Personal Injuries (Was Re: [UA] Secret Wound Point system)

[Doug Stalker]

Piotr Pogorzelski wrote:

> Distanciation from pain seems to be a constant effect from
> serious injuries. The worst injury I ever had was
> from a four-yard freefall, and all I remember before
> passing out and waking up with a broken leg was "damn, I
> think it hurts".  The whole "you look at the event from
> outside" thing is something very common, it seems.
>
> G. Pogorzelski.
>

It seems to be a survival mechanism, where adrenalin kicks in and you
don't feel the pain, just anoverwhelming sense of "get somewhere it's
safe to collapse"

My flatmate slammed her fingertip in the door badly yesterday.  She
described pain up her entire arm and her peripheral vison fading, and
thinks she may have fainted.  A bit after that came nausea and general
weakness.

And I just remember the guy who used to run the bottle shop accross from
the resedential college I used to live in.  HE had a very bad limp, and
one day while drinking he told us about it.  When he ws at school, a
tennis ball got stuck up on teh roff of a covered shelter.  He climbed
up to recover it, some idiot shock teh support beam as a joke and he
fell 50 feet onto concrete.  He said as he was falling he was thinking
"land on my feet and roll with it" but when he hit his legs just
crumpled.  He got up, walked about 5 metres and collapsed.  When he got
to hospital he was pronounced DOA, but then a nurse noticed some signs
of life and they managed to revive him.


 - Doug


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