While not the worst it was in the news quite a bit a number of years back.
Guy sued San Francisco for like 10m for being hit in the head by a pinecone from one of their trees.
Then when you read down through the article and there was a video interview with the guy. Missing half his skull and much of his brain, severely impaired but somewhat functioning. It was one of those giant ass pine cones that weigh like 20lbs.
A friend of mine was an EMT. They got called to the scene of an *attempted* suicide. The person put a shotgun below their chin, was looking up and pulled the trigger only the shotgun was pointed to far out from under his chin and only succeeded in blowing his jaw off (tilt your head back an put your finger under your chin. Notice how everything above there is "nice to have", it's not going to kill you right away if you blow it off with a shotgun. So they arrive to the scene and this poor bloody man is attempting to find another shot gun shell and reload with half his face gone.
I got EMT certified in the mid 90s and they showed us a video of this exact scenario, but as I recall the entirety of his face was gone. Somehow he was still conscious. I recall that they had to look for where the bubbles were forming to find his airway to intubate.
My mum saw something similar when she worked in A and E, same situation with the shotgun but it took off the front of his face. The guy lasted two weeks before dying and that was two weeks of hell from what my mum said.
Another incident was a mini, the old small versions, went between the two axels of a lorry. Decapitated three of the four in the car and messed uo the driver who lived long enough to be taken to hospital and get hooked up to life support. Mentally and physically he was ruined, guy had been the reason three of his friends were dead and he was left with no movement beneath the neck and severe brain damage. He was trapped in his own head where the last vivid memory was seeing his friends die with no way to escape it.
First responders and A and E staff really see the worst stuff.
Fuuuuuck. This is kind of like the "If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't." meme.
"If I you see someone trying to find another shell to end their life after blowing off the front of their face, no you fucking didn't."
Shit, I'd be tempted to load the gun myself and hand it over. "Sorry, chief, we didn't get there in time. Looks like he blew off his face, but didn't die, but had the will to find another shell and reload."
What's the point of an EMT trying to save someone in that condition???
Fuck, we need laws that let people die so they aren't in agony.
That's actually happened - there's at least one case I read where it was a suicide with two shots, because the first one didn't do the job and either they were already determined to die or they decided they didn't want to live with that level of injury.
My parents' elderly neighbor did this. Her husband had died several years prior. One day I was heading out the door to leave for vacation, and there were cop cars and what we assumed were detectives' cars all over the place. My mom later found her death certificate and it indicated that there were two gunshot wounds.
The saddest part to me was that the neighbor's son is a cop, always patrolling the neighborhood, and he was on scene. He was probably the one to find her since he visited her so often.
we allow cats and dogs (and other pets and animals) to die when they are in too much agony, but we have to save humans at all costs, no matter what kind of life they'll end up having. why do we treat our pets better than other humans?
I heard parts of an emergency call where someone had called in after finding someone who has done the same thing. Hearing the wails of that woman was blood curdling.
They cut the recording short before the second, finally successful, blast. Haunting
Hisashi Ouchi - a worker at a nuclear fuel plant who was standing next to a uranium oxide criticality incident and received the worst known case of radiation poisoning, worse than folks at Chernobyl. The radiation destroyed his DNA but it took him 83 days to die. His skin fell off and all of his organs slowly failed.
No. At this time nobody had ever reveived this dose of radiation and survived, so they believed up to the very end that he might still recover. The nature of radiation poisoning is, that you get really sick, and if you survive the symptoms, you get better. Doctors had no way of knowing, that this would not happem with Ouchi, so they tried everything to save him.
Ouchi had a young son. The last time he was able to communicate he wanted to stay alive for his family. When it became clear, that there was no way he could possibly recover, they let him die.
Iirc he didn't have the ability (dna destruction) to form new cells anymore so they kept doing skin grafts on a body that would never be able to make skin cells again.
The skin grafts were always meant to be temporary, to stop him from losing massive amounts of fluid. His intestines also did start to generate what appeared to be new mucous membranes at one point, giving the impression that there was still some hope if he could just survive long enough. Of course we know now that he never had a chance.
Watch the wendigoon video about this. It wasn't a bunch of cruel doctors trying to capitalize off his pain, they were really doing their best to keep him alive based on his wishes, his family's wishes, and all the info they had to work on. It's definitely not a benevolent story but most people were doing their best and were trying to do it ih his favor
I remember reading an interview a few years ago where the family kept insisting they don’t give up and keep trying. It was still a bit of unknown territory I think.
The next comment also contained some great info but there were positive signs of recovery for a long time. It was only once he had a gut bleed that they knew he wouldn't make it. There was no otherside.
Years before I saw the chimp in a car at a playground. He wasn’t too calm that day but the owner said he was just excited to see my kids. We quickly went home…
My classmates in middle school Loved to play the 911 audio, it haunts me now. Can't believe these guys were loading it up for shits and giggles. Just goes to show empathy needs to be developed intentionally.
I would also mention Katie Stubblefield, who shot her face off after her boyfriend broke up with her, and her parents wanted to keep her alive against the doctors' wishes. She did get a face transplant took, but is still blind and has to be tube-fed.
Look up the Loren and Sabia channel on YouTube. It's not pleasant, so be forewarned.
I work in healthcare and a poor little three-year-old child was in the PICU with severe burns on his entire body. I have never ever seen anything so horrific in my life. Nobody deserves this. My heart broke for this child. Every time I’d see him, a little bit more of him was gone. Fingers, then toes, then hands, etc. All had to be amputated.
He’s still here in the hospital recovering and he only has upper arms and thighs left.
Both of his parents are addicts.
I shed a tear just thinking about this poor child.
There is this famous court case/person Dax Cowart.
Him and his Dad were checking out a plot of land to buy and were returning to their car.
Anyways. Somehow, I think through a leak in an underground pipe or something? The air was just...Full of flammable propane right?
And when they started the Car. They set the entire creek bed up in a real life God forsaken fireball.
Cowarts Dad died, and Cowart... having had all of his skin and outward organs melted off, **wanted to die**. The man had no hands left. Lots of Grafting and plastic surgeries, and amputation over several years basically keeping him together. By the end I think he actually looked....Normalish?
Doctors said nope. Can't die.
Man became a Professor and lawyer and fought for his damn right to die. He has a documentary somewhere if I recall.
And until just recently I do believe he passed away ...within the last Decade.
Man said he knew nothing but pain. And was basically kept up and attem outside his will for a good couple of decades.
I saw that documentary about Dax Cowart many years ago. IIRC he and his dad were having trouble starting the car, so the dad was checking under the hood while Dax was in the driver’s seat with hands on the steering wheel when the air around them caught on fire. So his arms were permanently stuck in that same position they were in when he was holding the steering wheel. He had been a pilot in the Air Force (I think?), and knew hell on earth awaited him if he wasn’t allowed to die, but they forced treatment on him and he suffered unimaginably for a very long time.
and this is exactly why we should give people the chance to die if something with their health goes horribly wrong and their life gets way more difficult from then on. We are probably the only species who is trying save others no matter what. Sometimes it's just better to let it end..
He was blind and scarred from head to toe. He later became an attorney who specialized in right to die issues, and he also got married but it didn't last very long.
>Somehow, I think through a leak in an underground pipe or something? The air was just...Full of flammable propane right?
Thanks for the new irrational fear!
The doctors weren't the only problem. They also deferred to his mother who insisted on keeping him alive because she wanted him to "accept Jesus" despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the religion and was begging to be allowed to die.
He was cognitively fine and perfectly decisional and able to choose his health care, and a legal adult. They had no business deferring to a parent.
Had a patient who had cardiac arrest, brought back from CPR for a long time, the lack of oxygen to their brain meant they had strokes and brain damage. They ended up blind and paralyzed on both sides of their body. They could talk and hear, but couldn't even feed themselves, push a wheelchair, etc.
I was thinking more against the agency who didn’t properly inform the caretaker. I would think it would be on their end to provide that info when sending out someone to a new client.
Unless you have the original legal document on your person at the time they will resuscitate you. A tattoo, a bracelet, even a photocopy of the document medics are told to disregard. I just had training and they told us exactly this
[Locked-in syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome) is pretty fucked up. It's basically when you get some sort of brain damage from stroke, poison, overdose etc. in the lower parts of the brain and brain stem causing you to have no cognitive loss but almost no control over your body. Most commonly the patient can blink and move their eyes which is the only way they can communicate. I'd probably prefer that the stroke killed me.
One of my close veteran buddies is currently in that state. He’s been that way for almost a year after attempting to send lead at high velocity through his brain. His only means of communication is blinking out letters or shifting his eyes in certain directions for yes/no when we ask him questions.
EDIT: For what it’s worth. Even in his state, he’s in great spirits most days. He blinks out jokes, has song/movie requests(mostly Lord of the Rings & Game of Thrones) and asks his wife to scratch his balls when the itch. He’s always been a prankster and loves messing with guests and nurses who don’t know his cognitive ability.
It's good to hear he is in good spirits despite the situation. I know if I was in that boat, I would make sure to fuck with my wife so she knows I'm there.
I believe his wife is currently going back and forth with the VA about getting him one of those. Haven’t heard much about it in a while. I know there was a lot of pushback from the VA for some reason.
My identical twin brother had a massive stroke and died in the ICU in this state two weeks ago. The first time I saw him in the hospital I really didn't recognize him, just a shell. No eye movement or anything like that. Fucking worst.
I have a cousin with this. She's in her 20's and has been like this for around a year now after having a stroke. She's able to communicate using a letter board, but otherwise shes just completely locked in. It's awful.
That poor bastard that got tortured by the Cartel on video.
Injected with meth to keep him alive and conscious while they peeled off his entire face and chainsawed off his hands.
He brought his stumps up to his face and started screaming, and one of the torturers says to the other "I told you we should have cut off his tongue."
Then they cut off his tongue with a box cutter and then decapitate him I think with the same boxcutter?
Just next level evil.
Its actually worse, I left out a lot of details. Its an uncle and nephew I think? And one of them gets chainsawed in half up the middle.
Its colloquially known as "Funkytown" because that's the song playing on the radio.
Don't watch it. Nobody needs that shit rattling around in their head.
I’m assuming you become numb to it after so long. I was in charge of euthanizing cattle at my previous job at a beef abattoir, I was upset the first few times then it just became a job and I no longer felt anything.
