Injuries/Illnesses

A couple of weeks ago, I had my first on the job incident since working up in Alberta almost 2 years ago. It wasn't even anything serious. During the morning of my work shift the temperature had increased sharply in a matter of two hours. I was doing some monitoring and I noticed a sharp headache pain just above my left eye. I had been drinking water over the entire day, but as soon as I let one of the safety inspectors take a look at me; up to first aid I went, and they diagnosed me with mild heat exhaustion.

What this truly taught me, is that no matter how safe we do our job or how healthy we try to become we're never truly invincible.

To the GFF community what have been some of the worst injuries or illnesses you've ever had in your entire life.

Here are mine:

Illnesses: I've been pretty healthy for the majority of the time, and I don't recall too many times in which I had to stay at the hospital overnight. I think the longest stay I had in the hospital, was when I was 5 years old. I had an incredibly high fever and I actually stayed in the hospital during Christmas which kind of sucked.

Injuries: I don't know if you would classify heat stroke as injury but I had a very severe case of heat stroke back in the summer of 2002. I was working with the provincial forestry and wildlife division. One day we were suppose to get a severe rainstorm, so we dressed accordingly to what we thought was going to be miserable day. That day it turned out to be incredibly hot, at least 30 degrees Celsius. We tried to accommodate for the warm weather as best we could, but in the late afternoon I was too exhausted and when I took a drink of ice cold water; I collapsed and regained consciousness as I was being helped out of the woods. I remember getting into the truck and taking a 3 hour drive home, which I was asleep for the majority of the time. For the next two days, I was off trying to recover.

Jam it back in, in the dark.