I'm lucky. My worst injury? I stepped on about five nails during an exploration I'll post in a while. My boots weren't thick enough to fully protect me as it still hurt, but enough to minimize bleeding.

Considering the state of the nails, I looked up when I'd last had my Tetanus shot, and what the symptoms were to decide if I should go and get it done again.

Tetanus is fucking terrifying, guys. I'll never complain about a Tetanus shot again. XP

just 2 weeks ago i slipped while trying to scale a palisade fence and caught my hand. in a panic, i pulled my hand away, and ripped my little finger off.

i had 4 hours of emergency surgery to reattach it, and spent a week in hospital.

don't explore alone, kids. i'm damn lucky i could get a signal on my phone to call the emergency services...

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Fell and got this nasty scrap while in a cave in Oregon.

Posted by surlygirl just 2 weeks ago i slipped while trying to scale a palisade fence and caught my hand. in a panic, i pulled my hand away, and ripped my little finger off. i had 4 hours of emergency surgery to reattach it, and spent a week in hospital. don't explore alone, kids. i'm damn lucky i could get a signal on my phone to call the emergency services...

Niiiiice. Did you manage to pull it all the way off? I imagine they can be a bitch to find in the tall grass...

My worst injury involves walking into a jagged piece of galvy cable trunking while not paying attention. At eye height. I was lucky.

Nothing major so far. Used to get nasty knots on my head before I learned to wear my cap backwards (not my habit) when in a dark abandonment.

Nothing major.
Cracked my head against a cave ceiling just low enough for my forehead to connect with once.
Fell to my knees and nearly passed out (I was young and over-confident; good thing my friend had insisted I wear a hard hat).

I had a mosquito bite that got really itchy once.

Posted by Garak Niiiiice. Did you manage to pull it all the way off? I imagine they can be a bitch to find in the tall grass... My worst injury involves walking into a jagged piece of galvy cable trunking while not paying attention. At eye height. I was lucky.

it was hanging on by about a quarter inch of flesh. bone completely severed and i smashed the middle knuckle to just about dust, apparently. nearly took index finger off as well.

still, at least i wasn't my femoral artery or my neck or anything. hard-soled boots are NOT ideal for climbing in

Posted by Creepy_creeperton 1. click to view Fell and got this nasty scrap while in a cave in Oregon.

It's like your elbow has a socially awkward smile now.

Posted by surlygirl just 2 weeks ago i slipped while trying to scale a palisade fence and caught my hand. in a panic, i pulled my hand away, and ripped my little finger off. i had 4 hours of emergency surgery to reattach it, and spent a week in hospital. don't explore alone, kids. i'm damn lucky i could get a signal on my phone to call the emergency services...

Wow...that's serious stuff. I hope it heals well for you!

Abby Normal

Shard of glass in my ass as I exited a location. I had checked the window sill very carefully and still missed it.

To date :::knock on wood::: the only one I have had.

EdG

My ego ...

Fell a whole story onto my back....drinking and ue dont mix well!!

Worst injury?

Definitely my right eye.

Went exploring with the wrong member from this site.
Had an injury to my face at a mine site, at night, in freezing temps, miles into the deep back-country.

While I was screaming in pain and my eye was filling up with blood, he was telling me that I just scratched my cornea and to stop being such a baby. Kept telling me that I was ruining his trip and that he didn't come all the way out there to end up not exploring a mine just cuz someone got a little booboo.

Managed to convince me in my injured state not to call Search & Rescue.
(had a single bar of reception that I could just barely get to the outside on).
Then he managed to light the structure that we were sleeping under on fire in the night, and I had to put out that fire while my eye was dribbling blood and I was screaming and crying in the worst pain of my life.
Then when I arranged for the Highway Patrol to pick me up and take me out of the area to the Emergency Room, he refused to drive me to meet up with them because he had an expired license and some other excuse.

I ended up having to have friends from an hour away drive up into the wilderness to pick me up, to take me to the Highway Patrol, who drove me Code 3 to the ER....

Currently 95% blind in that eye. I can occasionally see random stuff out of the faaar right side of my peripheral vision in that eye if I close my left eye. Otherwise I close my left eye and I pretty much just can't see anything.
Can't see 3D movies. Have trouble with depth-perception. Can't see well to drive at night.

The eye doc said that if I had called SAR and they had gotten me to the ER the night it happened, they were confident they could have saved my vision... instead of stumbling in 16 hours later the next day.











