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11-06-2020, 04:22 AM
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Re: Calmly Sitting with Shredded Legs
I was shot in the chest once but didn’t know it, and was uneffected until about 2 or 3 minutes later when my fire buddy pointed it out. Then I shut down like a cartoon character. My body turned milky white from my toes up to the top of my head, then the shallow breathing started, then the tunnel vision, then I nearly passed out. I stayed semi-conscious until the medic arrived, and suddenly I snapped out of it and felt fine without meds. Nobody believed me. I thought I was certainly dead, but no, it was just shock. I never did feel a thing physically... until the stitches came out and I felt an itch that never went away for about 10 years. It may have been phantom pain though.
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#12
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11-06-2020, 06:50 AM
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Re: Calmly Sitting with Shredded Legs
Phantom pain is when you feel pain in a limb that you no longer have, when I was a kid (about 12 y.o.) I did read in a surgery book about a clinical case about a guy whose leg was amputated after he had stepped on a antipersonnel mine, he had been feeling lots of strange things in his lost limb for years after surgery, among them: Pain, itching (imagine the desperation of trying to scratch a limb you no longer have!) and the most bizarre was that sometimes he had the sensation that his leg was twisted in impossible ways and it hurt, but he was obviously unable to re-position it in a natural posture. That was crazy! The brain still had the leg in its internal inventory and got input from the cut nerves that fooled it by relaying sensations from cut fibers that innervated the lost extremity. That's something that is rarely mentioned about getting a limb amputated, and must suck big time! |
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11-06-2020, 10:46 AM
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Re: Calmly Sitting with Shredded Legs
Yes, it may have been a misuse of the phrase, but likely a similar psychological cause. Not sure if you saw it, but there was an episode of House, M.D. that dealt with a cranky dude with an arm blown off by a grenade or land mine, and House built a mirror box. He told the guy to stick both arms in the box and look at them, (he had both elbows, but lost everything below the elbow on one arm). Once they were in there, the mirror made it look like he had both arms again. He was told to watch both arms squeeze something like a tennis ball as hard as he could, then relax both arms. It relieved him of the phantom pain. |
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11-06-2020, 01:09 PM
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Re: Calmly Sitting with Shredded Legs
well, at least he still can live relatively normal with the exception of having to use a prosthetic or have a crutch/cane.. If you can still fuck then life is good  |
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11-07-2020, 02:12 PM
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Re: Calmly Sitting with Shredded Legs
Your brain doesn’t process the pain until you see the blood. I was in a similar accident (not THAT horrific) but I was fine trapped in the car until I saw my face bleeding in the rear view mirror. Then my brain registered I was severely injured and the pain hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m glad I was pinned and couldn’t see my legs cause it turned out my right foot was almost severed. When I started to panic and tried to get out, my adrenaline kicked in, my heart rate went sky high and I lost a LOT of blood.
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