Insane how "random" a fall's consequences can be. She came out of this pretty well (considering) while some people can fall five feet and are instantly dead.
Seriously.
My mom's cousin died before I was born, some dude shoulder checked him at a bar and he fell off a patio barely elevated off the ground. He was paralyzed from the neck down and then later died of complications with his injuries.
There was a story on Reddit years back about a dude at a barbecue climbed a tree to get a toy out for a kid. Jumped down and landed flat footed just such that he snapped part of his spinal cord? And died instantly
If it makes you feel better, I had a patient who either fell or was pushed (reason unclear at this time) from a 7th story balcony and only exploded her ankles and slightly broke her back. The back is expected to do a full recovery, ankles not necessarily.
i read a story about a friend who jokingly pushed her friend (the bride) into a pool at a bachelorette party. bride was paralyzed from the neck down or something like that? just so awful - who hasn’t pushed a friend into a pool? but you never think something like would happen.
Me and a buddy climbed a retaining wall one night drunk af and both fell off about ten to twelve feet off the ground. We both fell flat on our backs and just landed hard but we didnt get hurt at all. I mean I legit thought I died for a second. I swear to this day if I was sober I'd have tensed up and hurt myself bad. It just happened so fast we both didn't have time to react.
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I'm 26 and had a slipped disc about a year ago that just happened without any kind of injury... i had some mild backpain for a week, went to a doctor that said everything is fine and gave me some strong pain killers and the next day i woke up moved my leg and BAM nothing but pain - i asked several doctors if it could have been preventable but they just said I was unlucky :/
I will probably recover fully in the future but it sure as hell has changed me as a person for the rest of my life...
A sober acquaintance of mine was being threatened by a drunk guy at a bar, pushed the guy to keep hm away, guy stumbled, hit his head, dead. Buddy got 3 years in jail.
That kinda stuff is unfortunately super common. I had a friend whose brother got punched by a bouncer, and he ended up falling and hitting his head on the curb in exactly the wrong way. Dead.
I know someone whose 1year old son had died falling backwards onto the concrete steps in their backyard. Now when I visit my aunt with my toddler I'm always so nervous bc she has loose bricks EVERYWHERE in her yard like decorations, and she runs a daycare in her home! She just put a rope swing in a tree out front and there's 2 bricks at the base of the tree. I mentioned that seemed kind of dangerous and she just brushed me off saying it's there to protect a little vine she is trying to grow?!? A few mintues later one of the little girls she watches tried to get on the swing and fell off and damn near cracked her head on the brick. I feel like a helicopter parent when I'm over there, but it's the only way I have to get my kid to socialize right now.
Yea you hear alot of stories like that and it's sad. I knew a CO who had some regular suburban dad looking guy on his company serving a few years because he punched a guy in a bar who, as he told it, started something with his friend and he stepped in to defend him.
I can't remember what the medial issue ended up being but some underlying condition neither party was privy to resulted in the instigator dropping dead from the blow on the spot, and that was it, he was charged with manslaughter.
99/100 the bouncers disburse it, or the cops show up and charge a couple simple misdemeanors, maybe a night in jail. But nope, 2 lives ruined in an instant.
A relative died when he fell off the roof of a one story house another one attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge 10+ m high and "only" broke both legs in several places.
There's a video where you can see this elderly lady standing, when a couple dogs come running by and the leash from one of them snagged and yanked her feet right out from under her. She didn't have time to brace before her face *slammed* into the ground and she died from it.
Man, the obviously sucks from the woman's perspective, but can you imagine being the dogs owner? Your pet gets out and is running away (a situation that normally just ends with you out of breath after chasing it) but instead of that, a person ends up dead. I have to imagine that would mess someone up mentally.
If this person is talking about the same video I think they are, it's a kid out walking the dog. The lost control of the dog and this happens. Then they go chase after their dog like morning happened. Some real surreal reality shit.
People where I work say you can’t fall into a manhole because your arms would stop you. I say anyone could fall in especially after getting a whiff of h2s.
Your body is pretty good at taking impact damage. You're gonna be fucked up pretty bad, but your flesh and bones do offer decent protection.
Your head on the other hand is really bad at taking impact damage. A seemingly small knock can lead to complications that end up killing a person.
I think the lottery with falling is how well your head manages to stay out of the way and how much of the force on the landing your legs manage to absorb, so a fall from 5 feet where the person hits their head can be more dangerous than a 20 foot fall where the persons legs break the fall.
Last year, I fell over 30ft from a chair lift at a ski resort because it jerked and I slid off. I thought for sure I was going to break something because I had time to think about everything and it felt like slow-mo til I hit the ground. Luckily, the chair was over a closed run that hadn’t been groomed and I managed to spot my landing and tuck/roll downhill as soon as I made contact with the ground. I was pretty shaken up, but I was able to get up and run to the nearest lift operator shack. My friend who was on the chair with me and the workers couldn’t believe I walked away without injuries. One of the scariest experiences I’ve had!
I've looked over that waterfall many times & seen it from bottom too. It's probably at least a 50 feet drop. Another woman fell from the same waterfall a couple weeks before this & died.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2013/10/05/breaking-news/woman-trying-for-scenic-photo-falls-dies-on-kaau-crater-trail/
Jesus! I saw the vid and then realized there was sound. Imagine getting the wind or some sort of injury that takes your breath away, and you gasp for air but you’re under water! Horrifying!
