I'll tell my story later
but this one belongs to my son, husband and brother. Idiot husband decides to let son "play" in the van with his sister. DH's sitting next to it, reading the paper and suddenly, it starts to roll down the driveway. (We still don't know how it happened. Van was in park and turned off)

He jumped up to push down the footbrake, an impossible feat and couldn't keep up with the momentum of the van and tried to dismount. The door closed on his leg, trapping him and pulled him off his feet underneath the van. I hear four year old son screaming and fly out the door just in time to see him run over.

He has the skin on the entire front of his shin peeled off, a triangular hole punched in his ankle and tire marks on his calf and thigh.

The van rolls down the hill, across the street, into a field and hit a tree. Airbags thankfully did NOT deploy as they probably would have killed the unrestrained tots in the front seat.

It doesn't end there. DH refuses to go to the hospital and helps my brother move a few days later. Brother's new house has an outdoor jacuzzi half full and unused for the entire summer. Brother is a frickin' water chemist for god's sake! I assume the damn thing is clean after he treats it. No--he "just fixed the pH" It's full of Pseudomonas aeruginosa,a really vicious bacteria that is antibiotic resistant. Stupid asshole.

Husband catches it, develops full-blown septic blood poisoning, has to go to hospital and have IV antibiotics for a week which is a big deal in crappy-private-insurance-America and is sick as a dog. I was actually worried he might die.

Still not the end. As a result of the huge infection, he develops such severe arthritis in one hip that he now walks with a cane at 47 and needs a hip replacement as soon as possible.

He's still pissed off at my brother.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 4 Sep 2004, 17:34, Reply)