🇬🇧The bus accident / 🇩🇰busulykken

🇩🇰Busulykke den 19.septemer 2008

Da jeg var i de mellemste klasser valgte mine forældre at vi skulle gå på privatskole og det var vi faktisk rigtig glade for det meste af tiden. Dette indebar dog også at de dage lærerene skulle på kursus skulle forældrene passe os elever og ofte blev det på en udflugt dette var også tilfældet den 19 septemer. Denne dag startede med at alle børn over 3.klasse blev sat i bussen og kørt til Horsens hvor vi skulle se det gamle fængsel og høre historierne der fra. Da rundvisningen var slut og vi skulle i vores bus og til at hjem ad var vi så heldige at vi mødte et firma der lavede Chips som var på konference i fængslet og derfor valgte at give os en masse Chips til hjemvejen. Det havde alt i alt været en fantastisk god tur og vi hyggede os alle hjemad indtil vi var ca 15.minutter fra at være tilbage på skolen, vi kommer kørende ved et helleanlæg hvor u-vendinger er forbudt men en tysk lastbil vælger alligevel at vende der og vores buschauffør køre op i helleanlægget hvor vi bliver kastet frem i sæderne første gang og derefter rammer vores bus anhængeren på lastbilen hvorved vi ryger frem endnu En gang. Jeg sidder lige bag chaufføren hvor der er en træplade som jeg banker mit hoved ind i 2 gange under ulykken. Det første jeg siger til mine forældre som heldigvis også var med var at mit kraveben var skadet igen en skade som jeg lige var færdigbehandlet for dagen inden men ellers er jeg simpelhen så chokket at jeg ikke i starten tænker over at jeg er blevet skadet. Der er ikke rigtig nogen der tænker over om de er skadet det eneste folk tænkte på var at komme ud af bussen fordi der kom en del røg fra bussens bremser så der går lidt tid før der kommer noget redningshjælp for politiet ville ikke komme hvis der ikke var personskade så kunne chaufførerne bare køre køretøjerne ind til siden. Men min veninde gik i chok fordi hun natten forinden havde drømt at vi ville køre galt så derfor blev der ringet efter en ambulance men der kom mange ambulancer og redderene spurgte om vi var andre der havde ondt hvilket jeg jo havde i kravebenet og jeg ligledes havde fået meget ondt i nakken så de lagde mig ned og kom mig på et spineboard og kørte mig på sygehuset hvor jeg blev undersøgt og de kunne godt se at min nakke var forstuvet men jeg fik tibudet mellem at blive og sove til dagen efter eller komme med hjem jeg havde sovet hele dagen på hospitalet. Men jeg var så træt og rystet at jeg tog med hjem. 

Efter 14 dage vågnede jeg en morgen op med kraftigt hold i nakken og kunne ikke bevæge mit hoved vi kom på sygehuset igen og her var dommen klar jeg havde fået piskesmæld. Efter ca 3 uger ville jeg lige læse en avisartikel hvilket jeg så tit havde gjort, jeg kiggede i avisen og kiggede længe og brød sammen det var først der det gik op for mig at jeg ikke kunne læse længere jeg forstod ikke hvad der stod og bogstaverne hoppede rundt på papiret. Så det første stykke tid derefter gik jeg kun i skole 2*45min om dagen for at prøve på at komme mig og som lægerne siger i dag er det meget typisk at eds-patienter der køre galt selv med lav hastighed får piskesmæld. 

Piskesmæld og ehlers danlos er ikke nogen fantastisk kombination for ved piskesmældet sender hjernens nervecenter signaler ud som bliver forvrænget inden de når ud til den rigtige kropsdel fx. Hjernen sender et signal om at foden skal rette lidt op pga fx balance men fodens sener strammer for meget op og derved bliver de for spændte hvilket når man så har eds ender med en fod der fx går af led.

🇬🇧Bus accident 19th September 2008

When I was in the middle classes, my parents chose that we were going on private school and we were actually really happy for it most of time. However this also meant that the days the teachers were going to school the parents should accomodate the students and often it was on an excursion this was also the case on the 19th septemer. This day started with all children over the 3rd grade were taken to the bus and drove to Horsens where we should see the old prison and hear the stories from there. When the tour ended and we had to go home we were so lucky we met a company that made Chips at a conference in prison and they chose to give us a lot of Chips for the way home. All in all, we had a great trip and we all enjoyed it until we were around 15 minutes from being back at school. We will be driving at a traffic island where u-turns are forbidden, but a German truck nevertheless chooses to turn around There and our bus driver was driving up in the traffic island  where we are thrown forward in the seats for the first time and then our bus hits the trailer on the truck, making us forwards once again. I’m sitting right behind the driver where there is a wooden board as I knock my head in 2 times during the accident. The first thing I say to my parents (who fortunately also included) was that my collar bone was injured again an injury that I had just finished the day before but otherwise I’m so shocked that I do not initially think I’ve been injured. There’s not really anyone who thinks they’re hurting the only thing people thought about was getting out of the bus because it smokes from the bus’s brakes so there’s some time before there’s any rescue aid for the police would not come if there’s was personal injury so drivers could just drive the vehicles to the side. But my friend was shocked because she had dreamed that we would end up in an accident the night before, so there was an ambulance called, but there came a lot of ambulances and the savers asked if we were others who was in pain or injured what I had in my collarbone and I had equal got a lot of pain in my neck so they laid me down on the floor and got me on a spineboard and drove me to the hospital where I was examined and they could see my neck was sprained but I got tibed between staying at the hospital or getting home i was sleeping almost the whole afternoon on the hospital Because of pain and headache But I was so tired and shaken that I went home.

After 14 days, I woke up one morning with a strong Crick in the neck and could not move my head. We came to the hospital again and here the judgment was clear. I had a whiplash. 

After about 3 weeks I would just read a newspaper article which I had often done, I looked in the paper and looked long and then broke it was first then I realized that I could not read anymore, I did not understand what I was reading  and the letters jumped around the paper. So for the first time, I only went to school 2 * 45min a day to try to get better. I was going from being very good at school to struggle a lot and it broke my confidence.

 as some of the doctors say today, it is very typical that eds patients end in accident got whiplash even do it’s in a low speed accident 

Whiplash and ehlers danlos are not a great combination because by whiplash the brain’s center sends signals that get distorted before reaching the right body part, for example. The brain sends a signal that the foot needs to straighten up to be normal, for example get balanced but the tendons of the foot tighten too much and they become too straight, which means that when you have eds it may e.g end up with a foot luxation.