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Post by johnhens on Aug 8, 2015 16:37:36 GMT -8
Broke my leg and dislocated my ankle. Had to have a plate in my leg and a screw (temporary) in my ankle. The plate is still there.
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Post by calidream on Aug 8, 2015 16:42:27 GMT -8
Hahaha, and then there was my brilliant idea of carrying an extra-heavy pack (without a hip belt) to "get in shape" for a few months in Asia but which gave me what an Australian doctor in Cambodia called pack palsy - a nerve injury to my neck/shoulder. High dose NSAIDs decreased inflammation enough for the injury to heal over about a month. The technical term for the whole situation is numb-nuts.
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Woodsie
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Post by Woodsie on Aug 8, 2015 17:06:41 GMT -8
I've been lucky when hiking - just the usual bumps, bruises, minor cuts and burns, and of course, falls. Other than that, I had three toes broken one time (I was around 20 years old) when a horse stomped on my foot. Shattered the radial head (elbow) when I got thrown from a horse when I was 36 or 37. That's about it for injuries while I was out having fun.
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Post by VAN on Aug 8, 2015 17:31:58 GMT -8
Got a little too cold on an overnight in the Smokies after a hail storm. It took dry clothes, a warm sleeping bag, and eating in the tent to warm up. Not my finest hour. Another time, I was front carrying my oldest when she was about 6 months old. A yellow jacket landed on her and a swatted it away. It came back and stung me on my hand. We were about 1 mile from the car and did not have sting medicine in the first aide kit (we had the kit!). Was practically running to the car with my hand in the air, and to the closest drug store. My daughter never even noticed.
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Post by echo on Aug 8, 2015 17:59:06 GMT -8
This one wasn't my finest moment, but it turned into one of my finest memories. A lot of you know I have a younger brother with Down's syndrome, and giardiasis at six months rendered him deaf for the first five years of his life, so he learned to sign but speech was really delayed. Then I took him and a couple cousins walking along the greybull River and we stopped to throw rocks in the water. One I threw, ricocheted off a boulder and sliced back at me and embedded itself in my right wrist. 34 miles from a Dr. And a Sunday no less, I ended up with thirteen stitches and a jagged scar still there, but I barely felt the pain from the excitement of hearing Lance's first spoken words in 6 1/2 years, "help! Blood! Doctor!"
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Post by fifeplayer on Aug 8, 2015 18:21:29 GMT -8
Broken fingers playing basketball Concussion playing softball Broken arm on bike trip 3rd deg burn to R index finger picking up stove burner Sliced L index finger during knife accident - no tendon or arterial injury Torn R medial meniscus playing soccer Torn R ACL on 6 day paddling trip (multi-mile portages with pack and canoe with torn ACL...not fun) Tore off tip of R small toe on a rock going barefoot on hiking trip R knee still subluxates under the right torque. Luckily nothing major ever
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 8, 2015 18:52:16 GMT -8
Well, I sprained an ankle in a soccer game in High School. I've never done anything worse, though I've gotten minor sprains and stingers many times since, most of them running, but the most recent walking down our front walk. Happily, no broken bones, and nothing worse than scrapes out backpacking, for any of us (though we've had some altitude sickness and hypothermia on a couple of occasions, we were able to address the problems adequately to continue).
I was with a friend in 1988 (?) when he broke a leg on a pack trip. It was the fibula, and he figured it for a sprain and hiked out on it (!). Main challenge for me (and the 2 other members of the party) was carrying very heavy packs as we split his load between us. As my pack was small, I carried his, which was about 3 sizes too big for me.
Well, there was the time I had pneumonia while we were camping at Glacier NP...that was fun. That was also far and away the sickest I've been in my life.
