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Post by giatocj on Sept 4, 2014 12:27:30 GMT
When our Golden, Jackson, was alive he was never, ever, EVER without a tennis ball, and he could have cared less what other chores needed to get done. Playing ball was his life, so we learned to multitask and get creative feeding his obsession. The easiest way to do this was to kick the ball while engaging in another activity...such as raking the yard, sweeping the floor, vacuuming...that type of thing. One day he was just being relentless while I was raking and just would.not leave me alone. I clearly was not kicking the ball often or far enough to suit him, so I just hauled off and kicked that sucker with all my might-I was like the Six Million Dollar Woman. Except I missed the ball completely, kicked the ground instead and broke two toes on my right foot. OH.MY.GOD did that ever hurt...and poor JJ could not figure out why I was rolling around the ground instead of his tennis ball
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Dalai Mama
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Post by Dalai Mama on Sept 4, 2014 12:33:43 GMT
When I was in grade 8, we went through this thing where kids would step on kids' feet. Why? Dunno. Someone stepped on my foot, someone else bumped me and I went down snapping my ankle.
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Post by lesley on Sept 4, 2014 12:50:16 GMT
Last summer I was bringing in laundry from the garage and noticed one of the rabbits was trying to get out under the front garage door. I ran to stop her, tripped over something and landed on top of a large piece of granite. My shin will never look the same again. I once went down a slide head first, came flying off the end and carried on over the gravel that surrounded the slide (1960s...) It took several hours to remove all the grit from my chin before it could be stitched. When my DD was a toddler, she threw herself back so hard against me that her head broke my collarbone. Said DD broke her toe last week by chasing the dog down the hall in flip-flops. (Belated karma. ) The family accident that makes me squirm the most though was when my cousin's husband sliced off his left hand with a chain saw. He bent down and picked it up, shouting to my uncle to call an ambulance, before he passed out.
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Post by lbp on Sept 4, 2014 13:19:50 GMT
Mine would be the time I broke my toe by falling down an entire flight of steps while holding my then 2 year old son. I slipped on the very first step and fell backward hitting my head and slid down the entire flight on my butt, mostly backward. My foot got tangled in a spindle at the bottom of the step and that's what broke my toe. I was trying so hard to keep DS on top of me so he wouldn't get hurt. And obviously he wasn't because when we reached the bottom he looks up at me and says "Again, mommy, again"!
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Post by quinmm14 on Sept 4, 2014 13:20:34 GMT
Thanks for sharing your stories. I hope your injuries are healing up well. It's surprising that it really doesn't take much to seriously injure yourself isn't it?
I'm probably going to hell because I laughed at several of these...I'm really sorry you were hurt so I hope you'll forgive me. Lol.
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Post by farmdpea on Sept 4, 2014 13:35:28 GMT
Retelling the story to include how I was yelling "Help me! Help me!" on the way down (what was anyone supposed to do This has me laughing so hard that I'm crying. Sounds like something I would do!
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Post by farmdpea on Sept 4, 2014 13:40:14 GMT
The family accident that makes me squirm the most though was when my cousin's husband sliced off his left hand with a chain saw. He bent down and picked it up, shouting to my uncle to call an ambulance, before he passed out. Dear baby Jesus. This wins! Hand(s) down (har!).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 13:42:53 GMT
I'm alternately laughing out loud and cringing at these stories
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Post by alibama on Sept 4, 2014 13:58:32 GMT
I have a Yorkie who loves anything on wheels. DH was mowing grass tonight and i had her on my lap while the gate to the fence was open. She was squirming to get down so she could ride on the mower. I was trying to get a better grip on her and the little shit head butted me. It felt like she broke my nose she hit so hard! Now I have a bruise on my nose and my cheek. And it still hurts like hell! BTW, the little shit is fine. I am sorry is it bad that I laughed a little at this lol....... Okay I will be honest I laughed a lot Seriously I hope you are better now.
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Post by littlemama on Sept 4, 2014 14:25:34 GMT
DS broke his front tooth with a track relay baton in 7th grade. The kid who passed it off to him apparently had really sweaty hands, and it slipped in ds' grasp, hitting him in the mouth. The track coaches still tease him whenever they happen to see him around.
