Impact Trauma
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Etsharrin Hopsarrith
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Impact Trauma
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
"Go to the hospital."
"But who will pay for it?"
I have something to say to all of my friends and associates, the people I hang with and the ones I talk to. I want to say this tonight before I go to bed, because that might well be the end of the me you all knew.
Today at roughly three o'clock in the afternoon, I was riding my sister's draft horse down the road in front of our property. The maintainers had just been through, so the road was turned up, and while slightly fluffed on the surface, relatively flat. All the water-cut ripples had been scraped off. The horse – her name is Misti, and she's roughly five foot four at the top of her shoulder and I guess some 1700 pounds or so – had not been worked at all for any reason in a little too long.
I took her out of the pen, out of the hobbles, and saddled her up to give her something to do besides mope and totter about in the hobbles. We made the corner of our property, and another of the maintainers – basically a giant yellow tractor with an elongated beam for a body that has a wide shovel hitched under it – was coming up the lane that separates us from our neighbors to the south – and frees the otherwise landlocked property behind us.
Misti saw the roaring maintainer coming up that side lane, and freaked. She turned right around, and darted out of the sightline of that narrow lane. After the first three running steps, she began to buck, causing the saddle I was sitting in to come loose. (My guess is that her ribcage changes size and or shape during the bucking motion) The saddle began to slip to the side, so I grabbed the horn and a fistful of her mane, and held on. I wasn't strong enough… and when the saddle reached halfway, I let go.
I was not about to come under Misti's belly and be kicked to death. I hit the road in a roll, flipping end for end once. I don't know if she kicked me in the head on her way past or if I really just hit the gravel that hard, but my insulated military surplus "bunny hat" (a helmet liner) filled with blood. It saturated the entire back of my head, and squirted out across my cheek.
I knew the maintainer was still coming – being just out of the sightline of the lane, there was no way the man driving it would have seen what happened. I spent three eternity-long seconds clawing at the loosened gravel, unable to sort which direction was up. When I finally got my bearings back, I looked up, to see the last of Misti, galloping around the far corner in the road headed home without me. The saddle was already under her belly.
I had gotten rolled face-down, and my elbows under me, when the man in the maintainer jumped out and ran up to me. He informed me the back of my head was bloodsoaked. He picked me up, held me until I quit wobbling, then stood there with me until my Mother came and got me, to walk me home.
We spent a couple of hours washing the blood out of my hair with hot water and terrycloth towels, before my Mother managed to get the coagulated blood out enough to see where it had come from.
I have no less than five splits in the back of my scalp… not to mention the M-shaped bruise across the back of my hips… and my head is pounding unmercifully.
That's what happened.
Here's what I wanted to say.
Thank you, all of you, for being my friends, for being nice to me, for listening when I bitched. For giving advice and condolences as each incident came and went. I still do not have a job, and my father has only been employed for one day – ONE DAY – our tenant cannot make rent this month, as he too has come upon very hard times. There is no money to take me to see a doctor, nor for hospital admittance.
So before I go to bed, and sleep on my head injury… I wanted to tell all of you, just in case I don't remember who I am in the morning… thank you for being there for me.
I can never express how much it means to me.
-Aardvark
"Go to the hospital."
"But who will pay for it?"
I have something to say to all of my friends and associates, the people I hang with and the ones I talk to. I want to say this tonight before I go to bed, because that might well be the end of the me you all knew.
Today at roughly three o'clock in the afternoon, I was riding my sister's draft horse down the road in front of our property. The maintainers had just been through, so the road was turned up, and while slightly fluffed on the surface, relatively flat. All the water-cut ripples had been scraped off. The horse – her name is Misti, and she's roughly five foot four at the top of her shoulder and I guess some 1700 pounds or so – had not been worked at all for any reason in a little too long.
I took her out of the pen, out of the hobbles, and saddled her up to give her something to do besides mope and totter about in the hobbles. We made the corner of our property, and another of the maintainers – basically a giant yellow tractor with an elongated beam for a body that has a wide shovel hitched under it – was coming up the lane that separates us from our neighbors to the south – and frees the otherwise landlocked property behind us.
Misti saw the roaring maintainer coming up that side lane, and freaked. She turned right around, and darted out of the sightline of that narrow lane. After the first three running steps, she began to buck, causing the saddle I was sitting in to come loose. (My guess is that her ribcage changes size and or shape during the bucking motion) The saddle began to slip to the side, so I grabbed the horn and a fistful of her mane, and held on. I wasn't strong enough… and when the saddle reached halfway, I let go.
I was not about to come under Misti's belly and be kicked to death. I hit the road in a roll, flipping end for end once. I don't know if she kicked me in the head on her way past or if I really just hit the gravel that hard, but my insulated military surplus "bunny hat" (a helmet liner) filled with blood. It saturated the entire back of my head, and squirted out across my cheek.
I knew the maintainer was still coming – being just out of the sightline of the lane, there was no way the man driving it would have seen what happened. I spent three eternity-long seconds clawing at the loosened gravel, unable to sort which direction was up. When I finally got my bearings back, I looked up, to see the last of Misti, galloping around the far corner in the road headed home without me. The saddle was already under her belly.
I had gotten rolled face-down, and my elbows under me, when the man in the maintainer jumped out and ran up to me. He informed me the back of my head was bloodsoaked. He picked me up, held me until I quit wobbling, then stood there with me until my Mother came and got me, to walk me home.
We spent a couple of hours washing the blood out of my hair with hot water and terrycloth towels, before my Mother managed to get the coagulated blood out enough to see where it had come from.