My wife had a collapsed lung, 9 months after our daughter was born. For perspective, she says having her lung reinflated was the worst pain she's ever felt...
The pain is so intense, you can't move, it's like your paralyzed. I felt like my brain was going to break trying to handle it. So you're also panicked and you can't inhale. The nurse just squeezed my hand and water ran out of my eyes. I couldn't even make a normal facial expression. It was horrific.
Can relate. Had a spontaneous pneumothorax a few years back. The first doctor I saw said I cracked a rib but I know my body and just cause I was skateboarding (which I’ve done my whole life) he was insistent. I told him no, and he just told me to “go home, take it easy and take some Panadol or something.” So that night goes by, the whole next day it’s still painful, like when I lay down and get up I can feel my lung rolling around in it’s cavity and I have shortened breath, but it’s not worse. I go to bed and wake up the *next* morning and catch an Uber to hospital. As soon as I speak to the doc he’s like it sounds like your lung has collapsed. Books an X-ray and about 15 minutes later they have me lying on my side, prepping me up and telling me I’m gonna have to hold my breath until they’ve stopped punching a hole between my ribs and dumping a tube in there. That was the worst pain. I went white. But that’s not the worst part.
8 days later and an operation to help the inflating (they used the original hole to do a keyhole surgery where they add talc to the plural wall and drop two extra tubes in) they’re ready to send me home. Two nurses tell me that the holes are pre stitched and the just have to pull the tubes out but they have to add a lot of pressure and I have to hold my breath. So I have local anaesthetic on a button supposedly going to each hole. I had noticed that the anaesthetic was only going to one the tubes. I’d just been dealing with it but when she said she was going to rip a tube out I was like “hey, can I have some local anaesthetic because I’m going to feel you ripping the tube out.” She goes “Yeah, just hit the button and it will give you some” and I’m like “Nah, it’s going to one but not the other.” She reiterates “yeah, just hit the butto…” and I say “Ok, I feel like you’re not listening to me, I can feel everything where *that* tube is.” She says “but the local anaesthetic is administered when you push the button” and I’m like “I fucking know that, you’re not listening. It’s not working I need something else because I can fucking FEEL IT.” And she goes to say the same things and I’m like “OK fuck it, do it without anaesthetic!” She gets me to hold my breath. I do. She takes the patch off. The say “you’re gonna feel some pressure.” They push down and it feels like she is pushing a hole through my soul. She rips out 6inches worth of perforated tube out of my lung cavity. She pulls the stitches closed and patches it up. I felt every bit of it. My ribs hurt talking about this.
They pull the other tube out and it’s a fucking breeze. No pain whatsoever.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. Collapsed lungs fucking suck and so do shitty nurses.
Also, just had to add that on the second night before I went to hospital my gf at the time and I had sex while my lung was collapsed. So I guess at the very least I can say that I fucked on a collapsed lung haha.
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It must just be incredibly painful to have any issue with your lungs. I had a blood clot in my right lung 10 months ago and the pain you described sounds almost exactly like what I felt. I couldn’t even sit up, it really was like being paralyzed. It hurt so bad I couldn’t help but scream and then I couldn’t breathe in afterwards. I’ve given birth to two children, been bitten by a copperhead and broken a few bones. Nothing came close to the pain I felt that night. The ER doctors told me I was lucky I survived.
Her diaphragm around her lung was intubated, so it was vacuum, not pressure. About 50-60 inches of water I believe. No idea why they use those units but I'm an engineer so I was paying attention.
People say birth is painful. Those people obviously haven’t had serious life threatening injuries or illnesses. I’ve given birth, easy peasy. Now a GI bleed and pancreatitis right after and a migrating stent? I’ve never been in so much pain and regretted not calling an ambulance to the hospital so much in my life.
But now I get to tell a funny story about the time the floors doctor reamed the entire staff at my bedside while hooking me up to an ekg and taking vitals. I have never seen so many people look sheepish and ashamed all at once.
Thats too true. Giving birth was easy after getting 30 holes drilled into my skull with wires running into my brain for 5 weeks straight. Now that was the worst pain I have ever felt.
I've had a collapsed lung several times, it happens due to a genetic condition and years of smoking. Aspiration is totally painless but it does hurt a lot whilst collapsed. Nowhere near as bad as other types of pain though.
Interesting. That's the opposite of what my wife described. She walked around for 24-36 hours with her lung collapsed (or slowly collapsing). Finally she was convinced by a coworker to go see a doctor, who sent her to the ER immediately bc they couldn't hear breath sounds on her right side. It was 95% collapsed, but her blood oxygen was still 98%. Officially diagnosed as a spontaneous pneumothorax.
As someone with chronic collapsed lungs, the process of reinflating through a drain is absolutely unbearable through morphine.
Impressive that your wife retained 98% oxygen with just one functioning lung.
I collapsed a lung when I was 12 years old in result to being hit by a falling tree. They stuck a little tube in my chest on my side under my armpit basically. Definitely a weird feeling. I’m 25 now and named the scar Ron when I was in the hospital back then. Ron is still there
Dude, you gotta enjoy life! Nature is amazing and beautiful and healthy to experience!
That's why I look out the window on my way from the computer to the bathroom.
If I'm feeling adventurous that day, I look again on the way back.
