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I don't want to explain the details. It would be too hard. I have just returned home from hospital. Four hours ago my dad fell from about nine feet and landed on his back then head. I never want any of you to go through what I went through. Everyone seems to be proud of me right now but I still think I could have done things better. I have his blood all up my right arm, I don't want to wash it off.
I should have been up that ladder, he is 51. Apparently its natural to blame yourself when something like that happens.
Yes, he looks as if he is going to be ok. He better be. I have never been so scared - When I turned to see him fall I tried to jump and save him but I failed. I saw his eyes open on impact of hitting the concrete and they were just glazed. When he fell he was out cold for a few moments. I was just screaming and shouting. I placed my hand to support his head and blood just gushed from the gap. I never knew this kind of shocked terror.
What would I have done if I was a few years younger? I wouldn't have gone to get help. I probably would have screamed and stayed in the new development kitchen area. He better be ok, then I can just say, 'It could have been worse'.
His partner is with him at the moment. She was drunk and was no help to the paramedics, she wouldn't let me go with him to the hospital. I got so angry... just seeing my figure in life not being able to remember. I made sure I went to the hospital. As well as that I had to comfort my 12 year old sister. Luckily my halve brother had just got back and he took that role.
At the hospital he kept asking what happened? He asked where he was and who I was?
I cried in terror. It was like I expected to wake from the nightmare and just be ok.
I want you all please to tell the people you love that you love them. I want you to spend time with your parents and brothers. I want you to do this. If I hadn't had been in the room helping him. My dad might not be getting brain scans now and still living. I beg you all to tell your parents you love them.
This has been the worst night of my life, yet I am glad I was their. I just wish I could have stopped him falling.
I will keep you updated on his condition. Luckily just before I left the hospital he was remembering and said goodnight and thanks Joby.
I love you dad.
Joby
I should have been up that ladder, he is 51. Apparently its natural to blame yourself when something like that happens.
Yes, he looks as if he is going to be ok. He better be. I have never been so scared - When I turned to see him fall I tried to jump and save him but I failed. I saw his eyes open on impact of hitting the concrete and they were just glazed. When he fell he was out cold for a few moments. I was just screaming and shouting. I placed my hand to support his head and blood just gushed from the gap. I never knew this kind of shocked terror.
What would I have done if I was a few years younger? I wouldn't have gone to get help. I probably would have screamed and stayed in the new development kitchen area. He better be ok, then I can just say, 'It could have been worse'.
His partner is with him at the moment. She was drunk and was no help to the paramedics, she wouldn't let me go with him to the hospital. I got so angry... just seeing my figure in life not being able to remember. I made sure I went to the hospital. As well as that I had to comfort my 12 year old sister. Luckily my halve brother had just got back and he took that role.
At the hospital he kept asking what happened? He asked where he was and who I was?
I cried in terror. It was like I expected to wake from the nightmare and just be ok.
I want you all please to tell the people you love that you love them. I want you to spend time with your parents and brothers. I want you to do this. If I hadn't had been in the room helping him. My dad might not be getting brain scans now and still living. I beg you all to tell your parents you love them.
This has been the worst night of my life, yet I am glad I was their. I just wish I could have stopped him falling.
I will keep you updated on his condition. Luckily just before I left the hospital he was remembering and said goodnight and thanks Joby.
I love you dad.
Joby
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Guys, I thank you all for the replies. It must have been hard to even want to reply. You all have posted about what you feel is a similar experience happening in your life, I just never want you to ever be in my situation. I will remember what you have said. I expected to wake up after posting this topic and arise from a nightmare. I have been through too much, I am starting to believe that experiences like this make you weaker. Not stronger.
He better be ok. I believe he will be. :)
He better be ok. I believe he will be. :)
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Family is precious. Very precious.
Yup, just the thought of losing someone in my immediate family (Mum, dad or sister) is tough for me.
However it doesn't happen to me when I think of my grandmother on my dads side.Now shes in a home, I think I've sort of prepared myself for the inevitable, shes 86 and very fragile, after having a major blood clot removed from her head about a year back. I was upset when that happend, but I think i've sort of built up a wall to protect me from it.
I wish I could see her more, but I live 200 miles away from my family, and I still can't drive.
> Family is precious. Very precious.
Yup, just the thought of losing someone in my immediate family (Mum, dad or sister) is tough for me.
However it doesn't happen to me when I think of my grandmother on my dads side.Now shes in a home, I think I've sort of prepared myself for the inevitable, shes 86 and very fragile, after having a major blood clot removed from her head about a year back. I was upset when that happend, but I think i've sort of built up a wall to protect me from it.
I wish I could see her more, but I live 200 miles away from my family, and I still can't drive.
A few years ago now, I had the pleasure of standing by impotently and watching my little sister get run over by a car at about 35-40 mph. She was thrown over the car, flipped over in midair and landed behind the car on her head.