I have no less than five splits in the back of my scalp… not to mention the M-shaped bruise across the back of my hips… and my head is pounding unmercifully.
That's what happened.
Here's what I wanted to say.
Thank you, all of you, for being my friends, for being nice to me, for listening when I bitched. For giving advice and condolences as each incident came and went. I still do not have a job, and my father has only been employed for one day – ONE DAY – our tenant cannot make rent this month, as he too has come upon very hard times. There is no money to take me to see a doctor, nor for hospital admittance.
So before I go to bed, and sleep on my head injury… I wanted to tell all of you, just in case I don't remember who I am in the morning… thank you for being there for me.
I can never express how much it means to me.
-Aardvark
Etsharrin Hopsarrith- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Shouldnt this go in the library
Barbbachello- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
After i read it properly i see what you mean
Barbbachello- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Does she not live in the US? If she does, she cannot be denied medical assistance.
That's very sad, though. You have my best wishes.
That's very sad, though. You have my best wishes.
Re: Impact Trauma
Me too
Barbbachello- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
if you had brain damage (IE, a concussion) you would either have blacked out... or you would be seeing spots, rain, or other abnormalities.
head wounds bleed a lot... all of them do. Unless you have a concussion you won't have memory loss or other side effects.
Hope your head heals painlessly, looking foward to seeing you on the forums tomorrow
also... I am assuming that you are not a US resident... if you ARE... go to the hospital, they CAN NOT legally deny you care. you will have to pay later... but whats worse? being 3000 dollars in debt... or having a brain injury that ruins your chances of working later in life?
head wounds bleed a lot... all of them do. Unless you have a concussion you won't have memory loss or other side effects.
Hope your head heals painlessly, looking foward to seeing you on the forums tomorrow
also... I am assuming that you are not a US resident... if you ARE... go to the hospital, they CAN NOT legally deny you care. you will have to pay later... but whats worse? being 3000 dollars in debt... or having a brain injury that ruins your chances of working later in life?
KrAzY- Painter of the Flames
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Re: Impact Trauma
A+
Would read again
But yeah seriously, this isn't good. As Krazy said, you most likely wouldn't have damaged anything too seriously, or else you would have blacked out, or lost consciousness for a few hours.
Anyway, good luck with your head wounds. Should be all good.
Would read again
But yeah seriously, this isn't good. As Krazy said, you most likely wouldn't have damaged anything too seriously, or else you would have blacked out, or lost consciousness for a few hours.
Anyway, good luck with your head wounds. Should be all good.
Ziggy- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Isnt America trying to pass free health care
We have free health care
We have free health care
Barbbachello- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Well, you're typing this on the forums, and you can remember what happened quite vividly, so that's a good sign.
It seems likely that you don't have any brain damage, so that's a good sign.
Hopefully you'll get better soon Hops.
It seems likely that you don't have any brain damage, so that's a good sign.
Hopefully you'll get better soon Hops.
PiEdude- Crimson Jester
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Re: Impact Trauma
Good luck to you Hops. Get better soon.
XNate02- Lord's Personal Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Damn... I'm sorry that had to happen to you Aardvark. I hope you're better soon
Offensive Bias- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
LOL i love the fact you turned it into a story good read
MrX- Lord's Personal Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Well, that sounds... painfull.. I hope you manage to keep your memory and that you get your ass back here ass soon as possible ^^
The best of luck to you Hops.
The best of luck to you Hops.
RX- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
get well soon, hops!
BBJynne- The Lord's Blood Knight
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Re: Impact Trauma
Good luck with, which sounds like me being sarcastic but I'm being serious, good luck.
Angatar- Lord's Personal Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
ouch...hope you make a speedy recovery.
R!zZle BiZzl£- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Hope you don't lose your memory or anything, get better soon!
Elabajaba- Crimson Epileptic
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Re: Impact Trauma
Get well soon! And pleaaaaase keep your memory, it'd be a shame if you don't remember who we are! Hope to see you on the forums, soon as possible.
-Gauz
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Re: Impact Trauma
Hope you recover Hops! We all love you here
Ruski- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
Get well soon Hops. I'm sorry all that happened to you
Carlos Spicyweiner- Minion
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Re: Impact Trauma
this is bad, get better, seems to alot of this going around
*avoids SW refrence from new book*
Lord Pheonix wrote:She will be healed by the Power of The Crimson Flame
*avoids SW refrence from new book*
Vtrooper- Crimson Henchmen
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Re: Impact Trauma
Hey, I survived. Couldn't sleep worth a damn, and the wound seeped so all my hair is glued to my head yet again.
I did get my bunny hat washed, though... which is good cos we're expecting snow and frozen rain shortly. I guess I'ma get better. It still hurts like all hell (not to mention the rest of me is sore now, too... feel like I got laid into by a mob all wielding baseball bats) but I am sane and ambulatory.
It actually didn't occur to me that I'd written it like a story until after it was posted.....
sorry about that. *scratches head, then grimaces cos that's what's wounded* Guess I only have one literary format, huh?
But thanks for all the well-wishes. Looks like I'm back in the game.
-Etsharrin Hopsarrith/Aardvark
I did get my bunny hat washed, though... which is good cos we're expecting snow and frozen rain shortly. I guess I'ma get better. It still hurts like all hell (not to mention the rest of me is sore now, too... feel like I got laid into by a mob all wielding baseball bats) but I am sane and ambulatory.
It actually didn't occur to me that I'd written it like a story until after it was posted.....
sorry about that. *scratches head, then grimaces cos that's what's wounded* Guess I only have one literary format, huh?
But thanks for all the well-wishes. Looks like I'm back in the game.
-Etsharrin Hopsarrith/Aardvark
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