Episode 3 - 6/10 - Bachelorette 9 - Discussion - Spoilers

IrishGal wrote:I finally watched the episode and sorry to burst anyone's balloon but Brooks did not have an open fracture where his bone went thru the skin. If there was blood, it was maybe his fingernail breaking.  Open fractures are at severe risk for infection...no way a week later in Atlantic City he would have no bandage on his finger.  Even a compound fracture he would still be bandaged. He had a finger jam or break which is painful but really no big deal. I can't believe what a big fuss was made out of nothing but that's the show. I am not changing my mind that he is a big wuss.

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IrishGal wrote:I finally watched the episode and sorry to burst anyone's balloon but Brooks did not have an open fracture where his bone went thru the skin. If there was blood, it was maybe his fingernail breaking.  Open fractures are at severe risk for infection...no way a week later in Atlantic City he would have no bandage on his finger.  Even a compound fracture he would still be bandaged. He had a finger jam or break which is painful but really no big deal. I can't believe what a big fuss was made out of nothing but that's the show. I am not changing my mind that he is a big wuss.

I don't know what the diagnosis was, but I thought it was pointed out that in the Mr. America picture, where they are all lined up and holding hands, you can see his finger bandaged with the metal splint.

It's still on. He's not a wuss. It's the ER people that were all over him for some reason. And nobody knows what happened. I thought he handled it pretty well, even saying to Desiree, "It's just a broken finger" when she was fussing over it.

The ER folks were the ones treating him like he was dying. He wasn't asking them to.

You are right that the editors of the show made it seem as if he should be read his last rites.  If indeed Brooks is the F1 (and if indeed the producers like him), why would they edit him so poorly that some viewers might consider him to be "a wuss".  They have hours and hours and hours of footage to use, and THAT is what they choose?  They can still create drama without making Brooks appear soft.  I don't see the method to their madness.  If I were Brooks and I was the winner of this game, I'd be annoyed that I was misrepresented just to hide the fact that I won.

Piper61 wrote:I would imagine that if you're holding your finger downward, letting it rest by your side, blood rushes down and it would throb/hurt.  Elevating it might very well have lessened pain.  Just a thought.

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IrishGal wrote:I finally watched the episode and sorry to burst anyone's balloon but Brooks did not have an open fracture where his bone went thru the skin. If there was blood, it was maybe his fingernail breaking.  Open fractures are at severe risk for infection...no way a week later in Atlantic City he would have no bandage on his finger.  Even a compound fracture he would still be bandaged. He had a finger jam or break which is painful but really no big deal. I can't believe what a big fuss was made out of nothing but that's the show. I am not changing my mind that he is a big wuss.

I don't know what the diagnosis was, but I thought it was pointed out that in the Mr. America picture, where they are all lined up and holding hands, you can see his finger bandaged with the metal splint.

It's still on. He's not a wuss. It's the ER people that were all over him for some reason. And nobody knows what happened. I thought he handled it pretty well, even saying to Desiree, "It's just a broken finger" when she was fussing over it.

The ER folks were the ones treating him like he was dying. He wasn't asking them to.

You are right that the editors of the show made it seem as if he should be read his last rites.  If indeed Brooks is the F1 (and if indeed the producers like him), why would they edit him so poorly that some viewers might consider him to be "a wuss".  They have hours and hours and hours of footage to use, and THAT is what they choose?  They can still create drama without making Brooks appear soft.  I don't see the method to their madness.  If I were Brooks and I was the winner of this game, I'd be annoyed that I was misrepresented just to hide the fact that I won.

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IrishGal wrote:I finally watched the episode and sorry to burst anyone's balloon but Brooks did not have an open fracture where his bone went thru the skin. If there was blood, it was maybe his fingernail breaking.  Open fractures are at severe risk for infection...no way a week later in Atlantic City he would have no bandage on his finger.  Even a compound fracture he would still be bandaged. He had a finger jam or break which is painful but really no big deal. I can't believe what a big fuss was made out of nothing but that's the show. I am not changing my mind that he is a big wuss.

I don't know what the diagnosis was, but I thought it was pointed out that in the Mr. America picture, where they are all lined up and holding hands, you can see his finger bandaged with the metal splint.

It's still on. He's not a wuss. It's the ER people that were all over him for some reason. And nobody knows what happened. I thought he handled it pretty well, even saying to Desiree, "It's just a broken finger" when she was fussing over it.

The ER folks were the ones treating him like he was dying. He wasn't asking them to.