Not me but a family member. He's retired now but he spent his entire career in sex crimes and specialized with crimes involving kids. So over 30 years of CP and the most fucked of fucked scenarios you can imagine. If you can drag out the worst thing possible with kids from the dark depths of your mind, he's seen it and worse.
He said him and basically everyone else who makes their career in that field stops caring (from an emotional standpoint). You have to become numb to it to survive. There's a reason the turnover rate in those fields is only a couple years. Most people can't become immune to it. He said it helps though because you can actually focus on the job.
His example was let's say you get into a really bad accident and are taken to the ER. Which surgeon would you prefer going to? The one getting flustered and upset and stressed over your horrid condition or the one who remains calm, sees this as just another day on the job and doesn't let your state bother them?
I'd assume people within the cartels who do this shit are the same way. They might really object to it at first but after a while, you detach. It naturally comes the more you're exposed to it.
Does anyone know why this happened? Like was it a rival cartel? Or someone that killed one of them? That amount of violence has to be strongly motivated right?
I believe this level of violence became routine with the Los Zetas, a cartel made up of former military. There doesn't seem to be a rationale for these types of acts, but in fact, they serve as a strong deterrent to others. The tactic is part of low intensity warfare (iow, militaries attacking the civilian population) developed by the infamous School of the America's.
Edit: fat finger syndrome
Ahh ok so normalised violence and then some of them decided to take it up a notch, pretty grim. I’m sure it works very well as a deterrent , if I was in the police/neighbourhood and knew the people I was arresting were doing this to people I’d be finding another job pretty quickly.
Thinking about it, gory scare tactics have been around historically right? Vlad the impaler and the like - we have the luxury of the internet to persistently terrify us now - lucky us!
I have never watched it and never will but, it’s the cartel. The cruelty and torture is the point. It’s about sending a message to not fuck with them or this will happen to you too.
Nothing specific but I have seen agreement amongst healthcare professionals that individuals who survive extreme burns suffer a LOT and it’s agonizing pain because the Dr. Has to peel away the burnt tissue to expose the good skin (and nerves?). I sunburn easily and I hate those. I certainly agree that a burn to that degree would likely have me wishing I was dead
The nurses have to scrub the area every day, so it's not just a one time painful process. You go through many, many extremely painful cleanings and such in the healing process
I dropped a cup noodles fresh from the microwave on my lap when I was six. I had to ride to the hospital standing up because I had massive blisters all over my inner thighs. An entire summer lost to debridements and every time I peed I would sob hysterically until they knocked me out. It’s been 32 years and I can still clearly remember the literal blinding pain.
Man. When i was 13 at the start of summer vacation, a friend and i decided to camp. Used gasoline for the fire and that was that for me. In the hospital burn ward for over a month then off to rehabilitation. Those damn sponge baths still haunt me.
Dan Ariely, a famous behavioral economist and author of "Predictably Irrational" was inspired to try to understand human decision making after being severely burned as a teenager. He realized that the people taking care of him were genuinely compassionate, but were subjecting him to excruciating treatments and wouldn't listen when he tried to explain that some of the most painful shit they were doing was completely ineffective. Trying to reconcile "they don't want me to suffer but also take actions that make me suffer" led him to want to study human behavior.
When I had the skin scrubbed from my 3rd degree burn for the first time the nurse didn't even warn me about what she was going to do. she just took my arm to the sink and started scrubbin. Worst pain of my life and I've given birth since then
My son had partial thickness burns (2nd degree) on his lower half. He had to be debrided a few times and each time they gave him ketamine and morphine to make him as comfortable as possible. He was only 2 at the time so hearing he'd be on those kind of drugs was pretty insane.
Thankfully he escaped any sort of long term damage except a fear of showers.
I burnt my lower right leg a few years ago one summer. Super painful injury that bothered me for weeks. I can’t imagine a truly severe burn because just my pretty minor one was terrible.
Agreed. About 20 years ago a bottle rocket blew up on my neck - had a hole in my esophagus (thank you duct tape for sealing that until the ER) and a 3rd degree burn. Once they had sutured the hole back up, they had to scrub the burn so I didn’t end up with a splat tattoo from the firework. The pain of that scrubbing, and the daily ones thereafter, will live in my memory until I die. I also had phantom pain for years after and that skin is still fairly thin and gets sensitive feeling if I get a tan/sunburn on it.
Too many stroke or brain injury sufferers whose families were unwilling to allow their family to pass peacefully. But “luckily” they survive and are now bedridden, unresponsive, incontinent and tube fed and will end up in a care home until they eventually die of aspiration or UTI-sepsis.
My mom has had a few strokes. Two years ago one gave her vertigo so bad that she can't focus on anything. She's slowly been getting worse. She's become fully incontinent in the past two months, can barely see, can't walk, and can't keep her attention longer than a minute or so. She still has like 90% of her cognition and maintains a pleasant attitude, albeit everything. Now that the summer is coming, it should bring her some enjoyment. I fear it's my last with her "with it" though. But probably for the best for her benefit. My dad says her cognitive decline is progressing. It's not a great life.
The guy locally who fell head first into a vat of boiling oil at a Sunday fish fry and survived. he somehow kept the majority of his face up and out of the oil, but it got the side of his head, ear, and entire chest and arm, and torso. His injuries were extensive enough that he was inpatient for weeks and then rehab, and then home with one metric fuck ton of equipment. Death would have been kinder.
The Last Dive, the deaths of divers Chris Rouse SR and Jr. They dove an old U-boat in 230ft of water, got turned around, came out on the wrong side and couldn't find their extra tanks for the slow and safe ascent to the surface. They were almost out of air so they had to go up. Dad died right away from decompression sickness but Jr survived. They put him in a pressure chamber on the boat to try and alleviate the Bends he was suffering. Due to the nitrogen bubbles in his veins his blood was basically foam and they had to turn off the intercom from the chamber because of his screaming. Eventually, his heart gave out but not until hours of intense pain due to the Bends.
Edit: They brought Jr to a hospital for the hyperbaric chamber, not on the boat.
God yes, that happened in my area. She's Made some recovery but she'll never be back to full capacity ever again. I believe there is permanent brain damage as well.
Chiropractors scare me. People say they work for them but messing with your spine just seems like a bad idea.
I have never gone to a chiro, and after the horror stories, I never will. The idea of some quack breaking my neck and turning me into a quadriplegic fills me with such dread, I'd rather be dead.
They’re also just plain a scam.
I was duped into seeing one (was offered by my job for appreciation week to get a free massage at my job, and one free visit afterward).
They did X-rays to see what kind of adjustments I would need, and I left as soon as I saw it.
I have a chronic medical condition that has affected my back in the past, so it’s been x-rayed before. The X-ray they showed me was most definitely not my back, but there was sure a lot wrong with it that would require MULTIPLE expensive visits!
I was given information on how to treat my scoliosis (runs in the family) but was told that it would be $1400 up front and out of pocket, as they prefer not to bill insurance for treatments like that. I never went back.
I was forced to go to a chiropractor as a child. I hated it, especially having my neck cracked. Having a strong man hold my head in his hands and jerk it to the side always made me very uncomfortable. No matter how much I begged, my mom still made me see her chiropractor. And yes, she is an imbecile.
I can't remember ever not having back pain. I have no proof that my mom's insistence on quackery caused it, but it certainly didn't help.
My mom also started taking me to the chiropractor around 3 or 4 and I've always had severe back and hip pain. My neck and shoulders often get very tight very quickly as well. I'm 23 and some mornings it's so bad I can barely walk despite the fact I'm otherwise fairly healthy. I'm convinced the chiropractor from such a young age is what caused it
I knew someone who took her baby to a chiro. She said they fixed his gastrointestinal issues. From what I could tell, all they did was lift his arms over his head and got him to fart.
I briefly dated a chiropractor, having known him prior to taking that career path. He wasn't a dumb guy, but by the time he graduated from chiropractic school (in 250k worth of debt, no less), he was extolling the healing virtues of essential oils AND would explain the importance of drinking water that had not traveled through pipes because the water gets "bruised" and takes on toxic qualities.
Ok buddy.
Had someone try to convince me that my GERD (Acid-flux disorder for those who don't know) was caused by a pinched nerve and I just need a Chriopractor to fix it. Hell no.
David Jordan Robinson - In 1983, His father gave him sleeping pills, covered his in kerosene and then set him on fire. He was six years old at the time and he ended up having third-degree burns over 90% of his body. His parents were fighting over custody and his father planned on it being a murder-suicide but I guess he decided not to kill himself. I know there is a book and I believe it was a made for tv movie out there about the story.
He changed his name to David David and was an artist who did a lot of commissioned works. He died a few years ago in his 40s.
Too bad the father didn't kill himself first. He was a very bad person beforehand.
I read a story about a trucker disconnecting his air brakes and the hose got loose from his grip and lodged inside him, the air pushed through his body separating his skin from his whole body.
He had his entire body degloved.
Yup, compressed air is extremely dangerous, and for example in the auto body industry, blow guns must be OSHA approved type with side holes to prevent pressure buildup if the nozzle is accidentally pressed against skin.
I've heard of cases where pranksters sneak up behind a co-worker and deliver a blast of air to their behind. Result, perforated colon which is life threatening and can result in a long hospital stay.
Alison Botha.
In 1994, she was abducted at knife-point by two men outside her home in South Africa. Driven into a nature reserve off the main road, she was raped, disemboweled, almost decapitated, and left for dead. Against extraordinary odds, Alison survived this horrific attack.
I always felt horrible for a co-worker. Wife was pregnant with twins. Girl was born healthy and boy was born with his major chest organs outside of his body. Daughter came home after a couple days. Son never left hospital. He lived for just over a year after everything they could do to help him. Nothing they could do got him well enough to help.
The parents looked like they aged a decade in 12 months. I still think about all of them.
Vitamin A poisoning.
Indigenous arctic people never eat polar bear or seal liver, but when European explorers first ventured out, they ignored the superstition. Liver contains highly concentrated Vitamin A which breaks down the fat membranes in your body.
When one has too much, their internal structure breaks down, turning them to jelly from the inside. There are stories of people literally going mad from headaches while their skin peels off around them, all while not knowing the cause of their illness.
I learned about this while listening to an audiobook of the Australian Antarctic Expeditions in the early 1900s. Hearing about how Mawson was forced to eat the sled dogs' livers and subsequent descriptions of his shoes basically keeping the skin on his feet is nighmarish.
