Me
But my jump was pretty tame - off a 15 meter bridge into water.
It wasnt the fall that would off done me in, it was the drowning. I was so disoriented I sunk. Wouldnt help that when my back nsapped I couldnt really thread in the water.
I dislocated the soft part of two of my lower vertebrae, got pneumonia from cold water entering my lungs and the parts of my body that took on the impact (legs and left side) were bruised heavily. Couldnt walk for like a week, experienced partial paralysis at first - I woke up from sleep not able to feel my legs, I would cry and hit them with my fists but somehow the feeling returned after 5 or more minutes of being awake. I was frying up in fevers, sweating through bedsheets with my legs numb. As I started to do things around myself more I noticed my hands were affected too and I could hardly lift a 1 liter water bottle at first. When I made my first steps it looked like a seizure in my legs everytime they hit the ground. Step - shake shake shake - step - shake shake shake. Other patients thought Im on some really hard drugs. For two weeks, I could only eat baby food and lemonade cause whenever I tried anything else my chest hurt so bad. When I first woke up in icu I was choking with the fluid in my airway, it was terrible, like having my throat glued shut by water and mucus. It took months before I could comfortably walk long distances and even then sometimes after moving around a bit I felt really bad back pain.Legs suddenly shutting down midwalk which led to me tumbling to the ground. Dont get me started on back pain. Made me moan and squirm all over the place. Painkillers all the way. I also have a permanent limp in my right leg because thats the leg that was stretched behind me as I fell. Not to mention the most profound damage brought on by my stupidity - the ptsd I developed in relation to water that causes me to go batshit with panic whenever Im submerged in cold water, drink cold water etc. Ive got it under control now but in the past I would avoid showers for weeks and only drink liquids that I boiled in a kettle beforehand or else I would get hysterical.