Wounds

[Darth Yoda]

After reading Slowfry's comment about a bullet in each leg, I decided to ask..............

 

How many wounded are here?

 

My short story..........1980 Somalia about the same time as Black Hawk Down.

Got sent out to investigate a truckload of munitions. Got ambushed. Took two to the left shoulder, one in the arse, and a grenade ruined my drumming career. Walk with a limp, half deaf, can't move left arm very fast, and have a scar from my belly button, across my chin, the tip of my nose and ends at my eyebrow...........from a sword.

 

Medicbob I hail you and your kindred.

[FooFighter]

you mean 1990,  correct?

[Blackbart]

May 15, !968, Vinh Long Provence Viet Nam. Charlie ambushed us with small arms fire and mortors. I was hit by schrapnel...

[Darth Yoda]

Yes you are correct. I guess I  fat fingered the date. Aug 16 1990.

[StanG]

i severed but was never wounded , my hat and my heart goes out to each and ever vet who was wounded in combat . but all wounds can not be seen by the eye . there are alot of others who come back scared by what they have seen and felt in combat . my heart goes out to them too.  always remeber what price our vets have paid for our freedom .

[Caper]

I have a scar on my nuckle from punching some JERK with an uppercut to his mouth and now have his tooth mark on me forever. But I guess that does not count.. Kind of a war or words that ended up with a man down. To this day I am not sure if I made him swallow any teeth.

[Mad Cow]

Ouch!  I reckon my arthritis doesn't compare to bullets and schrapenel.

I just wanted to stop and say "Thanks for serving!"  Bless you all!

[Dark Asylumn]

NO war wounds but I have perminant damage to my lower spine, 3 herniated disks, very poor circulation in my legs due to the lower back injury(my feet  even in sumer skin temp never reached above 70f) restricted left arm movement due to numerous broken bones in that arm. (Imagine a 60 lb pallet falling 14ft bouncing off your head and crushing your arm. I am a magnet for freak accidents). brain damage/memory loss due to getting smacked in the head with a tree (yes a tree smacked me across the temple threw me off my dozer and was in a state of "blackout" for over 12 hrs) again I attract freak things. but all in all I am a very lucky and happy guy lol. oh yeah  bith middle fingers have been crushed and masticated and well the meat was "liquified"  one finger was from a tire changing machine the other was from a tongue of a boat trailer and the hitch, stepped on a nail over 6 yrs ago and as of last jan almost lost that foot due to a deep abcess after 2 surgeries to remove the knot they couldnt explain or find     until it ruptured, can put a key under one of my wrist bones due to my wrist being snapped backwards some years earlier. (kinda cool to freak people out with that one. oh  and had a meat hook catch the corner of my eye and my eyeball was hanging out. gross but fine now. again I cant compare to bullets and shrapenal but I get the trophy for repeated freak accidents.

 

 

Thank you to all the men and women who serve or countries so selflessly and proudly. You are truly heros

[X-RayXI]

Yes no war wounds here ... just some more surgery's rather then normal.

BaD! luck mostly ..

[WiZiD]

It was 1977..I was 17… in the Army just going though training on 3^rd shift when a friend approached me and ask if I wanted to buy his 250 Yamaha motorcycle for $50. Hell ya I’ll take that. A few minutes later another soldier came to me and said you just bought my ride home. Can you give me a ride. I told him that I could not because I have not registered it or have a license. A short time later a sergeant came to me and ordered me to take him home. After dropping him off less than 200’ from his house I hit a station wagon in the right front fender pushing his fender into his engine. Blew his front tire. I flew off into his passenger door breaking his window with my chest, dented the door, putting a 3” dent with my face in his roof above his door, my helmet strap broke and it went 90’. I cracked the frame of his car just under the door from the force. I rolled into his back door breaking his back door window with my back, denting his roof above the door 2” with the back of my head with no helmet. Flew off 40’ and landed on my left side. The man that I hit said I was not breathing and he believed that I was dead. When the ambulance arrived they tried to keep me alive with artificial respiration. When I arrived at the emergency department they tried to get my heart started three times with the shock pads. After the third time someone said he is gone. They put the sheet over my face and they walked out of the room. The nurse that explained this to me was the last person to walk out said that she heard my heart start back up on its own and they all came back and prepped me for intensive care. I was in a coma for 6 days. Was told by the doctor when I left in a wheelchair that I should not expect to walk for years and I would never be able to do physical exercise again. That by all his medical books he could no way explain why I was still alive.

To top it all off I had a ticket to see Kansas the next day. Needless to say I did not make it and my first words after coming out of the coma was did I miss the concert.

My mother stayed with me through the whole ordeal for over two months of recuperating. She had explained to me later that she had little to no money to eat and even though she was starving she refused to eat any of my food and could not wait to get back home for that pop-tart that was waiting for her in the hotel room till my captain stepped in and gave her a card to eat on base weeks later. A couple three years ago I framed a pop-tart wrapper and wrote a letter in the frame to thank her and to let her know that every time I see or eat one I will think of what she did for me.

When I went back to the hospitable to thank them for saving my life and spoke to the nurse that was there, (the one that heard my heart start back up) after she explained to me what happened she ask me if I would please leave the hospitable and never come back. She said that I freaked everyone out to the point that they were scared of me. The people there would look at me and right away put their heads down and walk away.

I have the news paper where I made the front page showing a picture of me laying dead on the side of the road with a paramedic on top of me trying to bring me back. Sorry I cant find it at this time. When I do I will post it.

The only thing I broke was my jaw.

[7Toes]

no war wound couldnt server because of a boating accident back in early 80s shattered my pelvis shoved  right leg through my hip socket broke other hip took a piece of bone out below my left eye socket eye ball was hangin out.my right leg was 1 ft shorter than my left because the socket and all was pushed up twords my stomach.was in intensive care for 4 weeks, 10 months in hospital 13 months flat on my back.2 years later i was walking again with out any aids.

[7Toes]

oh and while i was healing about 4 months into the hosp[ital stay blodd clot took out the bottom half of my right lung about died on that one.. yee haa to mean to die lol, and my hats off to those who surved