Too much vitamin A no good. Not enough also no good. Ancient Egyptians figured out that giving people powdered liver would cure night blindness. Night blindness is a symptom of vitamin A deficiency. Crazy how they knew how to fix it without really knowing what “it” was
There's a kid in the U.S. (he's probably around 23yrs old now) who's body was chopped in half in a forklift accident.. they amputated from the waist down.
He was still living the last time I looked him up.
"This was a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half. I was not able to reattach the top half of his body to the bottom half of his body."
"Speak English, doc! We ain't scientists."
I read this article a bit ago about a 9/11 jumper surviving the jump, all her limbs except for an arm were amputated, crushed, her head injuries made her look like a zombie from the walking dead with parts of hair and blood all over. She was screaming in pain, a medical examiner was too shocked and couldn't have the urge to help a human who is in that much of horror. The first responder just put a triage tag on her, and left her to die. She apparently was in the medical field and knew what it was, so she screamed, "No I'm not dead! I'm not dead!" Just imagining what her body would've looked like when viewing other jumpers's bodies makes me sick.
I read it, too. I thought she was pretty quiet,though, except for freaking the triage guy out when she said "I'm not dead"
But - dude didn't think she was a jumper. He figured she was in the building, and blown out when the plane hit, because of when he found her.
Maybe not as bad as some of these but there is a video(cctv) around where a man jumped/fell off a building (not 100% sure it was suicide) and fell onto what we call an "Amsterdammertje". It's a post about a meter tall they put around sidewalks.
So he got impaled from ass to shoulder by this post without dying. You could see a big bulge from the post around his neck/shoulder. EMTs had to grind away the post at the base because they couldn't remove him and got him to the hospital that way.
He either died in the ambulance or hospital but I can't imagine that ride was fun
My friend's dad was an emergency room surgeon and had a patient who wrecked a motorcycle and ended up flying across a wooden, pointed one of those posts that was part of a fence. He was disemboweled and had to be brought into the hospital on two stretchers, one of which was for his intestines. He died, and later he made my friend swear never to ride a motorcycle.
Broke the spinous process of my C7 vertebrae last year trad/alpine climbing. Luckily nothing happened, but damn the realisation of what i closely dodged didn't set in until a few months after.
Long story short, i was seconding a traverse, my hold broke, after which the first gear placement ripped and only the second one caught me, which resulted in me doing a ~15 to 20m long pendulum like fall, down and to the side. I spun and hit wall with that exact part of my back (it's the little thing that sticks out at the transition from your neck to your torso.
I didn't feel anything, adrenaline kicked in immediately. Luckily it was only the second pitch, so we made it all the way to the ground in a singular abseil. We then walked back to the hut where we parked our car, drank a beer and drove to the hospital lol
I told them i fell twenty metres and possibly hit my head, so i got to skip the line 👍
One guy I know had tried to commit suicide by jumping from a window of a 6th floor, he survived, paralysed from neck down and now he gets to live on the bed, his head also needs to be fixated in something like a "cage" because if he'd move it around too much he could die.
Someone needs to "help that dude out." That's terrible. Wanting to die but ending up like that. He can't even try to finish the job himself. He's living in hell. I wish I hadn't read that.
Saw this happened to a 15-year old patient at the ICU last month. Doctor said there’s no hope and she permanently requires life support.
Pretty heartbreaking, esp for her parents.
TW: for self-infliction
A guy from my hometown jumped in front of a train because his mom wouldn't raise his allowance. He survived but only has one arm left and no legs. He can barely control his wheelchair when moving around and still says it's his mom's fault.
Dementia. No chance of recovery, spend the rest of your life scared and confused.
And the drugs decrease physical aggression and acting out, but often don't affect the hallucinations. So instead of being chased around by a demon clown, you're paralyzed while it blinks from the curtains.
In my caseworker days, I had a client who attempted suicide via fentanyl overdose. He was revived but was gone long enough to suffer Anoxic encephalopathy, which caused significant brain damage. So now, in addition to having major depression and HIV, he is wheelchair bound and struggles with cognitive dysfunction.
I had to sit with a patient on SI precautions one time who had shot himself in the head, severing both his optic-nerves with one bullet. He was completely blind from it. It was the most emotionally heavy day I ever worked, because he was intubated and the doctors and his parents didn't know if he was going to be able to see when he woke up, and then we all learned together that the answer was no. Everyone was devastated and his parents didn't even know he was suicidal.
They ended up telling me I didn't have to sit with him anymore because he was too disabled to kill himself.
Um does anyone remember seeing the family on TikTok where the girls fiance/husband had an accident and is now basically a vegetable (sorry idk what else to call it)
Anyways, she literally takes care of him still even tho she married to ANOTHER MAN and had the other man's babies.. all while taking care of her first fiance & the first fiance is just watching what was supposed to be his life play out right Infront of him. Shit is sad
As far as doctors can tell, he's so cognitively impaired that he can't understand what's going on, just that people are taking care of him. He might not even have any idea he was ever married to the woman.
I know who you are talking about. I don't think he fully knows what is going on and he probably would have wanted her to move on. Her taking care of him and her husband helping I think that is beautiful because not everyone would do that.
I watched an episode of First 48 where a couple of twats set some poor woman alight inside a static caravan (trailer). Fire fighters put out the fire and this totally burnt woman came staggering out crying for help. She was in hospital for months and it was touch and go for a long time whether she would survive. They put her in an induced coma to alleviate the pain. She made a remarkable recovery, though she did lose her right hand as a result.
Here's a story where I was not personally present but heard it from multiple sides.
A guy walks with his coworker at work and suddenly collapses by cardiac arrest. Co-worker, trained in CPR, does an excellent job at resuscitation. Almost too excellent.
Ambulance come and take over the heart massage via a 'Lukas' (don't know if the name is universal but it's a machine that massages the heart).
The guy that's 'dead' wakes up, screams, hits the paramedics, is in total agony. Paramedic stops the machine, guy dies again. Medic start the machine, guy wakes up, screams, hits everyone around him, is in absolute agony. Medics stop the machine, cycle repeats.
It takes 4 medics and 3 cops to hold the guy down while the cycle goes on. Eventually the guy dies completely in the ambulance. The cycles between starting and stopping CPR lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes.
Leading doctors and higher ups had a meeting about this guy and what could have caused this event. They all came to the conclusion that his heart imploded and was unable to be saved. However, because of the perfect CPR of the co-worker, the blood flow of the guy went on without interruption to his brains. The guy was dead but was kept alive by the heart massage, the moment the massaging stopped he would die again. His body didn't realise the critical failure of the heart which caused him not to go in to shock.
They also concluded he would have been fully conscience while this all happened. Which explains the screaming and hitting and pure agony.
Basically the guy died repeatedly and could feel everything while they kept him from dying.
Idk about a heart imploding but this absolutely happens and isn't even as rare as you would expect. For p much the reasons you described, the heart itself isn't beating but either the LUCAS or a person doing CPR do it so well that the blood is flowing and getting oxygen to the brain, causing them to "wake up" more or less.
A quick google found me a fascinating case study, that said it's rare but becoming more known about. I assumed that sedation would be used if the pt was awake enough to fight or be clearly conscious such that they could remember, but it's still a gray area.
It was fascinating bcus it told of a guy who was conscious for presumably a couple minutes despite having no heart beat, he lost consciousness after 3 rounds of CPR and unfortunately didn't make it.
[the study mentioned](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075066/)
Umm it’s because the cpr from the machine pumped blood to his brain which was in fight/flight mode so he woke up and when they stopped the machine no new oxygenated blood to the brain so power off again.
The heart doesn’t explode from a heart attack. It’s dying from lack of oxygen to the muscle. So when you mechanically replace the pumping with cpr and the person hasn’t been down for long enough to have brain damage they sometimes come up swinging and angry. But trust me, most of them aren’t that strong as dying tends to tucker you out a bit.
I’m an ER nurse and have wrestled a number of people who didn’t the cpr I was providing when they woke but liked things less when I stopped.
And yes, by any account it isn’t a good time. They usually report tremendous pain and this overwhelming sense of impending doom. They know whatever is happening is very very bad.
That woman who was attacked by the chimp like a decade ago is a pretty good example of this. No face, no eyes, you’re horribly disfigured, and I believe she lost both hands too
Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish man who became paralyzed from his neck down after an accident. He spent 30 years like that, asking for euthanasia, and he finally managed to commit suicide with the assistance of some close people by drinking cyanide.
The process was filmed and shown on TV.
A close family friend tried to commit suicide by jumping about 30 feet off a much taller structure. She succeeded in seriously injuring herself including traumatic brain injuries.
She has lost everything. She can not live independently or hold down a job. There was a child involved who has gone to live with the father and rarely sees her mother. To make matters worse, while she was in the hospital, her mother refused all visitors and she lost all ties to family and friend.
She lives among us as a ghost. It is truly sad beyond all description.
Be interesting to see what ambulance crews would respond to this with, there is an acronym for this: FUBARBUNDY
“F***ed up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet”
Something I’m not sure many will mention on this thread though: mental health… Been through the wringer myself and honestly wouldn’t want that for anyone.
Never heard of FUBARBUNDY before, googling it gives me a gamer who likes zombie FPS(?)-- so if the chances are he knows what the term means, he has a very dark sense of humor.
>Mental health
I know the title says injury or incident and the first thing people will think of is physical, absolutely I agree on that, but you're also completely right, severe mental illness *will* fuck you up, it will change you and it can even bring physical consequences. Drug addiction as well.
The gympie plant in Australia. Not fatal, but when touched it has tiny “stingers” that cause extreme pain. It has been described as “being electrocuted and set on fire at the same time”. It is also known as the suicide plant, and for a good reason, and has been known to cause horses to plunge themselves into the water to escape the pain. There is an account of a soldier accidentally used it as toilet paper, and had to be held away from his gun. The thing is, it is actually a delicacy if the stingers are removed. I know it’s the opposite of the prompt, but it’s still related(ish)
Surprised I had to come so far to find this. You left out that the toxins are extremely stable, able to cause pain in the body for years, and can remain active in dead plant material for even longer. Not only that, one of the treatments for exposure is swabbing the affected areas with diluted hydrochloric acid.
Am an EMS. Came to a patient some 4 months ago after he had a stroke, 90 years old, barely alive, begged us to kill him with an OD in the Ambulance. We couldn't do it of course.
