Injuries

[90SK]

When I was four years old, my brother and I were in the yard playing with this giant bubble wand thing. I can't remember the specifics; it was a big bubble wand that made giant bubbles. We threw it out shortly after the incident.

 

My brother informed me that you could "get in" the bubbles. I was enthused, and began chasing after one of the larger ones. Unfortunately, the grass was very soapy from the use of bubbles. I slipped, and by some feat managed to break my femur. I ended up being in a half body cast for quite a while (extending from my pelvis all the way down one leg and halfway down the other), after a 2-week hospital tour.

[nas77]

I guess I must be living in a plastic bubble or something because I don't have any scars to show at all. Although, having said that, I have had my fair share of near death experiences - everything from being almost hit by a train on the london underground to almost falling off a mountain in a car. So yeah. Irrelevant post, I know, but I haven't said anything in a while.

[Bob Lion54]

Wow some of you have some pretty bad ones. Mine are not too bad, but here goes...

 

Two football ones:

In middleschool I was played right tackle. Durring one game, I was up against this short defensive end. He managed to get under me and the ridge of his helmet cut my chin open. I got blood all over my jersey and still have the scar. Yea, but the rest of the game I owned him! His arms were shaking and I knew he was mine! bwhaha( If you're not sure what I mean by the ridge, it's the raised strip down the middle of some football helmets.)

 

In highschool, we were running stadiums. Being the athletic phenom that I am, I managed to slip and cut my shin open. I think it took about five stitches. Still have the scar and a nice little indention in the bone.

 

Non-football:

I was at a party in highschool. (well, more of a little get together) Anyway, we were drinking. The house we were at had these doors with many small windows. I tripped and put my hand right through one. I could see the tendons in my finders. Luckly, the tendons didn't get damaged and it healed up fine. I think it took around 15 stitches. Still have the scar.

 

Well, those are my major ones. Nothing too horrible.

[Hallucination]

You all get the good injuries and accidents I don't get accidents, just "accidents" if you catch my drift...

I haven't every gotten a broken bone, and all I got is a few scratchs. But I did get pushed down some stairs when I was 5. By my brother

@D333 is that a pic of you or someone else?

[El Sitherino]

You all get the good injuries and accidents I don't get accidents, just "accidents" if you catch my drift.

Like "I pissed my pants" accidents or "Oh crap, I got an erection in class" accidents?

[Hallucination]

^^No, more like "woops I bumped into you with a knife and pushed you down a flight of stairs" accident. I was on the recieving end....

[RevanA4]

Nothing amazingly serious, but two months ago I did manage to hit and run over myself with my own car. Can I get an honorary Darwin Award?

 

that's killing me

 

um lemme see here I cut open my hand at the base of my index figure with a cat food can still have the scar dam near cut to the bone in that one still have a fear of those types of cans

 

second one was I fractured my leg in a four wheeler accident and the doctor sad if I wasn't wearing loose boots my leg would have been torn of

[MdKnightR]

I have had a ton of injuries during my life, but 2 stand out as being the worst.

 

1. I had to have my gallbladder removed by emergency surgery about 10 years ago. What was so bad about it is that (being the typical guy that I am that stays away from a doctor at all costs) I let my condition deteriorate so much that they couldn't go in the easy way and burn it out with a laser. I had to be split from the bottom of my rib cage to my waistline and have it removed the old fashioned way. I was in the hospital for 5 days and came out of surgery with 28 staples (holding my skin together) and 4 deep stitches (holding the rest of my abdomen together). They had me up and walking it off the day after surgery. I looked pitiful (and felt worse) walking the halls of the hospital with a girdle holding my insides in place with my IV in tow. It was about 3 months before I felt back up to speed.

