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| chlola |
| When I broke my right wrist drunk driving on a razor scooter, I had to have it rebroke. I went on the bus hungover as to the emergency room and waited .......hours. I got an awesome morphine drip, then they put some sort of cuff on my arm (or something of the sort-I asked not to be told specifics) and blew my arm up four times it's normal size from the elbow down. Then proceeded to loudly crack the wrist back in to place in various places with his fingers. You could hear the bones breaking. Doc was real slow and methodical about it. Casted it up, two Vicodin perscriptions and three months later it was 100% perfectly healed. You can't even see a fracture line. That dude had talent.:) |
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| Esiotrat |
Broke my nose and my skull open when I was 10. I tried to backflip into a pool. But was facing the wrong direction :>
Got bucked off a horse and kicked in the head, minor concussion and all sorts of happyfun bruising and bleeding.
Sprained both my ankles and my wrist on 3 separate occasions due to my amazing retardation... Had numorous X-rays, and they had to place my foot/wrist in very uncomfortable positions.
Those were just injuries I could've done without.
Worst medical procedures were without a doubt root canals. :nervous: |
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| The17sss |
| I've been pretty lucky. Just a couple of broken fingers along the way.... except for the dreaded root canal about 5 years ago. Oh my lord it was ing agonizing. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
...the dreaded root canal about 5 years ago. Oh my lord it was ing agonizing. |
That exquisite pain when the drill hits the pulp and the anesthetic hasn't circulated there yet! "Try not to move." |
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| Lilith |
I overextended my left knee drunkenly falling down a ski slope in NZ and mangled the crap out of my posterior cruciate ligament. It didn't hurt a bit when I did it, just when I moved... That took a long time to get right and was quite terrible, as for the procedure, I was whacked out of the park on drugs.
But all things considered, at least when it happened it wasn't in some completely arse-backwards country in the middle of nowhere. Having done care-flight as a pilot where I flew doctors (and my mum who was an orthopaedic surgeon) all up and down east Africa, you get to see some interesting things.
Out of control skin infections past the point that require flencing and amputation, some halfwit that blew all the toes off his right foot with a shotgun (erk!), people that had eyes and teeth hooked out in some kind of scrap or accident. Any cretin that had a motorbike and didn't wear a helmet or any other safety gear, then ended up skinned alive on asphalt or gravel. Kids with malnutrition, worms and all kinds of messed up neglect where heartbreaking because they where usually so far gone there wasn't much to be done.
Basically, you don't want to be conscious for any kind of serious medical procedure, they're all awful. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
You will. Oh yes, you will. |
Of course. |
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| Esiotrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
That exquisite pain when the drill hits the pulp and the anesthetic hasn't circulated there yet! "Try not to move." |
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
That's exactly what happened to me. :whip:
The anesthetic didn't work on one of them, ing excruciating. The bitch didn't even give me a chance to tell her my tooth wasn't numb until tears were running down my face.. :whip:
Finally she stopped and prescribed some antibiotics to help the inflammation subside so it's 'operable' when I go back.
I didn't go back to her. Went to another orthodontist.
I don't eat candy anymore and brush my teeth 4 times a day now. I never wanna go through that again. |
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| Ania_xox |
I would just like to remind everyone calling me a wuss that I did not have any sort of anaesthetic, nor did I agree** to be sedated.
All I got was the spray which, I was told, was the minimum they are allowed to do it with.
** My lover made the decision for me. He wants me to exercise my gastrointestinal cavity so that I may be able to handle more of him in larger doses |
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| JD8180 |
had surgery to get my TMJ fixed. don't ask me how to spell it out, just google it. basically, all my life growing up I constantly had my jaw clenched when my mouth was closed and developed TMJ. the dr said if I didn't get it fixed, it was so bad that my jaw would actually detach itself (don't know how true that is but went with the surgery anyway).
surgery wasn't too shabby since I was completely knocked out the entire time. the worst part was the recovery. I was not allowed to eat any food that required chewing for 6 months. was eating rice and beans or mac and cheese every single day for 6 months. |
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
I don't eat candy anymore and brush my teeth 4 times a day now. I never wanna go through that again. |
If theres a better incentive for taking care of your teeth i havent found it yet. Sure having nice healthy teeth is a nice idea...in theory, but fear of the dentist is whats keeping me anal about dental hygiene.
On a slightly different note, whats with all the women who are choosing to give birth without the aid of drugs? I used to think that this was just something done in sitcoms so that they can show the woman screaming and crushing her husbands hand, but since people around me started having babies like crazy (im fine with not having one until im...i dont know about 50 lets say) ive been seeing this phenomenon more and more. Reminds me of that scene from Coupling where Susan says to Steve that she just doesnt want to be pumped full of drugs and he asks in a bewildered voice "SINCE WHEN?". |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
No joke, I had to have a sonogram on my, well, MAN AREA once. So I go into the room and the doctor gives me instructions on how to present myself. I lie down on the table and he says the sonographer will be in shortly. Sure enough, hot 20 something.
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU |
a sona gram? or an ultra sound? is there a difference? i had an ultrasound of my balls done last year. that was kinda weird, but by all means not painful at all. |
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