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Introducing our Blood Drop Coin

 

As a cacher you've most likely earned every 'geo-stripe' you've ever gotten. I know we have. We've also left many 'geo-drops' behind because of those stripes.

This coin is for every thrashed leg, ripped shirt, torn pant or ragged hand that ever had the pleasure to geo-cache!

 

 

Gold Satin w/ Red Pearl Enamel

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Gold Satin w/ Red Glitter Enamel

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Satin Gold/ Glitter

Satin Gold/ Pearl

Shiny Gold/ Glitter

 

What do you think?

 

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Yes, there is a very cool icon already designed for the coin.

 

The price is $9.00 for the Satin and $11.00 for Shiny Gold.

 

US shipping will be $2.00 for the 1st coin and .50 for each additional coin.

International shipping will be $3.50/1st coin with .50 each additional coin.

 

We minted 115/ Satin-Glitter, 75/Satin-Pearl, 20 Shiny Gold-Glitter.

 

Only one LE per person until gone.

 

I also had a few minted that will be for a special 'donor' cointest only that I will announce at a later date.

 

Anyone interested please email me at wekleberry@gmail.com. Please send mailing information and paypal address in the email and put 'blood drop' in the subject line.

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I think I deserve this one, considering the fact that my drop(s) of blood actually led to me having to have surgery on my hand!!

 

I tangled with a cactus, and the cactus won!! I had cactus thorns embedded in the nerve and tendon of my hand, not to mention the one that broke off in the bone, and has now caused a cyst to form! Had a cast clear up to my elbow after surgery!

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Cool coin! Sent in a request...

 

The Amigos:

mmm, my husband has suffered cactus injuries when the spikes became embedded in his hand after a caching experience in Costa Rica..I don't have a pic of that but I do have this one! Not near as bad as your experience, I guess it could have been worse.

 

For those of you interested, this was an FTF that we got after a good kayak paddle out to Garden Island. We were hunting for the other FTF which was in a sea cave. After making sure that I didn't hit my head on the way out what does El Cacholoco do? You guessed it! This picture doesn't do the blood justice there was a lot more as his hair was quite matted. I was concerned that he wanted to swim in the ocean to clean off BEFORE we kayaked back to the mainland. I had visions of JAWS in my head :)

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that is my small boo boo on my leg in the foreground as well. :)

I think the look says it all, I took the FTF :D

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Cool coin! Sent in a request...

 

The Amigos:

mmm, my husband has suffered cactus injuries when the spikes became embedded in his hand after a caching experience in Costa Rica..I don't have a pic of that but I do have this one! Not near as bad as your experience, I guess it could have been worse.

 

For those of you interested, this was an FTF that we got after a good kayak paddle out to Garden Island. We were hunting for the other FTF which was in a sea cave. After making sure that I didn't hit my head on the way out what does El Cacholoco do? You guessed it! This picture doesn't do the blood justice there was a lot more as his hair was quite matted. I was concerned that he wanted to swim in the ocean to clean off BEFORE we kayaked back to the mainland. I had visions of JAWS in my head :)

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that is my small boo boo on my leg in the foreground as well. :)

I think the look says it all, I took the FTF :D

 

 

OUCH!! That leg looks like mine did this summer when we were diving in Cozumel, and I decided to play with a Sea Turtle! It ran me into the rocks, but it was fun swimming with it. I'd do it again. I'm glad your hubby's head was o.k!

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SLP, We were tossing around ideas one night after caching and of course here in Texas you don't come back from any day of caching (except maybe a bus stop cache) without some form of blood loss. It just kind of happened but not as a result of the purple heart thread, though that did come up in our conversation and then weeks later I saw that thread.

And for the record, I've been told that maybe just maybe I may be a bit over zealous in my mode of caching and that could possibly result in my excessive blood loss. This has not been confirmed though.

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An AE has graciously been donated for a **Cointest** (The donor wants to see some blood!)

