Your life could end or change in the blink of an eye

[farmfromkansas]

Have a neighbor whose wife works at a nursing home in Lindsborg.  He tells me to be very careful, because at this age one of those events can put you in the nursing home for the rest of your life.  There are younger guys than me in there.  And his wife hurt her back trying to roll over those guys, they get so big from laying there doing nothing, and they still have their appetite from their working days.  Everybody be careful!  Brad is young enough to dodge this bullet, but some of us not.

[red]

I just brought back an old post from 2007 when member HIYA fell from a ladder and had major head trauma . . it ended his Life 
We have had many members injured on Ladders . . the faster you go up the faster you come down 

[metalspinner]

I'm glad to hear you are on the mend, Brad. 
That slow motion, in response air thing happened to me a couple years ago too. 
I was standing on my tandem axel trailer and went to step off onto the ground. I used one of the wheels as a step off. Unfortunately, that wheel was not in contact with the ground and it spun me right into the air! Landed right in my back. And I just laid there for a few minutes making sure I wasn't dead. 

[WDH]

I got hurt bad this Spring.  It can happen in a flash, like one from a mixture of gasoline mixed with diesel fuel  .  

[mike_belben]

Few years back I got a summer time call to deliver firewood to an elderly customer who needed it carried down a steep hill to a creekside firepit behind the house.  Desperate for the whopping $50 to put milk in the fridge that day, i said okay.  Had it loaded in the trailer and was standing ontop the loose thrown wood pile tugging up a handtruck with a wood crate id made and attached to it so as to triple capacity. .  Well this was a vertical/horizontal handcart and the telescoping tubes had been rusted together for years with no pin.  


I was pulling with all i had, full squat, when the handle separated and i found myself about 3 feet higher than the wood pile knowing i was in perfect alignment to take the tongue and jack in the spine.  It was exactly how you would attempt a backflip and i knew it might be over in the single frame view of that handle coming out.  Next frame was the look of terror in my boys face while were looking eye to eye, and somehow i had the time to mentally process a lot of things as my feet got much higher than my head.   

i twisted in the air and saw it was gonna be a faceplant on the tongue so i flung my right arm in front of my face.  All 200 lbs of me landed on that arm and that arm crashed onto a single steel 2x4 tongue, head down feet up, then i still had one more flop to get to earth. 


I expected my arm to just dangle but after some screaming and panting it was still attached.  Henry was crying his eyes out. I could barely shift that stupid roadranger to get there and it was a lot of trips down the hill but he got his wood and i got our milk.  I can still feel the big knob where the bone knit, just below the elbow.  

It never really got back to 100% but im glad to be alive.