- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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MegaBandNerd: Talk to me, I had a rough day.
Y: I've been drinking since 9 in the bloody morning, you want to talk rough?
MegaBandNerd: First off, I brought my closest sister (14) along with me and my friends to go ATVing.
MegaBandNerd: About two hours into it, a friend of mine and my sister had gone off to ATV. We only had two, so we took turns.
MegaBandNerd: My friend comes back. She says my sister flipped her ATV.
Y: =-O
Y: She ok?
MegaBandNerd: So, she's freaking out and looks pale.
MegaBandNerd: I'll get to it.
MegaBandNerd: We jump into the truck quickly and drive down where she says she is.
MegaBandNerd: The -blam!- -blam!- driver didn't go all the way to her and stopped about a quarter of a mile away.
MegaBandNerd: He didn't want to get his car scratched.
MegaBandNerd: I climb out and sprint down. Here's what had happened:
MegaBandNerd: She was barreling along this dirt road at 40 mhp. She hit a pothole, lost control, and her ATV flipped over her and between a fence of barbed wire.
MegaBandNerd: I got there and she was lying on her back, I had to push the ATV off, she was screaming.
Y: Bad place to bee.
MegaBandNerd: Basically, the top part of her skin on her left leg was gone.
MegaBandNerd: It was a pool of blood, with about two centermeters of a flesh wall.
Y: Yuck.. I've see a kids face get peeled off by a pitching machine.
MegaBandNerd: Her leg had hit a wooden post and splintered it.
Y: Broken right?
MegaBandNerd: Hit an artery in her leg. I go into cold mode, became very mechanical.
MegaBandNerd: Yes, the bone was sticking out. Broke her femer and hip.
MegaBandNerd: She's going into shock, bleeding like -blam!-, and we're in the middle of the -blam!- desert.
MegaBandNerd: About two miles off the freeway.
MegaBandNerd: 20 miles from Tucson.
MegaBandNerd: Basically nowhere. I take off my shirt and use it to put pressure on the wound.
MegaBandNerd: By this time the girl who was with her showed up.
MegaBandNerd: My sister asked me, "Am I going to be ok?" I told her, totally indifferently, "Yes. There's not a lot of bleeding, you didn't hit an artery. You'll be fine."
MegaBandNerd: Seemed to comfort her.
MegaBandNerd: Then the idiot -blam!- started running her mouth. "Oh my god... her bone's sticking out!"
MegaBandNerd: "My God she won't stop bleeding! She's looking pale. Is she going to die? She is isn't she?"
MegaBandNerd: There goes calming my sister down, she began to cry and scream again.
MegaBandNerd: I got up and decked the girl.
Y: People are stupid.
MegaBandNerd: She vomited on the sand.
MegaBandNerd: And passed out.
MegaBandNerd: So now I start yelling for someone to call an ambulace.
MegaBandNerd: "Uh... we left our phone back at the camp site."
MegaBandNerd: Idiots. -blam!- idiots. They forgot their phones.
MegaBandNerd: I was the only one composed.
MegaBandNerd: They drove back, got it, and thank goodness - we got service.
MegaBandNerd: I went through the stuff I learned in training classes: "Can you feel it when I squeeze your toes? What about when I touch your hand? Can you wiggle them for me? Keep looking straight up, do not move."
MegaBandNerd: Ambulance came about 25 minutes later. My friends all chickened out, left me, scared by gore.
MegaBandNerd: Cowards.
Y: -blam!-.
MegaBandNerd: Ambulance comes, I help her onto the truck with the paramedics after they put her on the board.
MegaBandNerd: "Are you her boyfriend?"
MegaBandNerd: "Brother."
MegaBandNerd: "Ah, good. Are you 18."
MegaBandNerd: "Yes."
MegaBandNerd: A friend of mine says, "No, you're 17!"
MegaBandNerd: Great you -blam!- moron.
MegaBandNerd: I can't go with her now. I have to be 18.
Y: What are friends for...
MegaBandNerd: Lets just say she's fine now. She's at home, -blam!- up on morphine, getting a perscription for vikadin. She had 60 stitches and is now in a cast.
Y: And you're stuck with a nice bill.
MegaBandNerd: I have never been more furious at people.
MegaBandNerd: No, no bill, medical -blam!- covered it.
Y: That's good.
MegaBandNerd: If I had time I would have beaten the -blam!- out of each one of them.
Y: Lesson bat?
MegaBandNerd: If they ever call me or try to talk to me again they're going to get a side of me people rarely see. I have been livid all day.
MegaBandNerd: And I will not forgive that.
Y: Understandable.
Y: Well this is just a -blam!- day for everyone isn't it?
MegaBandNerd: It's been a -blam!- -blam!- week. And I thought today would be great.
MegaBandNerd: -blam!- no. And my sister's morphine wears off in 6 hours.
MegaBandNerd: Means back to pain. I'm going to make myself some coffee. It's going to be a long couple days.
Y: Nothing ever goes right when you want it too.