 

So, show us your Geo-Drops! Post a picture of your battle wounds. No pictures you say? That is fine! Tell us a story of your most memorable cache injury. Blood isn't necessary. Broken bones, sprains, bruises also qualify!

 

You will have one week to gather your pictures and compose your stories and post them as often as you'd like. We will all read them and hopefully cringe. :)

 

Sunday Dec. 13th we'll randomly pick an entry, so good luck to everyone and let the blood flow!

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This was an easy one to decide... here's my story:

 

I've more than proven from time to time that when it rains it POURS. This day was no exception. It was shortly after New Years and the weather in the area was beautiful (+17c) so myself and 3 fellow cachers decided to embark on a caching journey... one that wouldn't be forgotten anytime soon.

 

Everything started out ok, getting a few park-and-grabs here, doing a multi there... no biggie really. It was on a cache that we had trouble locating that my battle with physics started Shiretown Map Cache (GCY4J9). I was the eagle-eyed one for this find and as I was reaching for this cache (I was on a hill, BTW) I felt the Earth's pull in all its fury. It felt like I was moving in slow motion without being able to do a single thing about it...CRASH!!! there I go as an elderly couple walking by just looked, smirked and continued on. To quote, "I'm ok guys, the thorn bush broke my fall."

 

More caches found without incident, then we come up to Slickenside (GCVAZQ) at a 4.5 terrain. It's up the rock slide we go to a wonderful view of the valley below, which we appreciated AFTER we caught our breath. Found the cache with much effort, but then it was going back down the hill that physics and the gravitational pull showed its face again. Imagine if you will, a baseball slide... only on sharp shale like rock and not on nice level ground but a steep hill where you can gather speed as you decend. Didn't think anything of it really, just thought that I got down the hill alot faster than climbing it. Got back in the car and it was then I realized, hmm, I don't remember that red stain on my jeans before I did this cache. Sure enough I was cut... not bad enough to call it quits. I called the wife and she asked me how things were going. I simply replied, "Things are going great...uh... do we have any peroxide in the house?" With that, the rest of the people in the car were all but wetting themselves with laughter.

 

All in all, I proved gravity still works, even outside of your home... would I do it again, if there's a cache in it for me... yeah!!!

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Oh... I wish I had a photo of me but.... a photo with me with blood....

 

In almost all caches I was ok! not even a scratch! In one... I was lucky that I stood up and continued... I had loged that I fell etc, but I didn't want to write more and make the owners feel bad... after all it was my mistake!!!!

 

We were under geocaching feaver and wanted to find many caches in our trips in the island! One cache was on a rocky terrain with difficult climping!

The rockes were sharp and spipery and the area was difficult.... full of these rocks and thorny bushes!

 

All night it was rainning a lot but since the next day was ok, we desided to go and look for this cache and others too....

 

The hint was not helping and it was hard! We didn't find it that time but....

 

while I was trying to climp some rocks, one of them collapsed and fell because of the rain (the rocks were unstable...) and I fell with them! my body counted many rock hits until I landed with my face on a thorny bush!!! Thank God I was wearing eye glasses and....protected my eyes from the thorns!!!!

 

Oh... what a pain..... except that I was hurt with the rocks, except that the thorns were big and ....aouch.... (these hurt a lot!!!!!!), my uniform was teared a little, and my shoe has a hole, made of a wooden stick of a bush!!! as you can imagine I was not in good condition but I was standing... I had scratches, injuries etc on my face, my head, my arms, my hands, my feet..... it was a mess! I had blood on my T shirt too! After I went home I realized that I had bruses on my body and some scratches too...! Thank God I didn't break anything!!!!

 

My sister and my brother in law said to me that I had to go to a doctor in a vellage near there, but I didn't want that! I continued my caching adventure that day but with some help (It was not easy to walk after this), and by holding handkerchiefs and havng sticking plasters in my major scratches....

The owners were feeling bad for it and wrote to be careful! well I was not paying attention there! I was a new cacher.... It was my fault!!!

