Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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OuchI was in the middle of a quite enjoyable trip down Africa on my KTM. Good times. Anyway, was cruising along in Zambia on one of the first bits of tar when suddenly a bicycle burst out of the roadside vegetation. I did my best to take evasive action but unfortunately went straight into the cyclist. I’ll never forget the look in the kid’s eyes as I slammed into him at 70mph. Chilling…
I went over the top of him, and slammed into the ground. As I hit the ground I shattered my sternum and broke 3 ribs. I then rolled up the road and proceeded to break my ankle, a few toes, and fracture 2 vertabrae. I also tore cartilage in both knees, both shoulders and got some fantastic looking cuts and bruises.
The kid was ok btw, well he had a broken leg but luckily I had managed to avoid most of him, and take out his bicycle.
I flagged down a truck who took him to a clinic, and then waited a while for a police car to pop along and pick me (and the remains of the bike) up.
That’s where is got painful. I wont bore you with the details, but the clinic had no pain killers or anaesthetic. When I arrived, the most obvious wound was my foot. So they used a brush dipped in petrol to scrub the gravel etc out of the wound. Then, placing me on a makeshift table, 3 male nurses held me down while the doctor operated on my foot. Watching him get the scalpel ready (as I realised what was about to happen) was one of the most sobering experiences of my life. They reset my foot, and stitched it back together. They tried hard, and I do appreciate it, though I did have to have 2 more operations when back in SA to get it fixed up.
Still, got left with some cool scars and met some lovely people.
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zulu eh?, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 11:31,
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^ ClicksTop notch running-overy story.
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yeah the kid wasnt happythough his dad did apologise to me at the accident site, while I helped pull the kid out of the road. Poor guy. He recovered fine though
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zulu eh?, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 12:14,
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