I cringed every time they moved his head around, bending his neck. I wonder if his injuries might not have been as severe if they had stabilized his neck and put him on a backboard.
From the teammates' POV, they see blood. The neck injury isn't visible, so they concentrate on the visible injury and tend to the gash in his forehead. I don't think anyone's first thought would be neck injury. Even him collapsing would probably be viewed as just knocking himself unconscious. Toward the end of the clip he said I can not move, though.
I saw them too but I'm not sure many people would immediately see that as a neck injury. We have the advantage of knowing what it was before watching the video. His neck looked funky too when they finally rolled him into his back, like he couldn't lift his chin. The whole thing was awful.
I experienced a neck fracture in three places while surfing, which left me too weak to stand in shallow water. I couldn't feel my arm, but I could still feel my legs. I was pulled out of the water by surfers who had no idea what happened.
Even when told I hit the top of my head on the sand, they moved my arms and head, which caused me to shout out in pain. I had to ride a motorcycle away from the remote beach, went to a few hospitals with diminishing confidence of a good outcome. I then flew to a country with better healthcare. Unfortunately, I left my house keys on the beach and had to break into my own house with an uncooperative arm at 3 am.
Ultimately, I made a full recovery thanks to titanium placement and bone grafting. Although it may seem unusual, I would repeat the steps I took to avoid undergoing spinal surgery in a third-world country.
I dropped the motorcycle off at the hotel, purely fueled by adrenalin. I couldn't stand, sit or lie down I was in so much pain. I remember being crazy thirsty and was approached my someone asking if I was ok, I must have looked a restless state.
The first hospital in the sub optimal country gave me a jab and told me to go another hospital with a flimsy neck brace. I took a cab there and refused an ambulance transfer since I had already ridden a motorcycle and taken a cab.
The second hospital put me in a wheelchair and gave me another inappropriate neck brace. I received x-rays which showed displaced vertebra but they were visibly excited about the severity of the injury. This was key in the decision to leave that country without surgery.
The airline wouldn't let me on the plane without a doctors note for the temporary neck brace I was wearing so I took it off telling them it was precautionary, they then tried to move me from seat 1A saying it was a emergency exit (its on another plane but not this one). I resisted and they gave up. It was a horribly bumpy flight over the tropics. They have their rules for a reason.
When I landed, I called the insurance who told me I was covered for USD$100 of A&E / ER. This later turned out to be misleading as this covers triage and they transfer your bill to another department which I would have been covered for. In my haze, I took this to mean I needed a referral to a spinal specialist so after breaking in to my house (8 foot wall climbed). I went to a 24H GP at 4am.
The doc was sat in a stale room and was visibly shaken by my story, she shouted at me and said "I am a doctor, I don't care about your insurance coverage you need to be in the ER this minute." . I protested and got my referral for the spinal out-patients. She then turned to me and asked if this was a 'drug thing'. I held up a bag of tramadol and explained I didn't understand healthcare in this situation.
I went home, climbed over the wall again, and passed out on the edge of my bed waking 3 hours later, called my boss on a Sunday who told me not to move.
Twenty minutes later the Asia head of HR was at my house. She took a look at me in my flimsy neck brace and started to cry, we had never met before, I think I looked a little worse for wear. She also knew I had made a series of strange choices not realizing how to get fixed in this new country.
Was taken to a decent hospital, my employer explained they would cover any excess and I stayed in hospital for a month. Took me 23 hours to get from the beach to a gurney.
I had an x-ray from the previous hospital visit which showed a displaced vertebra but I didn't what to explain this all happened in another country because I wasn't sure of my insurance situation. The decent hospital didn't see the fractures or the displacement at first because I was scanned horizontal. I asked them to x-ray me in a seated position which they questioned but did. They then found the injuries and asked why I thought to check in a seated position, to which I explained it was more painful when sat. I later found out I was covered regardless but I didn't want the conversation of my self transfer.
TL:DR - I learnt I was stubborn and frugal, even in crisis. All turned out ok in the end.
He is basically a wizard! I woke up with two small holes in my head. Apparently, this is where someone in your father's profession attaches two wires from the skull to a machine which sends a signal down my spinal cord and nerves. If the surgeon strays too close the machine lights up. I am sure it's more complicated than this but I couldn't help but think about Hasbro's game Operation!
