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Post by jackietex on Sept 4, 2014 5:50:03 GMT
I closed a cash register drawer on my nipple. I had to pretend nothing happened so the customer wouldn't notice, but that hurt like nobody's business!
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Sept 4, 2014 6:04:49 GMT
Sleeping. I fell asleep the wrong way in a Lazy Boy chair. I woke up about 3 hours later with Radial Nerve Palsy. My right arm was paralyzed from the elbow down. It was almost 3 months before I had normal use of my hand. DH told everyone only his "Blonde Polack" could end up with a paralyzing injury, completely undisturbed in her sleep. Our Orthopedic Dr. (and family friend) pretty much said the same thing.
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Post by leftturnonly on Sept 4, 2014 7:28:01 GMT
I think one of my favorite stories is the day I got a call from my ldh. Him: Are you mad at me for anything? Me: No. Why? Him: I woke up with a black eye. Me: What? Him: I have a black eye. Me: What? He must have hit himself in the eye when he was sound asleep and just wanted to make sure I hadn't done it. All these years later, it still cracks me up! Then there was the time he got tusked in the face by a boar..... or the time he split his nose open when waterskiing.... or the huge scar he had above his knee from a swing when he was a little boy.... or the time.... He had stories like no one else. SMH. My strangest injury was when I slipped on an icy, broken curb in a parking lot and fell hard right on the jagged concrete. It dented my thigh and the black bruise went from hip to knee.
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Post by disneypal on Sept 4, 2014 7:38:49 GMT
When I was about 8, I was walking up the sliding board (instead of sliding down it) - walking up the slide not the steps. Someone called my name, I looked up and hit my mouth on the bar that went across the top of the slide (in the 70s there was a bar at the top of slides that you grabbed and kind off pushed off with to give you a little more speed). When I hit my mouth in the bar, I broke my front tooth and have had to wear a crown on it since.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 7:52:52 GMT
I got hit in the face by a kite and had a fat lip and one time I sliced my finger open making a cup of tea...on the teabag!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 7:53:34 GMT
I fell out of bed in February during a snowstorm...and broke my dominant leg. Fuck that hurt!
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Post by Lindarina on Sept 4, 2014 8:21:36 GMT
I'm so clumsy, it's not even funny. I've injured myself in so many ways, but luckily it's mostly just bruises and scratches. I'm the girl that broke her leg walking to the bathroom on New Years Eve. And yes, I was sober The strangest way was maybe one app I downloaded to help me with my running. It's called Zombies, run!, and makes you run really, really fast away from zombies. I of course, ended up with tendonitis in my achillies (because of previously mentioned broken bone), and I'm still not completely healed. I guess that says a little bit about how well I'm going to do during the zombie apocolypse
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Post by KelleeM on Sept 4, 2014 9:24:44 GMT
My SO (now dh) opened the car door for me and as I went to get in it moved a bit hitting me in the eye. Ruptured my eye, caused a cataract and detached retina...the first surgery was 6 hours then two subsequent surgeries. And I ended up losing the vision.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Sept 4, 2014 10:30:58 GMT
I was riding in the backseat of our van on our trip to Yellowstone a few years ago. We had made a little stop to rest, and when I bounded back in the van I kind of missed the seat. I fell hard right onto the armrest of the seat, fracturing my tailbone. Very painful!!
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Post by camanddanismom on Sept 4, 2014 10:33:25 GMT
Chairlift...total freak accident. I was skiing with my dad when I was 15. We were on our first run of the day and it was really icy. We got to the top of the lift. This chair had seats on hinges so they could flip them up at the end of the day to keep snow off them. Some how when we got off, the seat flipped up. The seat just sat on three metal I bars (picture tines of a fork) and as the chair moved forward, it caught me between the legs, knocked me off my feet and started back down the mountain with me hanging upside down. One of the prongs had impaled itself into my thigh. Yep, that was the strangest!!
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Sept 4, 2014 10:36:04 GMT
These stories are making me cringe! I've got to stop reading!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 4, 2014 10:42:50 GMT
I've gone back-and-forth in my life with wishing I had larger breasts vs preferring my smaller ones. Stories like this certainly skew the vote!
My oddest injury was from blow-drying my hair. I had my head hung over blow-drying upside down and when I flipped my head back up... rip. I could hear as well as feel when the tendon in my neck stretched. It took forever to completely heal.