 

2. At about this same time in my life, I fell and hurt my back in the worst way. I was at work at Pizza Hut and it was time to begin cleaning up to go home. I grabbed the spaghetti pot (about a 5 gallon pot) to take it to the dishroom. It had sat on the warmer all night and was at a slow boil because it hadn't been used to warm up any prepped pasta in about 2 hours. As I was walking toward the dishroom, I slipped backward on a wet spot and instinctually threw the pot of boiling water away in an attempt to not get scalded. It backfired! The pot struck a storage rack and bounced back in my lap. When I landed, I cracked my tailbone and then twisted my lower back as I was thrashing and screaming from the burns. I wound up with 2nd degree burns on my ankles and knees. The burns healed relatively quickly, but it took 2 months of twice-a-week visits to the chiropractor to get my spine straight.

[stingerhs]

Girls with scars can be sexy...

hehe, i second that one.

 

@MdKnightR- *shivers at the thought of the second one*

 

@D333-

[Char Ell]

Worst injuries, eh? Fortunately nothing that required any real hospitalization. I'm thankful for that.

 

Let's see, there was the time when I was 18 that I tried to pull an Evil Knievel and jump a 10 foot farmer's irrigation ditch (not on purpose, just a rookie riding mistake) with my Honda CB750F. While my front wheel made it across the back wheel did not and I launched about 20 feet, landing and making another furrow in the farmer's freshly plowed field. Busted my right front tooth on that one but that was all.

 

Then there was the time I was slalom waterskiing. It was the end of the day and I was tired but I wanted to get one last run in. Bad idea. I caught some air off the wake of a passing boat but let my ski tip get under the surface of the water on the landing. Ski met face and face lost. A trip to the emergency room and 7 stitches later had me looking like Frankenstein. The scar is on the right side of my nose but now, some years later, isn't too noticeable. Unlike Achilles however I haven't had any women tell me my scar was sexy...

 

My last major mishap was another motorcycle miscue. Some old man in the left hand turn lane decided he didn't want to turn left and pulled back into traffic. Only problem was I was in his way. My lower left leg got crushed in between the motorcycle and his car but luckily he didn't turn hard enough to knock me and the bike over. No broken bones but the leg swelled up quite a bit and it took me a few days before I could walk on it. Now when I compare my two legs below the knee I can see my left leg looks a little bigger than the right leg, from all the scar tissue that got left behind.

 

@ Rhett - Even though you're still breathing I would give you the honorary Darwin if only you would explain how you managed to run yourself over in your own car...

 

@ D333 - I second Stinger's

[Aurora Merlow]

Knee reconstruction - from aussie rules footy

[Astrotoy7]

That's terrible. Do you get along with it well? It seems a little strange to me that you have to take pills to control epilepsy. Aren't you also supposed to avoid flashing images and so?

 

P.S. I am sorry if I insulted you...

 

hehe...nothing insulting about being curious - here are some answers :

 

There are different types of epilepsy. It is a blanket term that basically describes symptoms that arise from the brain not working well, either electro-chemically or due to physical malformation(trauma, tumour etc). Triggering factors can be flashing light, but I have repeatedly tested negative to this test. The only symptom I have noticed associated with this is that I cant handle playing FPS games.... lucky I like RPGs !!!

 

The cause of mine is electrochemical in nature. Thus the pills I take help stabilisie brain chemistry. They are pretty potent tabs, and taking the wrong doage can really mess you up, as I found out the hard way !

 

but at the moment, all is well, so Im doing my best to enjoy myself

 

mtfbwya

[Ztalker]

I have been in a Hospital only once, and they had a good reason to take me in..^^

 

I had about 40+ degrees fever, and i had a double (from babblefish) pneumonia.

 

Nicest part: I got it when i was on holiday in the Chech Rpublic, so the putted me in a isolated room ^^

[Boba Rhett]

It began one early morning in September. I was about to exit the driveway when I flipped on my blower and heard a terrible grinding sound. I turned around and sped back to the front of the barn, which happens to be on a hill. I pop the hood and jump out of the car to go listen to the sound and try to determine what was causing it. I couldn't so I walked over, reached back into the car and turned it off.