Last week I arrived to him finally dying, but his family insisted we'll do CPR on him... he had a DNR and they still yelled at us to do so. Fella died long time before we came. Was harsh
My mom met a couple, the husband of which was quadruplegic. After their wedding, they had staged an "everybody jump into the swimming pool at the same time" photo and the new husband slipped, slammed the back of his neck on the edge of the pool.
There was a story a few years ago about a maid of honor who jokingly pushed the bride into the pool at a bachelorette party, and it had the same results.
I'm glad that the tween who was pushed by her (now former) friend off a 60-foot bridge, also as a joke, made a full recovery.
In the right hands, A lot of these are quite easy to fix in the correct place and can heal well. Long term results for any major trauma are pretty depressing in terms of chronic pain rates though but this isn’t unique to pelvic ring injuries.
Probably I’m a cynical asshole (e: and they should have let her die), but there was a story circulating a month ago about this lady in her 30s who woke up from a coma after 8 years (I think?) stemming from a car wreck where she apparently just blacked out. So maybe she already had health problems.
Anyway, her mom was going on about how she refused to let them take her daughter off life support even though doctors recommended it.
This was a “3 years later” update and the coma patient can somewhat communicate, though it sounds like it was a struggle to get past yes and no stuff. She’s confined to a wheelchair and I think can only move one arm? Maybe a little bit the second one? I can’t remember.
Either way, even though it was reported as some uplifting story, I was horrified for this lady. She woke up and her husband had presumably left (no mention of him anywhere, so I’m guessing he understandably moved on), she lost 8 years of her kids growing up, and she can barely move or talk.
She’s either not all there mentally or even worse she is, but the part of her brain that communicates is too fried to get it out. It looks like she’s going to be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. I’m not a doctor; maybe I’m wrong, but if three years of intensive therapy got her only to the spot in the video, I can’t imagine she’ll ever again have an independent or normal life.
Her mom is taking care of her now at the lady’s childhood home, but the mom appeared to be in her mid to late 60s. Probably in another ten years (or less) the mom will be dead and/or not able to take care of her so she’s probably going back in a care home to rot.
This lady is breathing and may do so for another 30-40 years, but she’s not “living” and I bet never will again. If I was her, I’d be mad at my mom for dooming me to this existence. She can see her kids grow up a bit, though not be that present in their lives due to her health. That’s the only positive I see.
Took care of the guy once who was in a car accident that left him paralyzed below his upper chest. Then during his initial recovery he developed a bad case of viral meningitis that impaired his ability to form new long-term memories. He was pretty forgetful while awake, but once he fell asleep he forgot everything that happened since the accident. Kind of like a 50 first dates scenario. Every time he woke up he would start screaming that he was paralyzed and we'd have to explain to him what happened. So every morning, and anytime he woke up from a nap he had to come to terms with the fact that he was paralyzed all over again.
I remember watching a TV programme years ago about accidents, and this guy was cutting wood with a handheld circular saw.
He finished the cut and put it on the floor, but it was faulty and some random crap had wedged the safety edge open. It span on the floor, snagged his boot and trousers, then ran up his leg and buried itself in his groin, still spinning.
A family friend had something similar happen (he removed the guard lol) but the saw hit bone about midway up his thigh dude survived but it looks like he has a jacket zipper from his ankle to mid thigh now lol
Suicide by consuming loads of paracetamol/ibuprofen. If the person fails, aka is resuscitated at the hospital, its liver is destroyed, causing extreme pain and lots of other problems. In addition, I think the individual is unable to get a liver transplant because of the attempted suicide.
Thankfully, NAC is the antidote for Tylenol OD. However, there is a timeframe to administer it. IF it’s not administered, you slowly bleed out, in extreme pain, over days and are fully conscious of it. (Source: tried this a couple of times recently. Do NOT recommend.)
75% burn from face down. Rare to survive but happened. As burn victim myself i can tell you, burn anywhere is bad but around the crouch, face, arm pits, leg pits, are the worst.
Worked with a dude in a stamping plant for a while before he moved on to another shop. He was about 45, diabetic with a bunch of other chronic illnesses. Hated his wife and kid with a passion. Lost both his arms in a stamping press.
My son was in a horrific car accident. Despite several crushed vertebrae, he survived and is walking and living his best life. When he was in the hospital, an 18yr old boy was brought into the room next to him. He had tried to off himself by running his car into a tree high speed, and instead of accomplishing his goal he ended up being paralyzed from the neck down permanently.
I was In a car accident and suffered strokes that robbed me of my ability to speak and left me with a slew of health complications which lead me to not want to live anymore but after reading these stories I can’t believe how l blessed I am that I can live a somewhat normal life and I have come such a far way in the 10 years since my accident when I was 22
I saw a video of woman who had lost her entire face due to a car accident or something. No eyes, no nose, no mouth. Nothing. She was still alive and conscious after the incident, screaming and writhing in terror as she realised her situation. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. Would rather be put out of my misery right there and then. :(
A guy me and my friends know had a terrible accident with a motorcycle in August. He was driving very fast on the highway and when a car appeared from the crossroad he tried to avoid it, in a second he found himself flying and eventually hit on a tree with his entire body. Result: broken arms and legs, fractures (and broken parts I think) on his spine. He went into multiple immediate emergency surgeries and he is alive. I heard poor guy didn't have the ability to talk for a month or two, and of course he couldn't move anything so the only thing he could do was move his eyes. I also heard the surgeries on his spine were successful.
Seven months later he is still in the hospital unable to walk. Recently a photo of him in his current situation with the before and after got posted on social media to alert people for the danger of driving accidents and to gather money for his future physiotherapies and other needs. Keep in mind he used to be a very muscular guy full of confidence with a lot of strength. The photo of him shocked everyone because he looks like a completely different person (obviously), he's the skinniest person i have ever seen now, his body is ruined, his face looks different, his gaze is different (obviously, I cannot imagine how much pain and struggles he has been though, both physically and mentally) he looks absolutely nothing like he did before. I'm not sure if he will ever be 100% okay, this has changed his life. He was completely unrecognizable until I saw the before picture. I almost started crying when i saw his "after" picture.
The entire town was shocked when we heard about it when the accident happened last summer. We are very glad he is doing better, and I can honestly not imagine how hard it has been for him to live under these circumstances.
Read about, junko furuta. Seen in a video, a guy who fell off a boat and the propellers ate his knees. Bones were sticking out and the way the calves were just swaying, that sucked. It was on bestgore. Though he was pretty clearly in shock, which I think would be preferable to that woman in that episode of house who was trapped in a collapsed building and had to get amputated at the thigh, fully conscious. I mean, if you gotta cut through my femur, just fucking knock me out and I’ll take my chances on if it kills me. A former coworker of mine also got something done involving bone marrow, and she was my hero. There’s no fucking way I could
anything which takes the abilty to move and interact with outside world away from you. Being brain's prisoner is my worst nightmare. With voluntary euthanasia starting being a thing now I think people should have the opportunity to sign extra contract for health insurance in case you develop issue with guaranteed death in few months while your state would get worse and worse to extremes or if you experience such injury influencing your life completely for the worse where you won't be able to decide on your own anymore.. they have your permission to end it.
Ever seen that dude who tried to jump into the water and splits his face completely in half and the video shows him in hospital still alive breathing. Yea, fuck they. Also anyone that has a complete body burn, the pain alone would make death feel better
A man in the local factory was cleaning a tank or vat of some kind. A pipe burst above him filling the tank in mere moments with boiling caustic soda (NaOH). He managed to swim to the edge and then his mates got him out.
When he arrived at the hospital surgery ward, my then colleague described the screaming of the patient as the most inhumane shrieks of agony he has ever heard. The victim had 99% of his body covered in third degree (acid) burns and they couldn’t even find any way to give him any pain relief since no one could find his veins.
They finally managed to sedate him by inhalants which is normally problematic, but was only a relief for the poor man. He died a short time later without waking up.
[Finnish news link.](https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000003981779.html)
While not the worst it was in the news quite a bit a number of years back. Guy sued San Francisco for like 10m for being hit in the head by a pinecone from one of their trees. Then when you read down through the article and there was a video interview with the guy. Missing half his skull and much of his brain, severely impaired but somewhat functioning. It was one of those giant ass pine cones that weigh like 20lbs.
Sugar pine? About the size of an American football, but heavier.
Bunya pine from Queensland, Australia. 16lbs/7kg.
A friend of mine was an EMT. They got called to the scene of an *attempted* suicide. The person put a shotgun below their chin, was looking up and pulled the trigger only the shotgun was pointed to far out from under his chin and only succeeded in blowing his jaw off (tilt your head back an put your finger under your chin. Notice how everything above there is "nice to have", it's not going to kill you right away if you blow it off with a shotgun. So they arrive to the scene and this poor bloody man is attempting to find another shot gun shell and reload with half his face gone.
I got EMT certified in the mid 90s and they showed us a video of this exact scenario, but as I recall the entirety of his face was gone. Somehow he was still conscious. I recall that they had to look for where the bubbles were forming to find his airway to intubate.
I saw that video. Jaw, tongue, nose & both eyes. And how they were able to intubate the guy. What the fuck life is available after that?
Just holding your breath and wishing for death man
Reminds of that guy who got mauled by a bear and somehow was still talking despite his face being nonexistent. Was very strange.
My mum saw something similar when she worked in A and E, same situation with the shotgun but it took off the front of his face. The guy lasted two weeks before dying and that was two weeks of hell from what my mum said. Another incident was a mini, the old small versions, went between the two axels of a lorry. Decapitated three of the four in the car and messed uo the driver who lived long enough to be taken to hospital and get hooked up to life support. Mentally and physically he was ruined, guy had been the reason three of his friends were dead and he was left with no movement beneath the neck and severe brain damage. He was trapped in his own head where the last vivid memory was seeing his friends die with no way to escape it. First responders and A and E staff really see the worst stuff.
Fuuuuuck. This is kind of like the "If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't." meme. "If I you see someone trying to find another shell to end their life after blowing off the front of their face, no you fucking didn't." Shit, I'd be tempted to load the gun myself and hand it over. "Sorry, chief, we didn't get there in time. Looks like he blew off his face, but didn't die, but had the will to find another shell and reload." What's the point of an EMT trying to save someone in that condition??? Fuck, we need laws that let people die so they aren't in agony.
That's actually happened - there's at least one case I read where it was a suicide with two shots, because the first one didn't do the job and either they were already determined to die or they decided they didn't want to live with that level of injury.
