[QUOTE=CHRHN;32444823][B]THREAD UPDATED WITH PICTURES[/B]
This is where I fell down (without drawings):
[T]http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7ZjKvTrt0JU/SIxOOGHJkhI/AAAAAAAABoI/P8v5Csvmzfk/Bornholm-120.JPG[/T]
With drawings:
[T]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33311333/Pictures/Cliff%20with%20drawings.png[/T]
It was scary as hell. Never gonna near me a cliff like that again, without any kind of security.
I'm also starting to feel better now. Returning to the doctor again on tuesday, where my neck hopefully will be good again. Can't wait to get this huge thing off of my neck.[/QUOTE]
Hello Facepunch. Two days ago I had a real life threatening experience. From monday to friday this week I had been on a school trip. We were on an island called Bornholm. Look it up on Google Maps if you want to know where it is. It is an island with a lot of cliffs. A lot different from the rest of Denmark. So it is thursday, which is the last day we were there, before traveling home on friday. We were all tired from walking around the whole week. We were walking in some kind of forest. I don't quite remember it, but it was very muddy. I was walking alongside a friend. My friend had a pair of shoes on that he didn't care much about, so he walked through all of the mud. I didn't want to step in the mud, so I stepped to the right, on a rock. But the rock was very slippery, so I slipped and I rolled around on rocks and mud for about 3 meters, then 3 meters free fall. I landed softly, but my head was under 1 meter from hitting a rock. If I had hit that rock, I would be dead. My friend jumped down to me to see if I was alright. I can't thank him enough, since it is a very long drop to jump.
I survived, but I broke my C7 on my neck spine. This is a picture where you can see the neck spine: [URL]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Gray_111_-_Vertebral_column-coloured.png[/URL]. It was a stable break. If it was an unstable break, I wouldn't be sitting here at home, but I would be laying at the hostpital right now. All I have to do now is to wear a thing around my neck for 6-10 days, that will keep me from turning my head around, and upside down. So I can only look forward. I also had a minor concussion, and I have damaged other parts of my body too.
When I got up after being unconscious, we walked over to a little shop, where the lady drove me to the hospital. It was really weird, because I don't remember anything of it. Not untill I got into the car. As I regained my counsciousness, I kept saying things like "Where am I?", "What am I doing here?", "What happened?", "Who are you?", "I am fine." On the hospital I got scanned and I was told what happened. All of my friends was shocked afterwards, because when they saw me falling down, they thought that I was dead.
So, why am I writing all of this? Well, I have talked about it a lot with my friends and family, of course. But none of them have had a life threatening experience like I had. So I thought that someone on Facepunch might had, and that I could talk about it with someone on here. Because almost being dead is a feeling that you can't describe, and you need someone to understand you fully with it. So I'd like to know if someone here had experienced something like this, and what they did to go through it. Thank you for reading.
1 meters/6 meters in feet:
3,28 feet/19,69 feet.
[B]So how am I doing at the moment?[/B]
[QUOTE=CHRHN;32338773]This is being written 2 days after it happened. It is hopefully different by the time you read this. I am just letting go of my thoughts now.
Sleeping is awful. I can't find a comfortable way to lie down with my neck, and my teeth starts to hurt every time I have been sleeping for a while. That is because I hit my teeth together on the way down. And when I'm sleeping, the thing around my neck pushes my teeth together. So my sleep is basically waking up every 15 minutes because something is wrong. Unless I'm on pain killers or something. I'm also angry all the time. I don't know why. I can't eat properly, since I can't bite my teeth together without it hurting, and I almost can't open my mouth for the thing around my neck. The skin around my neck is starting to be extremely annoyed because of the thing around it. I can't turn my head around. At all. Which is annoying me very much. Try to walk around with your head just sitting on the same place all the time. You can't. If someone talks to me, I must turn my whole body around to see their faces. I have an incredible headache. My whole body is hurting by the fall. I can't see when I'm pissing, since I can't look down. I can't put my clothes on properly. I can't carry anything around, so I got to have someone to help me with everything. When I'm sitting or standing up, I can't rest my neck, since I can't turn it around or upside down.
I feel an urge for returning to the place where I fell down, for some reason. I want to imagine it actually happening, since I have no idea how it looked like. I also want to know how I slipped. That, for some reason, is very important to me. I don't understand people not taking this seriously. Everyone in real life does, luckily. But the shitposts on Facepunch is just driving me mad. Actually, not really, but then again. 6 meters is a LONG way down. Try to look upwards at your ceiling. There is probably around 2 metres. Now, imagine your ceiling times 3. Then imagine you being tossed down of it, 3 metres of rolling around on hard rocks, hitting every part of your body, gaining speed, then the last 3 metres free fall where you land on your back and you hit the backside of your head, your back is broken, your ass hurts like hell...
Every time someone I know asks me how I'm doing, I just answer that I'm fine. I don't want them worrying about me more than they do already. But as you can read above, I am everything else than fine. I know that I'm extremely lucky to actually being alive, but this is the first time that anything like this has ever happened to me. Having a concussion is the weirdest thing that I have ever experienced. When I got up, I didn't remember anything of anything. It is like a dream. You don't think of your past or your future. You just are in the moment. But with every second, I started remembering things. It went like this:
My teacher kept asking me things. All the time. He asked me things like "Where are we right now?", "What are we doing here?", "Why are we here?", "Are you doing well?". I couldn't answer any of it. Then I began to remember that we were on an island called Bornholm. Now I kept asking them why we were here. What we were doing. They answered, and I didn't understand it. Not at all. I hadn't realised that I had hurt myself. My head could not convert time right.
