Your worst Disney accident?

[rutgers1]

You didn't go tot he hospital for that bone chip?

 

[BigRedGoat]

You didn't go tot he hospital for that bone chip?

Nah, no insurance. I've been doing freestyle BMX for the last 12 years, and have learned to be my own doctor/surgeon because of it. Lol.

 

[ilovefh]

One year as a teenager my parents let me buy these ridiculously high, ugly platform shoes from the China Pavilion. (Okay, back then I thought they were cool, now, not so much) I was wearing them while walking back from the car at POR. I stepped in the drain that was on the curb. My body kept going but my foot stayed put. It was only a sprain but I got to ride around in a wheel chair the rest of the trip. It didn't end there though! My mom was pushing me onto Space Mountain and right as you enter, where the line turns to the left, the rubber grips came off of the and the chair kept going, into the railing. I think that is the one reason she refuses to get a wheel chair in Disney now with us! She is afraid I will try for revenge!

 

[DisneyPiPhi]

My dad broke his toe while walking around Typhoon Lagoon. I wasn't there (my sister had a different spring break than me), but from what I understand, he was walking along barefoot and ran into a heavy beach chair. Disney staff was very helpful to my parents, and they thoroughly enjoyed Celebration Health. My dad being who he is, he terrorized everyone in the parks for the rest of the vacation on his motorized scooter!

 

[Stac1023]

We headed to Florida for Thanksgiving to visit my mom and than go to Disney. we got to moms (we drove from Illinois) we were enjoying our trip and turning into my mom community we were hit. Our van was totalled. we were to drive to Disney an hour away in 36 hours. Spent the whole next day dealing with how to get to Disney. Moms; car to small. Got a shuttle lined up. woke up on Sunday and my eyes were all black and blue from the accident and my glasses were broke. we were leaving in 2 hours and my face was all brused. We still had to figure out how we were getting home and how we were getting a new van. the whole week at Disney, people stared at me and my husband like he was a wife beater. IT was not a vacation it was a nightmare.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Last Feb. in the middle of our trip DD10 & DS2.5 and went down the twisty slide in the fossil dig pit at AK. DS wimpered half way down the slide and at the bottom he wouldn't stand on his own and was sort of crabby. DH thought it was just naptime, but I had a bad feeling it was more then that from the way he was acting. We took him to the first aid station (all the way across the park), they gave us a dose of motrin and sent us on our way. DS feel asleep so we finished the park. When we got back to the hotel DS refused to move or walk on his leg. I said "that's it, we are going"...luckily we were having a grand gathering so we left DD with FIL & MIL.

So we get to urgent care, they x-ray DS, turns out he has a severe femur fracture. They can't do anything for us. (Did I mention our transport vehicle that the urgent care provided, clipped the UPS truck that was parked in front of the urgent care facility as it was dropping us off. ). So they send us via ambulance #1 to Celebration, were we get more x-rays and lots of questions about how this "really" happen, together and seperately. We find out it is a twist fracture and that he will need a pediatric specialist, which Celebration doesn't have, so they are sending us over to Florida Hospital which is where the Children's Hospital of Florida is (that ride didn't happen until after midnight) and we will be going in ambulance #2. While we were waiting, I call my sister who is a nurse and tell her what is going on and she informs me that the reason they keep asking us what happened is because a twist fracture is a classic child abuse sign. NICE! DS has a delay in his speech and cant tell anyone what happened so DH and I are doing all the talking.

Finally get to the right hospital, they will need to sedate him and take him into the OR to cast him, but this is no ordinary cast. DS needs a Spica cast, basically he is casted on both legs (even though he broke one, they needed to cast both to stabalize the break) from his toes to his mid chest. He spent the next 3 days in the hospital and released us an hour before we had to leave on ME to get to the airport.

We upgraded to first class so we could fly home (we looked into renting a car, but they said it would be to rough on him=plus no seat restraints for him (couldn't with the cast)). He spent the next 4 months in that spica cast and then another month in a single leg cast.

