That's too easy!

 

The best feeling I've ever experienced, led up to worst feeling I've ever experienced. I assumed this thresd was about physical pain; since, the other kind is always worse.

 

Say no more. I'm already wincing. :o

 

When I was in my late-teens I was into skateboarding. I was with a skater dude friend of mine and we were skating down the road, popping ollies and doing tricks and stuff. We came upon this long azz downhill road that drops off really steep. The locals around here call it "roller coaster hill". Well, I decided I was going to try skating down it. My friend was like "no way man, not me".

I took off down the hill without thinking twice. I had no helmet, no knee and elbow pads, nothing. Everything was going smooth at first. Then I started picking up alot of speed. My board started wobbling back and forth, and I was struggling to keep my balance. I remember hearing my friend yelling my name as I was about to wipe out.

I had fallen backwards off of the skateboard at about 25-30 mph and hit the back of my head on the concrete. It knocked me unconscious. Somebody called 911, and they said the found me lying in the middle of the road in a pool of blood having convulsions.

I woke up on an operating table while the doctor was sewing the back of my head up. I distinctly remember my eyes rolling back in my head as I lost consciousness again.

I woke up in a hospital bed with my parents sitting at my feet. Then my Mom asked me what my name was. I said, "Mom you know what my name is!" She said, "Yeah, but do you know your name?" I got ready to say Adolf Hitler or Luke Skywalker, but she had a serious look on her face. So I told her my name so she'd quit worrying.

I ended up with a cracked skull, fourteen stiches in my head, and I'm still taking meds for severe depression and anxiety from the injury twelve years ago.

 

We called that board shimmy squirllies....I never could ride a skateboard...I really sucked

 

I sucked at it too. I just didn't have any sense back then. Haven't been on one since.

 

1. Dislocated right shoulder, was druged when the doctors put it back, than it did not hurt at all, the next day I kinda forgot I dislocated it, got prepared to get up to go to work and reached out with my right arm ( in a sling ) and fell ou of bed, landed on my right side and swore deathly evil curse's, I still can see the stabs of pain...

2. Ate some bad food, in the hospital for three days on a IV, every two minutes I had to take a dump, no solids came out, only water, yucky..

3. 2x4 with a nail impalled in my cheek, I was on a ladder and above me I was pulling of a 2x4 with a crow bar, but the 2x4 was not moving, pry harder, no movement, pry again, than the whole 2x4 bust's off and I lose my grip on the crow bar, I caught the crow bar but the 2x4 with the nail went threw my left cheek, had to stitchs on booth sides of my cheek...

At times I debate if I should get a job pushing paper in a office, But I most likley would get a infected paper cut and die..

 

Oh yeah, had the good ole food poisoning too. I'll just say.....awful and painful experience.

 

I never really had anything major happen to me luckily.

I did, however, bruised my lung when I checked a guy in hockey, and was coughing up alot of blood. I also could take full breathes of air without a extremely sharp pain going through my body, and that happnened for about 4 hours.

 

Well lets see....After waking up from a nap and walking out the front door still half asleep, I got smacked, full swing, in the head with a baseball bat, as my front porch used to be Home Plate for the neighborhood ball games. Sitting on the side of the road as a youngster watching a Soap Box Derby race, a car went out of control , vered off the road and ran into me pinning me between it and the guard rail. I was knocked out cold and woke up in the hospital.( almost died ) Had the blade of an ice skate stuck in the back of my leg. Almost took my finger off with electric hedge clippers. Shattered my ankle so bad my foot was facing backwards. Broke my hand. Sprained my other ankle. Passed out while taking a whiz and smashed my head and nose on the cabinet and sink on my way to the floor. And numerous other dumb stupid human tricks...I have to say, the WORST pain ever was a few years ago. I was having trouble breathing and would actually stop breathing at night while I was sleeping, only to wake up gasping for air. It was determined I needed to have some surgery on my throat. They took out my tonsils, adnoids and whatever that thing is called that hangs down in the back of your throat, they cut that out to. THEN....they cut the back of my throat to widen it, in hopes to open it up so I could get more air. The operation wasnt all that bad, nor were the 2 days after it. But on the third day and for the next 4 weeks I was in the worst pain ever. I couldn't eat anything solid for almost 3 weeks, I couldn't talk for 3 weeks, and I could barely breath or swallow any liquids. Horrible, absolutely horrible. If I had to do it again, I think I would say screw it and just ldeal with it when I would stop breathing and wake up gasping for air....although, if it went to long I guess I may not have woken up sooner or later..God, it hurts now just thinking about it.

P.S. Don't ever get your throat widened


BREW

 

yikes....

 

I passed 8 kidney stones so far. One left to go on the left side. Too big to pass though. This should be fun. All these posts sound like a day in the life of Mountaineer. He wouldn't know where to start.

 

Good god ouch!

 

I had a disk that was in the slow process of degeneration for nearly 4 years before it let go. The pain after it let go was almost a relief from the daily pain. That has to be tops on mine for sustained pain.

I was put through the windshield of a friends car as I slept when he fell asleep and hit a bridge abutment. The pain from the wreck really wasn't all that bad because it toasted most of the nerves in the effected areas of my head. Took nearly 5 years for the feeling to come back in parts of my scalp 100%. I had over 200 stitches in various places on my head.

A pain more intense than the disk was going through the derm abrasions to soften the scars after that wreck. Until you've had a 4" long hypodermic needle inserted to the base into your eyebrow and run between your skull and skin through some pretty serious scar tissue just to inject the anesthetic so they can freeze and sand your skin.... you haven't lived. Like someone else said, I physically levitated off of the table every time they did that with 3 people holding me down.

 

Our Senior high school quarterback gave me a wedgy in front of the whole Freshman Class at a pep rally.

That wasn't the worst of it...
my glasses flew off and broke
my protractor got bent (which caused me to flunk freshman geometry)
and I said, "momma"
(I said it loud enough that it was heard by some and repeated by all)