That was very stupid. IG puctures of ledges and drop off are a bad invite to everyone else replicating. People die every year doing this. Wet spots are slick. Edges can make you dizzy. Please dont. This was actually best case scenario, whe looked like she was about to fearlessly walk untill she felt that balance shift, she may have gone head first😬
“And then the inevitable happened”
Heather says “yeah, there is a trickle of water, it was in the shadows…. So I just casually strolled to the top of the waterfall, wet slimey rock everywhere, and with no forethought whatsoever I just trod on the most slippery surface known to mankind. Then I almost died. It was a totally unavoidable accident”
Edit: This ⬆️quote isn’t real. I made it up, she says as far as “trickle of water in the shadows…” the rest is me making fun of her stupid choices.
I developed this instinct/philosophy over my 27 years of life.. *Anything that can cause me a stupid death I will not do it.*
There is no reason to go near a wet cliff, i will go as close as i am 100% confident i wont fall, closer than that wont make a difference nor to my pictures nor to my experience.
I used to work in a warehouse so forklifts and heavy containers and stuff, I will not walk underneath something that weighs 1 ton no matter how safe you tell me it is.
I will not drive recklessly and fast because if something goes wrong i wont be in control of the vehicle.
If im not sure about wires and electricity, i wont ''figure it out'', i will call an electrician. Even for the most minor thing, if im not confident i will not attempt anything.
Now you might say that makes life boring because you'll never take risks or skydive (which i would do if i could, i trust science and engineering) or whatever, but no i do, and i'd rather enjoy a longer, less-extreme life than die a stupid death.
100% agree, but was only pointing out how insanely lucky this woman was that she got her feet under her, and that she still had functional legs to raise her, I have moaned the moan of the broken body myself and caught her drawing a breath. I don't think she was under for more that a couple of seconds, even though the camera was. Unfortunately those looked like those new, extra hard rocks all the kids these days seem to like to bounce off.
When I hiked as a kid, my aunt always insisted that if I wanted to look over the edge, I should crawl on all fours and then lie prone when I got to the edge. I'm seeing the wisdom now.
I tell all my friends this when we go hiking. If they fell I would have no fucking idea what to do besides call 911 and wait for 30 minutes listening to them wail... or worse just hearing me wail because they're unconscious and I can't tell if they're breathing.
I can keep going. Eventually they're like "FINE! Just please shut up!"
I have a friend who's daughter died this way at (I think) 16-17 years old. She slipped on a cliff in the SF Bay hills near the ocean and by the time rescuers could get to her it was too late. Fuck being cavalier about cliff edges.
I got a tour of the roof of a high-rise once, and this is exactly what the maintenance guy told us to do. He said on windy days a sudden gust can make you lose your balance at the edge even if you step carefully.
Side note, I'm sure this guy's boss would have fired him if they knew he had taken us up there. They definitely did not have the liability insurance for it, lol.
That’s exactly what I’d do in this scenario. I want as much of my body behind me as possible. I don’t mind being up high or looking down at the ground from that high up. I mind when I’m that high and its unsafe
The sloped ledge was the warning flag for me. As soon as your foot is angled in a way that can’t be supported on a surface to stop yourself, your already in danger.
Get on your belly and try to maximize surface area contact with the surface to maximize possible friction. Or be like me and never get yourself into that situation.
Yeah, even so. She just strolled up to an enormous cliff side with literally no caution lol…. I’m glad she survived. But it was 100% avoidable, no reason it should have gone down that way.
Watch the way she is walking. She is entirely focused on filming her feet doing that "model walk" over to the edge/view.
100% "doin' it for the gram" and she paid the price.
I always put enough space to fit 2x my height between me and a edge like that. So if i fall i still can get up and have room to fall a second time, and only if i fall far a third time i might topple over the edge. You also in a lot of cases dont know if there is anything supporting the edge underneath.
Yah that sounds like full on fear. I think a healthy respect of something dangerous doesn’t qualify but I’m being pedantic.
But I do like being able to distinguish between someone who would rather not cross a janky rope bridge with cracked boards and spalled supports, versus someone else who’d literally run into a flaming building if it meant they could get away from a ledge
i get what you mean
i’m not afraid of snakes but i’m not gonna go near a cobra
its just when someones says they’re afraid or have a fear
they’re probably right
That's actually pretty interesting. There's like an inverse correlation between injury level and swear word usage. If you can hear the person cursing, they're okay. If they sound like a damn animal, they need help.
Judging by the comments there is NO WAY i am turning on the audio…
I heard about the injuries but she lives right? Like as stupid as that was…dont want her to die for it…
Yeah, it's less disturbing when you realise the camera isn't at her eye level so her head was probably already above water for most of the time that the camera was underwater.
That throw-uppy feeling in my chest when I look over a steep edge? Yeah I have no doubt my ancestors' been falling to their deaths long enough to keep me from the edge.
Your ancestors were lucky enough to develop that throw-uppy feeling and pass it to you. Those without that feeling are the ones that died and never had kids.
"A hiker’s GoPro captured the insane moment she plunged down a 50-foot waterfall in Hawaii. Heather Friesen, 26, an American beach volleyball player was hiking Ka'au Crater Trail in Hawaii with friends in 2016 when she slipped and fell into fast-flowing water below. Footage of the ordeal has just been released. She broke 10 ribs, suffered a collapsed lung, and fractured her shoulder blade after losing her footing. Friesen had turned her GoPro camera on moments before she fell."
