Your worst Disney accident?

[puntagordabob]

Happened at Epcot Center a week ago Saturday.... was trying to get "that perfect shot" with the camera...sun was just setting and glowing off of FutureWorld (I was in Japana in the World Showcase).... knew where the bay fence was, but didnt see the jagged concrete bench and I plowed right into it hitting my legbone 4 inches or so under my knee. Puffed up like a golfball, hurt like the devil... lol... felt so stupid at the time but I GOT THE PICTURE and a good story to boot

 

[jenlynn0808]

Happened at Epcot Center a week ago Saturday.... was trying to get "that perfect shot" with the camera...sun was just setting and glowing off of FutureWorld (I was in Japana in the World Showcase).... knew where the bay fence was, but didnt see the jagged concrete bench and I plowed right into it hitting my legbone 4 inches or so under my knee. Puffed up like a golfball, hurt like the devil... lol... felt so stupid at the time but I GOT THE PICTURE and a good story to boot

"OUCH!!!"

 

[ajenkins]

Good Stuff....

 

[k5thbeatle]

I spilled a full glass of Lewis Cellars cabernet sauvignon!

 

[delilah]

My last trip to Florida, I was stung by a stingray. It wasn't at Disney, though, but it was the worst pain I've ever suffered. I was in waist deep water, and felt somethng "bite" my ankle. I was with my 10yo son, 9yo niece and 6 yo nephew. Somehow, they thought I was just kidding, but, finally, with alot of urging on my part, I got them safely out of the water. I was barely able to walk to where we had our towels and bags. I was diaphoretic and thought I was going to pass out. I was bleeding and leaving bloody footprints on the beach, which was mortifying to me. But, some very kind strangers tried to help. They poured vinegar on my wound (treatment for jelly fish envenomation) and put ice on the area, both of which hurt like H***, because the treatment for jelly fish stings is to soak the area in as hot of water as one can stand. Fortunately, my brother's wife's grandparents live not far from the beach, and I was able to hobble there within about 20-30 minutes of my injury, soak my foot, and was on my way within two hours. Now, I know how to treat sting ray injuries.

 

[dronein7g]

I have two stories........
not sure if this one is an accident or not but it was still a pretty bad thing. Our second trip to WDW (curse this speaking in code ) we drove from Va to the resort and we took moms truck god forbid any of you should ever see this purple monstrosity her bf was with us and i rode in the bed of the truck well i fell asleep on the way there and did not put and sunblock on. when i woke up i was literally cooked! my legs had blisters on them the size of baseballs! it was very painful the whole trip but not half as painful as moms bf's whining .....
my second one is kinda funny....
we were in line for pirates and i was sitting on one of the big chains swinging on it and all.... the chain broke and i fell on my butt many laughs were given

 

[schmitty]

I ran into those posts that you talk into at Fort Wilderness and ended up needing stitches. This was at about 12:30 at night. We got a free night out of it though.

 

[Bouncin-Tigger]

wandering around the magic kingdom with my dd and dw we were walking right in front of tonys and the horse drawn carriage passed us and my wife and dd were posing next to the goofy on the bench on front of tonys as I steped back to get the pic I twisted my ankle and fell back and turned and my face fell into a fresh pile of.... u guessed it. So I would say thats my worst accident.

 

[miprender]

I have a funny story, though DH doesnt think it is so funny. We had spent our honeymoon at Disney and we were back at the airport to check our bags, well you kow the zipline ropes to form lines, for some reason I accidentally unhooked it and it came flying at DH and hit him in the head.

He said had it been a few centimeters closer to his temple I could of killed him!!! Thank God I didn't But now everytime we are near one of those he reminds me.

 

[miprender]

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.

Some people are like Slinkies... Not really good for anything, but they still
bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs
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I couldnt help but notice your message on your signature and the story of your son!! But thank goodness he was alright.

 

[rubberband1293]

wandering around the magic kingdom with my dd and dw we were walking right in front of tonys and the horse drawn carriage passed us and my wife and dd were posing next to the goofy on the bench on front of tonys as I steped back to get the pic I twisted my ankle and fell back and turned and my face fell into a fresh pile of.... u guessed it. So I would say thats my worst accident.

You win!

 

[cnlmom]

This did not happen to us personally, but we witnessed it.
Late after Spectromagic at MK we were on our way to the busses. There was a young boy around 8 or so running full force towards his bus. His father was yelling at him, we assume he was telling him to stop (they spoke a foreign language). He ran directly into one of the chains that form the bus lines. He actually spun completely around the chain and then his head hit the ground. I cannot put into words how awful and loud the crack was. He was silent, while everyone aound was stunned for a moment. He then began to scream. His father scooped him up, meanwhile my husband was getting his phone out of the backpack and to call 911. His parents just kept going and jumped onto a bus to their hotel. The bus was nearly full. You could hear him bellow and cry on the bus..... At that point, we just quietly gathered our kids and walked on to our bus. I often wonder how that boy was. There was not any blood that we saw, but he had to be hurt badly. To this day, when I see kids running around any ropes, chains or anything like that it takes my breath away.

