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02-10-2015, 08:54 PM
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Not to get into all the medical details but when I was 15 I got very sick with a few ailments all at the same time causing all of glands in my throat to swell up. Think of a bad sore throat on steroids. This wasn't the pain though. The actual pain came from when it swelled up so much my windpipe virtually closed up. I had about a pin hole of space air could get into. Breathing was so hard to do so my chest muscles cramped up with the labored breathing. My neck actually swelled out so it was even with my ears. My tongue also swelled up so I couldn't fit it in my mouth so it dried up like piece of beef jerky. (Man I wish I had a picture to show my kids). The doctors ended up doing an emergency tracheotomy so I could breath.
Now almost 30 years later people ask about the scar on my neck. I tell them when I wad a teenager masked men stripped me naked, drugged me, tied me to a metal table and cut me open. It's usually a better reaction than "it started with a sore throat" Drew
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02-11-2015, 09:55 AM
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02-16-2015, 09:12 PM
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1. Ran a marathon in Iraq. The next day my toe nail was black. I went to the doctor and he pulled it out without a shot or pain killers.
2. Convoy in Iraq; hit my knee in the back of a MRAP. I waited until the tour was over before surgery (three months of limbing) 3. This past weekend; three dogs attacked me an bit me 26 times (see off topic thread) 4. Jaw broken; had to re-aline it. I drink shakes for two months.
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02-16-2015, 10:06 PM
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Pete- You know you're old when you 1.) start a thread like this and / or 2.) participate in one.
I've had a ruptured disc, a torn rotator-cuff, and kidney stones (they had to surgically implant a stint between my kidney and my bladder ( they took it out (YANKED it actually) without putting me to sleep!!)....but arthritis in my hip is the worst...so far, BY FAR - and all of this was SINCE I turned 40! Other than that, things are just peachy! What I have not endured yet is a migraine headache ; a ruptured Achilles ; a fractured femur.... I guess those would be pretty bad too.
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02-19-2015, 03:19 PM
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I'll See you and raise a Dozen Injury's
Afternoon,
Back to work this week after Knee replacement surgery 2 months ago, one of the worst two months I've been through...and still suffering through PT three times a week. Reflecting on some of my past calamaties and afflictions........ Gout, aw the good ol' Gout, diagnosed at 28, rough for the first 5-10 years, 2-4 attacks per year, then a lull in my 30's-40's, resurgence really bad in my early 50's, since discovering Allipuronol at 52 last 6 years maybe 1-2 attacks. So no complaints but nothing quite is like the pain of Gout. Pulled a Steel metal sidewalk double door on my head when I was in my 20's, 80 stiches later, that one hurt! Wrecked a Motorcycle when I was 30 or so, broke wrist, bruised ribs, broke finger, went home, to work week later something burst at work, rushed to emergency room, said I was having muscle spasms, sent me home with Valium, slept for 2 hours woke up with my Stomach like a beach ball, rushed back to hospital, burst Spleen, Catheter within 5 minutes, you could hear me scream throughout entire Emergency room. Was clinically dead (Bled Out twice) they had to remove all my organs to the side to vacuum me out, then 24 staples, re-surgery a year later to mitigate the scarring, 9 days in ICU, 3 weeks in Hospitol, 3 months out of work. Yeah that was a little painful. 60 Hour SnowStorm in Denver I'm driving on I-70 with my Seatbelt on, roads are shit, Lady slides across 4 lanes at a 90 degree angle, I T-bone her and the Seat Belt in my AMC Eagle SX4 breaks I go through windshield Face first (Actually Chin), 68 Micro stiches in chin on the inside, 28 on the outside. Left with a nice 2 inch scar but at least with Beard its unnoticeable. Lawyer said if I was Female worth 300K, got a measly 30K cause I don't have Breasts! Now that was pain!!!! ATV'ing in Steamboat doing jumps about 8-10 ft high, made it 6 times, 7th time machine went one way, I went other, Beers were involved! Went to emergency room Doc took X-Ray comes in laughing, OK I can see 7 broken ribs but if I take a little higher X-Ray I may be able to find you a couple more, but wha'ts the point!! By far the worst pain of my Life, had to drive 75 miles home with No Pain reliefe, couldn't breath for 2 months, out of work 3 months. Boy I sure go to extremes to get out of work!!!!!!!  Neil
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02-19-2015, 04:09 PM
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