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[bongorum]

I'm new here and wanted to know whether it would be bad form to ask you guys how you became horizontally challenged, for want of a better phrase. By reading your posts i've come to know many of you superficially, and you must forgive my curiosity if you find it offensive, but I just can't resist asking for your story if you're willing to volunteer it. Me, I was shot during a holdup in a grocery store. I thought I could make a run for it but was noticed by one of the bandits, who severed my spinal cord in one shot. It's been fifteen years now and no one has been brought to book for the crime. Life's a bitch, but you adjust, adapt, and hope you reach the end with a good story to tell.

[Snakeye]

This question seems to be brought up about every few months but that's cool. I'm game...I fell off a ladder cleaning my gutters....I know..boring but it's best I can do....

Edited by Snakeye, 07 March 2011 - 03:45 AM.

[D. Smith]

I was riding a 07 CBR600 and apparently went real fast then got mad and decided to throw the bike. I threw it and then caught it... Successfully I guess you could say. For the record, I was only trying to learn how to ride in a wide open parking lot.

[Barbie4]

My husband used to be a pilot and decided to build houses inbetween flying jobs. He fell backwards into a basement while building a house.

[pistol_pete]

Tree fell on me in a bushfire

[sh1wn]

Fell off bridge while trying to walk on railing,drunk.

[evilmac64]

i wrecked a car looking at a prety woman oh the drugs might have been factor not sure .............any way.
oh i aqm kidding about the woman

Edited by evilmac64, 07 March 2011 - 05:10 AM.

[Edinburgh Colin]

Jumped off a Motorcycle at 25mph as a big gust of wind was going to blow me and the bike down embankment. Jump went well, but the landing! I wend down the embankment, and the bike stayed on the road, landing on the back of my neck Fracturing T4 and causing internal bleeding, and that was that!

[roo]

Mine was due to joy riders crashing into my uncles car has we was returning from a night out bowling ,{1988}, I ended up a t,3/4 my couson died and my uncle got broken collar bone ,,and the joyriders got 4 mths in jail

roo

[ClaraTaylor]

Keeping fit, protecting the environment, keeping my smug attitude.... cycling to work.

Unfortunately the man driving his car down that road decided not to demist his windscreen and so only saw me when I was in the rear view mirror.

It was "not in public interest" to prosecute a driver who already had a maximum amount of points on his licence and still be able to drive as he "needed his car for work what with him living in a little village" (the same village as I live in)... nowhere was it mentioned that I needed my spine for my work.

Still because the village is so tiny I get to see him almost every time I go out. Nice.

[MTB John]

Mountain biking.
Took a switchback turn to wide and went over the top of the berm - didn't crash.
Rode around the back of the berm on really steep soft earth, and a carpet of pine needles - still didn't crash.
Was a fraction of a second away from lifting the front wheel and getting safely back on the trail when is just dropped out from under me - crashed!!
Landed back in the solid trial.. Lovely.

[why_d]

had an operation on my leg, which resulted in me being paralysed from the chest? hmmm

Edited by why_d, 07 March 2011 - 11:06 AM.

[Tetracyclone]

Bongorum,

There is an old thread with many stories. Search for it.

[bongorum]

Tetracyclone, on 07 March 2011 - 01:11 PM, said:

Bongorum,

There is an old thread with many stories. Search for it.

will do.

[Soryfam]

Contracted a MRSA infection in my blood which then settled in my spine. T7 & T8 were completely destroyed before I collapsed and had surgery.

Sandy

[cas]

Competing my horse when she slipped and came over backwards on top of me..... I've gone right off horses!!!!!!

[123]

Woke up one day and could barely walk. Got worse over several months until I could barely stand. Paid for a private consultation (no joy with NHS)and was diagnosed, via a MRI scan, with a spinal cord tumour. I was only 26 and my life has never been the same since.

[PlasticNapalm]

I used to rodeo, riding bucking horses when I was thrown 10ft straight up and what goes up must/did come down. T4/5, good times huh?