And my head still can't convert time right. That's why this whole post might be messed up. I have just been writing this in the order my head wants to. Order is something that I can't correctly master yet.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CHRHN;32339454]I also think that I might be a little depressed. I can't do anything. It doesn't matter how many people have symphathy with me, for some reason, it doesn't make me feel better. Nothing makes me feel better. I just want my body and my head to be normal again. And that won't happen before highest 8 days.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CHRHN;32505963]Fuck me, I'm so angry right now. I was supposed to get scanned and get this huge, ugly thing around my neck off today. I have been counting down for this for 12 days now. But when we had gotten to the hospital, they had failed to inform us that they had changed it to another hospital. And that it is first in a week and 3 days.
I almost smashed my cell phone completely when I came home today, because I was so fucking angry. My mom will call them tomorrow to ask if I can take it off, because I was actually only supposed to walk around with it for 10 days. Shit.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CHRHN;32520310]I'm going to get scanned tomorrow, and hopefully my neck will be alright again. Thanks to everyone who have supported me! :)[/QUOTE]
Get a blog.
Your friend is a hero.
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;32334514]Get a blog.[/QUOTE]
Rude
Glad you're alright OP
Good to hear you're doing well.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović[/url]
[quote] She holds the world record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft).[/quote]
[QUOTE=Shibbey;32334543][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović[/url][/QUOTE]
She had a plane to break her fall.
Its pretty high.
But i heard from a paramedic once that you will hurt yourself very bad from a fall that high, but usually you dont die on the spot.
I nearly died when I was a kid to, fell off a bridge into water and my head landed next to a rock pretty much and I got water in my mouth and nose, so not only would of I have cracked my head open but there would of been a nice stream of blood in the lake I fell into.
I just remember my mate escorting me home and I was shaken up pretty bad and only had a small cut on my stomach.
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;32334551]She had a plane to break her fall.[/QUOTE]
A plane that exploded.
Listen, I don't want to break any records here. I just want to share my experience, and see if anyone can relate.
This reminds of when in RO2 I died from 3m fall :v:
Sorry about your fall. Your friend was really brave to jump down there to check on you, I would find a path to walk down probably. At least the mud wasn't a trap leading to a secret nazi bunker.
[QUOTE=The mouse;32334601]This reminds of when in RO2 I died from 3m fall :v:[/QUOTE]
Totally the same.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;32334626]Sorry about your fall. Your friend was really brave to jump down there to check on you, I would find a path to walk down probably. At least the mud wasn't a trap leading to a secret nazi bunker.[/QUOTE]
I guess he didn't think, he just jumped. I heard from other people who saw it, that it looked pretty rough. I could imagine that it wasn't a nice sight.
Considering jumping from like 2 metres high (on purpose) already makes me fall on my knees due to the sheer amount of force, 6 metres must hurt like fuck (especially when you're not prepared)
[sub][sub](I'm only like 1,55 metres tall, btw, so 2 metres is pretty high for me :P)[/sub][/sub]
[QUOTE=DrogenViech;32334757]Considering jumping from like 2 metres high (on purpose) already makes me fall on my knees due to the sheer amount of force, 6 metres must hurt like fuck (especially when you're not prepared)
[sub][sub](I'm only like 1,55 metres tall, btw, so 2 metres is pretty high for me :P)[/sub][/sub][/QUOTE]
"Only" the 3 metres was free fall, the other 3 metres was cliffy. If you jumped down 6 metres on your feet, your legs would probably be broken. So I think that he walked down the 3 metres of rock and dirt, then jumped down the last 3 metres. But I don't know for sure.
I fell about 2 metres (off my bed) and fractured my elbow!
Glad you are okay OP
[QUOTE=Shibbey;32334543][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović[/url][/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the time a guy commited suicide at my skydiving club... took all his gear off during freefall (it has automatic deployment if you get below a certain altitude and are still going at speed).
When they found his remains it was like watermelons had exploded everywhere... so gruesome it didn't even look real. There's a video of it locked away somewhere. Sad day :(
I've never had a life threatening experience to that extent. But I can imagine it wasn't nice. I've been on walks before stepping dangerously on rocks that, if collapsed I'd have problems. Sometimes you can't think of all the risks before you start doing something, until it's too late. Good to hear you're ok though :)
Pfft, try [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Alkemade]falling out of an airplane without a parachute[/url] and surviving basically unharmed. Now [I]that's[/I] crazy awesome.
Isn't 6 meters like 2 floors?
This one time I was biking along these cliffs in Brisbane when I fell off, rolled down the 10m cliff face and bounced off a protruding rock into the river.
I still have scars from it :v:
I fell down the stairs once
[QUOTE=zerosix;32335269]I fell down the stairs once[/QUOTE]
is your name jeff by any chance
This story blew my mind:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov[/url]
[QUOTE=Spycrabz;32335378]is your name jeff by any chance[/QUOTE]
Sweet Bro fell down the stairs.
Shit happens man, i wish you to get well soon.
[QUOTE=CHRHN;32334508] Because almost being dead is a feeling that you can't describe, and you need someone to understand you fully with it. So I'd like to know if someone here had experienced something like this, and what they did to go through it. Thank you for reading.
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When I was 14, I had Meningitis, my heart stopped and was clinically dead for under a minute. I was then placed in an induced coma for 2 weeks. From what I remember it felt odd, a good kind of odd.
[QUOTE=FreddiRox!;32335110]Isn't 6 meters like 2 floors?[/QUOTE]
A little over two floors.
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