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Post by melanell on Sept 4, 2014 11:02:53 GMT
Hmmm, not me, but once, when DS was just a newly creeping baby, he managed to cut his head on my other son's toenail. Seriously. And because the head bleeds like crazy, we had to stick a bandage on his little bald head, and then answer why he had a bandage on all day long, because it happened the morning of a day we were attending a party.
Good grief.
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Post by melanell on Sept 4, 2014 11:05:49 GMT
These stories are making me cringe! I've got to stop reading! Yeah, that! I don't do puncture wounds or eye injuries well, so the last few before this post have my stomach flopping.
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Post by smalltowngirlie on Sept 4, 2014 11:08:22 GMT
I was leading one of our cows around and somehow got spun around the wrong way. The cow stepped funny and her hoof landed on the top of my ankle and slid down. In the process I also sprained that ankle. So I have a sprained ankle with a massage scrape on it. The worst part was I worked at an amusement park and had to stand and walk around a lot. Towards the end of my shift my ankle was so swollen and painful I asked for an icepak. Since it was at work and they were concerned about workman's comp there was a whole process just to get said icepak.
They asked how it happened and I explained the entire thing. The guy kept saying, "A cow did this?" Yes!! He then asked if I did it at work. Uh, no. There are no cows at the amusement park.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 11:20:04 GMT
My dumb injuries are housework. 20 yrs ago, it seems that somehow, I stepped backwards wrong and broke my foot.
Maybe 4-5 yrs ago, I was doing dishes and I squeezed out the dishrag in the sink and tore a tendon in my hand.
Housework is dangerous around here.
Just thought of one more...even related to housework.
I once burned my boob with the iron. I never ever ironed without a shirt or bra again.
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Post by luanne on Sept 4, 2014 11:28:16 GMT
I just did this three weeks ago. I was taking my kitchenaid to work with me. I put it into the back of my SUV. It shifted and when I opened the back it came flying out. Not thinking I put my foot out to help soften the fall. I still have a massive bone bruise and it is a lovely shade of yellow right now. my kitchenaid has a road rash on it and makes a funny noise now. Not the brightist thing to do.
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Post by peasapie on Sept 4, 2014 11:29:54 GMT
When I was a little girl my brother was lighting plastic army men on fire. I insisted in holding it and dripped melting plastic on my leg and arm
also, I've been thrown from a horse.
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Post by miominmio on Sept 4, 2014 11:29:59 GMT
And once I got a papercut on my tongue. My worst papercut ever! It hurt for several days. I'm choosing envelopes very carefully these days;-)
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Sept 4, 2014 11:30:27 GMT
Duck Duck Goose. Kindergarten. I was "it" and chasing someone. Another kid stuck his hand out and tripped me. Went flying and hit the leg of a chair. Split my head open. 25 stitches.
To this day I remember the teachers freaking out and trying to keep me calm. I was calm, I don’t remember feeling any pain. I was bleeding like crazy and said “My mom is going to be mad I got blood on my new dress”. FTR, she wasn’t mad.
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Sept 4, 2014 11:34:27 GMT
Broke a bone in my foot walking the dog. I stepped on a "stick" that ended up being a snake and might have pitched a fit and in the process of freaking out, rolled my ankle on the neighbor's freshly edged lawn/sidewalk.
Concussion while putting away groceries and a bunch of stitches in my head. Opened fridge, opened top freezer, bent over to pull stuff out of bag between feet, stood up fast, rammed head into bottom corner of freezer door that had started closing on its own. You know how head wounds bleed? My college apt looked like a murder scene.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 11:39:17 GMT
The strangest way was maybe one app I downloaded to help me with my running. It's called Zombies, run!, and makes you run really, really fast away from zombies. I of course, ended up with tendonitis in my achillies (because of previously mentioned broken bone), and I'm still not completely healed. I guess that says a little bit about how well I'm going to do during the zombie apocolypse OMG -- I did the same thing with Zombies, run! It took a long time for my leg to heal. I told the doctor I was attacked by zombies Mine was the time I sneezed while I was brushing my teeth. I had been spitting out the toothpaste, and smacked my head on the faucet. I had a huge black and blue lump in the middle of my face. It was embarrassing to explain.
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Post by MerryMom on Sept 4, 2014 11:40:45 GMT
I was run over by a motorized scooter while at Disney!!!
A little girl was playing on her grandmother's motorized scooter and hit the accelerator by accident and ran the scooter up the back of my leg. My heel was caught under the front of the scooter--and she kept pressing on the accelerator and ran that thing up onto my calf.