[Norrie]

Motorcycle accident.
Went into a corner at HIGH speed and went straight on.Hit a stone embankment then rolled with bike for 100 yards down the road.Shattered C5 fractured C6.Broke both wrists,dislocated left elbow,right thumb,left knee.Ruptured ACL/PLC and lateral left knee ligements.Broke my left Tibia,right ankle and brusied my lungs for fun!

[Edinburgh Colin]

Norrie, on 13 March 2011 - 02:26 PM, said:

Motorcycle accident.
Went into a corner at HIGH speed and went straight on.Hit a stone embankment then rolled with bike for 100 yards down the road.Shattered C5 fractured C6.Broke both wrists,dislocated left elbow,right thumb,left knee.Ruptured ACL/PLC and lateral left knee ligements.Broke my left Tibia,right ankle and brusied my lungs for fun!

Clumsy sheep shagger! welcome Sean me old mate!

[Millard]

I was in a brand new 1967 Firbird. The back-end slipped on a wet pavement. As the car turned backwards, I hit a concrete culvert. Whiplash. The year before mandatory head rest... Not speeding nor drinking.

[S&W Winger]

My beautiful 2007 metallic silver Honda Gold Wing motorcycle WITH ABS [not that that helped much] and I had a fight with a lovely dark brown cow for a particular piece of roadway: the cow won...three months before I did a solo ride of several thousand miles through many states and, importantly, visited many friends and family members [several of whom I would never see again]...my accident was 90 miles from our house...

...but I will ride again...someday, some way...that passion never dies...I did, but not the passion...

[julibugs]

Got backache one day, developed into numbness, pain and urinary problems - GP didn't refer to the oncall spinal team, saw a consultant who thought he could diagnose by just looking at you and talking in a very condescnding manner.

booked for a routine op - never made it that far, had emergency surgery but by then I had lost use of my feet, bowels and bladder. Welcome to the world of Cauda Equina syndrome

I also have an injury at C7 which means I have limited use of my right arm and regional pain syndrome, that was the result of a surfing accident, which is kinda cool for a granny.

[mellowgator]

hi there,

here is another thread about this. check it out.


http://www.apparelyz...__fromsearch__1


mellowgator

[plank]

Norrie, on 13 March 2011 - 02:26 PM, said:

Motorcycle accident.
Went into a corner at HIGH speed and went straight on.Hit a stone embankment then rolled with bike for 100 yards down the road.Shattered C5 fractured C6.Broke both wrists,dislocated left elbow,right thumb,left knee.Ruptured ACL/PLC and lateral left knee ligements.Broke my left Tibia,right ankle and brusied my lungs for fun!

Otherwise OK?

[tmcph]

practicing my skiing & wakeboarding tricks, landed in the middle of the trampoline after doing 2 1/2 back flips & bottomed out hitting the ground, breaking my c 5/6

[Solidus]

Cycling, head down along a dual carriageway I had commuted along hundreds of times. Except this time there was a broken down horse box waiting for me. Broke C6, T2 to T6 but dislocations at T3 - completed the injury. Also broke Sternum in two places. I don't remember a thing about it actually but have been told what happened by those in the know.

[rue2you]

I would love to say something exciting like I survived a plane crash or something, but nothing that dramatic. I was 5 months pregnant, had suffered with severe lower back pain and continuing leg weakness for about 3 months prior and woke up paralyzed from the waist down. They (Cleveland Clinic) think I contracted an infection or virus that attacked my spinal cord. Very boring but that is my story!

[Wheelsonfire]

Surfing off the coast of Japan last Friday and I got hit by a wardrobe...

[The Black Sheep]

For some reason I never really get tired of telling the story, albeit it's kinda boring. I know some people don't like talking about their injuries, but I kind of like the attention when someone shows interest.

I fell asleep and woke up paralyzed. Boring, I know.

Apparently I had hurt my back a few days prior to this nap and blood got into my spinal cord. Swelling pursued and strangled everything around T5. That was nearly 13 years ago. Sheesh, I've spent half my life in this thing.