They helped me a little with the cache (no, they didn't say where it was! just helped me witht he hint...) but I admit... I left this cache for the end...

After I found almsot all the caches Rhodes had at that time, I went for that one and I found it! It was not a difficult one but.... you never know when things can get difficult! :D

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Well, what can I say about this? I have been spared major injury thus far while caching. However, as 95% of my caching is done in shorts I have left plenty of blood drops in my wake. In NW Florida our three biggest extractors of the red stuff are mosquitos, raspberries and smilax.

Nothing catastrophic for me yet, and hopefully it stays that way. I'll stick with getting the crimson pinstriping on my calf!

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Well, what can I say about this? I have been spared major injury thus far while caching. However, as 95% of my caching is done in shorts I have left plenty of blood drops in my wake. In NW Florida our three biggest extractors of the red stuff are mosquitos, raspberries and smilax.

Nothing catastrophic for me yet, and hopefully it stays that way. I'll stick with getting the crimson pinstriping on my calf!

 

Hey Steve my friend!!! :D how are you? did you get my email? Thank you so much for the lovely pogs money!!!!! wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:laughing:

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While doing cache maintenance in a wooded area during the fall , my wife stepped on an unseen branch and it rocked pitching her forward a bit, where she stepped on another branch. That one broke and caused her to fall over backward onto a large and long branch. It was a helpless feeling as I watched her fall and being too far away to catch her.

When she landed she lay motionless and I saw a sharply pointed branch about as big as a thumb near her ear and thought she had fallen onto it and of course imagined the worst. About the time I got to her she stirred and complained of her head hurting bad, carefully checking before she got up, all I found was a scrape and a small cut that was bleeding pretty good. After getting up, the flow was staunched rather quickly and we determined stitches weren't needed.

She said she heard a crack as she hit and looking around we found the piece of branch that her head had broken off creating the sharp stake that grazed her, creating the cut. If she had fallen 2 inches the other way it would have been serious. We were done for the day though and that cache was muggled before we got back to finish the maintenance.

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Sorry No pics of this injury but here goes.

 

I'm home with my 14 year old son, everyone else is away from home, at work or school.

I decide to make one of those fake bolt caches, (Guess I'm too cheap to buy one) anyways.

Here I'm in the garage drilling this bolt out, now I tend to do things the wrong way quite a bit.

I have the bolt in a pair of vice-grips in one hand, and the electric drill in the other hand, everything is going very well until, snap, the tip of the drill bit breaks, the drill slips, bounces up back down and I drill a hole right through my right hand.

The bit went in between my right thumb and index finger.

 

So here I am, I'm holding the drill, the bit is through my hand and sticking out the other side, I can't drive my truck to the hospital holding the drill

I now have 4 choices

1) Call 911, explain that I just drilled my hand- the ambulance comes, I go to emergency 8-10 hours later and probably a surgery later they call me stupid and nag about safety and I'm on my way home----PASS

2)I get my under age son to drive me to the hospital--I go to emergency,,,you know the rest of the story---PASS

3) I call my wife at work, she races home, she calls me stupid and nags about safety, she drives me to emergency.....you know what happen next--PASS

4) And this is what I did, hey drills have a reverse on them, so I go get a towel,, up to now there is not that much blood. Put the drill in reverse, grit my teeth and pull the trigger, zzzzzziiiipppp and pull, taadaaa, it's out and the hole in my hand is bleeding good now.

 

I get my son and I drive myself to the hospital, (its only 10 minutes away, I park and walk into emergency, the blood is now dripping from my hand, the triage nurse assists me and asks what happened to my son, he replies , "don't know but knowing my dad it probably was something stupid" I kid you not, that's what he told them..Thanks Justin.

 

Ever tried explaining Geocaching to a doctor, who is rinsing off your hand, in preparation for an exploratory surgery to see if I did any damage reversing a drill bit out of your hand.....

He says so your drilling a bolt ,to hid somewhere for people to find, with their GPS's and they only get to sign a little log sheet as a reward YEP I said you got it...

