" wording in the first post but as it's never been right since it is always current still even though it has been nearly 5 years.

Looked like I was a storm trooper almost lol well at least my left leg.

Still gives me pain from time to time nearly 5 years on.

Sadly they did a really good job of stitching me up and the scar is almost invisible, was about 12" long,

[V6 Lover]

I've broken both my ankles in my early twenties and what me dad said them many years ago was that they will play up when you get older...so true especially in the winter,I get a hobble after 5 minutes of walking the dog and its still September....

[Stoney871]

I broke my back in 1996 in a parachuting accident.

5 months laid up in hospital (3 of those being told every day I'd best get used to the idea I woildn't walk again) and a further 7 months residential treatment courtesy of the Tri-Services therapy centre at Headley Court.

[V6 Lover]

Hi Stoney...sounds a lot more serious along with being seriously painful too..should imagine you were totally immobilised doing that to your back, and not too pleasant being informed you'll never walk again.... sheesh....but sounds like you received good treatment along with any therepy, must of seemed like forever though..

[Lenny]

I broke my back in 1996 in a parachuting accident.

5 months laid up in hospital (3 of those being told every day I'd best get used to the idea I woildn't walk again) and a further 7 months residential treatment courtesy of the Tri-Services therapy centre at Headley Court.

your a real life RoboCop

[laumk7]

Also had a fall on the ice, this time I was 8.5 months pregnant with my first child and it was black ice on a hill. I fell and landed square onto my back, and couldn't move so an ambulance had to be called and I had to be stretchered away, hospital were desperate to perform an xray but I wouldn't let them due to the risk to my child, so I suffered in agony for months following.

An osteopath ultrasounded my back and it turned out I'd twisted one of my ligaments round and shattered one of the three points on it, and moved another out of line. He said how I didn't suffer a slipped disc is amazing, but neither of the ligaments could be returned to where they should be as that would again risk a slipped disc.

I'm bleeding terrified of the ice each and every time it snows now...espesh as essentially I'm walking around with a broken back

[WES180]

Also had a fall on the ice, this time I was 8.5 months pregnant with my first child and it was black ice on a hill. I fell and landed square onto my back, and couldn't move so an ambulance had to be called and I had to be stretchered away, hospital were desperate to perform an xray but I wouldn't let them due to the risk to my child, so I suffered in agony for months following.

An osteopath ultrasounded my back and it turned out I'd twisted one of my ligaments round and shattered one of the three points on it, and moved another out of line. He said how I didn't suffer a slipped disc is amazing, but neither of the ligaments could be returned to where they should be as that would again risk a slipped disc.

I'm bleeding terrified of the ice each and every time it snows now...espesh as essentially I'm walking around with a broken back

Ouch! On the plus side you can have an xray now though if you do it again!:)

[Stoney871]

Hi Stoney...sounds a lot more serious along with being seriously painful too..should imagine you were totally immobilised doing that to your back, and not too pleasant being informed you'll never walk again.... sheesh....but sounds like you received good treatment along with any therepy, must of seemed like forever though..

It's the sort of thing that can really twist your mind if you let it.

Can't praise Headley Court highly enough.

They really went the extra mile to accommodate every serviceman injured in Iraq/Afghanistan and give them the best chance to regain independence, even with multiple amputations and severely life changing damage.

They also provide excellent rehab facilities for professional sportsmen overcoming career changing injuries.

[Stoney871]

your a real life RoboCop

More like ED 209 ;)

[Stoney871]

Also had a fall on the ice, this time I was 8.5 months pregnant with my first child and it was black ice on a hill. I fell and landed square onto my back, and couldn't move so an ambulance had to be called and I had to be stretchered away, hospital were desperate to perform an xray but I wouldn't let them due to the risk to my child, so I suffered in agony for months following.

An osteopath ultrasounded my back and it turned out I'd twisted one of my ligaments round and shattered one of the three points on it, and moved another out of line. He said how I didn't suffer a slipped disc is amazing, but neither of the ligaments could be returned to where they should be as that would again risk a slipped disc.

I'm bleeding terrified of the ice each and every time it snows now...espesh as essentially I'm walking around with a broken back

Back injuries are often looked on as a lazy mans excuse but until someone suffers one themselves they can't appreciate just how debilitating it is.

Break an arm or leg and once the bone repairs itself you're good as new.

