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[tonimichelle]

There really needs to be a category for all of us that dont fit anywhere else. I chalk mine up to freak occurence. After a few beers one summer evening (7-26-08) I pinched a friend and he headlocked me (as we were both kneeling in the grass )and he rolled me into a somersault and the pressure of me rolling over broke my c4-5. It was just tussling around, something all of us have done, and it forever changed my life. Im not very big 5'5" 115 lbs but for some reason it was enough.

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[Travelling Blackbird]

tonimichelle, on Feb 14 2009, 08:22 PM, said:

There really needs to be a category for all of us that dont fit anywhere else. I chalk mine up to freak occurence. After a few beers one summer evening (7-26-08) I pinched a friend and he headlocked me (as we were both kneeling in the grass )and he rolled me into a somersault and the pressure of me rolling over broke my c4-5. It was just tussling around, something all of us have done, and it forever changed my life. Im not very big 5'5" 115 lbs but for some reason it was enough.

When I talk to schoolkids about being in a wheelchair, I try to impress upon them that an injury to the spine can happen even in horseplay, and that they have to be careful when they're rough-housing, but I had never actually heard such a story. That's rough. Are you still in touch with the people who were there, particularly that guy?

And, as I mentioned, I don't fit in any category listed either, so an "Other, please specify" category might be a good idea.

[rue2you]

Multiple Sclerosis. Paralyzed from waist down.

[WildKat]

Lee, on Oct 9 2007, 06:35 AM, said:

Valet should took some responsibilty as he must of known you had had too much. Atleast your here and we enjoy your company, lol.

I agree that the valet should have not given her the keys if it was obvious she had been drinking, but I also think that it should ultimately be the person who is drinking that is responsible for not getting behind the wheel. It's one thing to get behind the wheel when you are drunk and end up having an sci yourself, but what if they crash into someone who decided not to drink and drive and cause injury to someone else or even killed a child?

My comment isn't directed at anyone in particular, but just everyone in general although I'm pretty sure if people here did get their sci's that way they have learned their lesson about drinking and driving, even if they did learn it the hard way.

Edited by WildKat, 31 March 2009 - 04:07 AM.

[lossenut]

accident while in the Army, not treated due to location at the time. treatment six weeks later
, but not the right type no x-rays done at all . L3.4,5. with a central bulge, picked up on dicharge medical

[Geezer34]

zeta, on Oct 11 2007, 04:44 PM, said:

I ussually tell curious people I was in a car accident but I won't lie here. I was driving drunk and ran when cops tried to pull me over. As it always happens I ended up in a dead end then I tried to turn around. He sad I tried to run him over (this I don't remember). He fired 11 shots. 2 went wild, 8 didn't go through tailgate, and one hit me broke c6 4pieces, c7 shattered, and t1 cracked in half. Bullet lodged in my throat hit no major arteries or organs. Guess it wasn't my day!

Holly shi t thats fu cking well cool!!!

Your coppers are mad as fu ck...

Pleased your hear zeta to tell us top man..

[Geezer34]

E-DOG, on Jun 28 2008, 03:57 AM, said:

Zammo, on Jun 25 2008, 05:27 AM, said:

I had the shits! Couldn't shake it for three weeks. Eventually walked into my local hospital to hook me onto a saline IV because I was so dehydrated. Over the next 24 hours my body went numb from my toes up to my chest. Tranverse Myelitis they called it.

Teach you to shit so much!
E-dog

What a shitter!!! lol

[jwb]

I have an benign intramedullary ependynoma tumor at C1-C6

[Yasko]

I got shot in 1994! War in Sarajevo/Bosnia.

[WetRain]

have to ask why work wasn't included in the list

but being as it wasnt

then none of the above

but not worrying about my book I was squished bent double between to unbedable objects so i was forced to bend further than design

[allister]

RTA 1984 (drunk ran through a xroads at 10am. T boned me and shoved m 25mts down the road. dislodged 3 lumber - 2 cervical
Herniated L4/5 2001 had discectomy, disc re herniated 4 wks later. had aother discectomy and got scar damage on spinal cord.
"Walk" 25 ft max with stick, otherwise wheelchair.

RTA 1984 (drunk ran through a xroads at 10am. T boned me and shoved m 25mts down the road. dislodged 3 lumber - 2 cervical
Herniated L4/5 2001 had discectomy, disc re herniated 4 wks later. had aother discectomy and got scar damage on spinal cord.
"Walk" 25 ft max with stick, otherwise wheelchair.

[4estGimp]

An a attorney bought his 14 year old son a full sized pickup. The son then ran a stop sign, at night, with his headlights out. I T-boned him at 60-MPH.

Edited by 4estGimp, 30 August 2009 - 06:07 AM.

[E-DOG]

4estGimp, on Aug 29 2009, 11:05 PM, said:

An a attorney bought his 14 year old son a full sized pickup. The son then ran a stop sign, at night, with his headlights out. I T-boned him at 60-MPH.

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How much did you end up having to pay?