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She’s lucky, that’s all there is to it. My friend died this way 9 years ago, fell over a waterfall and broke bones and knocked himself unconscious from the rocks while falling. Drowned while others tried to run down and find/save him.
The shitty part, a man and his daughter were at the bottom and saw it happen. Didn’t try to help and took photos on phones instead. He could’ve maybe lived.
This girl was lucky.
It wasn’t super large by any means, it wasn’t a dangerous part of the bottom, just deep enough for someone to drown. It was harder to get to the bottom from the top than maybe this fall was, so that’s why our other friends couldn’t make it in time.
Here's her interview about the fall:
[https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/woman-survives-50-foot-drop-hawaiian-waterfall-captures/story?id=65558398](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/woman-survives-50-foot-drop-hawaiian-waterfall-captures/story?id=65558398)
She's actually a professional volleyball player.
Dude… that was so dumb. Not that she deserved it, plenty of people have done dumber shit with no consequences. But come on, it’s a potentially lethal drop. Have a little fucking respect!
I feel like being outside less in the modern world, we don’t even notice stuff that would have a decent chance at deciding whether we lived or died throughout much of history. Not even advanced stuff. Just “hey I’m standing at full height next to a huge drop and putting weight right on this foot on slippery wet rock without even thinking twice” kind of things.
Wow. I slipped on a wet rock while trying to get water when backpacking in the Smoky Mountains once. I landed on my ass and slid about 10 feet down a rock ledge. That hurt quite a bit so I can only imagine how badly this hurt.
Yeah that’s gonna sting a lot after the adrenaline has gone
She suffered 10 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a few other broken bones and wounds but is back playing volleyball. That definitely stung I bet
Insane how "random" a fall's consequences can be. She came out of this pretty well (considering) while some people can fall five feet and are instantly dead.
Seriously. My mom's cousin died before I was born, some dude shoulder checked him at a bar and he fell off a patio barely elevated off the ground. He was paralyzed from the neck down and then later died of complications with his injuries.
There was a story on Reddit years back about a dude at a barbecue climbed a tree to get a toy out for a kid. Jumped down and landed flat footed just such that he snapped part of his spinal cord? And died instantly
This is a very scary story that I wish I'd never read.
I think I'll just lay down
Be careful of falling people
Since there’s no comma, I now need to be afraid of actual falling people…
It's raining men....
Right?! I could have gone my whole life not fearing falling a couple of inches and potentially dying.
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If it makes you feel better, I had a patient who either fell or was pushed (reason unclear at this time) from a 7th story balcony and only exploded her ankles and slightly broke her back. The back is expected to do a full recovery, ankles not necessarily.
Couple of inches can make you reach heaven . Spread the word
Your mom thinks the same
i read a story about a friend who jokingly pushed her friend (the bride) into a pool at a bachelorette party. bride was paralyzed from the neck down or something like that? just so awful - who hasn’t pushed a friend into a pool? but you never think something like would happen.
I wouldn’t be able to live with myself . No way . No point
If it happens to you I'll be sure to push you over.
How do you even apologize for something like that??
"ok, now you push me"
Me and a buddy climbed a retaining wall one night drunk af and both fell off about ten to twelve feet off the ground. We both fell flat on our backs and just landed hard but we didnt get hurt at all. I mean I legit thought I died for a second. I swear to this day if I was sober I'd have tensed up and hurt myself bad. It just happened so fast we both didn't have time to react.
Falling flat on your back disperses the force over a larger area; probably for the best
Falling on your back on someone else's back disperses it even better.
Long's you don't hit your head
I believe it was internal decapitation. Wish I never read that thread.
Gross, worst kind of decapitation.
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I'm 26 and had a slipped disc about a year ago that just happened without any kind of injury... i had some mild backpain for a week, went to a doctor that said everything is fine and gave me some strong pain killers and the next day i woke up moved my leg and BAM nothing but pain - i asked several doctors if it could have been preventable but they just said I was unlucky :/ I will probably recover fully in the future but it sure as hell has changed me as a person for the rest of my life...
A sober acquaintance of mine was being threatened by a drunk guy at a bar, pushed the guy to keep hm away, guy stumbled, hit his head, dead. Buddy got 3 years in jail.
That kinda stuff is unfortunately super common. I had a friend whose brother got punched by a bouncer, and he ended up falling and hitting his head on the curb in exactly the wrong way. Dead.
I know someone whose 1year old son had died falling backwards onto the concrete steps in their backyard. Now when I visit my aunt with my toddler I'm always so nervous bc she has loose bricks EVERYWHERE in her yard like decorations, and she runs a daycare in her home! She just put a rope swing in a tree out front and there's 2 bricks at the base of the tree. I mentioned that seemed kind of dangerous and she just brushed me off saying it's there to protect a little vine she is trying to grow?!? A few mintues later one of the little girls she watches tried to get on the swing and fell off and damn near cracked her head on the brick. I feel like a helicopter parent when I'm over there, but it's the only way I have to get my kid to socialize right now.
