Injured

Patty J hurt my feelings the other day in a thread. It cut deep, but it's a scab there now and in another week. I should be fine. Locked and loaded ready for action.

 

Did you jump up, look around to see if anyone saw you?

Many years ago while driving a mixer truck pouring a house floor out in the country I was coming back with my 2nd load & the driver ahead of me was washing his chutes out standing on his back bumper. He jumped off, his feet hit where the water had run out of the ground, his feet when up in the air & he came down on his back end, he jumped up & looked around to see if anyone saw him, I just happen to be in a spot so that I could see him do this but he did not know I saw this.

After pulling in the drive-way I stopped as he was getting in his truck saying, "Jim, how's it going!" He answered just great. Them I asked him had he ever jumped off his back bumper & fell on his bottom end while laughing. I can still see Jim in my mind falling in that muddy spot.

Something like that can be funny, that is if there's no injuries?

I know I've made big mistakes while looking & hoping no one saw it!

 

Earlier this year I slipped down the stairs in my house. About 15 stairs or so. I simply slipped at the top and butt surfed (for lack of a better phrase) pretty much down the entire length of them. My ### hurt at the time, but I figured by Tuesday (this was on a Sunday) I would be good to go. Monday rolled around and I could barely get out of bed. Couldn't sit down.

I knew work was coming up on Tuesday morning, and tried to be a trooper and not call in. Tuesday morning rolled around and I figured maybe the air seat wouldn't be as bad as my personal vehicles seat. Boy was I wrong. I barely made it out of town to grab my load (local soda delivery) and the pain was the worst I have ever experienced.

Turned the truck around and went to the doctor. Severely bruised tailbone. I was concerned it was broken.

Longer story short, I bought an inflatable donut because it, ahem, takes the pressure off your ###. Used the donut for three weeks before I could sit on any chair, truck or not. Had I been an OTR driver at the time, who knows what I would've done.

unloader

 

The two worst:

Frayed cable sticking my arm deep enough to puncture the vein. Never seen something swell that bad. ER visit to make sure nothing was left inside me and to get an up-to-date tetanus shot.

Second was falling through a trailer floor, landed on my right ham-string. Was harder than hell to walk working that night. Massive swelling and bruising, felt like sitting on a rail all night.

 

Fell off a dock in Indiana after delivering to a manufacturing company. The idiot dock workers purposely turned off the lights on the dock when I was ready to step onto the stairs. I spent a month recovering, the trip home was done in a lot of pain but when I got home, I could not wear pants for almost three weeks, the swelling of my left knee was so bad. A month later they were fired and my lawyer had me a nice check from them for the losses.

Had several bouts of kidney stones while on the road - do I have to say anything else?

 

Hernia. Happened when I was forced into a ditch in Colorado. The seat belt caused the injury. Insurance paid for surgery. The real problem comes when they have to shave you before the operation. Three lovely young ladies came in.

Now I get fan letters from the gals.

 

Not trucking related..but shot my upper leg,and nailed it into lower leg below my knee with a nail gun.
Trying to hang a gable on a roof,and had finger on trigger.
I couldn't straighten my leg out,and had to be lowered from roof,and taken to ER.
Some old gal came into the room,and unsheathed a big pair of chromed out pliers.
Im wondering WTH does she think she's gonna do with those?
She put an elbow down on me,and yanked the nail straight out!!
Then raw dogged a tube back into the holes,and flushed out with a syringe!!
That was a lovely day at work,and let me know I aint no carpenter

 

I apologize for this in advance but I would have taken that story to my grave.

 

I think that might have been just the movie you were watching last night...

 

Meh.. That wasn't the worse day..I had a day in highschool,where I worked with another crew running siding.
I fell off scaffolding,and landed in some footings on a nail,and stepped on 4 more nails before the day ended.
I walked up my driveway barefoot and bloody when they dropped me off that afternoon.
The guys in the truck were laughing theyre @#@$ off at me.They never had seen anyone like me..

Clint Eastwood said it best."You got to know your limitations"
I AINT no carpenter.Still not sure what I do well??