When people ask about our last WDW trip, we tell them we had the Hospital Tour Package, it is a highly exclusive package that only rare individuals are allowed to book.

In my book, you win!!!!

 

[heimlichfan]

The spiral fracture of the femur is the worst vacation accident I've ever heard of! I'm glad you can talk about it with a positive spin...

The only thing I ever had happen at the World happened at Epcot....

A bird flew into my face!

 

[jenlynn0808]

In my book, you win!!!!

The spiral fracture of the femur is the worst vacation accident I've ever heard of! I'm glad you can talk about it with a positive spin...

The only thing I ever had happen at the World happened at Epcot....

A bird flew into my face!

It has/had been one of "those" years, just one thing after another...prime example-a week after his cast came off, DD broke her hand at field day, yep...casted for 5 weeks!

If my family doesn't laugh about what a crazy year 2008 was, we would be cryin'!

 

[chickenlipps]

Let's see. I broke my elbow on Humunga Kowabunga. It still hurts 4 years later. I fisnished that trip in a cast. The next year I broke 2 toes in the Big Wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. (Haven't been back since) And on that same trip, my DS had to have 11 stiches in his chin after falling down the stairs at the POP. But on a good note, the last two trips have been flawless.

 

[MegKate]

The worst thing I ever did was sprain my ankle getting off Test Track. My foot got caught in the restraints and BOOM! Flat on my face.

I limped over to the First Aid Station at the Odsessy and they gave me ice and told me to rest it. Stupid EX made me walk all the way around the world on it. And did I mention it was my birthday?!

Yep.. bad, but no where as bad as that spiral fracture! You win!!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) I am accident prone.
2) No different at WDW.

3) Examples: At WDW, I have
. . . dropped a bundle every vacation
. . . singed my credit cards from overuse
. . . fallen through my budget
. . . gagged when I saw the dinner check
. . . cracked a smile on Teacups
. . . stumbled out of bed at 6:00 for Chef Mickey's

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

On the first day of our 9 day trip at SSR I dislocated my knee. We were watching TV it was late and I decided I was going to go to sleep. So as I repositioned in bed and went to roll over - I usually sleep on my left side- I start screaming in pain. My husband was terrified he had not a clue what happened. All I could manage to say is, "it hurts, it hurts, it hurts". He was try to figure out what hurt but I was in so much pain. Finally he was able to see what had happened. What a lovely trip we had. That was in Feb and I was not better until May when I finished physical therapy. I could not wait to be freed from wearing a leg brace.

 

[disneyfan'08]

Just returned from a trip to OKW from Jan 3rd - Jan 9th. We were at Hollywood Studios for my dad's birthday, we were going to Epcot for lunch at Le Cellier. It was me, my mom who was in a wheel chair due to MS, my grandmother, my brother, and my aunt and uncle.

We were running late for lunch and we were going to take a boat to Epcot. As we leave the park, I see the boat at the dock. I took off running while still pushing my mom's wheel chair. I hit a bump in the sidewalk. The wheel chair stopped, but I didn't. I flew over the wheel chair and my flew out of her wheel chair. I sprained my hip and did ligament damage to my knee. Supprisingly, my mom was perfectly fine, just a couple of scratches.

 

[Meg13]

Mine doesn't win by far, but it was rather amusing.

We had just arrived at CBR for a week-long stay, and my youngest brother was maybe 4-5 at the time. Dad had already gone in to see when our room would be ready (12-1 in the afternoon), and he'd come back to get us so we could change into shorts and get ready to hit the parks. Well, the youngest brother was all excited, but got caught up in watching a bird hop around the parking lot. No one thought anything of it, but just as we went to cross the street we heard a thunk. He'd run into a light post while watching the bird. He had a huge knot on his head, and it was bleeding. The CMs rushed out a first-aid kit and got him all bandaged up, and gave us a room immediately so we could take him there to recover. As much as it hurt him (although when he woke up around noon, he was ready to go!), we couldn't help but chuckle later.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

I don't think mine wins by any means but I did get an ambulance trip courtesy of Reedy Creek and we got to spend a few hours in Celebration ER from a few too many SoCo Hurricanes at DTD.