I had a torn Achilles and friction burns so severe that I had to get skin grafts eventually. It was the first full day of our week long Disney vacation so after a day in the ER/hospital, I was confined to my hotel room the rest of the trip. (We didn't know the full extent of my injuries until we returned home).
The people at Disney were wonderful: they even relocated our rooms to a first floor room nearer the pool and main lobby.
The grandmother was a total b& [HASH]*& and acted so unconcerned and didn't even ask if I was okay. She was screaming at my husband because he lifted the little girl off of the motorized scooter to get her to stop pressing the accelerator. It took 3 men to lift that scooter off the back of my leg. Actually, (although my memory of this part is a bit hazy) the other people in line were giving the lady a hard time and they prevented her from leaving until the Disney park staff arrived to get her information (driver's license and ID, etc.).
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Post by brandy327 on Sept 4, 2014 11:40:58 GMT
As a kid, we had a 2" step from our kitchen into our living room. Graceful as always, I tripped on that step and fell hands first onto the hot wood stove. I ended up with blistered palms.
I fell going up our front stairs when the kids were like 3 and 4. I broke the bone on the side of my foot. We were heading to the beach with a friend and I was making the LAST trip inside before leaving. The kids were outside running around and I was on the second to last step from the top so when I fell, I crawled inside. I couldn't even get outside to watch the kids. I texted my neighbor and she came over and wrangled the kids inside for me. Of course, dh was working more than an hour and a half away and he has VERY spotty cell service where he was. I miraculously got through to him and he left right away but it was still like a 2 hour wait until he got home. A few hours and a walking boot later, I came home.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Sept 4, 2014 11:41:45 GMT
Six years old: I jumped off some front porch stairs onto uneven ground, my knee came up and hit my chin. My tongue was out. I bit my tongue almost all the way off. Had to have stitches in my tongue.
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Post by blue tulip on Sept 4, 2014 11:41:48 GMT
Not me, but my SIL: last week she took her dog to the dog park and was playing Frisbee. Another, large dog decided he wanted to play, and ran full force into the side of her left knee. The result was that she broke both knees! Tibial plateau fractures in both legs, left one displaced. Surgery possible, they haven't decided. But either way, 6 weeks with them in huge splints so they can't be moved, and 3 mos. in a wheelchair before she can start trying to walk.
She and my littlest brother just got married a month ago, and now she has to stay at her parents' wheelchair accessible house while he visits and then goes home to the dogs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 12:11:36 GMT
I was run over by a motorized scooter while at Disney!!! I totally remember when that happened, MerryMom. I hope you completely recovered. I remember you saying what a bitch the mother was.
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Post by 1lear on Sept 4, 2014 12:13:27 GMT
I have a cast now from falling off the side of my welcome mat when I was leaving my house. My left foot hit the edge of the thick mat and twisted and broke my foot. People usually laugh when I tell them what happened-it's a bit embarrassing. I replaced the thick door mat with a much thinner one.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Sept 4, 2014 12:16:55 GMT
I started to hit the *like* button, but every single one deserves a hit for either being 'thank goodness you're OK now' or 'too freakin funny!' so I had to stop!
A few years ago I misjudged a step while putting up a Christmas decoration and tumbled down my basement steps. Somewhere along the way I sliced my finger, quite jaggedly. Six stitches along the inside of my right index finger (and I'm right handed) during the holidays was not fun.
Retelling the story to include how I was yelling "Help me! Help me!" on the way down (what was anyone supposed to do for me?, lol), worrying more about the blood on my carpet than my injury and the chalk outline my husband drew on the carpet right before my holiday party were pretty humorous.
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Post by KikiPea on Sept 4, 2014 12:23:45 GMT
I pulled the TV and TV cart over on my hand when I was 5/6. I broke my right pointer finger.
I got a pencil stuck in my knee while crawling around on the carpeted floor.
I was sitting in a chair when the doorbell rang. I stood up and my left leg was asleep. I tried taking a step and it didn't move. I stepped on my left big toe with my right foot. I didn't break it, but it was black and blue and sore for days.
When we were moving a few years ago, I was bringing boxes into the house from the shed. I was holding the storm door open with my foot. I started to let go and the door (it was on a spring) snapped back and sliced open my heal. Hurt like the dickens. Instant tears!
I had lightening go through the mouse I was using. The mouse lept off the desk onto my leg leaving a large bruise. The lightening went out through the web between my thumb and pointer finger. Still have the blue dot to prove it. LOL
Just call me Grace...or not.
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