 

It was then when the car began rolling backwards that I realized I hadn't set the brake and that the only thing that was keeping it from moving before this point was the engine pull. I try jumping back in and I get the brake and the emergency brake set while sidestepping along with the moving car but it's too late at this point. The side of the car/door slam into me and I go flying about ten feet thenn it got even better! The car door swings open as the car rolls towards me as I'm still flat on the ground so at that point the door hits me and starts dragging me under it along with the car. I miraculously de-wedged myself somehow but now before being dragged like that on gravel for about ten feet and having the front left wheel clip my leg.

 

It was really really stupid of me and I'm just glad I didn't end up breaking my neck.

 

 

The sound in the blower turned out to be a mouse btw. -_- He's still in there stinking up the car because there's no way to get into the blower box. :/

 

Oh, I forgot, When I was six I fell off the side of some open stairs and impailed my inner left thigh on a mangle iron. I couldn't walk for four months.

[Tanesh]

Thankfully, I never had really serious injuries. No broken bones or hospital visits.

 

When I was around 4 or 5, I was running around the yard and tripped and my mom tried to catch me, but she was one step too far away. I fell with my mouth on her knee and knocked my teeth in. I was lucky to get a good dentist. A while later one of my forteeth (a milk tooth, of course) died off and had to be pulled because it didn't fall out and the new one tried to grow over it, but that wasn't real bad.

 

The second one was a dumb accident in the shower when I was 19. Back then we had a glass shower door and when I was finished and opened it, the glass door fell out of its socket where it was connected with the frame. I tried to hold it, but the door was very heavy and the knob wet, so it slipped out of my grip and smashed against the bathroom door and the wall (our bathroom is quite small). I only managed to turn my head away in time, and then the whole thing shattered to little glass pieces. I was lucky that I was already wrapped in a towel, so I have only scars from my knees downwards and my right arm which I used to protect my neck and face. The worst scar is on my arm where a chunk of flesh was ripped out, the others are only cuts. I didn't even feel pain for the first minutes because of the shock. I guess it was worse for my parents. I didn't realize that the water of my still wet legs mixed with the blood of the cuts, and after my dad had managed to push open the bathroom door (because the whole pile of glass was in front of it and I had no shoes with me), he was shocked to see me standing in what seemed to be a pool of blood, but it was mostly water. That was the first and only time I really needed a brandy and felt better after drinking it. Since then we have a shower curtain.

So I really hope Insane Sith is right that girls with scars can be sexy, I have a lot of them ...

[The Doctor]

I once stepped on one of those metal sticks you use to keep a tent from flying away. It went all the way through my foot. It still hurts if I drop something on that foot, and I need to where gel sole inserts in the winter (in both feet, because it looks stupid if you're wearing only one of the things).

[El Sitherino]

Ah, tent stakes do hurt. Those bastards do more harm than good.

[JediKnight707]

I once also had an ingrown toenail for a few monthes before I finally had the smarts to go to the doctor. For the first month or two, I wasn't even sure what it was. Then, I went to visit my mothers' side of the family in Kansas. We went to an amusement park for about 8 hours and during about the third hour, we went on a water ride. Two month ingrown toenail + 5 hours walking in a drenched shoe = OW!!!!!!!!!! I got about 1/3 of my nail removed, and it is just now starting to grow back

[MdKnightR]

I once also had an ingrown toenail for a few monthes before I finally had the smarts to go to the doctor. For the first month or two, I wasn't even sure what it was. Then, I went to visit my mothers' side of the family in Kansas. We went to an amusement park for about 8 hours and during about the third hour, we went on a water ride. Two month ingrown toenail + 5 hours walking in a drenched shoe = OW!!!!!!!!!! I got about 1/3 of my nail removed, and it is just now starting to grow back

 

 

You only had a part of it removed? I once had an ingrown toenail that started because of falling on my big toe (and breaking it in the process). I let it go for months until I couldn't stand the pain any more. The doctor pulled the whole nail off. What a relief!

