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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2017 - 07:57pm PT
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When Ed broke both his ankles bouldering I would tell visitors to our office that he had both feet under his chair when it collapsed on him while making sales calls.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Jan 14, 2017 - 08:25pm PT
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He's working as many hours as he can get, supporting a family, but can't afford insurance. Didn't go to a doctor.
That's just f*#king horrible...I can't see how medical care is not universally declared a human right.
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2017 - 10:52pm PT
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You are right 7SacredPools
But this is America.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 15, 2017 - 06:32am PT
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Well- my most terrific injuries all happened from horses- not climbing. 1000 pound animals throwing you off cliffs and stomping on top of you never ends well for the human.
@Guy- that Echo hike has taken out a few people I know. I was with a girl who tripped over that last RR tie into the parking lot after a day of climbing and fractured her wrist in two places and another partner messed up an ankle in a similar accident to yours.
My bloodiest accident happened at Echo but it wasn't serious - kinda funny actually. Took a really weird fall on Guillotine and managed to split the back of my head open in spite of wearing a helmet. Blood everywhere - looked epic but I was fine. Hiking out my tiny Asian partner manages to slip and fall into a gap between two giant boulders. Now SHE's bleeding from multiple cuts all over including her face. Hiking out people were horrified and kept asking what happened to the two of us.
We started telling them we got in a fight :)
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jan 15, 2017 - 07:05am PT
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you need to find a safer sport, like basket weaving ^^^^ ;)
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jan 15, 2017 - 07:15am PT
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LOLOLOLO ^^^ Yur next :)
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Jan 15, 2017 - 07:18am PT
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Aww all bent over in upsetness.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 15, 2017 - 07:25am PT
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Nice of you to stalk by, Jeff.
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ec
climber
ca
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Jan 15, 2017 - 08:20am PT
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...woulda decked. Cut to the bone... When I see those movies when guys get their fingers chopped-off, I have empathy...
I've got some dozen stitches on the top of my head from a huge block (fell that time)...no pic, sorry.
ec
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Aug 11, 2017 - 11:51pm PT
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Some heinous stuff here...
I got a new one today. Pretty funny/stupid... so within the first few hours of visiting my bro again (the one who yanked his finger back into position), we and our kids are swimming in the Umpqua River. No injuries yet. Back to the car, we detour to a fun looking kids playground with lots of nice toys. The last one I tried was this thing that looked like an assembly line conveyor belt- actually a series of metal cylinders that was inviting to slide across. And it had a metal hoop over the conveyor part that limited vertical clearance to about 2 feet. So without really thinking about it I went running for the thing in my bathing suit, and head-first dive at it while yelling Superman!, expecting to glide along the rollers. Overall my technique was good, but I over-estimated the structural integrity of my skin. I think my tibia knocked a metal lip at the entrance to the conveyor, and the compression split my skin open. When I got up I could see inside the wound more deeply than I wanted to, and pretty quickly realized stitches might be in order. Second thought was that I blew the planned river trip for tomorrow- no inner-tubing with fresh stitches on my leg :(
But I made a video of the wound being stitched up :)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2017 - 05:16am PT
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Do share!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2017 - 05:43am PT
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Permanent scars on the back of my right hand from Quarter of a man w/o tape in '87- I still do it without tape ( I fit better that way...) but no more wounds, I've learned a tiny bit of technique in 35 years...
Maybe not.... you can see the old scar tissue, sorta, on the middle- right side of my hand. The fresh ones are from battle of the bulge last January on a day so cold I felt it creep in from each side of the crack and meet in the bone, after that it was numb and I had no knowledge of torn flesh till I saw it
Permeantly tweaked left pinky from cpd fx / surgery/ pinning, cast, drilling on solo belay lead to put up a sportclimb in dec'88 -Distal Digit Dysfunction, .12c, called it later- the day Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame died - "It's just a flesh wound!"
not Peets 50th anniversary mug as time stamp!
But my most flamboyant one was from pulling a rock into my face while pulling a stuck rap rope in 2014(?)
Forty-seven stitches and a few years later, the scar isn't too bad!
-about 9 months later
a month ago, on my birthday
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Aug 12, 2017 - 06:00am PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 12, 2017 - 06:01am PT
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Omg! The cyborg leg!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Aug 12, 2017 - 06:20am PT
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Whilst Climbing with Kris... in the GOD upon P3 of our Root.... I get my Knee locked! It is in a fixxed position... heal to my butt. The ensuing Raps, and tree crawl ... I performed self traction for the next day and got my leg to 90 degrees... the 12 mike hike out was pretty epic.
Torn meniscus I'd guess.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 12, 2017 - 07:58am PT
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The crag is called Tombstone.
I think the route is/was called The Undertaker.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 12, 2017 - 08:47pm PT
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Damn Anita, what happened that you needed a fixator? I hear those things are painful as hell!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Aug 12, 2017 - 09:19pm PT
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Longboarding misadventure
Chainsawing misadventure. This one is still healing, slowly
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Aug 12, 2017 - 10:26pm PT
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guyman, chicken leg indeed; been there, done that. Did the quad tendon on Rainier, walked (with much falling) down three miles with no left leg; as long as the leg was straight and bones were carrying the load it was sort of okay, but the slightest bend and ass met earth. Surgery, therapy (REALLY, REALLY ESSENTIAL) and back out but not as good. This is what the puppy looked like at the great unveiling; hard to believe all the staples.
Edited to add: My surgeon didn't think it would be possible, but I can touch my butt with my foot. Don't do this.
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