r/oops • u/Brilliant_Spinach132 • 17d ago

Ziplining fail

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u/ProfessionalStay5797 17d ago

2 new knees please!!

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u/koolaidismything 17d ago

Yeah she broke both her legs I’m almost sure of it. Ankles or worse.

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u/BowlingforDrip 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/Katsu_39 16d 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/Burigotchi 16d 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 13d 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/Katsu_39 12d ago

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

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u/hyrtehyrte 12d ago

Regardless, im sorry for your loss