TIFU by climbing further along a branch and falling and almost breaking my back
This didn’t happen today (like every post on this sub), it happened a few weeks back, and I'm still recovering.
So at school I was climbing up a tree outside for some reason. The tree had an easy access point which made it easy to get up onto, which made it rather popular. I made it onto the highest branch I had ever climbed to, and someone else was further up, so feeling adventurous, I decided to walk further along the branch, huge mistake. I didn’t take into account that the further you go along the branch, the weaker it gets, and I ended up slipping and falling out of the tree. I feel feet first before my back took the rest.
HOLY SHIT my back hurt, I had never been in so much pain, it felt like my back had been mutilated and destroyed by something. I couldn’t get up, but thankfully I hadn’t hit my head so I didn’t have a concussion. The school called my dad who drove onto the field, and I slowly and painfully managed to get up with my dad and the teacher's help. At the emergency room, they detected no fractures, but my back muscles were most definitely bruised. I was discharged after a couple hours, and went home.
Since then, I have slowly been recovering, along with the help of painkillers. But for the first week following the fall, I could barely get up without my back killing me, I struggled to walk, couldn’t bend over, couldn’t play my Wii, and almost every movement hurt my back. I have improved a lot since, I am back at school, I can walk for extended periods of time, but I still can’t run, and my back is stiff.
TLDR: I fell out of a tree I was climbing at school, almost broke my back, and have had struggles with moving since