Alcohol and Drug Road Trauma

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Just thought I would share this with the forum.

Work put some of us younger Guys throe this ‘Programme” I guess you could call it. We spent the day at Royal Perth Hospital watching a few videos, speaking to paramedics, Doctors, nurses Ect as well as going throe the ER and into the ICU and basically being shown what they do to you when you come in after a serous crash.

The Videos were fairly graphic basically showing dead and very badly injured people still in the wreck, People without heads, sculls smashed open and so on.

The ER was an eye opener, all the stuff they do to try and save your life.
I can tell you one thing that wouldn’t be any fun for us Guys, and that’s having a Catheter (Spelling) stuck up ya “Fun stick”, into ya bladder. if you have ever seen one you will know what I am talking about.

The ICU was shocking; as we walked in we were all sort of chatting away then complete silence as we got inside. We were shown a young guy about 24 who was a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver that hit a tree, you could see the bruising where the seatbelt had been, He had had the top of his scull cut off to allow the brain to swell out, had half dozen tubes and chit sticking out of him basically on life support.

A ICU doctor chatted to us about his condition and what the outcome’s would be for him, all this with this guys mother at his bedside (She had allowed us to be there).

Another patent aged 22 wanted to talk to us about what happed to him, For 15 seconds of fun he is now in Hospital with a shattered arm from when the car struck a pole at best he will have use of 3 fingers and have 30% movement of his arm, and is facing over 4 months in hospital and a lot of surgery, at worst he will loose the arm. That’s forgetting about the fines and Police chargers.

We finished at the rehab centre for spinal injuries, this has got to be one of the most depressing places I have been, it’s basically where you end up if you brake you neck or back, at best you will be laying in bed for 6 weeks 24/7 with your head in a brace thingo that has weights hanging of it to pull you spine into alignment, at the worst you will be learning how to live life in a wheel chair.

The good thing about it was it wasn’t about calling us young guys all idiots and telling us not to do this and that, but more this is what is going to happen to you when you F * * K up, and is it really worth it. So just have a bit of a think before you go doing something stupid.

Being 23 i was the eldest of the group, I took away from it a few thing’s, One being I am lucky to be alive and walking around when looking back on some of the stuff I have done. To be honest it isn’t going to stop me from still doing the odd bit of mucking around, but it will make me think allot harder about stuff I do wile driving that is for sure.

I feel if Governments were really about saving life’s and all that bit, Then Instead of confiscating Hoons cars and fining em, they would be sending them on things like this, It will do a hell of a lot more than a fine and a few stupid anti speeding adds ever will.

Cheers.