He replies and I'm not making this up....Couldn't you just buy one?

 

So 7.5 hours later, no permanent damage done, a minor surgery to clean the wound, and stitch it up,

A prescription for antibiotics, and a stern lesson on power tool safety from the Dr, I'm on my way home.

 

Lesson learned

1) Spend 10 bucks if you need, it's worth it sometimes.

2) Use a vice or drill press when attempting something like this

3) NEVER I mean NEVER reverse a drill bit out of your hand, Dr tells me more damage can be done when the drill bit is going backwards.

4) Leave your son home when you go to the hospital, and make up a lie about what happened, less lectures.

 

In hind site I guess I could have just removed the drill bit from the drill and went to the hospital, thought of that 2 days to late.

 

I am now fully healed, it sometimes aches when I bang it the wrong way, And I did get the bolt re-drilled(bought a drill press) but have yet to hide it.

 

Well that's my long winded story, wish I had pics, but I think you get the point ,no pun intended

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Does having a mild heart attack count? If so, I'm in.

 

Out with the neighbor kids, caching hither and yon on a Rails To Trails. I am very aware of my limits, normally. The kids were haveing so much fun, I ignored the warning signs for too long. I eventually got them to turn around and head back to the car. They spent a lot of time complaining because I was getting slower as we walked. Eventually the 12 year old began to notice things weren't quite right and walked, glued to my side. I did get to the car and got them all back to their homes, they lived on the route to my favorite ER.

 

Nothing a night in the hospital didn't fix up.

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I think I deserve this one, considering the fact that my drop(s) of blood actually led to me having to have surgery on my hand!!

 

I tangled with a cactus, and the cactus won!! I had cactus thorns embedded in the nerve and tendon of my hand, not to mention the one that broke off in the bone, and has now caused a cyst to form! Had a cast clear up to my elbow after surgery!

 

O.K., I'll tell the rest of the story and join in on this "Cointest".

 

We were at our first-ever Geocaching Event, and as anybody who's ever cached in Texas knows, if you're caching here, you're probably caching in or near cactus!

 

The Event was being held at our local lake, and most all of the caches were hidden in the woods, but several were hidden in the cactus. Well', being Newbies, we weren't going to let the old-timers show us up by not finding all the caches.

 

This particular cache was aptly named "BizzyB's Almost painful memory ". That should have been the first ip-off to avoid it, but I'm too stubborn for that.

 

We got to within 50ft of GZ, but were in the middle of a HUGE growth or cactus. Should have turned around at that point and found a different way in, but we were too close!! (Found out later there was a trail on the OTHER side of the cactus that we needed to be on!) So I reached up and snapped a long branch off a nearby tree (that should have been my second tip, the branch snapped very easily) to push the cactus over so I could step over it. If you've ever tried to do this, you know cactus is a pretty strong plant (should have been third tip).

 

About the time I started to step over the cactus that I had pushed down, the limb snapped, the cactus popped back up, my hand caught the flying cactus (thankfully, as my face and eyes were very close to it!), and I felt NO pain in my hand, but my shoulder felt like I had fired a shotgun! (later found out this was because the thorn had hit the nerve in my hand and transferred the pain to my shoulder while it deadened my hand.)

 

Now, being a nurse, I knew that was not a good feeling. I stepped back, looked at my hand, saw cactus thorns sticking out everywhere, and BLOOD! My dear Hubby said" What did you do?" I stuck my hand behind my back and said "Nothing!" Pulled my hand out, showed him what an idiot I had been, and he says "DAMM!!"

 

Well, about then, the tears started flowing, I started thinking that I had to get the thorns out and clean the wound. We're out at the lake, in the middle of a cactus patch, no water, no nothing, so we pull the thorns out, and wrap my hand in my shirt. We go to find the kids. As we walked up to them, they could tell something was wrong (they're all teenagers or older). They say "What's wrong???!!" Again, I stuck my hand behind my back, and say "NOTHING!!" One of them just happened to have a half-full bottle of water they've been drinking (GERMS!!). I washed my hand the best I could, drive to the nearest place with a bathrooom, clean my hand, then go have my Best Friend (who's also a nurse) look at my hand. She just says "DAMM!! Better call the Doc." I say "I will,.......tomorrow, .......if it's not better." (STUBBORN!!)