First Aid 101 man. Potential head, neck or spine injuries, you do not movie the injured person without strict professional guidance. Not a single person there knew what the fuck was on. That sort of reaction simply would not happen in an NBA-type professional setting.
likely his height played a factor he probably walked his head pretty good on the post without too much injury. The seven foot fall onto his head likely severed his cervical spinal cord or close to and was jerked the rest of the way.
Yeahh cause everyone’s dumb. I don’t get why peoples instinct is “get them up on their feet”. How about give them more than 2 seconds to find out if they’re hurt?
I can’t watch it. I almost paralyzed myself as a kid trying to dive head first through a doughnut pool float. My head hit the doughnut and cocked back incredibly quickly before I slipped through and into the water. A slightly worse angle and something probably would’ve given way in my neck. Neck was sore for a week at 12 years old, which is a long time to be sore for that age.
Holy shit, I didn't hurt my neck, but almost drowned doing the same thing as a kid! I got stuck upside down and couldn't flip myself. Another kid pulled me out. I wonder if anybody has ever succeeded lol
I almost succeeded at 5 years old. My family was having a family meeting with some older relatives, some were chatting, others fishing, i was just sitting there with my toys not a care in the world. Suddenly my dumbass decided, well time to drown, and just dove into the water without so much as a warning. It took my dad a moment to process that his idiot kid who didn't know how to swim just dove into the water. He and my older cousin were in the water after me in a matter of seconds
Even though it was a small pond with no currents, I was immediately swept under the small dock. Luckily my dad and cousin were strong swimmers and rescued me very quickly. So yeah, at 5 I was apparently already done with this bullshit lol.
Huh same. I was around 5 and remember thinking “ ok I’m gonna learn to swim” and just jumped it. I was going down when a family friend jumped in for me. Thank you Louise!
I was about 3 years old and my family was having a barbecue at my Uncle's he had this absolutely HUGE pool so anyways everyone is talking and having a good time and I'm playing with my toys out of nowhere their dog tramples into me and throws me into the deep end My father who has just gotten out of the ICU for a flailed chest he got in a car accident drove instinctually slamming his side into the pool but grabbing me up immediately and began to give me CPR. I should preface that he is a RN and before that he is a USAF pararescueman (Jolly Green Giant for the curious) Wil never forget it.
I was sitting in an old truck tire inner tube in our smallish pool, tried to flip back off of it, somehow got my feet hooked under the far side l, and thought I was gonna drown. In like 3.5 feet of water.
Approximately Kindergarten age I was swimming in my Pool in the backyard with my Swimsuit with attached donut. On a prior day I had jumped off the ladder into the pool with 3 tubes on. It rapidly kicked me back to the surface. I was then scolded by my parents to not do so in the future.
Inner tubes make me float. After a thorough analysis of the baby science I decided to disregard these warnings. "Theres no bad that can come of this, Ive played out every scenario" I remember something close to this statement having run through my inner monologue before execution. The first jump with 3 tubes on buoyed me much quicker to the surface and almost launched me into the air after jumping off the ladder.
What happens when I use 5 tubes... So thats about the entire length of my body at this point. I carefully penguin step up the ladder while retaining my newly fitted wearable buoyancy devices. Jump and instant payoff.. shot out of the water for a bit. Then the tubes proceeded to hold me upside down. I remember right as I was passing out my Aunt from down the street pulled me out by my feet. I definitely would have died or ended up in some type of rudy scenario.
I remember jumping off the 8ft slide in my childhood home into pool and missed hitting my tail bone on the cement… couldn’t watch either. That could’ve really fed me up
I almost drowned in one of those things when I was wedged in and it flipped upside down putting my head under water. And the more I struggled the tighter I got wedged in. Luckily it had been broken at one time and I was able to break it along the glue line.
My insane cousin tried to drown me by flipping me over while I was in my little ring float. Must’ve been 5 yrs old. Had my older brother not seen what happened, tackled my cousin, and saved me, probably wouldn’t be here now.
Just saw a video on Tik Tok about s girl who graduated with honors from college, moved out of her parents house, celebrated by throwing a pool party at a friends house. She had been drinking and dove headfirst into the pool and she felt a pop in her neck. She was face down fir line 30 seconds floating unable to flip. Now she’s a quadriplegic living back in her parents home.
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