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Post by mama2three on Sept 4, 2014 14:27:10 GMT
I broke my finger while swimming - slammed too hard into the wall during a race.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 14:33:37 GMT
When I was in my 20's, my toddler niece broke my front tooth when she accidentally head butted me. It was on a Saturday, so I had to wait until Monday to get it fixed.
When DS was about a year old, hubby put him in bed with me on a Saturday morning so we could just lay around watching cartoons. DS had a sippy cup in his hand. DH started tickling him and he rolled over to get away, bringing the sippy cup down on my eye. How he didn't put my eye out I'll never know. Of course, I had a black eye, in the shape of a perfect circle. It looked like it had been drawn on, it was so precise!
Once when I was getting out of my low-to-the-ground car, my foot got tangled up in the seatbelt that hadn't retracted all the way and I ended up face down on the driveway. The scrapes on my face healed up well, but I still have a huge scar right below my knee which must have hit the ground first. My knee saved my face.
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Post by sharlag on Sept 4, 2014 15:05:41 GMT
I fell out of bed in February during a snowstorm...and broke my dominant leg. Fuck that hurt! I know I'm right-side dominant, but did it really matter that much that it was your dominant leg? The only time I can think where that matters to me is playing kick ball (which hasn't happened in decades...)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 15:07:39 GMT
Yes it mattered because it was a no pressure plaster of Paris cast. That meant my foot had to be elevated at all times. I had to try to hop on crutches with my right leg and I am left handed. Yeah, it was a nightmare in the middle of winter (February) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It gets pretty cold there.
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Post by Kerri W on Sept 4, 2014 15:16:22 GMT
When I was very young I got the coil from a notebook stuck up my nose. Close to the same time my sister asked me to blow out a flaming marshmallow and purposely stuck it to my chin, flames and all.
About a year ago I scratched the top of my hand on the plastic pull tab on the mailbox. It was really just a scratch that didn't even bleed! It has turned into an inch long scar that's kind of puckered up and ugly looking. DH picks on my and asks "How'd you get that ugly scar? Oh that's right...you were performing the very dangerous task of getting the mail!"
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Post by ukfan on Sept 4, 2014 15:25:08 GMT
In MS science class - with of course the cutest teacher ever (he was the young, new football coach) - I jumped up to sit on a counter in the back of the room to watch a movie. I didn't notice the open, wire hanger sitting on the counter and I impaled that metal hanger in my gluteous maximus! I had to walk down the hall to the nurses' office with that hanger sticking out of my butt!
Even now I get embarrassed thinking about it LOL.
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Post by sharlag on Sept 4, 2014 15:34:08 GMT
Yes it mattered because it was a no pressure plaster of Paris cast. That meant my foot had to be elevated at all times. I had to try to hop on crutches with my right leg and I am left handed. Yeah, it was a nightmare in the middle of winter (February) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It gets pretty cold there. Ah! See, I've never had crutches and didn't even think about that part! Sounds wretched. My story involves playing hide and seek at a friends house when I was 8. I hid in the laundry chute. After being found, couldn't get back up and out, so I went DOWN. The fall from the basement ceiling to the basement concrete floor cracked my pelvis and ankle. But not too terribly, as I played out the day and didn't start complaining to see the doctor until a couple of days later.
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Post by sharlag on Sept 4, 2014 15:37:25 GMT
In MS science class - with of course the cutest teacher ever (he was the young, new football coach) - I jumped up to sit on a counter in the back of the room to watch a movie. I didn't notice the open, wire hanger sitting on the counter and I impaled that metal hanger in my gluteous maximus! I had to walk down the hall to the nurses' office with that hanger sticking out of my butt! Even now I get embarrassed thinking about it LOL. heartcat has a wire hanger fear, as I recall.