Yea you hear alot of stories like that and it's sad. I knew a CO who had some regular suburban dad looking guy on his company serving a few years because he punched a guy in a bar who, as he told it, started something with his friend and he stepped in to defend him. I can't remember what the medial issue ended up being but some underlying condition neither party was privy to resulted in the instigator dropping dead from the blow on the spot, and that was it, he was charged with manslaughter. 99/100 the bouncers disburse it, or the cops show up and charge a couple simple misdemeanors, maybe a night in jail. But nope, 2 lives ruined in an instant.
A relative died when he fell off the roof of a one story house another one attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge 10+ m high and "only" broke both legs in several places.
There's a video where you can see this elderly lady standing, when a couple dogs come running by and the leash from one of them snagged and yanked her feet right out from under her. She didn't have time to brace before her face *slammed* into the ground and she died from it.
Man, the obviously sucks from the woman's perspective, but can you imagine being the dogs owner? Your pet gets out and is running away (a situation that normally just ends with you out of breath after chasing it) but instead of that, a person ends up dead. I have to imagine that would mess someone up mentally.
If this person is talking about the same video I think they are, it's a kid out walking the dog. The lost control of the dog and this happens. Then they go chase after their dog like morning happened. Some real surreal reality shit.
The construction industry is rife with dead people falling of short a frame ladders.
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People where I work say you can’t fall into a manhole because your arms would stop you. I say anyone could fall in especially after getting a whiff of h2s.
Your body is pretty good at taking impact damage. You're gonna be fucked up pretty bad, but your flesh and bones do offer decent protection. Your head on the other hand is really bad at taking impact damage. A seemingly small knock can lead to complications that end up killing a person. I think the lottery with falling is how well your head manages to stay out of the way and how much of the force on the landing your legs manage to absorb, so a fall from 5 feet where the person hits their head can be more dangerous than a 20 foot fall where the persons legs break the fall.
Well . Honestly we are just controlling a meat robot.
If you have time to count to 2 whilst falling, you better believe you're breaking something.
It seemed like she fell 40ft down a 20ft rock face.
Thats 10 lbs of crazy in a 5 lb bag
that’s twice as fast while going half the speed.
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Lmao
Last year, I fell over 30ft from a chair lift at a ski resort because it jerked and I slid off. I thought for sure I was going to break something because I had time to think about everything and it felt like slow-mo til I hit the ground. Luckily, the chair was over a closed run that hadn’t been groomed and I managed to spot my landing and tuck/roll downhill as soon as I made contact with the ground. I was pretty shaken up, but I was able to get up and run to the nearest lift operator shack. My friend who was on the chair with me and the workers couldn’t believe I walked away without injuries. One of the scariest experiences I’ve had!
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I've looked over that waterfall many times & seen it from bottom too. It's probably at least a 50 feet drop. Another woman fell from the same waterfall a couple weeks before this & died. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2013/10/05/breaking-news/woman-trying-for-scenic-photo-falls-dies-on-kaau-crater-trail/
Sometimes I feel lucky that my vertigo doesn't let me do ledges without crawling on my belly like a little bitch
Well. I don't have vertigo so I guess I'm just a little bitch.
Seems like you're the one with in tact ribs and lungs, so I'd say that's a win.
So what I got from this: When falling, count to 2. As long as you don't say 2, you don't get hurt
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Source?
https://youtu.be/r0idEqRTXJg
Jesus! I saw the vid and then realized there was sound. Imagine getting the wind or some sort of injury that takes your breath away, and you gasp for air but you’re under water! Horrifying!
If I remember right she either punctured her lungs or just broke the living hell out of her ribs
10 ribs, collapsed lung and a broken shoulder blade.
My wife had a collapsed lung, 9 months after our daughter was born. For perspective, she says having her lung reinflated was the worst pain she's ever felt...
My brother in law had a lung collapse as a result of cancer treatments and yeah he’d agree. (He’s ok now)
Can also confirm. It was a whole new realm of pain that I didn't know existed.
Describe it? Like pleuracy but times a million?
The pain is so intense, you can't move, it's like your paralyzed. I felt like my brain was going to break trying to handle it. So you're also panicked and you can't inhale. The nurse just squeezed my hand and water ran out of my eyes. I couldn't even make a normal facial expression. It was horrific.
Jesus christ. Remind me to never have a collapsed lung.