[JediKnight707]

You only had a part of it removed? I once had an ingrown toenail that started because of falling on my big toe (and breaking it in the process). I let it go for months until I couldn't stand the pain any more. The doctor pulled the whole nail off. What a relief!

 

Yeah, my mom has had a few ingrown toenails before and she said that they had to remove them completly.

[REDJOHNNYMIKE]

I don't usually get serious injuries (or admit to getting them;)) the only physical problem I've had to visit a doctor for was to close up an eyelid when I was three.

 

My job requires me to get scratched, cut, bruised, blistered, sunburned and just plain sore on a daily basis though, so it levels out, I also have a strange tendency to touch live receptacles (I really need to figure out the whole "lockout tagout" deal:D)

Only performance affecting injuries lately were, last year sledding down a good size sheet of ice hill and launching off an ice ramp and landing on asphault, couldn't move my left wrist or knees for a few days (smart people wouldn't have kept doing it for 8 hours:D) and I accidentally kicked a weight bench and still can't get the swelling down.

[Nymf...]

hmmm... worst and worst...had 3 during the last three years i dont want to experience again.

 

1. Fell of by bike, got something in my knee. Had to sew( ?) 11 stiches.

 

2. Diving in to the bottom of the pool. Had to sew 2 stiches. (maybe worst, could have broken my neck.)

 

3. While playing handball (2 weeks ago) in defence a guy hit me with his elbow. A lot of blood came out of my mouth, my upperlip got as big as an elephant. Some piece in my mouth are missing (biten off) and one of my front teeth is now loose.

 

And I had a lot of other injuries inside my body during handball, in muscles and other things, like in my back wich made me unable to stand for a day etc.

[RC-1162]

mine are kind of 'not serious' compared to others here *shudders*

 

i was having a running race at age 7 and i was the fastest runner of my grade at that time (not kidding/bragging). we were running top speed on a tarred road. when the race was almost over, i slowed down and one of my friends caught up with me. there must have been something on the road cause his leg slipped to the side and came in my path. i tripped over his leg and he fell relatively unharmed but the trip sent me literally flying. i landed about 2 meters away on my left-forehead. i swelled to the size of a grapefruit by the time my parents got there (5 mins). the bump still hasnt gone down completely.

 

once my cupboard door was completely loose. (1 inch thick wood) i forgot this and swung it wide open but it held. after retrieving my clothes, i slammed the door shut. as i walked away, i heard a creak and turned. WHAM!! direct hit on my right foot with the side face of the door. my foot wouldnt fit into my shoes for a week.

 

and i once slammed my right ring-finger in the car door. the whole nail cracked and came off when i rubbed it. i had to keep it in a warm-water flow for about 10 mins to stop the bleeding.

[Char Ell]

It was then when the car began rolling backwards that I realized I hadn't set the brake and that the only thing that was keeping it from moving before this point was the engine pull. I try jumping back in and I get the brake and the emergency brake set while sidestepping along with the moving car but it's too late at this point. The side of the car/door slam into me and I go flying about ten feet thenn it got even better! The car door swings open as the car rolls towards me as I'm still flat on the ground so at that point the door hits me and starts dragging me under it along with the car. I miraculously de-wedged myself somehow but now before being dragged like that on gravel for about ten feet and having the front left wheel clip my leg.

 

Rhett, that is a most choice experience my man and thanks for sharing. A story for the ages! As far as I'm concerned you get the honorary Darwin. I'm just glad it's the honorary kind and not the real one, otherwise who would have changed my screen name for me?

[The Doctor]

I was wrong. The most painful injury I suffered was not the tent stake thing. It was getting kicked in the balls by a girl wearing cowgirl boots. I still haven't found my left testicle.