Your worst Disney accident?

[rutgers1]

I know this is a stupid topic, but here goes....

Last year, my son broke his collarbone while running in the hallway at the Beach Club. Needless to say, that put a damper on our trip!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

Not as serious as your son's collar bone, but I brought my budget at WDW in 2005.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Several years ago at the Frontierland Train Station Judy managed to slip her leg between two of the vertical posts on the fence and was unable to get it back out. She and I and the Station Attendent tried to maneuver her leg but somehow the knee had managed to slip between the two posts and it would not come back out.

These were 4" x 4" rough-hewn wood posts. They ended up calling Reedy Creek Emergency Services who sent over a Rescue Squad with a Jaws of Life to separate the posts.

 

[Mr Stoat]

Is this really rumours or news??

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Yeah, I think you got the wrong board but it's an interesting thread.

I don't recall hurting myself or DH hurting himself at WDW, which is really something because he's a total klutz. (Not me though. )

 

[rutgers1]

I wasn't sure which board to post it on. This is the only board where the moderators don't have an itchy trigger finger for things that are not 100% on topic.

Back to my story, lol.....There is a urgent care facility that Disney sends people to. We decided to take them up on the offer the next day. They were supposed to pick us up, but after a LONG LONG wait, the manager of the Wilderness Lodge (where we were staying) called us a cab and had Disney pay for it. It was very nice of him. Everyone who worked in the front was so nice to my son. We definitely felt the Disney magic, even though the broken bone squashed the end of our trip.

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

You could always go with one of the community boards. Nothing has to be on topic there. I would guess the Theme Parks Community Board might be the best choice.

 

[twinmom]

We are DVC mbrs and we were staying at Vero Beach. The last night before we were leaving for WDW my 5 yo son fell out of bed. I heard him wimpering and went in there and thought he had a bloody nose as he had blood all over him and the bed. Turns out he had hit his chin and split it open. We went to the Urgent Care that didn't open till 9. Long wait already so I went to the store and got Steri Strips and with a CM at Vero we patched him up. After we did that I tried to get him to eat something and he said his mouth hurt. Looked inside and turns out he had fractured a molar.

The CM got us a dentist appt for that afternoon in Orlando and he had to have the tooth removed. Then we took him to Urgent Care there and had his chin looked at and they bandaged him all up. So no swimming for 5 days. His brothers weren't happy.

To top it all off he was swollen and bruised. Since he was asleep when he fell out of bed he couldn't remember it and denied that that is what happened. So whenever anyone commented on his bruises and bandages and we said he fell out of bed he would LOUDLY complain that it didn't happen like that. I am sure there were a lot of people there thinking the worst of us.

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Twinmom, that sounds awful! I know what you mean about people thinking the worst. My cousin is severely mentally disabled from shortly after birth. To top it all off, he is also a very bad epileptic. He takes grand mal seizures on a daily basis and, God love him, has so many cuts and bruises and scars all the time. My dear aunt and uncle are getting embarassed to take him to emerg now because he's 40 and has been so many times over the years. They are so scared someone is going to think that they are hurting him.

 

[Laneychris]

Interesting

 

[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.

 

[ntsammy5]

My wife broke her foot in 2001.......

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Jenlynn0808, that is terrible! All from the silly old slide? Ouch! I hope your DS healed well.

 

[Tink's Tormentor]

This didn't happen at Disney, but, it did happen in Kissimmee.... I went bowling with my friends one night.. Well, as I approached the lane, I slid, fell and bruised my tail bone... I was sore for the rest of the week I was at Disney...

 

[jenlynn0808]

Jenlynn0808, that is terrible! All from the silly old slide? Ouch! I hope your DS healed well.

He is doing much better. His right leg is slightly (a few mm) shorter then the left. He still has a tendency to stand with his toes pointing out (they way they were in the cast) and his feet apart, but if we remind him then he will fix them.

He was afraid of slides for a long time and everytime he saw one (especially in the Huggies commercial) he would talk about the bad slide (his speech has improved dramatically since then~just a late bloomer) and how it hurt him. It took a few months to get him to go near a slide, but now he will go on them,but he is sure to remind us about the bad slide first.

JASN-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!

 

[PatMcDuck]

Well, I had to go to the ER in Celebration for injections into my shoulder, I had a severe bursitis attack. The ;pain was intense, could not leave my hotel room for 2 days.

BUT, DD best friend had a "better story". Family of 4 (mom, dad, 2 kids) was waiting for Illminations to begin in World Showcase, Epcot. Everyone was happy. The little girl, then age 5, was twirling. And twirling, and laughing. etc. Then her little foot got stuck in the pavement somehow, and the foot stayed put, while her upper body twirled........ yup, a spiral fracture of some sort in her leg....... family returned home to NJ the next day. She was fine in 8 weeks or whatever.

 

[ferrytale]

My nephew fell off the bed while we were on the DCL Wonder, and broke his arm - he wasn't quite 2 yrs old. Luckily it was on the way back into port Canaveral and they drove him right to the hospital.
Also, good friends of ours had an accident with the jet ski's you can rent - something about the gas tank exploding(not 100% clear on all the details since it was before I knew them really well), and severly injuring her one son...Disney has been very gracious to them ever since.

 

[MJMcBride]

my then 1 1/2 year old son peed on me during Its a Small world. Leaked right thru his diaper. Does that count as an accident

 

[Tink-n-Belle]

I (40 yo)was on Keister Coaster and went to grab onto the bar above my head to make me go faster and slipped and fell right on my butt and tailbone Ouch!!! I was so lucky I didn't break anything!! But I hurt for days.

The trip before that one, I was walking off the bus at the BW and tripped over the sidewalk and pulled my shoulder muscle. That was painful, in fact I thought I was having a heart attack that night!

And this is a cute one. My DD who was 6 at the time, was walking around SAB and was so amazed at the pool, she wasn't looking where she was going and walked right into the pool fully clothed She didn't get hurt, thankfully, but it was so funny we couldn't even yell at her. This was 10 minutes before we were leaving!!

 

[BigRedGoat]

My friend and I were in the pool at POP in 2006 drinking a few beers and relaxing. It was about 2 in the morning so we were the only ones outside. I had to use the bathroom, and it was getting cold outside, so I figured the best bet was to run like hell to my room so I was in the cold air for as little time as possible. I ran full speed towards the center staircase of our building.

Here's where the problem happens. The surface around the pool is rough cement, no problem with traction on wet feet. The base by the staircase however, is painted smooth concrete. I had forgotten this (okay, I was a little drunk) and when I went to stop, my feet slid out from under me, and I went shin first into the vertical post for the handrail at full speed. The sound of bone contacting metal was so loud that my friend had heard me from back at the pool. She screamed "You okay?!" I laughed, winced, told her I was fine, then ran up to the room to finish my plan. As I was standing in the bathroom, I looked down and saw that my shin had already swelled so much that it looked like a golf ball was sitting under my skin. Later that night I ended up having to pull a small sliver of chipped bone out of the lump, since it had already begun to poke through the skin. I had a painful limp for the remainder of the vacation.

2 years later, I still have a discolored spot with a large indent in my right shin. Lesson learned.

My friend and I are returning in two weeks for another POP/WDW trip, and she keeps reminding me that there will be no drunk running around the pool this time.