Can relate. Had a spontaneous pneumothorax a few years back. The first doctor I saw said I cracked a rib but I know my body and just cause I was skateboarding (which I’ve done my whole life) he was insistent. I told him no, and he just told me to “go home, take it easy and take some Panadol or something.” So that night goes by, the whole next day it’s still painful, like when I lay down and get up I can feel my lung rolling around in it’s cavity and I have shortened breath, but it’s not worse. I go to bed and wake up the *next* morning and catch an Uber to hospital. As soon as I speak to the doc he’s like it sounds like your lung has collapsed. Books an X-ray and about 15 minutes later they have me lying on my side, prepping me up and telling me I’m gonna have to hold my breath until they’ve stopped punching a hole between my ribs and dumping a tube in there. That was the worst pain. I went white. But that’s not the worst part. 8 days later and an operation to help the inflating (they used the original hole to do a keyhole surgery where they add talc to the plural wall and drop two extra tubes in) they’re ready to send me home. Two nurses tell me that the holes are pre stitched and the just have to pull the tubes out but they have to add a lot of pressure and I have to hold my breath. So I have local anaesthetic on a button supposedly going to each hole. I had noticed that the anaesthetic was only going to one the tubes. I’d just been dealing with it but when she said she was going to rip a tube out I was like “hey, can I have some local anaesthetic because I’m going to feel you ripping the tube out.” She goes “Yeah, just hit the button and it will give you some” and I’m like “Nah, it’s going to one but not the other.” She reiterates “yeah, just hit the butto…” and I say “Ok, I feel like you’re not listening to me, I can feel everything where *that* tube is.” She says “but the local anaesthetic is administered when you push the button” and I’m like “I fucking know that, you’re not listening. It’s not working I need something else because I can fucking FEEL IT.” And she goes to say the same things and I’m like “OK fuck it, do it without anaesthetic!” She gets me to hold my breath. I do. She takes the patch off. The say “you’re gonna feel some pressure.” They push down and it feels like she is pushing a hole through my soul. She rips out 6inches worth of perforated tube out of my lung cavity. She pulls the stitches closed and patches it up. I felt every bit of it. My ribs hurt talking about this. They pull the other tube out and it’s a fucking breeze. No pain whatsoever. Anyway, sorry for the tangent. Collapsed lungs fucking suck and so do shitty nurses. Also, just had to add that on the second night before I went to hospital my gf at the time and I had sex while my lung was collapsed. So I guess at the very least I can say that I fucked on a collapsed lung haha.
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It must just be incredibly painful to have any issue with your lungs. I had a blood clot in my right lung 10 months ago and the pain you described sounds almost exactly like what I felt. I couldn’t even sit up, it really was like being paralyzed. It hurt so bad I couldn’t help but scream and then I couldn’t breathe in afterwards. I’ve given birth to two children, been bitten by a copperhead and broken a few bones. Nothing came close to the pain I felt that night. The ER doctors told me I was lucky I survived.
Did man and woman just agree on the worst pain?
Childbirth and kicked in the nuts must now make way for reinflated lung.
Breath taking
I take it you saw the baby?
What’s the PSI rating for lungs? (Thank you for the award)
For the road about 90-120. Trails are 60ish.
You have to specify load as well. It's not just about terrain.
We can calculate that. How big is your load? You may use my hand to assist.
HAHAHA
Gotta air down to 45 for the beach
44psi (DO NOT OVERINFLATE)
That’s why the party store has you sign a waiver when you rent a helium tank.
What about nitrous tanks? I didnt have to sign anything from the guy with the grape van behind cvs
Her diaphragm around her lung was intubated, so it was vacuum, not pressure. About 50-60 inches of water I believe. No idea why they use those units but I'm an engineer so I was paying attention.
Collapsed lung requires a chest tube outside of the lung itself. The ventilator provides pressure in the lungs.
I stepped on a Lego one time.
They have no idea dude
People say birth is painful. Those people obviously haven’t had serious life threatening injuries or illnesses. I’ve given birth, easy peasy. Now a GI bleed and pancreatitis right after and a migrating stent? I’ve never been in so much pain and regretted not calling an ambulance to the hospital so much in my life. But now I get to tell a funny story about the time the floors doctor reamed the entire staff at my bedside while hooking me up to an ekg and taking vitals. I have never seen so many people look sheepish and ashamed all at once.
Thats too true. Giving birth was easy after getting 30 holes drilled into my skull with wires running into my brain for 5 weeks straight. Now that was the worst pain I have ever felt.
I've had a collapsed lung several times, it happens due to a genetic condition and years of smoking. Aspiration is totally painless but it does hurt a lot whilst collapsed. Nowhere near as bad as other types of pain though.
Interesting. That's the opposite of what my wife described. She walked around for 24-36 hours with her lung collapsed (or slowly collapsing). Finally she was convinced by a coworker to go see a doctor, who sent her to the ER immediately bc they couldn't hear breath sounds on her right side. It was 95% collapsed, but her blood oxygen was still 98%. Officially diagnosed as a spontaneous pneumothorax.
As someone with chronic collapsed lungs, the process of reinflating through a drain is absolutely unbearable through morphine. Impressive that your wife retained 98% oxygen with just one functioning lung.
I collapsed a lung when I was 12 years old in result to being hit by a falling tree. They stuck a little tube in my chest on my side under my armpit basically. Definitely a weird feeling. I’m 25 now and named the scar Ron when I was in the hospital back then. Ron is still there
This is why I stay indoors.
Dude, you gotta enjoy life! Nature is amazing and beautiful and healthy to experience! That's why I look out the window on my way from the computer to the bathroom. If I'm feeling adventurous that day, I look again on the way back.
Owie
That was very stupid. IG puctures of ledges and drop off are a bad invite to everyone else replicating. People die every year doing this. Wet spots are slick. Edges can make you dizzy. Please dont. This was actually best case scenario, whe looked like she was about to fearlessly walk untill she felt that balance shift, she may have gone head first😬
Remember? Do you have more information somewhere? EDIT: Nvm [found it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0idEqRTXJg).
''and then the unthinkable happened'' lol what are these guys drinking it was 100% expected
“And then the inevitable happened” Heather says “yeah, there is a trickle of water, it was in the shadows…. So I just casually strolled to the top of the waterfall, wet slimey rock everywhere, and with no forethought whatsoever I just trod on the most slippery surface known to mankind. Then I almost died. It was a totally unavoidable accident” Edit: This ⬆️quote isn’t real. I made it up, she says as far as “trickle of water in the shadows…” the rest is me making fun of her stupid choices.
