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To: BenLurkin

I have a friend who fell of a roof and got stuck with a metal fencepost. He was in the hospital for nearly 6 weeks and lost his spleen.


3 posted on 10/06/2012 6:34:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

Did he ex-spleen how it happened?


6 posted on 10/06/2012 6:37:09 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: cripplecreek
Doesn't take much of a fall. I fell 5 ft onto a sharp rock that didn't break the skin. I lost my spleen, a kidney, broke 3 ribs and a vertabra. I spent 2 weeks in ICU and went through 17 units of blood.

Slip/falls are dangerous.

/johnny

9 posted on 10/06/2012 6:37:55 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: cripplecreek

yks. I saw a news report once where a kid about ten just tripped and fell against a short rod-iron fence with pointed posts.
The point went through he bottom jaw, palate, and out close to one eye...all the way though. It was pretty gross.
He was a brave little guy, he never cried on camera anyway, his mom was crying.
Did your friend go to the hospital with part of the fence attached? That’s what the EMTs did for this kid. I was thinking the vibrations of the cutting the metal would have hurt.
How did your friend fare? (beyond his hospital stay and spleen being removed)


15 posted on 10/06/2012 6:41:16 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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