 

Next day, I call the Doc, try to explain Geocaching to him (he just shakes his head, and says "strike up another one to you weird family!"), get a Tetanus shot, antibiotics, and a trip to the Hand Specialist, where I have to have surgery, because the thorns had broken off in the tendon and nerve of my hand.

 

Total cost - over $6000!!! Did we find the cache? NOPE!! Lesson learned?? NOPE!! I still try to find the shortest path, but I will back off if it's through (or over) cactus! I can go around!!

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I've donated my drops of blood, thankfully never anything too serious. It is actually hard to pick which story to tell, but here is one:

 

I typically cache at lunchtime. I do work at a casual company where I can wear jeans and whatnot, but I usually wear loafer type shoes, not a lot of tread on them. So I am out caching off of the nearby bike trail at lunchtime. The trail is elevated from the grass and tree area beside it, and it has rained recently. I start down the hill, but my feet kinda get ahead of me. Faster down the hill, well then I fall and slide the rest of the way down. Just grass and dirt, but I get scratches on my face and arms, mud and blood on my shirt. I did at least find the cache. I also had trouble getting back up the hill, needing to use my hands some more. Then back to work ;) I did spend a few minutes trying to make myself presentable, but mostly I tried to avoid my coworkers for the rest of the day.

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Those are cool looking coins.

Though I am a NOOB and haven't shed blood ...yet!

I don't have pictures but this is the only "stripes" story I have so far.

I have had quite a few bruises from a cache that is still a DNF for me.

I've been there twice now with no luck. It has a difficulty rating of 4 and terrain rating of a 4 and mainly because of all the boulders.

To get to the area of the cache you have to crawl, slide and maneuver over and around alot of huge boulders. I ended up with bruises everywhere from this one.

I had bruises on my ankles, knee's, elbows and even on my derrière.

My shoulders, legs and arms were sore for days also.

We've been calling this cache "boulder scrambling".

I plan to keep going back until I find it.

 

Edit: forgot, had to add terrain rating.

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I dropped my son off at swimming practice the other day, and went out to find a couple caches while I waited. One of them had some bushwacking involved, and I hit my head on a tree branch that was poking out on the way in... I didn't think anything of it, it didn't really hurt or anything. I found the cache, finished up and went back to swimming to wait for him. Sitting there with some other parents for a while, swimming ends, and my son comes up to me and says - "Dad you have blood on your forehead!".... Lol, I wondered why people were looking at me weird. Note to self - check the mirror after every caching session!!!

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Fixing the pictures for this coin as I messed up on my earlier photos, hope I get it right.

 

Well, I can't get them the right size but at least you can see what they look like.

 

I only have a couple of the LE's left so I won't bother posting it.

 

Gold Satin w/ Red Pearl Enamel

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Gold Satin w/ Red Glitter Enamel

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Fixing the pictures for this coin, hope I get it right. Well, I can't get them the right size but at least you can see what they look like. I only have a couple of the LE's left so I won't bother posting it.

 

 

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WooHoo...I got one of these in a Trade!! It must be the XXXXXLE since it has both Pearl AND Glitter!! OK, Just kidding, there's a single speck of Glitter on one side!! Thanks for the trade.

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Wow! The new photos are just gorgeous!

 

I'm not entering this in the contest, but Wanna knows I've earned my Blood Drop coin. I did this while caching with her!

 

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Barbed wire and caching don't mix!

 

 

WOW, Joni! I sure hope your Tetanus was up-to-date!!!!

 

Yep, this happened in May, and I had another "injury" in February that required a Tetanus shot. This just hasn't been my year!

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