That doesn't quite compare with your experience, but I can sympathise with what it feels like to almost have someone who is a strong part of your life unceremoniously ripped away from you.
I look forward to the day my father passes away with a cold dread in my heart. I don't see him very often anymore, but we are still very close. Without him in the world, my life would mean so much less.
Family is precious. Very precious.
That doesn't quite compare with your experience, but I can sympathise with what it feels like to almost have someone who is a strong part of your life unceremoniously ripped away from you.
I look forward to the day my father passes away with a cold dread in my heart. I don't see him very often anymore, but we are still very close. Without him in the world, my life would mean so much less.
Family is precious. Very precious.
Your coping well with it mate it seems, the people who know you will be proud of you.
I put my cousin in this situatation when I tackled him rashly in a Sunday league match. He fellon me, dislocating my shoulder and knocking me out.
He said that he felt sick immediatly when it happend, I know the feeling, although my occurances of it only happen when I do something unforgivable to myself (Such as deleting my two year coursework one time)
Anyway, when I came round I couldn't focus and the pain was unbearable, not really life threatening but I suppose that it must have went through my cousins head that It was more serious than it was.
Hopefully your dad will pull through fine, the recovery time he has had to get from nothing remebered to a few things is brilliant.
When he does make sure you take him for a pint. The whole situation will seem far better when he recovers, and hopefully you'll be able to remeber this warmly as the time you realised just how much you love him.
I put my cousin in this situatation when I tackled him rashly in a Sunday league match. He fellon me, dislocating my shoulder and knocking me out.
He said that he felt sick immediatly when it happend, I know the feeling, although my occurances of it only happen when I do something unforgivable to myself (Such as deleting my two year coursework one time)
Anyway, when I came round I couldn't focus and the pain was unbearable, not really life threatening but I suppose that it must have went through my cousins head that It was more serious than it was.
Hopefully your dad will pull through fine, the recovery time he has had to get from nothing remebered to a few things is brilliant.
When he does make sure you take him for a pint. The whole situation will seem far better when he recovers, and hopefully you'll be able to remeber this warmly as the time you realised just how much you love him.
When I was about 15 my stepdad fell from a stepladder and gashed the back of his thigh open on the bannister, then tumbled down the stairs.
Laying on the floor at the bottom, leg open deep enough to see past the fat layer to the muscle below.
I went into the garden, smoked a stolen fag and watched the sky for a bit. Then phoned the ambulance.
He pulled through, unfortunately.
He wasn't a nice man.
Laying on the floor at the bottom, leg open deep enough to see past the fat layer to the muscle below.
I went into the garden, smoked a stolen fag and watched the sky for a bit. Then phoned the ambulance.
He pulled through, unfortunately.
He wasn't a nice man.
When I was 10 my dad was attempting to remove a payne of glass from a window frame. The glass cracked and a sharp piece sliced his wrist causing a fountain of blood to squirt everywhere. He was rushed to hospital and me and my brother were left at home in limbo not knowing if he was going live or die. A nightmare I'll never forget. Luckily, everything turned out fine.
All the best.
All the best.
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It sounds like the sight of your Dad in a medical emergency scared the hell out of you - if I were you, I would get involved with his recovery, listen to what the doctors have to say. It sounds as if you were as terrified at your reaction to the sight of your Dad out cold as you were to the sight itelf. Like the Doctors have no doubt said, take great comfort that you more than likely saved your Dads life. Read that last bit again, think about it, and enjoy your Christmas together.
Always look on the bright side. I assume your Dad didn't suffer spinal damage - he will make a full recovery, and there will be many positives to draw from this ordeal. The two of you will be a lot closer, you are more mature than you were even yesterday, and you now see the mortality of the people you love. Last night you must have felt like a headless chicken, I've seen adults go to pieces in a lesser situation than yours. This morning you are awakening from the nightmare you spoke of, your Dad will be waiting. All the time, focus on the happiness of the event - when you go and see your Dad, the Christmas you may have, and try not to let the trauma you suffered get to you.
Keep us all informed :O(
It sounds like the sight of your Dad in a medical emergency scared the hell out of you - if I were you, I would get involved with his recovery, listen to what the doctors have to say. It sounds as if you were as terrified at your reaction to the sight of your Dad out cold as you were to the sight itelf. Like the Doctors have no doubt said, take great comfort that you more than likely saved your Dads life. Read that last bit again, think about it, and enjoy your Christmas together.
Always look on the bright side. I assume your Dad didn't suffer spinal damage - he will make a full recovery, and there will be many positives to draw from this ordeal. The two of you will be a lot closer, you are more mature than you were even yesterday, and you now see the mortality of the people you love. Last night you must have felt like a headless chicken, I've seen adults go to pieces in a lesser situation than yours. This morning you are awakening from the nightmare you spoke of, your Dad will be waiting. All the time, focus on the happiness of the event - when you go and see your Dad, the Christmas you may have, and try not to let the trauma you suffered get to you.
Keep us all informed :O(
That is really shocking to read J, I can only imagine how you feel.
