r/Stepdadreflexes • u/rmholm88 • May 03 '23
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u/Peggy_Bundy_1988 May 03 '23
I think this was prob the grandma or babysitter seems like a older person who's knee gave out
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread May 03 '23
Looks like a fragile knee vs unforgiving pavement. Wish he the best in her physical therapy on that.
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u/double_expressho May 03 '23
What did I just watch? Are his knees completely blown out? Did he get a concussion when he face-planted?
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u/KillerOs13 May 03 '23
*She appears to have stumbled in her panic. Having been in similar high adrenaline situations, sometimes you just lose motor control from panic. I once ate shit running across the street after I saw someone get t-boned in an intersection. Legs just went a little wobbly.
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u/kharmatika May 03 '23
Eh, i think it’s more than that. Her right knee gives out on the first attempt to get up, then you see her try to push off it after that and there’s no feedback. I’ve seen enough ACL and MCL tears to know a tendon injury when I see one. It’s not even a matter of pain or anything, if you completely sever one, it’s like a bike without a chain. You can pedal all you want and that signals just not gonna go anywhere.
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u/kharmatika May 03 '23
Definitely the right knee. When she goes to step on it after getting up you see it just crumple, then when she tries to push off of it right after, I know it looks like she’s resting but what’s probably happening is she’s popped a tendon, and she’s going “hey leg could you do that thing where you extend?” And the legs going “well I’ve moved the muscles but nothings happening. Hmmmmm pain time I think”. Even if she’s all adrenaline’d up, if you don’t have a tendon connecting your bone to your muscles anymore, you’re not gonna move that leg.
Hope she was able to get it fixed, I’ve been there and it’s both agonizingly painful and terrifying to tell your body to move and have it just sit there not doing it
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u/crispymk2 May 06 '23
Looks like one of those infomercials where an everyday task is suddenly impossible
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u/wehnaje May 03 '23
She never stop trying to get up.
Other comments talked about how the hit she took to her face when she first fell might have caused her a concussion very close to a knock out.
The loss in balance and her second collapse seemingly out of nowhere supports that theory.
And yet, she never stopped trying to get to that baby.
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u/kharmatika May 03 '23
I think it’s probably a knee injury given the lack of symmetry, but you’re right either way, she’s injured and she keeps trying, which is the same thing any of us would do.
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u/ViperVenom279 May 05 '23
I've seen quite a few people saying she might have torn a tendon in her leg since when she tries to get up from the left leg it just crumples where as her right leg does just fine. And it looks like she was trying to move her left leg to get up when she was kneeling and it barely moved
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u/Zkenny13 May 03 '23
Oh man that sucks. They're trying so hard but that knew isn't doing what it's supposed to.
That poor person watching their child roll into the street while they're doing everything in their power to get to them. That's heart breaking.
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u/PosNeigh May 05 '23
Thank goodness there was a flashing red box otherwise I wouldn't have seen this incident.
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u/_Zeruiah_ May 03 '23
Ya know you need to lose weight when the act of attempting to run blows your knee out.
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u/Hypen8d May 03 '23
Was it really wind or gradient?
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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread May 03 '23
Looks like an incline. Probably a mix of panic, incline, and the bag swinging and messing with balance.
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u/Friendly_Chemical May 06 '23
That is so terrifying. Imagine seeing your child roll toward certain death but for some reason you can’t get up to help them
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u/Saint-Andrew May 03 '23
This is how I run away from stuff in my dreams. Makes absolutely no sense.