I took care of a guy once who had an injury to the third toe and complete amputation of the fourth toe. When asked how this injury occurred......"I was using my twelve gauge shot gun to kill moles in my yard." :chuckle
All I kept thinking was "you might be a redneck if........." :rotfl:
I told him that I hoped his family was going to get plenty of miles out of his injury and his son said "oh yeah. The last thing I told him was not to shoot his foot with the gun." The guy had been balancing the barrel of the gun on his shoe while he waited for signs of the moles moving underground.
Oh where to start, my family used to call me the walking accident. It was so true, I wont tell them all but here is the highlights from my adventures. When I was 6yo christmas time just got a new pair of pants went to try them on w/o underwear and you guessed it zipped up beans and frank(line stolen from something about mary), my family still laughs about that, then I had the time I had just "fixed" the brakes on my bike, should have known better then to go down a hill with a tree at the bottom, 18 stiches, 3 broken bones, 2 missing teeth. Then there was that time I rode a sled down a hill right into a rose bush(that hurt). thats enough for now.:rotfl:
A guy 20years old came into the ER, he and his girlfriend were "playing" around on the couch...he rolled off and fell straight down on his "member." Apparently he was a little excited to be play fighting with his girlfriend...it worked against him, according to the attending-he "fractured" it. Poor guy.
A guy 20years old came into the ER, he and his girlfriend were "playing" around on the couch...he rolled off and fell straight down on his "member." Apparently he was a little excited to be play fighting with his girlfriend...it worked against him, according to the attending-he "fractured" it. Poor guy.
Well, we have some stories - my dad was a doctor in the Congo many years ago. He said a woman brought her baby to his clinic one day with a big dent in his head. A coconut fell out from the tree she was nursing him under and hit the baby's head. My dad said he pushed and prodded a little around the dent and pop! It made a popping sound and the skull popped up just like a ping pong ball and they went home happy.
When he worked in Africa, A man arrived in the clinic with a large kitchen knife in the top of his head right up to the hilt. He just came in the waiting room and sat down in the chair to wait his turn, quite alert and content to wait! I've seen the photo - my dad happened to have a camera with him that day. Unbelievable! He managed to get it out and the man was none worse for the wear.
As far as I remember, he said it was in a fight, and he basically had to pull it out under desperate conditions in a remote third world situation! Fortunately this worked! I'll have to ask him again just exactly how that knife went in without harming the patient's brain!
This one made the Darwin Awards. A couple of men were driving in their truck at night on a poorly lit country road, when the lights quit working. It was a blown fuse. One of them got the idea of replacing the fuse with the cartridge from a rifle bullet. The bullet fitted the fuse socket just fine, and they continued their merry way home....
until the bullet exploded, and hit the driver in the scrotum!
Needless to say, he lost control of the truck, and they wound up in the ditch!
When the wife of the driver found out about her husband's injury, her first question was: "Is the truck all right?"
Don't like to stereotype, but d'ya think this just MIGHT have happened in the South, where every red-blooded male drives around with a rifle or shotgun behind the driver's seat in his truck? And trucks are just as much of a religion as guns?
floating the ER one night when a young man came in with his eyelid glued shut ;O(
seems his wife would put his eye drops in for him at night and had her bottle of nail adhesive next to his eye drops!!! he wasn't very forgiving:angryfire , though his wife could not have felt worse:crying2: ... we just wondered why the big boy couldn't have put in his own eye drops!!!
floating the ER one night when a young man came in with his eyelid glued shut ;O(
seems his wife would put his eye drops in for him at night and had her bottle of nail adhesive next to his eye drops!!! he wasn't very forgiving:angryfire , though his wife could not have felt worse:crying2: ... we just wondered why the big boy couldn't have put in his own eye drops!!!
That is probably what his wife thought and I bet he does his own now LOL :roll :roll
I say again OOOOOOOOOOH!
And trucks are just as much of a religion as guns?
finchertwins, BSN, RN
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Oh where to start, my family used to call me the walking accident. It was so true, I wont tell them all but here is the highlights from my adventures. When I was 6yo christmas time just got a new pair of pants went to try them on w/o underwear and you guessed it zipped up beans and frank(line stolen from something about mary), my family still laughs about that, then I had the time I had just "fixed" the brakes on my bike, should have known better then to go down a hill with a tree at the bottom, 18 stiches, 3 broken bones, 2 missing teeth. Then there was that time I rode a sled down a hill right into a rose bush(that hurt). thats enough for now.:rotfl: