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Post by goldengun on Jan 25, 2007 10:24:46 GMT -5
How could you walk around with that pain in the neck?
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A British man who unknowingly travelled around Europe with a broken neck was admitted to a hospital in eastern England on Wednesday, Amsterdam police said.
At the urging of British authorities, Dutch police had urgently sought to locate Benjamin O'Connor, 29, who was involved in a traffic accident Jan. 20 in Suffolk, but was released from the hospital.
Doctors examining his X-rays later that day realized he had broken his neck and was in danger of injuring his spinal cord. By that time, he had left England for the Netherlands and they couldn't contact him.
Amsterdam police said O'Connor returned to England by ferry "after visiting several European cities," and was met in Harwich by his parents, who told him he needed immediate treatment.
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Post by Denise7609 on Jan 25, 2007 10:26:14 GMT -5
Well, we can all imagine how he maintained the pain in Amsterdam.
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Post by goldengun on Jan 25, 2007 10:27:21 GMT -5
Well, we can all imagine how he maintained the pain in Amsterdam. |
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Post by Carina on Jan 25, 2007 10:29:03 GMT -5
I depends on what "broken neck" means. My brother crushed one of his vertebra in his neck lifting weights (the wrong way, of course), but he didn't have a LOT of pain afterwards, continued his normal routines, and didn't go to the doctor until one of his arms started going numb.
They had to do surgery to pull out the fragments.
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Post by vonne on Jan 25, 2007 10:48:20 GMT -5
Latest news in a Dutch paper:
The doctors made a mistake, reading the x-rays wrong, nothing wrong with the guy...
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Post by Denise7609 on Jan 25, 2007 10:53:22 GMT -5
Latest news in a Dutch paper: The doctors made a mistake, reading the x-rays wrong, nothing wrong with the guy... Oh yeah Vonne! Ruin all our fun!   ;D |
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Post by vonne on Jan 25, 2007 10:56:49 GMT -5
Excuse me.....I waited 24 minutes to reply .... that should have been enough fun! Now back to serious business *goes and enters in the make love-poll* |
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Post by Denise7609 on Jan 25, 2007 10:58:22 GMT -5
Excuse me.....I waited 24 minutes to reply .... that should have been enough fun! Now back to serious business *goes and enters in the make love-poll*  |
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Post by sanman on Jan 25, 2007 11:39:09 GMT -5
assuming the story was true...some people just have an enormously high threshold for pain.
both of my parents and i are blessed and cursed with an abnormally high threshold for pain. i say cursed b/c by the time any of us are bothered enough to have something checked out, it's nearly too late.
case in point: i had a dry socket after wisdom tooth extraction and i thought the pain i was feeling was normal. after NINE DAYS, i flew back to houston from austin and went to my dentist. he said he'd never seen one so bad and didn't know how the hell i was walking around, as the hole in my mouth reached clear down to my jawbone. that could have turned out VERY badly, if it had gotten infected.
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Post by RioDuranie on Jan 27, 2007 21:54:21 GMT -5
OMG I read the title of the thread thinking Brit (Britany Spears) was going around Europe with Brok (thinking is was some new fling) as the E was the last letter to show up.
Goes to get eyes checked.
He walked around high as a kite the whole time. Wonder what the out come of this story is.
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