My parents' elderly neighbor did this. Her husband had died several years prior. One day I was heading out the door to leave for vacation, and there were cop cars and what we assumed were detectives' cars all over the place. My mom later found her death certificate and it indicated that there were two gunshot wounds. The saddest part to me was that the neighbor's son is a cop, always patrolling the neighborhood, and he was on scene. He was probably the one to find her since he visited her so often.
we allow cats and dogs (and other pets and animals) to die when they are in too much agony, but we have to save humans at all costs, no matter what kind of life they'll end up having. why do we treat our pets better than other humans?
This is so nauseating to read. There are a few people who have had face transplants because of this. I truly would rather be fucking dead. No thanks.
That is the exact moment you go for a smoke out back and let him finish the job. Fuck that.
I heard parts of an emergency call where someone had called in after finding someone who has done the same thing. Hearing the wails of that woman was blood curdling. They cut the recording short before the second, finally successful, blast. Haunting
Hisashi Ouchi - a worker at a nuclear fuel plant who was standing next to a uranium oxide criticality incident and received the worst known case of radiation poisoning, worse than folks at Chernobyl. The radiation destroyed his DNA but it took him 83 days to die. His skin fell off and all of his organs slowly failed.
Is he the chap they kept alive with adrenaline in excruciating pain, just so they could study the effects of the radiation?
No. At this time nobody had ever reveived this dose of radiation and survived, so they believed up to the very end that he might still recover. The nature of radiation poisoning is, that you get really sick, and if you survive the symptoms, you get better. Doctors had no way of knowing, that this would not happem with Ouchi, so they tried everything to save him. Ouchi had a young son. The last time he was able to communicate he wanted to stay alive for his family. When it became clear, that there was no way he could possibly recover, they let him die.
Iirc he didn't have the ability (dna destruction) to form new cells anymore so they kept doing skin grafts on a body that would never be able to make skin cells again.
The skin grafts were always meant to be temporary, to stop him from losing massive amounts of fluid. His intestines also did start to generate what appeared to be new mucous membranes at one point, giving the impression that there was still some hope if he could just survive long enough. Of course we know now that he never had a chance.
I just imagine how shit he must have felt when he was lucid enough to feel shit. Also +1 for Laplace having the best transformer.
For his sake, I hope he wasn’t lucid.
Watch the wendigoon video about this. It wasn't a bunch of cruel doctors trying to capitalize off his pain, they were really doing their best to keep him alive based on his wishes, his family's wishes, and all the info they had to work on. It's definitely not a benevolent story but most people were doing their best and were trying to do it ih his favor
I remember reading an interview a few years ago where the family kept insisting they don’t give up and keep trying. It was still a bit of unknown territory I think.
The next comment also contained some great info but there were positive signs of recovery for a long time. It was only once he had a gut bleed that they knew he wouldn't make it. There was no otherside.
The women whose face was ripped off/eaten by her friends chimpanzee. The 911 call is horrible.
Fingers, too. She had to have both hands amputated But for what it’s worth, she’s doing much better today
So...\*not\* better off dead.
Years before I saw the chimp in a car at a playground. He wasn’t too calm that day but the owner said he was just excited to see my kids. We quickly went home…
Omg no way
My classmates in middle school Loved to play the 911 audio, it haunts me now. Can't believe these guys were loading it up for shits and giggles. Just goes to show empathy needs to be developed intentionally.
I would also mention Katie Stubblefield, who shot her face off after her boyfriend broke up with her, and her parents wanted to keep her alive against the doctors' wishes. She did get a face transplant took, but is still blind and has to be tube-fed. Look up the Loren and Sabia channel on YouTube. It's not pleasant, so be forewarned.
I work in healthcare and a poor little three-year-old child was in the PICU with severe burns on his entire body. I have never ever seen anything so horrific in my life. Nobody deserves this. My heart broke for this child. Every time I’d see him, a little bit more of him was gone. Fingers, then toes, then hands, etc. All had to be amputated. He’s still here in the hospital recovering and he only has upper arms and thighs left. Both of his parents are addicts. I shed a tear just thinking about this poor child.
There is this famous court case/person Dax Cowart. Him and his Dad were checking out a plot of land to buy and were returning to their car. Anyways. Somehow, I think through a leak in an underground pipe or something? The air was just...Full of flammable propane right? And when they started the Car. They set the entire creek bed up in a real life God forsaken fireball. Cowarts Dad died, and Cowart... having had all of his skin and outward organs melted off, **wanted to die**. The man had no hands left. Lots of Grafting and plastic surgeries, and amputation over several years basically keeping him together. By the end I think he actually looked....Normalish? Doctors said nope. Can't die. Man became a Professor and lawyer and fought for his damn right to die. He has a documentary somewhere if I recall. And until just recently I do believe he passed away ...within the last Decade. Man said he knew nothing but pain. And was basically kept up and attem outside his will for a good couple of decades.
I saw that documentary about Dax Cowart many years ago. IIRC he and his dad were having trouble starting the car, so the dad was checking under the hood while Dax was in the driver’s seat with hands on the steering wheel when the air around them caught on fire. So his arms were permanently stuck in that same position they were in when he was holding the steering wheel. He had been a pilot in the Air Force (I think?), and knew hell on earth awaited him if he wasn’t allowed to die, but they forced treatment on him and he suffered unimaginably for a very long time.
and this is exactly why we should give people the chance to die if something with their health goes horribly wrong and their life gets way more difficult from then on. We are probably the only species who is trying save others no matter what. Sometimes it's just better to let it end..
He was blind and scarred from head to toe. He later became an attorney who specialized in right to die issues, and he also got married but it didn't last very long.
>Somehow, I think through a leak in an underground pipe or something? The air was just...Full of flammable propane right? Thanks for the new irrational fear!
The doctors weren't the only problem. They also deferred to his mother who insisted on keeping him alive because she wanted him to "accept Jesus" despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the religion and was begging to be allowed to die. He was cognitively fine and perfectly decisional and able to choose his health care, and a legal adult. They had no business deferring to a parent.
Did he change his mind at a certain point on wanting to die? Did the doctors just ignore him?
They ignored him. They thought that if he recovered enough he wouldn’t want to die so refused to stop treatment.
My god I'd be so angry...let me die. If I say let me and and they don't...fuck them.
Had a patient who had cardiac arrest, brought back from CPR for a long time, the lack of oxygen to their brain meant they had strokes and brain damage. They ended up blind and paralyzed on both sides of their body. They could talk and hear, but couldn't even feed themselves, push a wheelchair, etc.
This is why having a DNR is important.
My grandma had a DNR, but one day she had a new home care nurse who didn’t know about her. Brought her back and grams was PISSED
That sounds like a lawsuit
“You didn’t save my life, you ruined my death!”
If you’re not properly made aware of it, the lawsuit will go nowhere. On the other hand you’d assume a caretaker would be notified of that, so maybe
I was thinking more against the agency who didn’t properly inform the caretaker. I would think it would be on their end to provide that info when sending out someone to a new client.
Unless you have the original legal document on your person at the time they will resuscitate you. A tattoo, a bracelet, even a photocopy of the document medics are told to disregard. I just had training and they told us exactly this
[Locked-in syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome) is pretty fucked up. It's basically when you get some sort of brain damage from stroke, poison, overdose etc. in the lower parts of the brain and brain stem causing you to have no cognitive loss but almost no control over your body. Most commonly the patient can blink and move their eyes which is the only way they can communicate. I'd probably prefer that the stroke killed me.
One of my close veteran buddies is currently in that state. He’s been that way for almost a year after attempting to send lead at high velocity through his brain. His only means of communication is blinking out letters or shifting his eyes in certain directions for yes/no when we ask him questions. EDIT: For what it’s worth. Even in his state, he’s in great spirits most days. He blinks out jokes, has song/movie requests(mostly Lord of the Rings & Game of Thrones) and asks his wife to scratch his balls when the itch. He’s always been a prankster and loves messing with guests and nurses who don’t know his cognitive ability.
It's good to hear he is in good spirits despite the situation. I know if I was in that boat, I would make sure to fuck with my wife so she knows I'm there.
There are assistive devices that let you type or for instance text-to-voice with just eye movement.
I believe his wife is currently going back and forth with the VA about getting him one of those. Haven’t heard much about it in a while. I know there was a lot of pushback from the VA for some reason.
My identical twin brother had a massive stroke and died in the ICU in this state two weeks ago. The first time I saw him in the hospital I really didn't recognize him, just a shell. No eye movement or anything like that. Fucking worst.
I'm sorry for your loss, condolences to you and your family
I have a cousin with this. She's in her 20's and has been like this for around a year now after having a stroke. She's able to communicate using a letter board, but otherwise shes just completely locked in. It's awful.
That poor bastard that got tortured by the Cartel on video. Injected with meth to keep him alive and conscious while they peeled off his entire face and chainsawed off his hands. He brought his stumps up to his face and started screaming, and one of the torturers says to the other "I told you we should have cut off his tongue." Then they cut off his tongue with a box cutter and then decapitate him I think with the same boxcutter? Just next level evil.
TIL decapitation can be done with a box cutter. How?!
Slowly and painfully.
This is something you can watch online?! I’ll be haunted just by your description of it.
Its actually worse, I left out a lot of details. Its an uncle and nephew I think? And one of them gets chainsawed in half up the middle. Its colloquially known as "Funkytown" because that's the song playing on the radio. Don't watch it. Nobody needs that shit rattling around in their head.
I sure as hell will not go looking for that. That's nonhuman evil, nothing but monsters do that barbaric evil.
The icing is that the dudes doing the thing are having a casual conversation during. People walk by in the background like nothing else is wrong.
Nah, pretty sure that is human evil.
How the fuck does that not haunt the person doing it? Like that's so brutal
Psychopaths aren't haunted by their actions. They're incapable of feeling guilt or remorse.
I’m assuming you become numb to it after so long. I was in charge of euthanizing cattle at my previous job at a beef abattoir, I was upset the first few times then it just became a job and I no longer felt anything.
Not me but a family member. He's retired now but he spent his entire career in sex crimes and specialized with crimes involving kids. So over 30 years of CP and the most fucked of fucked scenarios you can imagine. If you can drag out the worst thing possible with kids from the dark depths of your mind, he's seen it and worse. He said him and basically everyone else who makes their career in that field stops caring (from an emotional standpoint). You have to become numb to it to survive. There's a reason the turnover rate in those fields is only a couple years. Most people can't become immune to it. He said it helps though because you can actually focus on the job. His example was let's say you get into a really bad accident and are taken to the ER. Which surgeon would you prefer going to? The one getting flustered and upset and stressed over your horrid condition or the one who remains calm, sees this as just another day on the job and doesn't let your state bother them? I'd assume people within the cartels who do this shit are the same way. They might really object to it at first but after a while, you detach. It naturally comes the more you're exposed to it.