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Post by cloudwalker on Aug 8, 2015 19:01:13 GMT -8
Broke my right ankle playing high school football, fast forward 22 years, broke the same ankle trying to prove I could still kick a soccer ball 75 yards. The soccer ball only rolled about 6 feet. Six weeks after I got the cast off my ankle, I decided to go backpacking on the AT in Virginia. Wasn't aware of a major ice storm in the Religious Range the day before and tried to climb a mountain that was literally a sheet of ice. Took a bad spill and landed on my elbow, jamming my shoulder backwards. Felt like my shoulder came out of the socket and popped back in place if that's possible. Laid there in the snow and ice and broke into a cold sweat and got very weak and nauseous to the point I thought I was going to pass out. Made it back to the trail head with a little pain but couldn't lift my arm for about 6 weeks without using my other hand to assist it.
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Post by cloudwalker on Aug 8, 2015 19:06:14 GMT -8
Work related: Took a head butt to the cheek bone trying to wrestle a pack of matches away from an inmate that just set a security van on fire. Pulled muscles in my neck and back from fighting with a drunk inmate. Two days later after he sobered up he began complaining about his arm hurting. Took him to the doctor and discovered he had a broken elbow. Fun times....NOT!
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Post by llamero on Aug 8, 2015 19:39:32 GMT -8
I completely trashed my back sleeping on rocky ground and a deflated sleeping pad. I was sore all the next day.
Never have broken a bone or torn a ligament which is sort of surprising considering the hang glider crash I had about 40 years ago. I was preparing to launch off the lip of the caprock in eastern New Mexico when a rogue gust shot me about thirty feet in the air with the nose of the glider pointing up. The wind died, the glider stalled and then dove a couple of hundred feet into the boulders and cactus. I thought I was dead, but the design of our glider not only saved my life, it spared me from serious injury. Good old Whitney PortaWing. I was able to help my buddies pack the wreckage several miles out of the boulder garden. I still have the scraps.
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Post by reuben on Aug 8, 2015 21:07:01 GMT -8
Shattered nose with no other damage. Shattered wrist, with cracked elbow and still a tad of nerve damage in both hands. Various other lesser breaks.
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Post by JRinGeorgia on Aug 9, 2015 6:28:12 GMT -8
In 2013 was hiking in Yosemite, went for a swim in a creek and embedded a shard of granite deep in the bottom of my foot. Had to dig it out, that's when I learned that the tweezers on a SAK mini aren't worth squat. Had to use the scissors to cut my flesh around the shard to be able to pry it out, then hike on that for 7 miles and 3,000 ft elevation loss to the exit trailhead. No longer use a SAK, now carry Uncle Bill's tweezers, separate titanium-bonded scissors, and a razor blade which collectively weigh the same as the mini SAK but with better functionality. Not an injury but an illness, just two weeks ago did a 25 mile weekender and had severe abdominal pain. The second day was shorter mileage but the pain was worse, ended up vomiting my way down the trail. Plus, it was along a creek in a lush forest that had rained the night before, with temps pushing 100, it was like hiking in a steam room. Got covered in a slick of sweat that prevented my body from expelling more heat and sweat so ended up overheating. And with the constant vomiting I was not getting any water in so became dehydrated. Something inside me told me not to stop and rest, I felt I might not have the strength to get back on my feet so just pushed ahead. Made it to the trailhead where I collapsed and, now not exerting, my body temp swung the other way and I became hypothermic. Pain in my abdomen became unbearable, I was writhing on the ground. Ended up in an ambulance, at the hospital a CT scan discovered a large kidney stone. Doctor was amazed I made it out, said I must have been hiking on pure adrenaline. A few hours and a couple of liters of saline IV later I was pretty much fine, though the stone still hurt. Just had the procedure this past Thurs to blast the stone, currently I've got a stent from my kidney to my bladder, and just resting at home. I was knocked out when they put the stent in, but I am not at all looking forward to the stent being removed next week, while I'm awake.
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Post by zeke on Aug 9, 2015 6:55:47 GMT -8
Aren't kidney stones a kick?
Ended up in an ambulance, at the hospital a CT scan discovered a large kidney stone
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Post by packdad on Aug 9, 2015 7:33:23 GMT -8
Zeke after we share all of our carnage are you going to pick a winner? Maybe award the golden bandaid?
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Post by JRinGeorgia on Aug 9, 2015 9:39:00 GMT -8
Aren't kidney stones a kick? Oh, I've been having a blast!
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