 

[ROEDISNEY]

I had a bad motor scooter accident in 2003 off the Disney Cruise in the Bahamas. Ran into a Black iorn gate .The bike had lost it's breaks. It's a real long story and a nasty one. You don't want to get hurt in the Bahamas. Hospitals are not like US. I got hurt bad at 1:00 pm the boat was leaving at 6:00pm. I Left the hospital at 5:50 . Just made to the boat looking bad face split with stiches 2 other bad cuts they didn't stitch. But hey I made it though it went on the boat sore but had a great time and went to Disney World for a week and had a great time. I wasn't going home that's for sure.

 

[gibsontrio]

my mil fell leaving mk after wishes . she hit the curb right before exiting the park, shattered her whole arm and now has rods for bones ,needless to say it ruined our first trip

 

[Uncleromulus]

Not an accident but the very first night of our trip 2 years ago Uncleromulus had a nasty Kidney Stone attack. Spent 2 nice days at Celebration Hospitals E.R.

 

[Mikelly1221]

3 years ago we were coming back to OKW from EPCOT after Illuminations. DH was getting off the bus holding the stroller, I was behind him. From my vantage point, when he stepped down onto the ground, he just kept going down! He had sprained his ankle pretty bad. My DSis came over and stayed in our room with our kids while I went with DH to the ER. We were on the 3rd floor and they were able to move us to a 1st floor room, but that took most of the next day (check out, move our stuff, check in, move our stuff back in, with three kids 1st grade and younger.) The rest of the trip allowed DH to test out his ECV driving skills. We made the best of it, but it put a damper on the trip.

I don't think it comes close to the twist femur fracture or the falling into the horse left-overs!

 

[jenlynn0808]

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.

We had a mini celebration today (2-20) and had DS3 (now) blow out one candle on a cupcake. It was one year today that he broke it. He walks pidgeon toed, but is back to running, jumping, and wrestling with DH and DD11. Hopefully his feet will straighten back out sooner than later (this was a result of the way his feet/legs had to be positioned in the spica cast). It took a few months, but both Grandmas worked hard, to get him on a slide and he will now go down them without freaking out.

 

[wehavesix]

Not a stupid topic to me.

Last June I fell down the stairs in Mexico at EPCOT shattering my tib/fib, dislocating my ankle and fracturing my arm. I have no clue how it happened. We were back there in January and I walked up and down those stairs trying to figure it out. Obviously I've healed and am walking again but it took 2 surgeries and a lot of PT to get me here. It was traumatic for my whole family but didn't dampen our love for Disney at all.

 

[wehavesix]

I am extremly grateful to Dr. Cole (and the rest of the staff at Florida Children's). We were assigned to Dr. Cole at the hospital and had no way of knowing anything about him, but all of the nurses kept telling us DS was in the best hands possible. When we finally got home, we googled Dr. Cole, turns out his is one of the top orthopedics in the country and even has several patents (some pending) in the field of orthopedics. I trully believe he saved DS from years of surgery and pain from that break. "Someone" was surely looking out for us during this journey![/QUOTE]

Dr. Cole was my surgeon too! My local orthopedic doc. has commented several times on what a great job he did on repairing my leg. My tib/fib was shattered into many small pieces about 3 inches above my ankle. He gathered all those little pieces together and they healed very well and very quickly. I also have 2 rods: one in my tibia as is most common and one in my fibula which is very unusual. I am often grateful to have gotten such skilled and aggressive orthopedic surgeon.

I'm glad your little guy is back on his feet. Broken bones are really the pits!

 

[jenlynn0808]

I am extremly grateful to Dr. Cole (and the rest of the staff at Florida Children's). We were assigned to Dr. Cole at the hospital and had no way of knowing anything about him, but all of the nurses kept telling us DS was in the best hands possible. When we finally got home, we googled Dr. Cole, turns out his is one of the top orthopedics in the country and even has several patents (some pending) in the field of orthopedics. I trully believe he saved DS from years of surgery and pain from that break. "Someone" was surely looking out for us during this journey!

Dr. Cole was my surgeon too! My local orthopedic doc. has commented several times on what a great job he did on repairing my leg. My tib/fib was shattered into many small pieces about 3 inches above my ankle. He gathered all those little pieces together and they healed very well and very quickly. I also have 2 rods: one in my tibia as is most common and one in my fibula which is very unusual. I am often grateful to have gotten such skilled and aggressive orthopedic surgeon.

I'm glad your little guy is back on his feet. Broken bones are really the pits![/QUOTE]

Our local Ortho also commented on what a great job Dr. Cole did...I have the highest regard for dr. Cole and his abilities!