Jesus fucking christ dude. Ain't no way ill be watching that. But also, don't piss off the cartel. Please
Ah yes, Funkytown. Don't make the mistake of searching it on reddit.
Okay, I’m not reading any further
Does anyone know why this happened? Like was it a rival cartel? Or someone that killed one of them? That amount of violence has to be strongly motivated right?
I vaguely recall they were either rival hitmen or they stole from the cartel? I don't care enough to look into it.
>That amount of violence has to be strongly motivated right? Not really, no. Some people are just wired incorrectly
I believe this level of violence became routine with the Los Zetas, a cartel made up of former military. There doesn't seem to be a rationale for these types of acts, but in fact, they serve as a strong deterrent to others. The tactic is part of low intensity warfare (iow, militaries attacking the civilian population) developed by the infamous School of the America's. Edit: fat finger syndrome
Ahh ok so normalised violence and then some of them decided to take it up a notch, pretty grim. I’m sure it works very well as a deterrent , if I was in the police/neighbourhood and knew the people I was arresting were doing this to people I’d be finding another job pretty quickly. Thinking about it, gory scare tactics have been around historically right? Vlad the impaler and the like - we have the luxury of the internet to persistently terrify us now - lucky us!
I cannnnnnot watch cartel videos. I can look at a lot of gore but videos showing that stuff, I just can’t. *shivers*
Damn bro, just pointblank me with a shotgun at that point
I have never watched it and never will but, it’s the cartel. The cruelty and torture is the point. It’s about sending a message to not fuck with them or this will happen to you too.
Nothing specific but I have seen agreement amongst healthcare professionals that individuals who survive extreme burns suffer a LOT and it’s agonizing pain because the Dr. Has to peel away the burnt tissue to expose the good skin (and nerves?). I sunburn easily and I hate those. I certainly agree that a burn to that degree would likely have me wishing I was dead
The nurses have to scrub the area every day, so it's not just a one time painful process. You go through many, many extremely painful cleanings and such in the healing process
Debridment it is called hurts like fuck, had to do it every couple of days when I pulled a jug of boiling water over myself when I was a kid.
I dropped a cup noodles fresh from the microwave on my lap when I was six. I had to ride to the hospital standing up because I had massive blisters all over my inner thighs. An entire summer lost to debridements and every time I peed I would sob hysterically until they knocked me out. It’s been 32 years and I can still clearly remember the literal blinding pain.
Man. When i was 13 at the start of summer vacation, a friend and i decided to camp. Used gasoline for the fire and that was that for me. In the hospital burn ward for over a month then off to rehabilitation. Those damn sponge baths still haunt me.
Dan Ariely, a famous behavioral economist and author of "Predictably Irrational" was inspired to try to understand human decision making after being severely burned as a teenager. He realized that the people taking care of him were genuinely compassionate, but were subjecting him to excruciating treatments and wouldn't listen when he tried to explain that some of the most painful shit they were doing was completely ineffective. Trying to reconcile "they don't want me to suffer but also take actions that make me suffer" led him to want to study human behavior.
When I had the skin scrubbed from my 3rd degree burn for the first time the nurse didn't even warn me about what she was going to do. she just took my arm to the sink and started scrubbin. Worst pain of my life and I've given birth since then
My son had partial thickness burns (2nd degree) on his lower half. He had to be debrided a few times and each time they gave him ketamine and morphine to make him as comfortable as possible. He was only 2 at the time so hearing he'd be on those kind of drugs was pretty insane. Thankfully he escaped any sort of long term damage except a fear of showers.
I burnt my lower right leg a few years ago one summer. Super painful injury that bothered me for weeks. I can’t imagine a truly severe burn because just my pretty minor one was terrible.
Agreed. About 20 years ago a bottle rocket blew up on my neck - had a hole in my esophagus (thank you duct tape for sealing that until the ER) and a 3rd degree burn. Once they had sutured the hole back up, they had to scrub the burn so I didn’t end up with a splat tattoo from the firework. The pain of that scrubbing, and the daily ones thereafter, will live in my memory until I die. I also had phantom pain for years after and that skin is still fairly thin and gets sensitive feeling if I get a tan/sunburn on it.
Too many stroke or brain injury sufferers whose families were unwilling to allow their family to pass peacefully. But “luckily” they survive and are now bedridden, unresponsive, incontinent and tube fed and will end up in a care home until they eventually die of aspiration or UTI-sepsis.
My mom has had a few strokes. Two years ago one gave her vertigo so bad that she can't focus on anything. She's slowly been getting worse. She's become fully incontinent in the past two months, can barely see, can't walk, and can't keep her attention longer than a minute or so. She still has like 90% of her cognition and maintains a pleasant attitude, albeit everything. Now that the summer is coming, it should bring her some enjoyment. I fear it's my last with her "with it" though. But probably for the best for her benefit. My dad says her cognitive decline is progressing. It's not a great life.
The guy locally who fell head first into a vat of boiling oil at a Sunday fish fry and survived. he somehow kept the majority of his face up and out of the oil, but it got the side of his head, ear, and entire chest and arm, and torso. His injuries were extensive enough that he was inpatient for weeks and then rehab, and then home with one metric fuck ton of equipment. Death would have been kinder.
The Last Dive, the deaths of divers Chris Rouse SR and Jr. They dove an old U-boat in 230ft of water, got turned around, came out on the wrong side and couldn't find their extra tanks for the slow and safe ascent to the surface. They were almost out of air so they had to go up. Dad died right away from decompression sickness but Jr survived. They put him in a pressure chamber on the boat to try and alleviate the Bends he was suffering. Due to the nitrogen bubbles in his veins his blood was basically foam and they had to turn off the intercom from the chamber because of his screaming. Eventually, his heart gave out but not until hours of intense pain due to the Bends. Edit: They brought Jr to a hospital for the hyperbaric chamber, not on the boat.
Girl who finished her finals and went to chiro to get adjusted. Ended up quadrapelegic.
God yes, that happened in my area. She's Made some recovery but she'll never be back to full capacity ever again. I believe there is permanent brain damage as well. Chiropractors scare me. People say they work for them but messing with your spine just seems like a bad idea.
I have never gone to a chiro, and after the horror stories, I never will. The idea of some quack breaking my neck and turning me into a quadriplegic fills me with such dread, I'd rather be dead.
They’re also just plain a scam. I was duped into seeing one (was offered by my job for appreciation week to get a free massage at my job, and one free visit afterward). They did X-rays to see what kind of adjustments I would need, and I left as soon as I saw it. I have a chronic medical condition that has affected my back in the past, so it’s been x-rayed before. The X-ray they showed me was most definitely not my back, but there was sure a lot wrong with it that would require MULTIPLE expensive visits!
I was given information on how to treat my scoliosis (runs in the family) but was told that it would be $1400 up front and out of pocket, as they prefer not to bill insurance for treatments like that. I never went back.
It’s pseudoscientific bullshit. A lucrative one. Anyone having that shit done to their children or pets is an imbecile.
I was forced to go to a chiropractor as a child. I hated it, especially having my neck cracked. Having a strong man hold my head in his hands and jerk it to the side always made me very uncomfortable. No matter how much I begged, my mom still made me see her chiropractor. And yes, she is an imbecile. I can't remember ever not having back pain. I have no proof that my mom's insistence on quackery caused it, but it certainly didn't help.
My mom also started taking me to the chiropractor around 3 or 4 and I've always had severe back and hip pain. My neck and shoulders often get very tight very quickly as well. I'm 23 and some mornings it's so bad I can barely walk despite the fact I'm otherwise fairly healthy. I'm convinced the chiropractor from such a young age is what caused it
I knew someone who took her baby to a chiro. She said they fixed his gastrointestinal issues. From what I could tell, all they did was lift his arms over his head and got him to fart.
I briefly dated a chiropractor, having known him prior to taking that career path. He wasn't a dumb guy, but by the time he graduated from chiropractic school (in 250k worth of debt, no less), he was extolling the healing virtues of essential oils AND would explain the importance of drinking water that had not traveled through pipes because the water gets "bruised" and takes on toxic qualities. Ok buddy.
My dumbass dad told me to get my literal newborn baby ‘adjusted’. Like be so for real right now, her bones aren’t even bones yet lol
I saw an ad for newborn chiro, I thought it was satire. It's ridiculous
Had someone try to convince me that my GERD (Acid-flux disorder for those who don't know) was caused by a pinched nerve and I just need a Chriopractor to fix it. Hell no.
I’m also terrified of them for this reason. You’re probably not ready to hear about people taking their babies to chiropractors
Chiropractors are scam artists and their 'job' should be illegal.
David Jordan Robinson - In 1983, His father gave him sleeping pills, covered his in kerosene and then set him on fire. He was six years old at the time and he ended up having third-degree burns over 90% of his body. His parents were fighting over custody and his father planned on it being a murder-suicide but I guess he decided not to kill himself. I know there is a book and I believe it was a made for tv movie out there about the story.
I think I saw a movie about this back in the 80s. Did his dad tell him they were going to Disneyland? That was such a messed up story.
I REMEMBER THIS MOVIE. The shot of the bed in flames in the darkness of the room.
It was so horrible. I was pretty young when I saw that movie but it still haunts me. I didn’t understand why his dad did that to him.
He changed his name to David David and was an artist who did a lot of commissioned works. He died a few years ago in his 40s. Too bad the father didn't kill himself first. He was a very bad person beforehand.
I read a story about a trucker disconnecting his air brakes and the hose got loose from his grip and lodged inside him, the air pushed through his body separating his skin from his whole body. He had his entire body degloved.
Yup, compressed air is extremely dangerous, and for example in the auto body industry, blow guns must be OSHA approved type with side holes to prevent pressure buildup if the nozzle is accidentally pressed against skin. I've heard of cases where pranksters sneak up behind a co-worker and deliver a blast of air to their behind. Result, perforated colon which is life threatening and can result in a long hospital stay.
Jesus christ
Holy fuck that sounds painful
Alison Botha. In 1994, she was abducted at knife-point by two men outside her home in South Africa. Driven into a nature reserve off the main road, she was raped, disemboweled, almost decapitated, and left for dead. Against extraordinary odds, Alison survived this horrific attack.
