DBlain | 01-24-2014 10:34 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by JasmineNoelle
(Post 4380333)
I took a "red neck" fall when I was moving an old antique shipping trunk for my Mom. She wanted it moved out of her shed and it didn't have any handles to pull it with and no rope to make any. She didn't want to wait for the guys to get there to help so I had a "gen-u-wine brain fart"........Duct Tape. Yep, I fashioned a pull handle for the shipping trunk out of Duct Tape. (A very, very lame idea, but at the time it seemed brilliant......brilliantly stupid)
I now had my new Duct Tape handle attached to the HEAVY trunk and started pulling slowly across the back yard. It is a slow process bc this darn trunk is uber heavy, but I am rather smug at this point bc it is working......then halfway across the yard the Duct Tape, America's do all/fix all, BREAKS and I go backward catching myself with my right hand. At that time I hear this sickening crunch and I look down and see my right palm is no longer facing downward, but is now sitting at a wierd angle and already starting to swell.
My Mom looks down at me and tells me to get up and quit joking and then goes inside. When she comes back outside and I am still on the ground she realizes it is not a joke. Mom and I are off to the ER. DX: broken Right arm three places due to stupid idea.
P.S. Don't trust Duct Tape...LoL | wow that was a bad fall, how is your arm now, That story reminds me of a redneck fall my husband and I had together, only I was fine and he was not.
Ian was laying a paver brick patio under our deck and we were almost finished. He rented a tile cutting saw from home depot. It was Sunday and dark and the store would soon to be closing so he was in a hurry to get it back on time. So he puts the saw in the wheelbarrow and asks me to come help him get it up the hill in our backyard and out to his truck. So he is pushing the wheelbarrow up the hill and he has me behind sort of pushing him, either him or I or both of us slipped because the grass was damp. We go tumbling down the hill backwards and so did the saw and wheelbarrow. The saw flew off and hit him and the saw blade put big gash in his head. He wanted to continue getting it up to the truck but eventually he got dizzy and had to sit down because blood was dripping everywhere. But typical for my husband he was hell bent on getting the saw back to Home Depot on time. So I had to get a neighbor to come help me load it into our truck. After convincing my DH he had to go to the ER he has me drive him to the urgent care which is on the way to Home Depot, I dropped him at the door and continued on to Home Depot. When I got back to pick him up they were stitching him up, he wound up getting about 25 stitches in his head, on two layers. And I got the saw back on time:D:D
He has also had other bad falls resulting in injury, he rides his bike to fast and shirtless, he was at a park on the bike path and see's a group of people ahead of him, he yells on your right and they all move right (they did not speak English) so to avoid crashing into them he went into the gravel on the side of the path and crashed and flew over the handle bars. He was raw with road rash and gravel stuck in all the cuts. If that was not bad enough he wound up with a broken collar bone. Another time I was pulling him skiing, the boat had not come down to normal speed from when I had excelerated to give him the hard pull up he likes, he did not wait for the boat's speed to level off he immediately started criss-crossing the wake, he caught an edge wrong and fell really hard. This resulted in broken bones, torn ligaments and tendons in his foot, 2 surgeries for that. My husband has a love for speed and that scares me and makes him mad since I am always telling him to be careful. |