Damage your spinal cord and it's permanent.

That type of injury while heavily pregnant is definitely no joke.

[Goodkat]

I will save the story of my manky leg for another time, but as many of you may have heard I had surgery not long ago, and although not strictly an accident, is still worth sharing.

For the past ten years, there was a cyst growing under my tongue and in my neck. I never paid it any heed, as I figured it was just a double chin. I lost weight, but the double chin remained. So I got it checked out, and had a couple of MRI scans, and a ultrasound which confirmed that not only was it a cyst, but it was 9cm in diameter and growing. After a camera was stuck up my nose and down my throat, they realised my airway was being closed, so they decided to operate.

I had to go to Churchill Hospital, with a specialist team to deal with it. Took 5 hours, and when I came around I had two drains coming out of my neck and a 2 inch long scar. Impressive how they got it all out through that, they really are genuinely masters of their trade.

Now I know that everyone skips the dialogue and just want photos, so here you go!

Before surgery, a year or two ago...

Just after surgery...

And me now.

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[Stoney871]

An extreme way to wangle a facelift :d

Looks far better and I bet a fair bit more comfortable now.

[Goodkat]

It is much better, but still taking a lot of getting used to. My tongue has more room to move, so I get tongue-tied a lot more, and it twinges a bit where they dug the crap out under the tongue. I ended up back at the local hospital 3 times after discharge as it started bleeding and wouldn't stop! But a hell of a lot better now.

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[Stoney871]

I bet you can sleep better too.

[V6 Lover]

Goodkat....That sounds very unice.. I'm glad surgeons have fixed it for you, bit dodgy intefearing with your airways too..a five hour op..my hats off to them, takes a lot of skill and dexterity to perform that stuff that they do...they have done what appears to be a top job on removing that cyst..and hoping all is well with yourself fella..

[SeanW]

Pity you didn't get a film of them doing the procedure lol

(Anybody else find those videos on youtube horrifyingly interesting?)

[Stoney871]

Pity you didn't get a film of them doing the procedure lol

(Anybody else find those videos on youtube horrifyingly interesting?)

Nah, just you ya sicko :d

[V6 Lover]

Pity you didn't get a film of them doing the procedure lol

(Anybody else find those videos on youtube horrifyingly interesting?)

Hi SeanW ..

Although I haven't watched a lot of you tube, I do find it absolutely fascinating any sort of programe that shows actual surgery on the human body...the amount of skill these guys show with a scalpel never ceases to amaze me, especially say in a field surgery where the most horrendous of wounds are concentrared.... Now how these guys actually stop the bleeding is nothing short of a miricale (I can't bare the sight of blood unfortunately) the way they dive in totally confident...let alone the task of trying to put right a seriously busted body,and some task that can be...in the united states they have not long completed building a purpose built hospital fully staffed out in Texas to deal with injured US army and military personnel serving in the hot spots abroad whom they fly back home and can deal with quickly and hence more effectively... Britain could learn a lesson there!!

[Goodkat]

There is a lot of photos etc of the procedure, as I signed off the rights for them to do so. It isn't unique, but one of that size is... Churchill Hospital is one of Oxford's University hospitals and the surgeons train the next wave, so wanted a case study. I think you will need to be a trainee surgeon of you want to see the photos mind.

It was called (amongst other things) a Sublingual Dermoid Cyst. Google it, but gore will greet you!

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[WES180]

It was called (amongst other things) a Sublingual Dermoid Cyst. Google it, but gore will greet you!

Nice! Im surprised you couldnt feel it in there or did it just take a long time for them to act on it?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090074013000832

[Goodkat]

They were on the fence as to it being sublingual and submental, that lump under the kid's tongue in that link? Exactly what mine looked like. The fact that it was there didn't hurt, but I snored real bad and did have difficulty swallowing.

I had it originally checked out in 2013, but I have a fear of surgery, and the first surgeon (in Swindon) was a scalpel jockey who called in students and saw me purely as a case study and was a bit of a !Removed!. In a follow up appointment the next surgeon said an operation was elective, and said it would help but wasn't essential so I foolishly decided to leave it be. I slowly sank into a pit of despair about it, couldn't look at myself in the mirror, refused photos as much as possible and eventually decided I couldn't carry on like that. That and it was going to kill me too... So I went ahead for the op.

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