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Re: Illnesses and Injuries....

#81 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:10 pm

Now I know this is an "illness and injuries" thread, and I know this is going seriously off topic. However, since we don't seem to have a potholing thread, I just have to tell you this story. This happened to a friend of mine.

Mick is a keen, and experienced potholer. (Yes, mental, I know, but he likes doing all kinds of hideous dangerous stuff like abseilling etc. and in fact now runs an outdoor adventure company. He has also worked with eejits like Bear Grylls (who he says is a K**b). Anyway, I digress. He was on a potholing trip, which involved independent sump diving. Basically, that means you have to swim through a tunnel which is COMPLETELY filled with water to get into another chamber. The team leader told him he would have to swim fast because he'd have to hold his breath for about 15 seconds.

Down he went, and started swimming. And then kept swimming, and still didn't reach the chamber. His chest was burning and he was starting to panic after having been swimming for about a minute* with his breath held in the complete darkness, when he finally came into the cavern. He was astounded. It was vast and cathedral like, with all kinds of interesting stalagmites and stalagtites. The description of the cavern had been nothing like this! So he started to work his way through the enormous cavern to find the rest of the team and to explore.

He started to get concerned when, having explored the cavern, he could not locate any of the others. So he turned back to try to go back through the sump, to find that the lower parts of the cavern were filling with water. There was no other exit, and by this time he realised there was no possiblity of going back down the sump. The cavern continued to fill. He climbed to the highest point and watched in horror as the murky waters rose and rose. They continued to rise until he was almost completely submerged (he had his face pointing upwards and the water reached his chin before they started to subside. He thought he was going to die. :o

He was eventually rescued by the cave rescue people about 2 hours later. It transpired that he had swum down too far and had found a sump that nobody knew existed. He was the first person to find the cavern. And a VERY lucky man.

The really odd thing is, he still goes potholing!!!!!!! :shock: :o :o :o

Just hearing this story made me feel sick to the pit of my stomach. So I thought I'd share it with you too!! :lol:




*Yes he is scarily fit, unlike his friend!! (Me)
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Re: Illnesses and Injuries....

#82 Post by kathlyn » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:33 pm

That sounds and is absolutely terrifying. :o
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#83 Post by clvrlad » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:13 pm

:mrgreen: so how do i get to be his friend and get free invites just to make numbers up :twisted:
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#84 Post by kingsley » Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:55 pm

My injury:

We did circuit training in a double PE lesson. One of the stations was sitting squats (where you keep your heels on the floor and try and get your bum as close to the floor as possible, and then stand up again. We had to do it for 30 seconds. We were a bit sore after, and the teacher said we could stay and do the circuit again for the second half of the double lesson if we wanted. Me and a friend decided it wasn't too bad so we stayed. Anyway this time we had to do eveything for 45 seconds. Got to the sitting squats, we thought 'Oh yes we can do these.' 45 seconds later our legs were knackered.

I woke up this morning and could barely get down the stairs! My legs have seized up and it hurts to walk and bend down and do everything. I got a text message from friend earlier saying 'Ouch! My arms and legs kill from yesterday!' She seems to feel the same! :lol:

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#85 Post by Looby » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:05 pm

If waters levels were rising that fast they probably shouldn't have been down there, at that time, anyway...but how exciting to find a new cavern!!! Was he allowed to name it?

I don't have a problem with enclosed spaces or dark, just heights! And I suppose that I like to be in control. I don't like fast speeds, unless I'm driving, and that includes things like speedboats and fairground rides. ( Space Mountain at Disneyland wasn't a problem because as it's totally dark inside you can't see the height or speed :D ) I don't like sailing boats either, especially when they lean over. I don't get sick, just scared.
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#86 Post by gill216 » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:21 pm

Just think of the future Kingsley- no saggy bottoms for you- :D
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#87 Post by Laura » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:32 pm

Looby wrote: I don't get sick, just scared.
Hmm. I'm the total opposite. I love boats, I just feel dreadful if I can't be out on deck with the wind in my hair. Aeroplanes are dreadful. I'm not scared of flying, just of how sick I know I'll feel if I do it! :roll: I've been known to feel travel sick on trains too, which I think is probably quite rare.

