Dislocation of hand from wrist, it was just hanging on my wrist. Almost passed out after seeing it, but proceeded to pull and put it back into its socket.
Proceeded to hospital and a cast was put on. Asked the attending physician if I did the right thing. He said it would have been more painful if you'd had waited, because the body would have tensed the muscle making it more painful to put back.
In August I’d been for a few ciders and a pub dinner in St Mawes. I got on my friends boat to go back home in Falmouth and when we reached the quay I slipped on a wet surface in impractical shoes and dislocated my left shoulder and fractured my arm.
It was extremely painful and it still hasn’t fully recovered.
I was rear ended by two cars on Christmas eve. I do still have whiplash pain but very lucky things weren't worse. I was in a daze the first half hour of the accident and thank goodness someone else called 911.
Had colon cancer and needed a transfusion, was scheduled for one two days later but couldn’t wait because it was getting worse each time it happened and I was on the border as it was for getting one. A couple of pints to hold me over till the next one.
Two large German Shepards we had adopted the week before attacked my wife. The male had her right forearm in its mouth and was attempting to tear the arm off. I waded in and grabbed the dogs collar and twisted it 90°. I began pounding on the dogs skull with my free hand until it let go. By that time the other dog joined in and I had to grab her collar and twist. I now had two snarling dogs on my hands.
My wife, bleeding everywhere, retreated into the house. I kicked open the side door to the garage and basically lifted the dogs and threw them inside slamming the door behind them.
I went to my wife, wrapped her arm in a bath towel and called 911. Ten minutes later she was on her way to the hospital for four hours of emergency surgery. I had the fucking dogs destroyed.
@metaldog these dogs were represented by the police pound we rescued them from as a senior bonded pair. In reality they were an inbred mother/son pair that were sedated when we visited them before adoption. When the drugs wore off they became threatening and violent. The matter is in the courts right now.
@metaldog No one thing I could really pin it on. Maybe regularly lugging heavy bags of groceries up 22 stairs to my apartment, maybe getting in and out of the car, maybe getting older, whatever it was amounted to a very painful L2 compression fracture and two weeks in rehab.
I evacuated from an area in danger of a forest fire. A year ago. Not much of an emergency. Many years ago I was in a small city that was contemplating evacuating the entire city because a sour gas well had had a blow out and the entire city smelled like rotten eggs.
@Musicman One of my clients offered to rent us a cottage on his farm and we sat out the pandemic in a very pleasant location (albeit 30 miles away from my wife's hospital) with fewer restrictions than in the city. We could have challenged the eviction and would probably have succeeded, but my wife was already under enough stress at work.
@Heartlander oh that’s terrible. Well my great-aunt was told twice she’d never walk. She was more careful but the porch was painted and smooth so any amount of moisture on it was slippery. She was fully healed up when she fell the second time. But it was good that she got up eventually to walk and got herself moving again. If she hadn’t tried and just believed what the doctor told her she would have been in a wheelchair the rest of her life.
GREAT! I'll keep you on my prayer list so you can continue to say that :)
I also belong to Lewy Body and Parkinson's caregiver Facebook groups and right below behavioral issues, falls are close to the top of the concern and worry list there. .
@cherokeepatti Her doc was likely being overly cautious based on his experience in other cases. Though maybe he/she could have delayed that assessment until he knew more. My thoughts are that it's a cognitivity issue.