 

[deej696]

I don't think mine wins by any means but I did get an ambulance trip courtesy of Reedy Creek and we got to spend a few hours in Celebration ER from a few too many SoCo Hurricanes at DTD.

You weren't the one who tried swimming across the lake between SSR and PI a few months back were you? A member of my family is with RCFD, so you were in good hands, but we got quite the laugh out of that one. Of course, so did everyone that read the paper the next day, poor guy

 

[CinderellasSister]

Ok, I'll play too. Two stories from our latest trip from last month.

First: DS5 was enjoying a few rides on Toy Story Mania. While having glow neckalces in one hand, and the 3D glasses in the other, I'm telling him to hold on to the railing before he goes down the stairs. (The ones right before you get to the ride). "I know Mom" was the last I heard before I see my poor child lose his footing, and tumble head over heels down about 7 steps, foot though the railing, head first. I've never experienced life go into slow motion before that moment. We got to meet the Disney paramedics for the first time, something I never thought I'd say, and luckily DS walked away with just a bump on the back of the head.

Second: We're on the bus from OKW going to MK one morning. We get on at the first stop. At the last stop at Hospitality House there is a scooter to get on. No problem, there's plenty of room. The lady who'd driving the scooter gets it onto the bus and stops once she's in the middle of the aisle. Her son-in-law tries to get onto the bus and explains to the driver that he always parks it for her. The bus driver kicks him off the bus, tells the lady to get out of the scooter, and that she'll take care of it. Now, DH and DS were sitting in those first 2 seats that are directly behing the driver in those newer buses. Well, the little 5 foot tall bus driver was having problems with the heavy duty scooter, she hits the gas and proceeds to run directly into the side of DH's leg!! Luckily, he was ok as well, didn't need the hospital. But I've never before seen a bus driver do something like that.

 

[Kim&Chris]

A little background info: DH has a penchant for head injuries. Minor, thank God, but head injuries nonetheless. There's always some sort of boo-boo on his forehead, nose, ears, whatever.

We were swimming in Coronado Spring's pool, having a great time. I was feeling reminiscent of my youth, so I attempted to do a backwards somersault in the water. After a few clumsy attempts....ta dah! I did it!

Not to be outdone, DH insists he is now going to do one. So back he flips, does his thing underwater, and comes up for air. That's when I see a little red dot on the forehead, then it turned into a red drip, then a red stream. Yup, the genius smacked his head on the bottom of the pool.

For the rest of the vacation, he had a perfectly vertical scab on his forehead.

 

[mackay_j]

My mum got attacked by a squiral in MK and all the first aid room did was clean it and say she'd be fine. 4 days later we were back in UK wound now very swollen & weeping. It needed cleaned out and stitched and at that piont our doctor told her she should have got rabies vac. so we had a very nervous next few weeks.

My youngest is very accicident prone. So much so, she fractured her 3rd vertibra in her neck just falling out of a normal height bed. But she wins our holiday nightmare prizes. At Legoland Uk when she was 2 in the todler lego brick play area, she was sitting with a brick in her hand on a play mat and leaned forward, so much that she slowly toppled over putting the brick into her head and requiring 3 stitches. The young lad in charge of the play mat area said his collages would never beleive him when he had to fill out an accicdent report for that area of the park. Next holiday she ended up in intesive care after contracting septacemia from tonsilitis. We now check out hospital locations before choosing our hotels to make sure they are close!!

 

[jenlynn0808]

My mum got attacked by a squiral in MK /QUOTE]

How bad is it that when I read this line the first thing that popped in my mind was the "Squirrels in my Pants" song from Phineas & Ferb with Candace hopping all around.