What would you do if you couldn't ride?

If it is a neck injury, it should be taken seriously. My mom had 3 neck surgeries, one in late December of 2001. She used to be on a speed-skating team. She got in an accident by speed-skating and then came surgery #1. She went back to speed-skating until she had a second surgery, but it was not speed-skating related. It was just caused by a slip, so that shows you dont need a great force to hurt you again. Just recently she had to have another surgery and has bones from her hips, and bone chips from her neck put in, with a "cage" that will hold the neck together.

After the second surgery she was told not to go back to speed-skating or ever ride a roller coaster again (she liked riding coasters but was not an enthusiast). I know she wasn't happy about it, but she did what was best for her. As of today she has very limited movement, and hoping to improve. I hope it is nothing serious, but if it does turn out to be something, be very careful and don't take any risks. It is not worth it.

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!!!! My doctor just called me just as she got the results of the x-rays. That stupid #$%$^$$^^%#$%$#%^^$^%^%^*^%@# (insert your own explatives) "Quack-o-practor" was soooooo wrong that my parents and are I considering sueing for emotional distress. The REAL x-rays from the hospital show ABSOLUTLY NOTHING wrong with my neck. NO fractures NO nothing!! I can't believe that someone would lie like that to another human being. I wish I could have his licence revoked. This guy works on KIDS!!!! He shouldn't be alowed to work on anyone but himself the sorry $&*^&**%^&$$^$^^$%^@!

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Congratulations! I hope his license is revoked.. :)

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Great news! That quack-o-quacker deserves a STERN look by the licensing board at the very least. Of course, I don't exactly hold chiropractors in high regard to begin with.

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Well, I could still enjoy my other hobbies, Racing, Hockey, Steam Trains, I believe I could still enjoy myself at parks also, without the forceful rides.

Chuck, who would be tempted to snap a flyer but could ride without doing so.

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Americana (Now called The great americana amusement park at Lesourdsville Lake) is opening in 2002. Indivdual visits are very improtant to the parks survival.

I am very happy for you NoLimitChic. I hope you have a great season of riding now!!!

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NoLimit, you can have a review done by your state chiropractic board if you really feel mispractice was committed. I would have your parents investigate.

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Doesn't it seem as though morons always have the caps lock on?

You know, seriously, I'm not certain I'd completely stop an activity *just* because a doctor told me there was a *chance* that something could happen to me. Especially if they told me that a forceful stop on a coaster could send me over the edge. You see, I'd debate in my mind that such a forceful stop is much, much, much more likely to happen with me in a car (especially living in the Capital Metro Area).

It might be that I've hardheaded (It runs in the family. My grandfather wouldnt give up drinking even though he had LUPUS and his Doctors told him it would kill him....and it did!) Now granted, I'm not addicted to roller coasters like that. If I never rode another coaster in my life from this day forward, I believe I could still be happy. But if my life has gotten so fragile that more and more of my activites are limited...well I wouldnt like that very much at all....I've always said it was my goal to live right to the moment I die!
lata,
jeremy
--sorry if that got a little *deep* for yall

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Yay! Congratulations, NLC. The whole time I was reading this thread, I was wondering about something. If the doctor said you got it two years ago or something, then wouldn't you have ridden coasters after you already supposedly had the condition? Since you were still able to walk after riding coasters, I would have said it would still be fairly safe to ride smooth coasters. Now, since you don't have it, you can ride 'em all. Kinda makes you even more thankful, doesn't it?

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"You do too much. You're not Superman, you know."

Yeah, I think you need smooth coasters for awhile

I prescribe two B&Ms and call me in the morning

Signed,

Doctor KickTheSky

*** This post was edited by Kick The Sky on 4/25/2002. ***

Sounds like that quack-o-practor was just trying to get some money from you. I'm so glad everything turned out well!

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Thanks so much you guys! I was really scared there for awhile. Thanks Doctor KickTheSky I think I will take YOUR medical advice! I still have to go to a orthopedic doctor because I do still have back and neck problems but I used to work for an orthopedics so I KNOW some that I really trust in this area. I'm DONE with quack-o-practors though!!! ;) SFGA your right about that. I have been riding coasters, the whole point was that if I really did have a fractured neck that I wouldn't have been able to because the first jerk that I got on one would have probably paralysed me. The quack said that that would never happen...but HOW does he know! I dont think ANYONE would know that for sure that a fracture wouldn't move or harm me anymore IF I had one (which I dont! Have I mentioned that!!!! :) ) I'm in just SUCH a good mood today that you cannot believe it!

HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!!!

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There is NoLimit when it comes to Roller Coasters.
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Congrats NLC! I am soooo happy for you!

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Posting, "Me too" like some brain dead AOLer. I ought to to the world a favor, and cap you like old yeller...

Maybe the chiropractor just made an honest mistake.

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If the shoe fits, find another one.

No ravenguy98, that just cant be! If something like *that* happened, we'd actually have to sit down and be rational for a moment. *NO* you will NOT interrupt our "witch-hunt" for all these blatant QUACKS (AFLAC!).
lata,
jeremy
--running to grab his club and torch

ravenguy ok I could MAYBE see the fractured neck as an "honest mistake" because things like that happen all the time, but telling someone that they have spina bifida is NOT an "honest mistake". That is a MAJOR medical disease that you just don't diagnose someone with if you ARE NOT an MD or the like there of. What medical background does a chiropractor have to diagnose that? They dont. MDs go to school for 8 years, chiropractors only 6. Thats just 2 years more than a bachlors degree.

So because you are not in my shoes and do not know what it is like to be told by some stupid quack that you have a serious disease... you maybe able to say it was an "honest mistake" but I know that if you were me and knew people with the disease...you would not be saying that it was an "honest mistake" you would be saying that is he a quack that should not be alowed to work on people ever again.

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NLC,

I just talked with a friend of mine that is a licenced M.D. He basically told me that spina bifida diagnosis' are usually made quite early in life(usually at birth) and that any normal M.D. (read pediatrician) would have made that diagnosis long ago if you have it. That said, he said that you should sue the pants of this chiropractor. He said if you have the diagnosis in writing you will likely get a quick settlement out of court.(he is an OB/GYN which has the highest rates for malpractice insurance so he knows about this stuff)

Now, as for RavenGuy, why is it that in any given thread you have to try and stir everyone up and be so mean? Are you just a troll? I have to wonder. I don't think I have ever seen a post from you where you offer something constructive to the boards. More often you are cutting down someone elses comments or just generally being rude to others. If you don't have anything nice to say dont say it at all.

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