ER Visits

[Bluetree]

Hmmm...

Two car accidents.
One at age 15, driver as 16 and just got her license. Hit at intersection, lots of soft tissue damage and bad case of amnesia. Still have no recollection of what happened. Lost close to two weeks of memories. Weird.

Second accident last year. Ford 150 plowed into my brand new Volvo and four other vehicles stopped at a light. $18,000 in repairs and hospital bills, thank goodness for good insurance! Eight months of rehab.

One visit in grade school. Missed some air on a half pipe with my skateboard. Messed up both ankles. What a sucky summer that was.

Three visits in college. Once I accidentally sliced my finger open with an exacto blade. Three stitches. Once with a pancreatic infection. Painful. Third time when clumsy roommate knocked over a pan full of hot oil on my hand/arm. Watching skin fall off your body is gross and extremely painful. ER doc gave me happytime injection then proceeded to peel the damaged skin off. I was so goo-goo at that point that I wanted to help. He kept pushing my head away because I wanted to watch too closely.

Gosh, I sound like a walking train wreck...

[bike4ever]

Right out of college, newly married, I had a glass break on my hand while washing it in the sink. It took 15 stitches across my pinky with 8 stitches on a knuckle.

Car accident about 14 years ago. The main lesson learned was if you are going to be in a car accident, make sure you go to the bathroom first.

Bike crash in April - broken wrist, bruised hip, bruised cheek, broken helmet.

Multiple ER visits with my youngest son due to Asthma - all times of day and night!

In July was our last visit, my youngest ended up with heat exhaustion. Wow, I couldn't believe how fast the nurses began working on him.

[bcipam]

A mine of mine laughingly tells folks that the ER has a "fast track" just for
me!!!

Bike related:

fell off road bike, hit head and fx'd collarbone
fell off road bike, hit head and sustained nasty road rash
flipped over mountain bike handlebars torn AC R shoulder
flipped over MTB handlebars lacerated R elbow required 12 stitches
flipped over MTB handlebars down steep descent and jammed R thigh into bar ends (bar ends now long gone)

Non-bike related:

Well just too many to talk about but lets just say I've broken a few bones...

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It's not that I'm accident prone ( ) it's just that I'm always doing things to get myself into trouble.