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allister, on Jul 10 2009, 12:06 AM, said:

RTA 1984 (drunk ran through a xroads at 10am. T boned me and shoved m 25mts down the road. dislodged 3 lumber - 2 cervical
Herniated L4/5 2001 had discectomy, disc re herniated 4 wks later. had aother discectomy and got scar damage on spinal cord.
"Walk" 25 ft max with stick, otherwise wheelchair.

RTA 1984 (drunk ran through a xroads at 10am. T boned me and shoved m 25mts down the road. dislodged 3 lumber - 2 cervical
Herniated L4/5 2001 had discectomy, disc re herniated 4 wks later. had aother discectomy and got scar damage on spinal cord.
"Walk" 25 ft max with stick, otherwise wheelchair.

Can you repeat that please?

[sarcak]

My accident does'nt in that choices, it was a tractor accident.

[Wicket]

Fall from 3 stories while climbing in my teenage years. Shattered vertebrae in lower back.

[pistol_pete]

Playing chicken with a falling, burning tree................tree won.
So I ticked the fall box.

[imfree]

i was shot in the back by some idiot, go figure i would have thought if i was going to get shot it would have been while in the marine corps

[Ratticis]

Combination of a fall and medical blunders. Fell in the shower and ruptured my bowel in two places. Transverse myalitis. Then they screwed around for 3 months with that pressure still on my spine until it killed the nerves completly

[davjed]

MVA....friend thought I was too drunk to drive so he took my keys. I was asleep in the back seat when he missed a curve and rolled us into the ditch. I was the only one hurt, he's now a congressman from North Alabama.

[rollingtrouble]

I got blown up in an APC in Iraq August 25, 2003, yep, thrown right through the drivers hatch, and broke my neck at C5,6 &7. I guess I'm lucky though, 3 of my good friends did not survive

[chickadee]

Fell in the shower while on vacation in Germany. The hotel sent me to an 'orthopedic doctor', who did an x-ray and told me it was a fractured tailbone. Went on with my vacation, and the pain, numbness, and plumbing issues got progressively worse. By the time I flew home (12 hour total travel time), I was barely walking. I somehow thought it would be a good idea to go to work the next day. After work, I was talked into urgent care. Was going to make an appt for an MRI 1 week out, but I asked if I could wait at the nearby hospital for an opening, as I couldn't miss work.

Got in the MRI machine, and one thing lead to another, and two hours later (an hour was spent in the waiting room, told not to go home, not knowing what was happening) I was on the operating table.

I had a burst disc at L4/L5, a badly bulging (and about to rupture) disc at L5/S1, and bone fragments from L4 to S2. So they fixed that all up. The swelling and screwed up stuff though went into L3 as well.

I'm really paring down the stupid crazy long saga (including a sidebar of customs thinking that because I was walking funny I must be smuggling something into the country), but there is a little portion of it.

[gtonwheels]

(USA) Football, made a head on tackle, C5&6

[allister]

jul 10 2009, 08:06 AM Post #101

Original post:

RTA 1984 (drunk ran through a xroads at 10am. T boned me and shoved m 25mts down the road. dislodged 3 lumber - 2 cervical
Herniated L4/5 2001 had discectomy, disc re herniated 4 wks later. had aother discectomy and got scar damage on spinal cord.
"Walk" 25 ft max with stick, otherwise wheelchair.

**************** update *****************


13th July 2009... Lost all below waist, bladder - bowel - and legs. At home but awaiting referal to spinal unit at sheffield , appt is 10th nov. They maintain its not a fresh injury and I don't meet their criteria ! ! ! balls!!

Edited by allister, 18 October 2009 - 01:33 AM.

[Mac na Ceardadh]

Hullo, I thought to introduce myself to the site by answering this poll. I was not injured in an auto accident, but that was the closest to what got me hurt.
I turned a somersault with a forklift. This accident was caused by faulty equipment and made possible by a drunk driver at my work.
It's no so bad, being a paraplegic, most that do as I did die.

[DannyR]

Had ruptured discs misdiagnosed by my doctor went for a carpal tunnel test because I was losing the use of my hands. My wife had to wheel me into the hospital for the test . The Doctor doing the test noticed the bruises I had from falling and looked up my MRI admitted me. I had to wait 5 days for surgery because of meds I was already taking but the damage was already done. Removed discs between C-5 and C-6 and C-6 and C-7. Walking quad. I really need to let e-dog tell my story I would probably enjoy it a lot more lol!

[mk78]

I slipped and fell while hiking up a very narrow path on the side of a small cliff, about 20 to 25ft. Luckily I had a few people with me and they got me help faily quick. I was conscience the whole time but its a bit fuzzy obviously. I do remember being pretty calm and not to concerned that I couldn't feel anything. Shock I assume, it took a few days in the hospital to really grasp what happened and how serious it was. Never being able to walk again as a t11-12 complete...I can honestly say I am still not comfortable with myself and my "new" body. But I see a lot of people on here are great so far and I'm sure it gets better

[Cathelena]

Another car accident. Car skidded on ice, flipped over and hit a tree

[gimpguy]

Speed kills but it is so much fun....