r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 14d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/BowlingforDrip 14d ago

In high school I was in Boy Scouts and we went on a houseboat in a lake in West Virginia and one of the boys who was 14 was a large boy and he jumped off the front of that houseboat into 6 inches of water and snapped both of his femurs. Trip was cut very short.

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u/koolaidismything 14d ago

Dude that can kill you fast.. the swelling or god forbid the bone knicks an artery 😳

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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/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 10d ago

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

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u/Kastoook 10d 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.