How i broke my back through gaming sort ofWhen i was in my 20 s , me and a couple of friends hosted public lanparties . On one of our smaller ones around 100 people we decided it would be a good idea to offer our guests , besides the usual tournaments in CS 1 . 6 , WC 3 TFT , and CC Genrals , a denglish . com 201205 flunkyball tournament to give some sort of change of scenery . And as the good hosts we are we also prticipated in said tournament and reached a good 2 nd place out of 6 teams . Which means we where basically binge drinking a couple of beers which include a lot of penalty beers , because fuck our liver and rules are rules in a very short time . Afterwards we just continued with drinking , which meant i was piss drunk after being awake for 48 hours . After basically no sleep and cleaning up on sunday for quite some time , i drove home and gratefully hit the bed . The thing is , when i ' m exhaused and hungover i tend to have a very active sleep , and back then i had a high sleeper bed . It was bound to happen sooner or later and on that evening i fell out of my bed . Luckily my sister heard the bounce , saw me laying in pain on my floor and called an ambulance . After getting xrayed at the hospital the doctor told that this misfortune broke my 12 th vertabae . Luckily it stopped barely before damaging the spinal cord . A 12 hour surgery , four days ICU , two internal fixators , five weeks hospital and eight weeks rehabilitation facility later i learned my lesson Never binge drink , when you ' re already awake for two days and nights .