To this day, that member of this site still claims he did nothing wrong, and that I blew the situation out of proportion.
A week later, when I still was on 9 different eye drops and oral meds, and had my eye taped over, he called and wanted me to go exploring with him.

When I refused he said that I had "no sense of adventure" and that I was boring.

Posted by Therrin Worst injury? Definitely my right eye. Went exploring with the wrong member from this site. Had an injury to my face at a mine site, at night, in freezing temps, miles into the deep back-country. While I was screaming in pain and my eye was filling up with blood, he was telling me that I just scratched my cornea and to stop being such a baby. Kept telling me that I was ruining his trip and that he didn't come all the way out there to end up not exploring a mine just cuz someone got a little booboo. Managed to convince me in my injured state not to call Search & Rescue. (had a single bar of reception that I could just barely get to the outside on). Then he managed to light the structure that we were sleeping under on fire in the night, and I had to put out that fire while my eye was dribbling blood and I was screaming and crying in the worst pain of my life. Then when I arranged for the Highway Patrol to pick me up and take me out of the area to the Emergency Room, he refused to drive me to meet up with them because he had an expired license and some other excuse. I ended up having to have friends from an hour away drive up into the wilderness to pick me up, to take me to the Highway Patrol, who drove me Code 3 to the ER.... Currently 95% blind in that eye. I can occasionally see random stuff out of the faaar right side of my peripheral vision in that eye if I close my left eye. Otherwise I close my left eye and I pretty much just can't see anything. Can't see 3D movies. Have trouble with depth-perception. Can't see well to drive at night. The eye doc said that if I had called SAR and they had gotten me to the ER the night it happened, they were confident they could have saved my vision... instead of stumbling in 16 hours later the next day. https://scontent-a...5121_4200948_n.jpg https://scontent-b...0121_8209476_n.jpg https://scontent-a...5121_3800038_n.jpg To this day, that member of this site still claims he did nothing wrong, and that I blew the situation out of proportion. A week later, when I still was on 9 different eye drops and oral meds, and had my eye taped over, he called and wanted me to go exploring with him. When I refused he said that I had "no sense of adventure" and that I was boring.

Who is this member?

Is there anything you can do to improve the sight in your eye? Future surgeries or lasik or anything? That fuckin' blows, hardcore bigtime!
Did you at least mail the asswipe you were with a shoebox full of your own dookie? That blows so bad I wanna make a voodoo doll out of feces and hay (you need a binder) and jam needles in it's pancreas and eyes.
Oh that blows!

Look at things on the bright side, dude. At least this time everyone can see you as David Bowie for haloween.

Posted by Radical_Ed Is there anything you can do to improve the sight in your eye? Future surgeries or lasik or anything? That fuckin' blows, hardcore bigtime! Did you at least mail the asswipe you were with a shoebox full of your own dookie? That blows so bad I wanna make a voodoo doll out of feces and hay (you need a binder) and jam needles in it's pancreas and eyes. Oh that blows!

Naw. Once the optic nerve has been killed off from the interocular pressure, there's no "getting it back". The pressure inside the eye was too high, for too long, which caused the nerve to die off.


That member and I have gotten into it plenty of times since then on the forum, but the powers that be, "just don't want to hear about other people's squabbles" so if I talk to him on the forum at all or "cause any other problems" with him, then I'll get banned.

A year or more before this happened, I kept him from trying to rappel down a mineshaft during a UER event while he was drunk-as-a-skunk, and had put his harness on inside out and backwards. Probably shouldn't have stepped in.


That's my story though, lets see some more injury pictures from other folks!

For Therrin: http://www.nature....full/6701577a.html

Posted by Radical_Ed For Therrin: http://www.nature....full/6701577a.html

Thanks for the article!

I had heard something about stem cells. It seems like the research is progressing, but the actual "doing it" part is "unethical", and has a lot of factors which are still up in the air. It might be interesting to see what the next 20 years bring though.

I liked this quote, it seems very honest:

All of the pieces of this puzzle are within our reach, and in following this path, we are guaranteed to learn more about neuronal development, axon guidance, ocular immune responses, and visual perception. Those are topics that are highly fundable by national research groups. In contrast, someone who proposes to restore the optic nerve would be accused of high-risk behaviour and visionary dreaming.

It's pretty amazing that if I cloned myself, and took the appropriate stem cells from my fetus, they could provide optic nerve replacement for 3 million humans.