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Cargo Master
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From: TX
holy crap.....walking with an ebrake through your leg, ur dad really is somethin. along with all of you others who have lost fingers, hands, arms and legs. guess it goes to show what kind of people drive fords!
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From: N Ga. Mountains
Treating a person with "kid gloves" after a trauma only makes things worse, people can start to accept their limitations instead of overcoming them. Although I can tell you that post traumatic stress syndrome is real. My wife almost passed out one day when a tractor trailer went over a speed bump as we were walking in a parking lot and movies with bad wrecks with alot of screeching, grinding and crashing noises can really get to her. "The Matrix Reloaded" with that long scene on the interstate got to her pretty good. It brings it all back cause she could hear the truck jack knifing and running over cars before she was hit.--Jack
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From: New England
I've never had anything major, fortunately--though I once spent 20 minutes stuck head-down in a laundry chute trying to stuff a blanket down it. My worst "oh, damn" incident would be getting tagged from the side on a bicycle by a car going ~15MPH (rain, my brakes were wet & didn't work worth anything). I had a bump on my head, a few scrapes, & bloody nose, & was kind of sore the next day.
My wife, OTOH, is covered with scars, most of which I will probably never know the story of. Some I do know:
11 stitches in the right forearm after falling out of a moving truck onto a dirt road.
A wide scar on her left upper leg where someone hit her with a strand of barbed wire in an attempted mugging. He wound up unconcious, & went to jail.
A scar running from her left collarbone, under her arm, almost to her waist (over 150 stitches) from a knife attack. She didn't say, but I got the distinct impression the guy who caused it came out worse than she did. I do know she still has the blade that caused it (a rather nasty-looking hunting knife) in her collection.
She's rather casual about it all, when she's with anyone she's comfortable enough with that they are able to see the scars.
My wife, OTOH, is covered with scars, most of which I will probably never know the story of. Some I do know:
11 stitches in the right forearm after falling out of a moving truck onto a dirt road.
A wide scar on her left upper leg where someone hit her with a strand of barbed wire in an attempted mugging. He wound up unconcious, & went to jail.
A scar running from her left collarbone, under her arm, almost to her waist (over 150 stitches) from a knife attack. She didn't say, but I got the distinct impression the guy who caused it came out worse than she did. I do know she still has the blade that caused it (a rather nasty-looking hunting knife) in her collection.
She's rather casual about it all, when she's with anyone she's comfortable enough with that they are able to see the scars.
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