Has it traumatize you? I just came home from Freebirds but prior to that I saw some pretty horrific scenes. I was driving down 1960 with the intention of going to Barnes and Nobels to look for a Psy book but decided since tommorow was my off day Ill go on Sunday. I decided to do a U-Turn on the next street because there was so much traffic. When I finally reached the street,I saw it.
I saw a young man grabbing his ankle and looking around confused in the middle of the street. I looked to my right to see 4 obese women and a F150 driven into a pillar. One was crying and the other 3 looked apathetic. Finally,I looked again at the young man to see a girl with red hair lying on the ground face first. She looked tall and slender but then I realized that something was wrong with her.
I looked closely to see what ti was. Oh thats right. Her brains are all over the pavement and the massive amount of blood was coloring the street red. Cops came before the light turned green. Anybody witness anything like this before? I
Ouch dude, it’s not easy seeing that kind of thing. I’ve seen a kid get hit head on on his bicycle right in front of me at a light, I’m not sure if he died but it was quite a scary sight, especially since I was quite young.
Nothing like this though. I don’t handle gore on video like this anymore, but it’s definitely a hard image to get out of your head.
I’ve never seen anything horrific up close. I saw my buddy split his head wide open in a head-to-head collission at full speed in flag football, it happened last winter, and I was right there. There was so much blood I got light-headed, and took my jersey off to stop the bleeding. I knew right there I was never meant to be a doctor. That’s the worst thing I’ve seen.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Ouch dude, it’s not easy seeing that kind of thing. I’ve seen a kid get hit head on on his bicycle right in front of me at a light, I’m not sure if he died but it was quite a scary sight, especially since I was quite young.
Nothing like this though. I don’t handle gore on video like this anymore, but it’s definitely a hard image to get out of your head.
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yea, seeing it live in person, it has to be very hard. Especially at the same night when you’re sleeping and close your eyes, all you can see is that accident…
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
Has it traumatize you? I just came home from Freebirds but prior to that I saw some pretty horrific scenes. I was driving down 1960 with the intention of going to Barnes and Nobels to look for a Psy book but decided since tommorow was my off day Ill go on Sunday. I decided to do a U-Turn on the next street because there was so much traffic. When I finally reached the street,I saw it.
I saw a young man grabbing his ankle and looking around confused in the middle of the street. I looked to my right to see 4 obese women and a F150 driven into a pillar. One was crying and the other 3 looked apathetic.
Finally,I looked again at the young man to see a girl with red hair lying on the ground face first. She looked tall and slender but then I realized that something was wrong with her.
I looked closely to see what ti was. Oh thats right. Her brains are all over the pavement and the massive amount of blood was coloring the street red. Cops came before the light turned green. Anybody witness anything like this before? I[/quote]
I’ve probably seen too many in my time. I saw 2 at different times get killed at stock car tracks. One was a pit crew member that got collected by a NASCAR modified that spun. The guy went around the wheel and up and over the car.
I had just walked up the ramp to the track and saw it. The other was a spectator that got killed at the same track a year later. Somehow a car got between the pit gate and fence, killed the guy as he sat in the stands.
The worst was when I was around 21, I was coming home from a party late at night and came up on a car that ran into a big tree. Hard to tell how many were in the car, 3 or 4? But they were all dead and just split open at the seams.
We got out and looked in the car thinking someone was alive. The scene was so fresh that the exhaust was making that ticking sound as it cooled off. I had a few sleepless nights over that.
I spent some time driving wreckers at night for a local towing company. We were on call for the “wreck roster” in 2 towns and of course got called out for the most ungodly messes in the wee hours of the morning. I’d guess that many were DUI cases. As soon as the cops were done, we got to take the cars away.
And this involved getting into the car to tie a steering wheel or put it in neutral. I’ve seen blood, clumps of hair, teeth, brains and one time a shoe with a foot still inside it wedged in the floor. The ambulance crew must have missed it.
I have always justified my detachment as, I’m alive, they’re dead and that’s that.
Worst I’ve seen was what looked like a mugging. It was pretty discreet and I don’t think anyone got hurt, but it still shook me up pretty good. Can’t imagine how I’d react to some of the things in the stories in this thread. I just thank JAH for His comfort in situations like these.
[quote]belligerent wrote:
Never seen one thank God. Years ago somebody posted the Cory Bergh video on here and I was dumb enough to click on it and watch it. Big mistake.
Do emergency personnel eventaully become desentitized to the sight of gore? [/quote]
It does start to lose some of it’s initial shock value. Your mind starts to focus on what needs to be done to stabilize or save a life.
We all deal with the event after, some talk, others internalize, and the rest deal in other ways.
I saw a kid get absolutely nailed trying to run across a 4 lane intersection against the lights. The car hit him doing about 40 miles an hour, poor girl driving didnt even see him. He must flipped about 8 feet in the air and landed probably 15 feet past the curb. By the grace of god he lived, but man, that was probably the worst arm fracture i’ve ever seen. It looked like a wet noodle, poor kid and his friends were just standing there in shock, staring at his arm.
I was taking my mother out to dinner and we both jumped out of the truck (both trained in first aid, obviously not paramedics but the kid needed help). All he kept sayin was “I shoulda never ran, I shoulda never ran” and kept apologizing to his friends that he couldnt play hockey that night.
Has anyone else ever witnessed something like this and knew like 2 seconds before that it was gonna happen?? It was like just as soon as I looked and saw him sprinting across the road I knew he was gonna get it. So surreal, like the moment slows to a stand still.
Big reason that I got out of emergency medicine and working more in public health is because of the overload of stuff I’d been a part of. Stuff’ll make you old in a hurry, major props to Firefighters and Paramedics EMT’s that do it day after day.
I was visiting family in Illinois a few years ago, my uncle owns a few bars in the area, I was standing at the bar talking to my cousin when I heard a loud bang. I turned around, some guy had been shot in the back of the head. It was over something ridiculous as well. The guy that got shot wouldn’t give up his pool table, so the guy waiting went out to his car got a gun and killed him. Luckily the guy didn’t go on a rampage and left as soon as he fired.
My senior year of college I was at some club that a fraternity on campus rented out. One of their pledges, a freshmen, was hammered. I saw the kid, and he was obviously trying to empress his friends, going around picking fights ect. I decide to leave the party early, when I go outside it is like a horror movie. People are crying, others are just creepily silent. I look across the street and there is the kid all over the highway. The kid bet his friends he could run across the 4 lane freeway and back, and his “friends” didn’t stop him.
I think it is far more traumatic when something like this happens to someone you know. Something I still think about was when a friend and I went snowboarding. The snow started to come down hard while we were going down a hill. There was a fence blocking the run made out of steel wire. The snow was coming down so hard he couldn’t see the fence and went straight into it. The fence took off half his right leg. His quad was completely gone. From his waste to above his knee you could see bone. I only remember the first two events when I am asked a similar question, but the sight of my friends leg stays with me.
I’ve seen a few… some accidents and some are other things… The memories have never been “erased”… I’ll remember from time to time for no apparent reason and it really bothers me. Death is something I struggle with… I don’t fear my own death but I struggle with others.
Even with animals… whenever I butcher a lamb I get upset and it bothers me quite a bit(I like it though… when I become desensitized I will stop forever)… I do hunt on a yearly basis as well and when I shoot something I feel incredibly detached… my mind doesn’t make the same connections.
I never realized our chances of dying in a car accident was so high. TBH,Im becoming to desentized to this sort of thing through the combination of experience and the over exposure of gore on the internet that it doesnt bother me as much as it should.