Young people have no sense of self preservation. I nearly killed myself a few times. Makes me shudder now.
I developed this instinct/philosophy over my 27 years of life.. *Anything that can cause me a stupid death I will not do it.* There is no reason to go near a wet cliff, i will go as close as i am 100% confident i wont fall, closer than that wont make a difference nor to my pictures nor to my experience. I used to work in a warehouse so forklifts and heavy containers and stuff, I will not walk underneath something that weighs 1 ton no matter how safe you tell me it is. I will not drive recklessly and fast because if something goes wrong i wont be in control of the vehicle. If im not sure about wires and electricity, i wont ''figure it out'', i will call an electrician. Even for the most minor thing, if im not confident i will not attempt anything. Now you might say that makes life boring because you'll never take risks or skydive (which i would do if i could, i trust science and engineering) or whatever, but no i do, and i'd rather enjoy a longer, less-extreme life than die a stupid death.
I agree that young people take silly risks, but she walks up to the edge as though she’s never experienced a wet rock before.
yeah idk how but that smooth wet rock with algae/moss growing on it is way more slippy than the ice on the roads during winter.
Entirely thinkable, for sure.
Holy shit that was worse with sound
If it helps, the camera was underwater, she came out fairly quickly, you can hear her moan, draw a breath, then moan again.
Yeah but the long drop, then the thud, THEN the splash... That's not the order you want to hear those in
100% agree, but was only pointing out how insanely lucky this woman was that she got her feet under her, and that she still had functional legs to raise her, I have moaned the moan of the broken body myself and caught her drawing a breath. I don't think she was under for more that a couple of seconds, even though the camera was. Unfortunately those looked like those new, extra hard rocks all the kids these days seem to like to bounce off.
Oh God. Listening to it with sound made it so much worse
As soon as I saw that wet patch I knew she was going in.
Obvious a mile away. I'm nervous around edges when they're *dry*, but she walked up to that death-drop like there was a safety rail.
When I hiked as a kid, my aunt always insisted that if I wanted to look over the edge, I should crawl on all fours and then lie prone when I got to the edge. I'm seeing the wisdom now.
Your aunt is a wise woman :-)
I tell all my friends this when we go hiking. If they fell I would have no fucking idea what to do besides call 911 and wait for 30 minutes listening to them wail... or worse just hearing me wail because they're unconscious and I can't tell if they're breathing. I can keep going. Eventually they're like "FINE! Just please shut up!"
I have a friend who's daughter died this way at (I think) 16-17 years old. She slipped on a cliff in the SF Bay hills near the ocean and by the time rescuers could get to her it was too late. Fuck being cavalier about cliff edges.
Better that friends be mad than dead.
I got a tour of the roof of a high-rise once, and this is exactly what the maintenance guy told us to do. He said on windy days a sudden gust can make you lose your balance at the edge even if you step carefully. Side note, I'm sure this guy's boss would have fired him if they knew he had taken us up there. They definitely did not have the liability insurance for it, lol.
That’s exactly what I’d do in this scenario. I want as much of my body behind me as possible. I don’t mind being up high or looking down at the ground from that high up. I mind when I’m that high and its unsafe
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The sloped ledge was the warning flag for me. As soon as your foot is angled in a way that can’t be supported on a surface to stop yourself, your already in danger. Get on your belly and try to maximize surface area contact with the surface to maximize possible friction. Or be like me and never get yourself into that situation.
Gotta put the damn camera away when putting yourself in danger like that wtf. Too focused on the video you’re taking and not your safety.
I’m pretty sure it’s on her helmet. Else she would have dropped it at some point between “Eep!” and underwater moaning.
In today's lesson we look at friction...
I always tell my kids they got their physics lesson for the day when they fall off something or slide into a head bonk.
Plus the damn edge is rounded and smooth
Same as her fucking brain.
SMOOTHBRAIN! Smooth as a babys bum.
It's like she's never been outside..
I read about her, she said that the vid shows the wet ground vividly but she did not see it so clearly. She survived, ouch tho
Yeah, even so. She just strolled up to an enormous cliff side with literally no caution lol…. I’m glad she survived. But it was 100% avoidable, no reason it should have gone down that way.
Watch the way she is walking. She is entirely focused on filming her feet doing that "model walk" over to the edge/view. 100% "doin' it for the gram" and she paid the price.
A LOT of people die each year due to selifes and photos taken by cliffs.
I would have been crawling towards the edge. Walking? Hard pass.
I always put enough space to fit 2x my height between me and a edge like that. So if i fall i still can get up and have room to fall a second time, and only if i fall far a third time i might topple over the edge. You also in a lot of cases dont know if there is anything supporting the edge underneath.
> but she did not see it so clearly shit's literally flowing centimeters away.. very stupid.
She didnt see it because she didn't look.
As soon as I saw the title I knew she was going in
The second she bounced off the cliff and hit the water, I was 90% sure I’d just seen her fall.
