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Cathar · 05-08-2006, 11:50 PM

I had spinal body armour on, including chest armour, kindey belt/padding, and high impact padding for the shoulders. The spinal section of the body armor has honeycombed aluminium crush/crumple zones, as well as padding and a hard plastic articulated shell.

The surgeons and nurses said that if it wasn't for all the body armour I was wearing, I would have likely also been suffering from vertebra damage as well as internal organ bleeding. Fortunately, none of that. I just whacked my shoulder real good at the worse possible angle into the bitumen with all of my 95kgs of weight dropping from a heigh of about 2m onto it. Sure, all the armour, crush zones, and padding definitely helped to prevent even more damage, but this was just one of those freak "if you fall just this certain way, bad stuff happens..." sort of deals.

They were concerned for my neck too for a while there. Lots of XRays and CT scans of the neck region. Anything that helps protect the neck from being wrenched around, such as if landing head first, would be of great benefit. I don't think that there is too much else that I could've been wearing to prevent the damage that occurred.

Stopped taking ibuprofen. I wasn't taking that many (4/day), but sure enough as Marci said, I've been developing stomach pains that weren't there before. Stopped taking them and the stomach pain seem to be subsiding. Just back to the good old super-strength Mersyndol's now. I was trying to avoid taking them 'cos they make me sleepy.

About to move about now a lot more without bad pain. Able to bend over now, and even able to lie on my side again, albeit with some rib pain. Presently it's still my collar bone where it meets the shoulder that gives me the most grief when attempting to move my left arm about, and where the broken ribs meet the spine causes pain there if I stand up for more than a few minutes. Still no real strength in the left shoulder at all. Slowly gaining limited strength and movement, but am still unable to move the left arm via the shoulder joint under its own power more than very restricted amounts.

Every day now it seems like I'm able to do just a little bit more, and get by with longer and longer times between taking pain-killers. Still very tired and very sore though, no mistake about it, but definitely improving.

05-08-2006, 11:50 PM	#16
Cathar Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,538	Re: Someone hurt himself real bad........ I had spinal body armour on, including chest armour, kindey belt/padding, and high impact padding for the shoulders. The spinal section of the body armor has honeycombed aluminium crush/crumple zones, as well as padding and a hard plastic articulated shell. The surgeons and nurses said that if it wasn't for all the body armour I was wearing, I would have likely also been suffering from vertebra damage as well as internal organ bleeding. Fortunately, none of that. I just whacked my shoulder real good at the worse possible angle into the bitumen with all of my 95kgs of weight dropping from a heigh of about 2m onto it. Sure, all the armour, crush zones, and padding definitely helped to prevent even more damage, but this was just one of those freak "if you fall just this certain way, bad stuff happens..." sort of deals. They were concerned for my neck too for a while there. Lots of XRays and CT scans of the neck region. Anything that helps protect the neck from being wrenched around, such as if landing head first, would be of great benefit. I don't think that there is too much else that I could've been wearing to prevent the damage that occurred. Stopped taking ibuprofen. I wasn't taking that many (4/day), but sure enough as Marci said, I've been developing stomach pains that weren't there before. Stopped taking them and the stomach pain seem to be subsiding. Just back to the good old super-strength Mersyndol's now. I was trying to avoid taking them 'cos they make me sleepy. About to move about now a lot more without bad pain. Able to bend over now, and even able to lie on my side again, albeit with some rib pain. Presently it's still my collar bone where it meets the shoulder that gives me the most grief when attempting to move my left arm about, and where the broken ribs meet the spine causes pain there if I stand up for more than a few minutes. Still no real strength in the left shoulder at all. Slowly gaining limited strength and movement, but am still unable to move the left arm via the shoulder joint under its own power more than very restricted amounts. Every day now it seems like I'm able to do just a little bit more, and get by with longer and longer times between taking pain-killers. Still very tired and very sore though, no mistake about it, but definitely improving.