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#88 Post by Wulfruna » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:58 pm

I suffer quite badly from vivid dreams and sometimes these are unpleasant nightmares. One of the worst regular offenders is getting stuck in a pothole and not being able to get either backwards or forwards. I wake up screaming "no - no- no"). I'm just hoping that reading this story doesn't set off a recurrance in the next few days! :evil:
You will guess from this that I am claustrophobic (thought not in all circumstances - I usually don't notice it). My other worst experience was going into an ultra-sound scanner and not being released from it when I pressed the panic button. I now still get nightmares for certain every time I hear any reference to a scanner :shock: :(

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#89 Post by LAT » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:12 pm

I used to have a dream about being in a swimming pool and the sides closing in on me as it got smaller and smaller and I was struggling to get out in time. Don't ask me where that came from! :roll:

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#90 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:27 pm

Wulfruna wrote:I suffer quite badly from vivid dreams and sometimes these are unpleasant nightmares. One of the worst regular offenders is getting stuck in a pothole and not being able to get either backwards or forwards. I wake up screaming "no - no- no"). I'm just hoping that reading this story doesn't set off a recurrance in the next few days! :evil:
You will guess from this that I am claustrophobic (thought not in all circumstances - I usually don't notice it). My other worst experience was going into an ultra-sound scanner and not being released from it when I pressed the panic button. I now still get nightmares for certain every time I hear any reference to a scanner :shock: :(
Oh dear, sorry, Wulfruna. I hope I haven't inadvertently sparked something unpleasant. My OTHER recurring dream consists of walking down a sloping field with a hedge on my left, and finding a black bag with body parts in it. It is absolutely vile, and always in the same place. Fortunately I have never found this place in real life!! :shock:

And re my friend Looby, I didn't ask that. I'll have to check. I think the problem was that he had dived LOWER than the sump they should have been in, which was above any potential problem. And Clvrlad - you must be BARKING mad. :lol:

And yes I am rubbish. Claustrophobia AND vertigo for me. But I LOVE going fast. My cousin has a speedboat which he takes me out in down in Devon. There is no better feeling than hurtling along Bideford Bay at breakneck speed at 45 degree angle!! :lol: I also absolutely LOVE sledging. :D :D (Big kid - yep, that's me). When I was young and reckless I LOVED being pillion on the back of motorbikes and driving at 120+. How I survived my teens is nothing short of a minor miracle. :oops:

I'm a reformed character now though, I hasten to add. :oops:
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#91 Post by Laura » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:19 pm

Yeah, except for on exam results day when you relapse.

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#92 Post by giraffe » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:40 pm

Bunnylump that story has made me feel quite ill.

I get really vivid dreams sometimes. There was one where something funny happened and I woke up shaking with laughter. My husband spent about 10 minutes trying to stop me from crying until I recovered enough to tell him I was laughing not crying. :roll: Then there was the time I dreamt there was a huge pile of papers on my desk that started to fall and I flung out my arm to catch them, and whacked my husband in the face. :mrgreen:

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#93 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:07 pm

Laura wrote:Yeah, except for on exam results day when you relapse.
Ur, yes. But that wasn't deliberate. That was a lapse of sensibleness*. Rest of the time I drive really responsibly!
* I just know you'll find that really difficult to believe being as how I'm so mature. :mrgreen:
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#94 Post by tricia » Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:15 am

my recurrent nightmare is high bridges and thinking that I am going to fall off them. I now do huge diversions to avoid them

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#95 Post by MBH » Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:46 pm

Since I started the thread I'd better post a progress....


Last week was NOT good, with an infection hitting the operation site - basically knocked me back by a week while antibiotics dealt with the problem. Sleeping EVEN MORE while my body fought it off.

Finally got the OK this week to allow my face to get wet again, so took the garden clippers to my chin to get through the growth that had appeared during my time off. [Before and After picture below]

I'm told that I started off looking like Frankenstein's Monster, and gradually turned into the Wolf Man :lol:

All set up for getting back to work on Monday.
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#96 Post by SparkOut » Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:51 pm

That's a pretty impressive before and after pose without special effects. Nice.

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#97 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:20 am

Now strangely (I'm not usually a great fan of the beard ) I quite liked you with a bit of facial hair going on there. I realise it is now too late to have told you this, but... :lol: (Not that it matters what I think).

I think you were just trying to out- Scurra Scurra. :lol:

When my OH had a beard I thought it made him look older. And I didn't like it much because it TICKLED. :lol:
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#98 Post by Laura » Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:59 am

Well, this is nowhere near some of the other illnesses and injuries we've had on here lately, but its the last week of term, leading to many carol concerts etc. and I've developed my annual sore throat. I get colds throughout the year, but they usually go to my nose. Except for the one time I need a fully functional voice, when it goes straight to my throat. The week before the concerts start, every year, without fail!!! Never mind, I shall croak on!!!

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#99 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:41 pm

My doctor calls Laryngitis "The teacher's disease". We have half a dozen teachers with no voices at the moment. Hope you get well soon, Laura.

I'm feeling sorry for myself because my back is out again. So I'm like a bear with a sore...back. Funnily enough that always seems to happen just before Christmas. :roll: Most annoying thing is I can't get my pants, socks, trousers or shoes on without help. Ah yes, and my daughter or husband are having to wash my FEET for me. Aren't they lucky?? :lol:
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#100 Post by LAT » Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:00 pm

That sounds nasty, poor you! :( I'm sure your husband and daughter will cope. ;)

And Laura, I hope your voice holds out and it isn't too painful.

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