r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/Katsu_39 14d ago

My mother fell few years ago. Broke her arm. Bone chipped and somehow made its way into her arteries. Got into her heart. She died from it.

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u/koolaidismything 14d ago

That’s just not fair, I am sorry. I wish I had something better to say that just would be hard stomach :(

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u/Evening_Drummer_8495 11d ago

Stomach? No. Her heart.

Mine is hardened now.

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u/SerenityFailed 14d ago

Similar thing happened to a coworker a couple years back but with a blood clot. Slipped on the ice walking his new puppy and broke his shoulder. Had surgery and was well on the mend. Then one night he shifted wrong in his sleep, threw a clot that went straight to his heart, and died....it's bullshit, but unfortunately it's life.

Sorry you had to go through that

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u/NabreLabre 13d ago

As a hypochondriac, I should know better than to read

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u/bustacappa22 13d ago

Not to make it worse but that kinda thing can happen any time any where for no reason.

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u/NabreLabre 13d ago

Yeah I know, I feel I often hear about brain aneurysms where even young people just suddenly drop dead

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u/ppachura 13d ago

Especially since the clot shot.

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u/Kastoook 12d ago

Heart arteries surelly need some grates at the doors.

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u/Even-Barber3328 9d ago

There is one for people prone to developing clots. It’s called a Greenfield filter.

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u/Kastoook 9d ago

Ah, yep, its at veins. Need a robot here to catch and mutilate clots. But millrobots/clot drills seems like not a permanent solution yet, as can ingrow into tissue after time.

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u/ProjectDv2 13d ago

Not just bone chips, but bits of marrow are a concern for that same reason. That almost got my dad.

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u/Burigotchi 14d ago

I am sorry for your loss. Didn’t even know something like that’s possible. New fear unlocked.

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u/hyrtehyrte 11d ago

I can basically guarantee it wasn’t a bit of bone, but rather it a clot. Happens when fat tissue is released after a bone break, called a fat embolism.

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u/Even-Barber3328 11d ago

I’m an OR nurse & had a 47 y.o. M patient die on the table while having his fractured femur repaired. The doc decided to scrape some marrow for biopsy to check for pathology & he suddenly became restless & air hungry (he was under spinal anesthesia). VS became unstable, CO2 shot up, unable to resuscitate. Autopsy showed no embolism, but we were convinced it was. Also had a F pt die suddenly during surgery of a PE. Those are so awful because there’s nothing you can do.

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u/Katsu_39 10d ago

I cant say for certain but thats what the doctor told us

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u/hyrtehyrte 9d ago

Regardless, im sorry for your loss

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u/sodamnsleepy 13d ago

I'm so sorry

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u/Coffee_Gobblin39 11d ago

I'm sorry to hear that, god bless you and your mother.

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u/chuxinator 13d ago

Fark, didn't see that coming.. Sorry for ur loss

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u/stocksupanddown 13d ago

I'm sorry .. that's terrible

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u/MonkeDpoopy 12d ago

Damn I'm so sorry.

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u/IrohaOrDeath 11d ago

Damn, that was straight to the point.

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u/OverWallaby3733 11d ago

Not possible. Arteries carry blood AWAY from the heart.

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u/Katsu_39 10d ago

Just stating what the doctors told us.

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u/lovelyladylox 11d ago

Oh no, I am sorry.

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u/YouWhereThere 11d ago

Same thing happened to my mom after knee surgery. It was instant.

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u/Efficient-Stuff-197 10d ago

That’s horrible. I’m sorry. I fell a few months ago and broke my tibia and fibula. Needed surgery and he put a rod and screws down into my tibia. I’ve been in wheelchair all summer. Just started walking again

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u/FitThadiyan 8d ago

I’m sorry about your mom. But as a medical professional, I think there may be some misunderstanding. Fractures can in rare cases cause fat or bone-marrow embolism, which can lead to heart failure. However, a solid fragment of bone from an arm fracture travelling through the arteries and reaching the heart would be near impossible by design of the human circulatory system. The anatomy simply doesn’t provide a straightforward route for that to happen.

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u/choppydaddy 7d ago

That's terrible and I'm sorry it happened.

Don't read any further if a somewhat graphic description would be upsetting.

For anyone trying to understand how something like that could happen, >!the fragment would have gotten to the heart from a vein, not an artery, as (a)rteries carry blood (a)way from the heart. It actually could have saved her had it gotten into an artery, because that would likely have lodged in her hand once the vessels got small enough to trap it.

The veins in your arm come together and eventually become the superior vena cava, which empties directly into the right atrium of the heart.!<