I'm sorry to hear that (that won't be any help to you, I know), and I really hope your Dad pulls through; for you, mostly.
I'm fortunate, in that I haven't had to experience anything like that; but for it to happen to your Dad? When you were there? All I can say is, you are a really srong-willed person, don't lose that quality.
Reading that, and trying to imagine it happening to me, it really does make me think about my family life, and how I just treat my family as normal; not appreciating them, and just thinking of them as "other people in my life". This, I hope, has gone some way to changing that opinion of mine, which I can only thank you for. Thank you for sharing with me, not the message of what happened to you personally, but the message of how Life can suddenly end in an instant. And although it hasn't happened, it really makes you think about how you treat others.
Be strong J. Show the strength you have shown in posting this. And my utmost best wishes to your Dad, you, and the rest of your family.
I'm sorry to hear that (that won't be any help to you, I know), and I really hope your Dad pulls through; for you, mostly.
I'm fortunate, in that I haven't had to experience anything like that; but for it to happen to your Dad? When you were there? All I can say is, you are a really srong-willed person, don't lose that quality.
Reading that, and trying to imagine it happening to me, it really does make me think about my family life, and how I just treat my family as normal; not appreciating them, and just thinking of them as "other people in my life". This, I hope, has gone some way to changing that opinion of mine, which I can only thank you for. Thank you for sharing with me, not the message of what happened to you personally, but the message of how Life can suddenly end in an instant. And although it hasn't happened, it really makes you think about how you treat others.
Be strong J. Show the strength you have shown in posting this. And my utmost best wishes to your Dad, you, and the rest of your family.
I don't want to explain the details. It would be too hard. I have just returned home from hospital. Four hours ago my dad fell from about nine feet and landed on his back then head. I never want any of you to go through what I went through. Everyone seems to be proud of me right now but I still think I could have done things better. I have his blood all up my right arm, I don't want to wash it off.
I should have been up that ladder, he is 51. Apparently its natural to blame yourself when something like that happens.
Yes, he looks as if he is going to be ok. He better be. I have never been so scared - When I turned to see him fall I tried to jump and save him but I failed. I saw his eyes open on impact of hitting the concrete and they were just glazed. When he fell he was out cold for a few moments. I was just screaming and shouting. I placed my hand to support his head and blood just gushed from the gap. I never knew this kind of shocked terror.
What would I have done if I was a few years younger? I wouldn't have gone to get help. I probably would have screamed and stayed in the new development kitchen area. He better be ok, then I can just say, 'It could have been worse'.
His partner is with him at the moment. She was drunk and was no help to the paramedics, she wouldn't let me go with him to the hospital. I got so angry... just seeing my figure in life not being able to remember. I made sure I went to the hospital. As well as that I had to comfort my 12 year old sister. Luckily my halve brother had just got back and he took that role.
At the hospital he kept asking what happened? He asked where he was and who I was?
I cried in terror. It was like I expected to wake from the nightmare and just be ok.
I want you all please to tell the people you love that you love them. I want you to spend time with your parents and brothers. I want you to do this. If I hadn't had been in the room helping him. My dad might not be getting brain scans now and still living. I beg you all to tell your parents you love them.
This has been the worst night of my life, yet I am glad I was their. I just wish I could have stopped him falling.
I will keep you updated on his condition. Luckily just before I left the hospital he was remembering and said goodnight and thanks Joby.
I love you dad.
Joby
I should have been up that ladder, he is 51. Apparently its natural to blame yourself when something like that happens.
Yes, he looks as if he is going to be ok. He better be. I have never been so scared - When I turned to see him fall I tried to jump and save him but I failed. I saw his eyes open on impact of hitting the concrete and they were just glazed. When he fell he was out cold for a few moments. I was just screaming and shouting. I placed my hand to support his head and blood just gushed from the gap. I never knew this kind of shocked terror.
What would I have done if I was a few years younger? I wouldn't have gone to get help. I probably would have screamed and stayed in the new development kitchen area. He better be ok, then I can just say, 'It could have been worse'.
His partner is with him at the moment. She was drunk and was no help to the paramedics, she wouldn't let me go with him to the hospital. I got so angry... just seeing my figure in life not being able to remember. I made sure I went to the hospital. As well as that I had to comfort my 12 year old sister. Luckily my halve brother had just got back and he took that role.
At the hospital he kept asking what happened? He asked where he was and who I was?
I cried in terror. It was like I expected to wake from the nightmare and just be ok.
I want you all please to tell the people you love that you love them. I want you to spend time with your parents and brothers. I want you to do this. If I hadn't had been in the room helping him. My dad might not be getting brain scans now and still living. I beg you all to tell your parents you love them.
This has been the worst night of my life, yet I am glad I was their. I just wish I could have stopped him falling.
I will keep you updated on his condition. Luckily just before I left the hospital he was remembering and said goodnight and thanks Joby.
I love you dad.
Joby
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