EL is a "Red-Neck"

[Knief]

Eh, the hottest uniform is also a Mormon Elder's uniform. It doesn't make me want to be Mormon.

[El Phantasamo]

This is actually the worst injury I've had in my 7 some years in repairing cars/truck/big rigs professionally.

So Donut, you have little to worry about if you still want to be a mechanic

Maybe being a mormon wouldnt be too bad. I just might give up beer for more than one wife at the same time

[King]

Yeah, a tumor sounds more serious than it is, I mean, it is serious, but if it's not cancerous, it's not nearly as bad (Obviously). I still can't bend my knee all the way, or kneel on it, that took a while to get used to, for airsoft I would always crouch on my right knee, and it hurts when the weather is bad (high and low pressure effects it). The worst part will be the knee replacement I'll have to have at about 40.

And Knief will be glad to know I had the whole operation at the U of M medical center. Which comes highly recommened by me They have tablet PCs on little cranes the patients can use while in bed. But I'm completely robbing El's thread, unless we want to make this the injuries thread?

El, when you shattered your vertebrae, was there any possibility of you being paralyzed if you agitated it?

[Knief]

Heh, I work at UofM Hospital, in pathology no less. Pathology, in case you don't know, gets anything taken out of a person. We seal the piece of tissue (usually cancer, or stuff like it) or blood sample into paraphin wax, and slice the wax super thin and make microscope slides out of it. The residents analyze the tissue, and send the slides back to our lab. The extra tissue is left in the block, and both the block and slide are filed away for possible later use either in research, or reanalyzing if you need more treatment later. I do the filing. If you had the surgery any time after July 2005, then there's a 50% chance that I handled the actual tissue that came out of your leg. If you had the surgery before July 2005, then I probably didn't. I do still have access to it, though. I've only come across one person who I knew (I can't tell you who or how I knew him/her because it violates confidentiality stuff), but my co-worker actually found his mom's tissue. That had to be creepy.

So King, you trusted your treatment to people like me. Next time, I would suggest St, Joseph's on the east side of town.

[King]

That would have been really, really cool if you had handled it but, I had the surgery a year earlier. There is a chance the tumor could come back though, which would mean another surgery, so you could be playing with my insides in the future. Though I hope not.

[AndrewMp5k2007]

I may have to go to U of M for some type of study.......thanks Knief.

[El Phantasamo]

king said:

El, when you shattered your vertebrae, was there any possibility of you being paralyzed if you agitated it?

there probably was, and did I EVER agitate it!

Ok, I jumped my Yamaha YZ125 between 2 dirt hills and land on the frame at about 35-40 MPH, shattering T-12. My X-rays were OK so I took a few days off and went back to work.

My first day back, i take an engine out of a Hyundai! Later in the week, when it hurt to lift tires back onto a car, I went home for the rest of the day. I get another set of X-rays. the next thing I know, I'm in an ambulance to St. Joes Ann Arbor/Michigan brain and spine institute!

Dr. Mark Falahee (great doc BTW) looked at my X-ray and looked at me, "you took an engine out of a Hyundai like this?!??" me:"yep" Dr Falahee "I'm signing you up for the marine corps BOY! WOW!"

So, I don't have anything to worry about now. It was like 3 years ago or so. the bone is healed (a big blob of bone fused from L-1 to T-11really). However, If I DO end up in a wheelchair, I'll still airsoft, I'd just have to be the tank

[Father_Livonia]

any of you ever have a pencil stabbed through your hand?




So the story is, back in freshman year 2 years ago i my buddy sitting behind me was hitting me with his eraser on his pencil, so i eventually got annoyed of it and turned around to hit him with my freshly ready to go pencil eraser. I turned with my arm cocked ready to strike my buddy, except he was ready and blocked the shot pushing the pencil tip INTO my hand at a good full force. I shouted "SHIT!" really loud and began shaking my hand and nothing was happening. I looked at my hand and saw the last 3mm of the pencil tip sticking out the top of my hand and freaked out, i pulled the pencil out of my hand (i didnt know it was that hard to pull crap out of your body) and casually asked to go to the office with a gushing hand and blood dripping off my elbow. My school called my house and informed my mom what happend and was rushed to the hospital.

i got 2 stitches and 2 permenant scars on the top and bottom of my hand. the damn thing healed in 4 days but because one of my nerves (maybe thats why it didnt hurt to bad) was messed up i couldnt move m hand without pain. Damn you Nick Barbas.

[D.]

Perhaps you should show your scar adam

[King]

damodk said:

Perhaps you should show your scar adam

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[D.]

That thing is fucking gross.

[bman111]

holy crap you guys

the worst ive ever gotten was when i was 7 i sliced open my thumb with one of those mini tape-measures, i had to get 3-7 (cant remember) stitches and it HURT

[King]

Speaking of stitches. That took 40 staples to hold it together, if you look closely you can see the little dots on each side of the scar.

[OaKeY]

When I was three I had a toothbrush go up the roof of my mouth and nearly kill me.

[Mini-Matt (Achilles)]

I almost died last year.

After missing 2 weeks of school I was put in the hospital for a weekend because my white blood cell count was at .001, when it should be around 10. They had a cancer specialist come in, my mom freaked out, and they put white cells into my blood via IV ( i fucking hate IVs.

They never figured out what was wrong with me, except that I guess Ive had a rare disease since i was born, and that eating Mandarin oranges boosts up the sickness, and leads to death, turns out that I had eatin' a hell of allot of Mandarin oranges before this happened.

Now I have to get my blood checked once a month, to monitor.