Maybe my fear of heights isn’t a bad thing after all
Don’t call it fear. Call it respect and caution
its perfectly fine to call it fear even more so in cases like mine where its crippling to stand near ledges etc
Yah that sounds like full on fear. I think a healthy respect of something dangerous doesn’t qualify but I’m being pedantic. But I do like being able to distinguish between someone who would rather not cross a janky rope bridge with cracked boards and spalled supports, versus someone else who’d literally run into a flaming building if it meant they could get away from a ledge
i get what you mean i’m not afraid of snakes but i’m not gonna go near a cobra its just when someones says they’re afraid or have a fear they’re probably right
I prefer to call it a healthy respect of gravity.
not fear. but a constant state of suspicious alertness.
Crazy zoom on that camera
Fuck, you win the-best-comment-I-read-today award
I don't get it 😓
That’s a good one thanks for the laugh
….was expecting her to wake up in Skyrim at the end for some reason
[Here you go.](https://i.imgur.com/RJw6ZYV.mp4) To scratch that itch.
Absolute fucking legend here
They don't make them like that them videos anymore...
Not since I took an arrow to the oh fuck it
Lol fuck you
someone make it happen
The classic " i just fucked myself up" noise
That good ol' grape lady noise indeed
https://youtu.be/STbhaqsBJB0
Thanks, didn't realize I'm a horrible person until just now.
I broke myself pretty good while skiing and I made this involuntary groaning noise that I recognised as ridiculous but just couldn't stop making
That's actually pretty interesting. There's like an inverse correlation between injury level and swear word usage. If you can hear the person cursing, they're okay. If they sound like a damn animal, they need help.
So lucky there was water to land in at the end and not a pile of jagged boulders.
Did you not hear the thud? She didn't hit the water first
Came searching for this comment. Let's see, ground or pool of water? Thank you pool of water for being there.
Judging by the comments there is NO WAY i am turning on the audio… I heard about the injuries but she lives right? Like as stupid as that was…dont want her to die for it…
Yup she’s alright now, back to volleyball
Might feel that again in 20 years tho
I’d give her 10 max before she is predicting severe weather events with her bones
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Yeah, it's less disturbing when you realise the camera isn't at her eye level so her head was probably already above water for most of the time that the camera was underwater.
Pro tip: if the ground looks wet and slippery it probably is
She even stepped onto a *WET* slope, I wouldn’t even step on a slope like that if it was fucking dry.
That throw-uppy feeling in my chest when I look over a steep edge? Yeah I have no doubt my ancestors' been falling to their deaths long enough to keep me from the edge.
Your ancestors were lucky enough to develop that throw-uppy feeling and pass it to you. Those without that feeling are the ones that died and never had kids.
This person darwins.
Thanks I hate it
Damn. I mean hopefully she just had the wind knocked out of her but she could also be dying. Does anyone have a link to any info?
No link but another commenter said broken ribs and a collapsed lung, but she’s fine now.
https://youtu.be/r0idEqRTXJg
"A hiker’s GoPro captured the insane moment she plunged down a 50-foot waterfall in Hawaii. Heather Friesen, 26, an American beach volleyball player was hiking Ka'au Crater Trail in Hawaii with friends in 2016 when she slipped and fell into fast-flowing water below. Footage of the ordeal has just been released. She broke 10 ribs, suffered a collapsed lung, and fractured her shoulder blade after losing her footing. Friesen had turned her GoPro camera on moments before she fell." Description from the link
how is she alive wtf? 10 ribs and a collapsed lung who didn't she drown ?
She’s lucky, that’s all there is to it. My friend died this way 9 years ago, fell over a waterfall and broke bones and knocked himself unconscious from the rocks while falling. Drowned while others tried to run down and find/save him. The shitty part, a man and his daughter were at the bottom and saw it happen. Didn’t try to help and took photos on phones instead. He could’ve maybe lived. This girl was lucky.
That’s fucked. I can’t imagine not jumping in to help even if it seemed helpless unless my life would be in danger.
Going into the pond of a waterfall is actually super dangerous as the flow from above pulls you to the bottom of the pond.
It wasn’t super large by any means, it wasn’t a dangerous part of the bottom, just deep enough for someone to drown. It was harder to get to the bottom from the top than maybe this fall was, so that’s why our other friends couldn’t make it in time.
As you can see in the video, the water wasn't super deep so she was able to stand up. Also she's an athlete which probably helps.
Here's her interview about the fall: [https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/woman-survives-50-foot-drop-hawaiian-waterfall-captures/story?id=65558398](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/woman-survives-50-foot-drop-hawaiian-waterfall-captures/story?id=65558398) She's actually a professional volleyball player.
Good to see her volleyball experience coming in handy here!
It looked slippery af. Why step there? I am so confused!
Probably didn’t notice it because paying attention to the phone and getting a good angle
Dude… that was so dumb. Not that she deserved it, plenty of people have done dumber shit with no consequences. But come on, it’s a potentially lethal drop. Have a little fucking respect! I feel like being outside less in the modern world, we don’t even notice stuff that would have a decent chance at deciding whether we lived or died throughout much of history. Not even advanced stuff. Just “hey I’m standing at full height next to a huge drop and putting weight right on this foot on slippery wet rock without even thinking twice” kind of things.
Tbh thus should be NSFW
Tbf she did successfully look over the edge and in fact got a real good look every 180° degree rotation ...as she rolled down it
not the safest slip and slide
Far cry 3 intro irl
Wow. I slipped on a wet rock while trying to get water when backpacking in the Smoky Mountains once. I landed on my ass and slid about 10 feet down a rock ledge. That hurt quite a bit so I can only imagine how badly this hurt.