How many accidents have you had?

[bmccasland]

I haven't had much major -

• as a child I fell out of a tree and broke my nose on the way down
  
• hit a bump or something in the road and flew through the handlebars of a friend's banana bike, needed stitches in my chin
  
• in college stumbled and fell while hiking, split open my forehead. When they rolled me over I remember someone asking if anyone knew first aid. I said "I do"
  Concussion, stitches in my forehead, and some lost feeling in my forehead to this day.
  
• more fun in college - hit in head with an elbow while playing volleyball. Concussion, skull fracture, some hearing loss, and vertigo. Still have issues with the vertigo
  
• learning to use clipless pedals - fell over at a complete stop, and did a face plant on concrete steps at the office. Broke nose, again.
  
• And most recently, that did actually get me an ambulance ride to the hospital - found out the hard way I have a food allergy. Full blown anaphalytic shock in a restaurant. Fortunately I had an epi-pen, and figured I'd better use it, before I passed out. The suspect food was squid, but when my blood was tested (at the Mayo Clinic), I didn't show an allergy. So my doc is confused and is trying to figure out what to test me for, or see if there's a skin test available. We do know I had a severe reaction to something. and the only new food I ate was the squid.

(all required trips to the ER in one way or another except nose break #2)