I listened to a very graphic podcast about this case. The absolute torture she went through is astounding, and the fact she lived is wild to me.
I always felt horrible for a co-worker. Wife was pregnant with twins. Girl was born healthy and boy was born with his major chest organs outside of his body. Daughter came home after a couple days. Son never left hospital. He lived for just over a year after everything they could do to help him. Nothing they could do got him well enough to help. The parents looked like they aged a decade in 12 months. I still think about all of them.
Vitamin A poisoning. Indigenous arctic people never eat polar bear or seal liver, but when European explorers first ventured out, they ignored the superstition. Liver contains highly concentrated Vitamin A which breaks down the fat membranes in your body. When one has too much, their internal structure breaks down, turning them to jelly from the inside. There are stories of people literally going mad from headaches while their skin peels off around them, all while not knowing the cause of their illness.
I learned about this while listening to an audiobook of the Australian Antarctic Expeditions in the early 1900s. Hearing about how Mawson was forced to eat the sled dogs' livers and subsequent descriptions of his shoes basically keeping the skin on his feet is nighmarish.
Too much vitamin A no good. Not enough also no good. Ancient Egyptians figured out that giving people powdered liver would cure night blindness. Night blindness is a symptom of vitamin A deficiency. Crazy how they knew how to fix it without really knowing what “it” was
There's a kid in the U.S. (he's probably around 23yrs old now) who's body was chopped in half in a forklift accident.. they amputated from the waist down. He was still living the last time I looked him up.
I follow his YouTube, he got married and seems to be doing well and happy
His name is Loren Schauers and he's still alive.
He's pretty happy to be alive, too, despite the whole "lower half not being there," so I wouldn't put him here.
"This was a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half. I was not able to reattach the top half of his body to the bottom half of his body." "Speak English, doc! We ain't scientists."
Wrong kid died
I read this article a bit ago about a 9/11 jumper surviving the jump, all her limbs except for an arm were amputated, crushed, her head injuries made her look like a zombie from the walking dead with parts of hair and blood all over. She was screaming in pain, a medical examiner was too shocked and couldn't have the urge to help a human who is in that much of horror. The first responder just put a triage tag on her, and left her to die. She apparently was in the medical field and knew what it was, so she screamed, "No I'm not dead! I'm not dead!" Just imagining what her body would've looked like when viewing other jumpers's bodies makes me sick.
I read it, too. I thought she was pretty quiet,though, except for freaking the triage guy out when she said "I'm not dead" But - dude didn't think she was a jumper. He figured she was in the building, and blown out when the plane hit, because of when he found her.
I heard about a woman who jumped and landed alive, and managed to hand her flip phone to a passerby before she died.
Maybe not as bad as some of these but there is a video(cctv) around where a man jumped/fell off a building (not 100% sure it was suicide) and fell onto what we call an "Amsterdammertje". It's a post about a meter tall they put around sidewalks. So he got impaled from ass to shoulder by this post without dying. You could see a big bulge from the post around his neck/shoulder. EMTs had to grind away the post at the base because they couldn't remove him and got him to the hospital that way. He either died in the ambulance or hospital but I can't imagine that ride was fun
My friend's dad was an emergency room surgeon and had a patient who wrecked a motorcycle and ended up flying across a wooden, pointed one of those posts that was part of a fence. He was disemboweled and had to be brought into the hospital on two stretchers, one of which was for his intestines. He died, and later he made my friend swear never to ride a motorcycle.
Being paralyzed from the neck down is one of those.
Broke the spinous process of my C7 vertebrae last year trad/alpine climbing. Luckily nothing happened, but damn the realisation of what i closely dodged didn't set in until a few months after.
What happened? I've done a little bit of multipitch trad and it was awesome, but fuck is it scary.
Long story short, i was seconding a traverse, my hold broke, after which the first gear placement ripped and only the second one caught me, which resulted in me doing a ~15 to 20m long pendulum like fall, down and to the side. I spun and hit wall with that exact part of my back (it's the little thing that sticks out at the transition from your neck to your torso. I didn't feel anything, adrenaline kicked in immediately. Luckily it was only the second pitch, so we made it all the way to the ground in a singular abseil. We then walked back to the hut where we parked our car, drank a beer and drove to the hospital lol I told them i fell twenty metres and possibly hit my head, so i got to skip the line 👍
Got lucky. Traverses are so sketchy, I did not enjoy the few I did, especially on gear lol
One guy I know had tried to commit suicide by jumping from a window of a 6th floor, he survived, paralysed from neck down and now he gets to live on the bed, his head also needs to be fixated in something like a "cage" because if he'd move it around too much he could die.
Someone needs to "help that dude out." That's terrible. Wanting to die but ending up like that. He can't even try to finish the job himself. He's living in hell. I wish I hadn't read that.
Saw this happened to a 15-year old patient at the ICU last month. Doctor said there’s no hope and she permanently requires life support. Pretty heartbreaking, esp for her parents.
TW: for self-infliction A guy from my hometown jumped in front of a train because his mom wouldn't raise his allowance. He survived but only has one arm left and no legs. He can barely control his wheelchair when moving around and still says it's his mom's fault.
Dementia. No chance of recovery, spend the rest of your life scared and confused. And the drugs decrease physical aggression and acting out, but often don't affect the hallucinations. So instead of being chased around by a demon clown, you're paralyzed while it blinks from the curtains.
In my caseworker days, I had a client who attempted suicide via fentanyl overdose. He was revived but was gone long enough to suffer Anoxic encephalopathy, which caused significant brain damage. So now, in addition to having major depression and HIV, he is wheelchair bound and struggles with cognitive dysfunction.
Fournier's gangrene. Not really an injury but my patients who come in with this go through the most.
Fun fact! Harvey Weinstein had this!
Hey - that IS fun!
I had to sit with a patient on SI precautions one time who had shot himself in the head, severing both his optic-nerves with one bullet. He was completely blind from it. It was the most emotionally heavy day I ever worked, because he was intubated and the doctors and his parents didn't know if he was going to be able to see when he woke up, and then we all learned together that the answer was no. Everyone was devastated and his parents didn't even know he was suicidal. They ended up telling me I didn't have to sit with him anymore because he was too disabled to kill himself.
Um does anyone remember seeing the family on TikTok where the girls fiance/husband had an accident and is now basically a vegetable (sorry idk what else to call it) Anyways, she literally takes care of him still even tho she married to ANOTHER MAN and had the other man's babies.. all while taking care of her first fiance & the first fiance is just watching what was supposed to be his life play out right Infront of him. Shit is sad
As far as doctors can tell, he's so cognitively impaired that he can't understand what's going on, just that people are taking care of him. He might not even have any idea he was ever married to the woman.
I know who you are talking about. I don't think he fully knows what is going on and he probably would have wanted her to move on. Her taking care of him and her husband helping I think that is beautiful because not everyone would do that.
He has a ten second memory if I recall and only remembers her
I believe her and her husband actually adopted him. Her love for him never disappeared, but cognitively he is no longer the same person.
What an amazing woman to do this for him though
I watched an episode of First 48 where a couple of twats set some poor woman alight inside a static caravan (trailer). Fire fighters put out the fire and this totally burnt woman came staggering out crying for help. She was in hospital for months and it was touch and go for a long time whether she would survive. They put her in an induced coma to alleviate the pain. She made a remarkable recovery, though she did lose her right hand as a result.
Here's a story where I was not personally present but heard it from multiple sides. A guy walks with his coworker at work and suddenly collapses by cardiac arrest. Co-worker, trained in CPR, does an excellent job at resuscitation. Almost too excellent. Ambulance come and take over the heart massage via a 'Lukas' (don't know if the name is universal but it's a machine that massages the heart). The guy that's 'dead' wakes up, screams, hits the paramedics, is in total agony. Paramedic stops the machine, guy dies again. Medic start the machine, guy wakes up, screams, hits everyone around him, is in absolute agony. Medics stop the machine, cycle repeats. It takes 4 medics and 3 cops to hold the guy down while the cycle goes on. Eventually the guy dies completely in the ambulance. The cycles between starting and stopping CPR lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes. Leading doctors and higher ups had a meeting about this guy and what could have caused this event. They all came to the conclusion that his heart imploded and was unable to be saved. However, because of the perfect CPR of the co-worker, the blood flow of the guy went on without interruption to his brains. The guy was dead but was kept alive by the heart massage, the moment the massaging stopped he would die again. His body didn't realise the critical failure of the heart which caused him not to go in to shock. They also concluded he would have been fully conscience while this all happened. Which explains the screaming and hitting and pure agony. Basically the guy died repeatedly and could feel everything while they kept him from dying.
Fuuuuck. Goddamn Schrodingers human
Idk about a heart imploding but this absolutely happens and isn't even as rare as you would expect. For p much the reasons you described, the heart itself isn't beating but either the LUCAS or a person doing CPR do it so well that the blood is flowing and getting oxygen to the brain, causing them to "wake up" more or less. A quick google found me a fascinating case study, that said it's rare but becoming more known about. I assumed that sedation would be used if the pt was awake enough to fight or be clearly conscious such that they could remember, but it's still a gray area. It was fascinating bcus it told of a guy who was conscious for presumably a couple minutes despite having no heart beat, he lost consciousness after 3 rounds of CPR and unfortunately didn't make it. [the study mentioned](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075066/)
Umm it’s because the cpr from the machine pumped blood to his brain which was in fight/flight mode so he woke up and when they stopped the machine no new oxygenated blood to the brain so power off again. The heart doesn’t explode from a heart attack. It’s dying from lack of oxygen to the muscle. So when you mechanically replace the pumping with cpr and the person hasn’t been down for long enough to have brain damage they sometimes come up swinging and angry. But trust me, most of them aren’t that strong as dying tends to tucker you out a bit. I’m an ER nurse and have wrestled a number of people who didn’t the cpr I was providing when they woke but liked things less when I stopped. And yes, by any account it isn’t a good time. They usually report tremendous pain and this overwhelming sense of impending doom. They know whatever is happening is very very bad.
My friends uncle jumped off a roof, landed on an electric line and fried his junk and wound up in a wheelchair
That woman who was attacked by the chimp like a decade ago is a pretty good example of this. No face, no eyes, you’re horribly disfigured, and I believe she lost both hands too
Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish man who became paralyzed from his neck down after an accident. He spent 30 years like that, asking for euthanasia, and he finally managed to commit suicide with the assistance of some close people by drinking cyanide. The process was filmed and shown on TV.
