medical help..what happened to me?

[oneworld]

Well, i was snowboarding today..getting board my friend and i went off into the woods a little for some tree/powder runs..i saw this nice looking nature made quarterpipe..so i thought i would do a quick little backflip on it.. when i got to the top my board went out from under me (new board, way more flexibility that i wasnt used to.) so i went pretty fast accross this big pipe and crushed my back into a good size ice chunk that formed at the end of it.. i slid down the other side screaming in pain..then i got all dizzy and just remember looking down at myself..like an out of body type of thing..my friend said i was just laying there shaking really bad with my eyes rolled back and it took him like 10 mins to wake me up. now my back/ pelvis area hurts really bad..anybody have some sort of explination for this?? thanks.

[trevorjk]

E.r

[drg]

Go to a hospital and get checked out. Pronto.

[Me�iCX]

Ya get it checked out ASAP!

[oneworld]

sucks not being 18 and living on your own.. i dont know what i can do now.

[wanna-b-ballin']

18 or not, get it checked out.

[Lohman446]

Walk into an ER - they cannot refuse treatment for life-threatening injury.

[oneworld]

that whole "out of body experience" is the weirdest thing i have ever went through..i cant seem to get it off of my mind..i want to know what causes this. it scared me a little.

[Lohman446]

I'm not a doctor.

However, I'm willing to bet that a sustained injury induced seizure is probably a really bad thing.

[warpig13]

I suggest you quit posting and go to the ER.

[oneworld]

i would like to..but my parents think i should just wait till monday and go to the doctor..oh well, i guess if i die we will know different? there being really stupid about it.

[drg]

The same parents that aren't taking care of their minor dependent?

[oneworld]

well im home on the weekends..i just go to a different school and live with some friends.. they still support me quite a bit..they didnt totally dis-own me or anything..just less gas really..so there insurance will cover whatever i have to do..so i dont see why the ER should be a problem..it really just makes me mad..i came home from my mountain..like 40 miles away.. shaking and barley standing..and she wanted me to go and get chineese food..maybe there so used to me almost killing myself or something..but this is the craziest thing to happen to me yet..

[93civiccpe]

ER Now...

Your life is worth more than that. If you have internal bleeding or something you may go to sleep tonight and not wake up. Seriously, I wouldn't risk my own life.. I'd go get checked out.. that's what insurance is for..

[CoolHand]

I dunno, I'm gonna have to side with the parental units on this one.

If you can walk, talk, type on the computer, and are not coughing up blood or have a huge (like cabbage sized) black and red knot on your back, and you haven't spoken in tongues or convulsed in the last hour or so, I'd say you're going to live. No need for a trip to the ER unless you are losing blood, cannot feel your limbs, or can't remember who you are or why your wearing a thong and your bottom hurts.

The folks at the ER got enough to deal with at any given time without having to tend to every teen-aged crash dummy who's taken a spill and gotten shook up.

There is a very good chance you will live until Monday, at which time, if you're still hurting, you can go to your regular doctor and have him take a look at it.

Out here in the sticks, the closest ER is 35 miles away, so you learn to deal with things on your own whenever you can. I've only been once in my life, and that was to have a cut closed that was too big for me to handle myself. It was too big for me to close, and all the people at hand were too freaked out to be much assistance either. Slapped a shop towel on it to keep most of the the red stuff inside, and headed off to the ER in my own pickup. That escapade took 15 stitches and ~$750 to complete.

It's amazing what you can live through without medical attention, trust me, I know from experience. Worst case, IMO, is that you have a broken rib or two from taking a hard lick like that. I had a similar incident, except mine happened in a race car instead of on a mountain side. I got tangled up in a wreck, and a body support bar (3/4" square tubing) from another guy's car punched through his car body and mine, came into my cockpit, and stabbed into the left side rib support of my seat (hard enough to very nearly punch a hole through the 1/8" thick aluminum ). That shot broke the rib that was on the other side of the seat at the time.

I was in sixth place in the season long points championship at the time, and I knew if I told my folks, I'd be sidelined for at least three weeks. I just couldn't have that. So I ran the last six or seven races of the season with a broken rib. The first couple were the worst. Hurt like a mother to breathe, and every bump and hole on the track felt like a kick in the rib cage, but I lived, and finished the season fifth in the points (out of about 35 drivers). I suffer no lasting effects from that incident and the decision to run anyway. Besides, if I'd have gone to the doctor, he'd have just wrapped my ribs with a compression bandage and told me to be careful. No need to pay some guy $500 to tell me something I already know.

BTW, after that season I pulled the door off my car and welded plate steel between all the door bars on the driver's side to prevent that same thing from happening again. The year after, a guy was killed in Iowa from the exact same thing happening, only in his case, the bar missed his seat and core sampled him instead.