Driving with injuries

[Jika]

Just wondering some of the injuries people have endured and had to drive, maybe with a few extra factors against you. last winter during one the few bad snowstorms we had, working night shift again, 5 minutes after my assistant leaves and 5 minutes before I'm to leave, I get screenwash in my eye. Picture sticking a needle directly through your pupil and injecting hot wax into your eye. now multiply that pain feeling by 1000. That what this stuff feels like. and to top it off, it has industrial strength "citrus based additives" to "help further improving cleaning power". nyaaahhhahhaha geeh aa

spent 15 minutes trying to read MSDS information and flushing my eye out. manage to close up shop and VIOLA. a foot of fresh snow awaits me. 4AM, not a car in sight (not that i could see anyway lol), I find myself trying to navigate my way to the hospital through blowing snow on unplowed roads.

parked car at emergency room door, explain what happened to the nurse, bypass everyone in the room.

"my eyes! the goggles do nothing!"

[Terragen]

Reading that makes my eyes water.

*cringe*

[CarDemon]

Being an avid soccer player and playing indoor soccer on artificial turf I rolled my ankle. The new indoor trainer shoes and the grippy surface in stop and go sports tends to do numbers on many atheletes.

I was pulling up from a sprint when my ankle went over on my tippy-toes like a ballerina and then off to the side laterally. My quick yelp an scream was heard as I collapsed to the turf. For the first time in my career I had to be helped off.

Within minutes the softball size swelling began. I was told to keep my shoe on and they taped my ankle in a locked position. I drove 5spd to the hospital with the hazards blinking only shifting and clutching to 3rd gear and timing the lights. Every clutch movement made me curse to the high Shaolin heavens. :|

[03bluP5]

Jika, in my former life, I used to teach the WHMIS program to staff. It's no fun having to protect yourself from the potential dangers of what lurks around you in the workplace, but your example says it all. It's hard to read the Material Safety Data Sheets if a chemical has temporarily blinded you and you're screaming in pain like a cat caught in your fan belt. I hope your workplace has now installed a legitimate eyewash station. I'm sure there was an investigation follow up to the incident, unless you're the boss.
As for the other example, hurting your foot and trying to drive a 5 speed, if I hurt my left foot, I'll be on my knees thanking the Mazda gods that I bypassed the 5 speed for the auto. Now if it's the right foot...

[Mike_Moss]

last march @ tremblant i dislocated my shoulder and bruised it pritty bad.  it still hurts to this day.  anyway, i couldnt lift my arm at all for the first week let alone anthing with it.  the pain finally subsided and it sorta healed about 1-1/2mnths after.  but i had to drive all the way home with this ghey arm that hurt like hell.  i couldnt even lift it to put it on the steering wheel. so one handed driving worked for me.  ugh.

it was actually pritty funny when i got back to work...cuz i was learnign how to deal with it. i couldnt actually lift the arm. but i could grab it with my other one and put my hand on the wheel (it was my left arm hurt) to hold the wheel straight while shifting. ah. good times. it was too funny.

[Jika]

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Trust me I'm probably the most saftey consicious person there, especially when it comes to solvents as such. Sadly this company is lacking in people who take responsibility or initiative to correct problems within the workplace (and the list is growing where I work). This is not my career choice, no way in hell, but accidents do happen in any workplace. No damage done besides a few hours of discomfort.

I won't stew about this laxidasical outfit, as we would be here forever if I listed everything wrong with the place! But the next enticing opportunity I have the leave, guess what.

Just an example of their idiocy: I am key staff to their operations, their most reliable worker, and when it comes to solving problems, most of the time I'm the one who's right. I guess people there feel threatened ( you can see it in their &quot;humour&quot; ) by the fact that some 20 year old kid has come into the profession which they claim to be doing correctly for the past 30 years, and has something to say about how it could be done better, elimating variables, etc.
Ask them to explain why the company was in overburdening debt LONG before I showed up and see what they say!

[7plymaple]

HA!!! Mike the same thing happened to me at blue mountain 2 valentines days ago. My buddy and I skipped off work to go and I poped out my shoulder. It was my right shoulder though so I couldnt shift. My buddy couldnt drive stick so he shifted for me all the way home. We didnt leave Collingwood hospital untill like 7 or 8 cause there was a bunch of people who messed themselves up at blue.

Then on the way home we got lost and we end up on this road that was slick from crazy freezing rain that started while I was in the hospital. We were behind this huge truck going up a hill when it slowed down and stopped. I was like WTF? It turns out the top of the hill was icey. The truck starts sliding back towards us and Im yelling to Dave REVERSE! REVERSE! and he couldnt find it so I reach over with the left hand and jam it in and it grinds like crazy thanks to our Mazda gearboxes that dont like being put into reverse while the car is moving. The truck only ended up sliding back a couple of carlengths but I was pissed because it agrivated my arm.

My shoulder still sounds like its got rocks in it. http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Jika]

Yea I noticed my reverse gear is possessed. I was sitting still in a parking lot, and I was blippin my throttle just after I got my intake to show it to a friend. Anyways I went to reverse out of the parking spot, and to my surprise i hear that nice grinding sound. Everyone heard a loud WTF@!?!? I guess it ground since the revs were still coming down from tappin the gas but how could the reverse gear grind with the car stopped and the clutch in? Maybe I'm just an idiot and forgot something. lol

but its weird. if i am reversing and i put the clutch in, it almost sounds like the reverse gear bouncing off itself ( same whrrrrr sound but in pulses). I took it to Avante and i think Mike listened to it while I demonstrated in the parking lot. He said its normal and sounds like the syncromesh.

[7plymaple]

Its a Mazda thing. My parents 3 mazdas all did it and the trannys never went so dont worry about it. http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Jika]

yup its a Maaaaaaaaaazzda!

[Protege5girl]

I have a snowboarding injury to report too. I broke my coccyx bone at St. Sauveur (I tell everyone I cracked my crack) My friend didn't have her license yet, so I was stuck driving. NOT FUN and quite painful.

[7plymaple]

Sondra your the most hard core chick I ever met. http://msg.toprotege.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/inlove.gif