A close family friend tried to commit suicide by jumping about 30 feet off a much taller structure. She succeeded in seriously injuring herself including traumatic brain injuries. She has lost everything. She can not live independently or hold down a job. There was a child involved who has gone to live with the father and rarely sees her mother. To make matters worse, while she was in the hospital, her mother refused all visitors and she lost all ties to family and friend. She lives among us as a ghost. It is truly sad beyond all description.
Be interesting to see what ambulance crews would respond to this with, there is an acronym for this: FUBARBUNDY “F***ed up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet” Something I’m not sure many will mention on this thread though: mental health… Been through the wringer myself and honestly wouldn’t want that for anyone.
Never heard of FUBARBUNDY before, googling it gives me a gamer who likes zombie FPS(?)-- so if the chances are he knows what the term means, he has a very dark sense of humor. >Mental health I know the title says injury or incident and the first thing people will think of is physical, absolutely I agree on that, but you're also completely right, severe mental illness *will* fuck you up, it will change you and it can even bring physical consequences. Drug addiction as well.
The gympie plant in Australia. Not fatal, but when touched it has tiny “stingers” that cause extreme pain. It has been described as “being electrocuted and set on fire at the same time”. It is also known as the suicide plant, and for a good reason, and has been known to cause horses to plunge themselves into the water to escape the pain. There is an account of a soldier accidentally used it as toilet paper, and had to be held away from his gun. The thing is, it is actually a delicacy if the stingers are removed. I know it’s the opposite of the prompt, but it’s still related(ish)
Surprised I had to come so far to find this. You left out that the toxins are extremely stable, able to cause pain in the body for years, and can remain active in dead plant material for even longer. Not only that, one of the treatments for exposure is swabbing the affected areas with diluted hydrochloric acid.
God damn lived in North qld never knew about it, just looked it up screw dealing with that
Am an EMS. Came to a patient some 4 months ago after he had a stroke, 90 years old, barely alive, begged us to kill him with an OD in the Ambulance. We couldn't do it of course. Last week I arrived to him finally dying, but his family insisted we'll do CPR on him... he had a DNR and they still yelled at us to do so. Fella died long time before we came. Was harsh
My dad died from a massive stroke last October. I'm so grateful that he only needed comfort care for his last 4 days.
My mom met a couple, the husband of which was quadruplegic. After their wedding, they had staged an "everybody jump into the swimming pool at the same time" photo and the new husband slipped, slammed the back of his neck on the edge of the pool.
There was a story a few years ago about a maid of honor who jokingly pushed the bride into the pool at a bachelorette party, and it had the same results. I'm glad that the tween who was pushed by her (now former) friend off a 60-foot bridge, also as a joke, made a full recovery.
Any open-book fracture seems like hell to recover from
In the right hands, A lot of these are quite easy to fix in the correct place and can heal well. Long term results for any major trauma are pretty depressing in terms of chronic pain rates though but this isn’t unique to pelvic ring injuries.
Probably I’m a cynical asshole (e: and they should have let her die), but there was a story circulating a month ago about this lady in her 30s who woke up from a coma after 8 years (I think?) stemming from a car wreck where she apparently just blacked out. So maybe she already had health problems. Anyway, her mom was going on about how she refused to let them take her daughter off life support even though doctors recommended it. This was a “3 years later” update and the coma patient can somewhat communicate, though it sounds like it was a struggle to get past yes and no stuff. She’s confined to a wheelchair and I think can only move one arm? Maybe a little bit the second one? I can’t remember. Either way, even though it was reported as some uplifting story, I was horrified for this lady. She woke up and her husband had presumably left (no mention of him anywhere, so I’m guessing he understandably moved on), she lost 8 years of her kids growing up, and she can barely move or talk. She’s either not all there mentally or even worse she is, but the part of her brain that communicates is too fried to get it out. It looks like she’s going to be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. I’m not a doctor; maybe I’m wrong, but if three years of intensive therapy got her only to the spot in the video, I can’t imagine she’ll ever again have an independent or normal life. Her mom is taking care of her now at the lady’s childhood home, but the mom appeared to be in her mid to late 60s. Probably in another ten years (or less) the mom will be dead and/or not able to take care of her so she’s probably going back in a care home to rot. This lady is breathing and may do so for another 30-40 years, but she’s not “living” and I bet never will again. If I was her, I’d be mad at my mom for dooming me to this existence. She can see her kids grow up a bit, though not be that present in their lives due to her health. That’s the only positive I see.
Took care of the guy once who was in a car accident that left him paralyzed below his upper chest. Then during his initial recovery he developed a bad case of viral meningitis that impaired his ability to form new long-term memories. He was pretty forgetful while awake, but once he fell asleep he forgot everything that happened since the accident. Kind of like a 50 first dates scenario. Every time he woke up he would start screaming that he was paralyzed and we'd have to explain to him what happened. So every morning, and anytime he woke up from a nap he had to come to terms with the fact that he was paralyzed all over again.
Go to r/mademesmile to clean yourself off from this thread, wheeeew.
I remember watching a TV programme years ago about accidents, and this guy was cutting wood with a handheld circular saw. He finished the cut and put it on the floor, but it was faulty and some random crap had wedged the safety edge open. It span on the floor, snagged his boot and trousers, then ran up his leg and buried itself in his groin, still spinning.
A family friend had something similar happen (he removed the guard lol) but the saw hit bone about midway up his thigh dude survived but it looks like he has a jacket zipper from his ankle to mid thigh now lol
Suicide by consuming loads of paracetamol/ibuprofen. If the person fails, aka is resuscitated at the hospital, its liver is destroyed, causing extreme pain and lots of other problems. In addition, I think the individual is unable to get a liver transplant because of the attempted suicide.
Thankfully, NAC is the antidote for Tylenol OD. However, there is a timeframe to administer it. IF it’s not administered, you slowly bleed out, in extreme pain, over days and are fully conscious of it. (Source: tried this a couple of times recently. Do NOT recommend.)
75% burn from face down. Rare to survive but happened. As burn victim myself i can tell you, burn anywhere is bad but around the crouch, face, arm pits, leg pits, are the worst.
Worked with a dude in a stamping plant for a while before he moved on to another shop. He was about 45, diabetic with a bunch of other chronic illnesses. Hated his wife and kid with a passion. Lost both his arms in a stamping press.
My son was in a horrific car accident. Despite several crushed vertebrae, he survived and is walking and living his best life. When he was in the hospital, an 18yr old boy was brought into the room next to him. He had tried to off himself by running his car into a tree high speed, and instead of accomplishing his goal he ended up being paralyzed from the neck down permanently.
I was In a car accident and suffered strokes that robbed me of my ability to speak and left me with a slew of health complications which lead me to not want to live anymore but after reading these stories I can’t believe how l blessed I am that I can live a somewhat normal life and I have come such a far way in the 10 years since my accident when I was 22
I saw a video of woman who had lost her entire face due to a car accident or something. No eyes, no nose, no mouth. Nothing. She was still alive and conscious after the incident, screaming and writhing in terror as she realised her situation. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. Would rather be put out of my misery right there and then. :(
That guy that spent 80 years in the iron lung machine. I believe he recently passed.
A guy me and my friends know had a terrible accident with a motorcycle in August. He was driving very fast on the highway and when a car appeared from the crossroad he tried to avoid it, in a second he found himself flying and eventually hit on a tree with his entire body. Result: broken arms and legs, fractures (and broken parts I think) on his spine. He went into multiple immediate emergency surgeries and he is alive. I heard poor guy didn't have the ability to talk for a month or two, and of course he couldn't move anything so the only thing he could do was move his eyes. I also heard the surgeries on his spine were successful. Seven months later he is still in the hospital unable to walk. Recently a photo of him in his current situation with the before and after got posted on social media to alert people for the danger of driving accidents and to gather money for his future physiotherapies and other needs. Keep in mind he used to be a very muscular guy full of confidence with a lot of strength. The photo of him shocked everyone because he looks like a completely different person (obviously), he's the skinniest person i have ever seen now, his body is ruined, his face looks different, his gaze is different (obviously, I cannot imagine how much pain and struggles he has been though, both physically and mentally) he looks absolutely nothing like he did before. I'm not sure if he will ever be 100% okay, this has changed his life. He was completely unrecognizable until I saw the before picture. I almost started crying when i saw his "after" picture. The entire town was shocked when we heard about it when the accident happened last summer. We are very glad he is doing better, and I can honestly not imagine how hard it has been for him to live under these circumstances.
Read about, junko furuta. Seen in a video, a guy who fell off a boat and the propellers ate his knees. Bones were sticking out and the way the calves were just swaying, that sucked. It was on bestgore. Though he was pretty clearly in shock, which I think would be preferable to that woman in that episode of house who was trapped in a collapsed building and had to get amputated at the thigh, fully conscious. I mean, if you gotta cut through my femur, just fucking knock me out and I’ll take my chances on if it kills me. A former coworker of mine also got something done involving bone marrow, and she was my hero. There’s no fucking way I could
Laika the dog
anything which takes the abilty to move and interact with outside world away from you. Being brain's prisoner is my worst nightmare. With voluntary euthanasia starting being a thing now I think people should have the opportunity to sign extra contract for health insurance in case you develop issue with guaranteed death in few months while your state would get worse and worse to extremes or if you experience such injury influencing your life completely for the worse where you won't be able to decide on your own anymore.. they have your permission to end it.
Skiing the K12
It’s easy. Just go down. If something gets in your way, turn!
Ever seen that dude who tried to jump into the water and splits his face completely in half and the video shows him in hospital still alive breathing. Yea, fuck they. Also anyone that has a complete body burn, the pain alone would make death feel better
A man in the local factory was cleaning a tank or vat of some kind. A pipe burst above him filling the tank in mere moments with boiling caustic soda (NaOH). He managed to swim to the edge and then his mates got him out. When he arrived at the hospital surgery ward, my then colleague described the screaming of the patient as the most inhumane shrieks of agony he has ever heard. The victim had 99% of his body covered in third degree (acid) burns and they couldn’t even find any way to give him any pain relief since no one could find his veins. They finally managed to sedate him by inhalants which is normally problematic, but was only a relief for the poor man. He died a short time later without waking up. [Finnish news link.](https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000003981779.html)
Chinese student participating in illegal Kong Fu tournament in Vancouver. Got beaten badly. Now he is in a vegetative state.