You are right that the editors of the show made it seem as if he should be read his last rites.  If indeed Brooks is the F1 (and if indeed the producers like him), why would they edit him so poorly that some viewers might consider him to be "a wuss".  They have hours and hours and hours of footage to use, and THAT is what they choose?  They can still create drama without making Brooks appear soft.  I don't see the method to their madness.  If I were Brooks and I was the winner of this game, I'd be annoyed that I was misrepresented just to hide the fact that I won.

I think it has less to do with him being F1 and more to do with TPTB showing the footage that would create/showcase the most dramatic scene. They are trying to put on the most entertaining show possible. Yes, some people will label him a wuss but some people won't. I don't think they really care. Besides, it looks like he got the girl in the end so I'm not sure it matters anyway.

That aside, I don't know how anyone can diagnosis and/or dismiss the severity of someone's injury from behind a TV set. Or determine how that person ought to react simply because something similar happened to them (or someone they know). Last time I checked everyone is different and not all reactions/symptoms are created equally. My best friend and I in the 5th grade stumbled onto a beehive in our backyard and were both stung. I had a swollen lip and eye for a few hours. She had to rushed to the ER and almost died.

Kashathediva wrote:Generally with a finger break it is kept immobilized with a splint for a couple weeks with a follow up x-ray to see it is healing in alignment. It usually takes a good 6 weeks for proper healing, so I would be surprised to see the splint being removed in immed. subsequent epis. 

I corresponded quite sometime with another cast person (many moons ago) who had injured her ankle/foot during filming. This person was not given proper care during filming. Yes, she went to the ER, but she was not only misdiagnosed but did not receive proper follow-up during filming. Imagine walking in heels for weeks!! She found out after filming concluded that she actually had 2 broken bones in her foot. OUCH. Healing took several months to say the least. The machine is big on drama, not so big on actual care. BTW--this cast person was belittled quite a bit as being a drama queen etc as she was not a huge fan fav, however, the girls in the house loved her and mother henned her IRL while on the show.

charriotoffire wrote:If its Ben/The Magician/someunknown suitor who was shown hooked up to some complicated  life support system looking like he is peering into the afterlife and all his vital organs are gonna shut down any minute because of a freakin DODGEBALL  game....  
There will be no debate.  Everybody would agree that he is a wuss.  And nobody would bother to explain why he isnt.

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charriotoffire wrote:If its Ben/The Magician/someunknown suitor who was shown hooked up to some complicated  life support system looking like he is peering into the afterlife and all his vital organs are gonna shut down any minute because of a freakin DODGEBALL  game....  
There will be no debate.  Everybody would agree that he is a wuss.  And nobody would bother to explain why he isnt.

As much as I do not care for Ben, I would still suspect that producers are amping up the drama if it had been him in the ER. Just I suspect they are doing it for his current storyline. As for Brooks being a wuss...it was not his fault, or even his choosing that he was hooked up to machines. I am not a big fan of his but I will allow for the fact that all of us have a different level of pain tolerance...or tolerance in general...and none of us were there and knew what really happened. I do not count on the producers to tell me the truth...EVER!!!

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Sprite wrote:

charriotoffire wrote:If its Ben/The Magician/someunknown suitor who was shown hooked up to some complicated  life support system looking like he is peering into the afterlife and all his vital organs are gonna shut down any minute because of a freakin DODGEBALL  game....  
There will be no debate.  Everybody would agree that he is a wuss.  And nobody would bother to explain why he isnt.

As much as I do not care for Ben, I would still suspect that producers are amping up the drama if it had been him in the ER. Just I suspect they are doing it for his current storyline. As for Brooks being a wuss...it was not his fault, or even his choosing that he was hooked up to machines. I am not a big fan of his but I will allow for the fact that all of us have a different level of pain tolerance...or tolerance in general...and none of us were there and knew what really happened. I do not count on the producers to tell me the truth...EVER!!!

I also understood that he passed out when they were setting his finger. Didn't he say when he came to they had the oxygen and all those wires on him?

How does what the ER people did make HIM a wuss? Whatever they were going to dish out, he took. I'm sure he wasn't worried about what people who don't like him would think about him when they saw it on national TV. And no, I don't think he looked like a wuss, even with everything THEY were doing. One, I know he was just the patient. Two, they probably filmed it to look a lot more dramatic than it was. Three, maybe he has a low pain tolerance or is squeamish (possible - since he said he passed out when they set it), and I totally understand.