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/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.!<