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Post by scrapmaven on Sept 4, 2014 16:10:28 GMT
A huge ladder fell on my head when I wasn't on it. I stress fracture my feet easily. When I show up at the podiatrist she asks the same question each time, "what did you drop on your foot this time"? One time she told me they were gonna take bets as to when I would drop something on my foot next. I've had 13 fractured feet, 2 skull fractures and one cracked kneecap and one fractured tibia. Do I win a prize? ETA: Forgot the dumbest one. I broke my nose by dropping a one gallon bottle of water on it. No, I wasn't drinking from it and yes the plastic bottle had a big nose shaped indent in it. That was two years ago and it was the first and only year since 2007 that I didn't break a foot!
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Post by kkrenn on Sept 4, 2014 16:12:03 GMT
All of these are very cringe worthy!
I have too many stories of how I hurt myself but I will share only 2:
7th grade dance, in the late 80's doing my "Wham" dance and rolled my foot. It hurt but I didn't realize how bad until I went to the bathroom and my entire foot was blue and so swollen that my dad had to cut my favorite show off. I was on crutches for a long time and made fun of relentlessly when people found out I broke my foot dancing.
1st and 2nd pregnancy (1 year apart) walking through the house and because my belly was entirely too big I couldn't see my feet or the floor directly in front of me. I walked right into the dog (both time) and broke a toe on my left foot the first time and a toe on my right foot a second time. My doctor thought I was joking when I told him how I broke it. I walked into his leg and my toes split to go around it and that is how one broke.
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Post by craftyho on Sept 4, 2014 16:25:34 GMT
Tweaked my back when I opened a can of Pepsi
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 4, 2014 16:26:55 GMT
I cut my nipple while shaving my legs. Talented, right? My husband (boyfriend at the time) came home unexpectedly and decided to sneak into the bathroom. I didn't hear him come in, so of course when he opened the shower curtain he scared the crap out of me. My hands went up along with the razor and it grazed my nipple. OUCH! Thankfully the bleeding stopped and I didn't have to explain that to the ER staff. I did the same thing (cut my nipple while shaving my legs) two months ago. I can't believe there are two us us on Earth.
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Post by chocluver on Sept 4, 2014 16:32:25 GMT
At work (a school) slipped fell into the lockers so hard that I had a bruise that was the shape of the locker latch. Did a 360 degree turn banging into lockers again, bounced off locker, fell onto concrete floor and broke my shoulder in 3 places. I now have a huge plate in my left shoulder, can't raise it all the way up (and yes I'm a lefty) (Surgeon thought he was going to have to replace my whole shoulder) . To this day I have PTS from it. Can't wear any type of heel and if I step on anything even as small as a pebble I freak out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 16:34:34 GMT
I was flushing the toilet and caught the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger in the flush lever, cutting the skin.
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Post by alibama on Sept 4, 2014 16:43:47 GMT
So many stories I wanted to respond too but I would be here all day trying to do that!
Years ago right before Christmas my son and I were on the floor wrapping presents and I had just finished a small bottle of diet coke, just messing around my son flipped it up in the hair and the cap part landed on my eye. I had quite the shiner until well after Christmas. I would hate to see if he had really thrown it. I had to explain how a ten year old gave his mother a black eye.
Now not me but my husband (this 100% served him right). We were watching TV and I told him I had to run to the restroom so he decided to try and beat me there, on the way he stubbed his toe on the door frame and broke it. Teach him for racing me to the potty lol.
Also when I was about 9-10 my great grandma died, my mom had just told me and I really have no idea how I did it, I guess I was not paying attention and put my arm through a glass door, just missed the major artery in my arm. That was a bad one!
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Post by PEArfect on Sept 4, 2014 17:42:07 GMT
I cut my nipple while shaving my legs. Talented, right? My husband (boyfriend at the time) came home unexpectedly and decided to sneak into the bathroom. I didn't hear him come in, so of course when he opened the shower curtain he scared the crap out of me. My hands went up along with the razor and it grazed my nipple. OUCH! Thankfully the bleeding stopped and I didn't have to explain that to the ER staff. I did the same thing (cut my nipple while shaving my legs) two months ago. I can't believe there are two us us on Earth.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 17:57:12 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 bianca42 on Sept 4, 2014 18:39:41 GMT
I got a stress fracture in my foot doing a workout video called "Sweat Sexy". I had to go to many doctor's appointments and wear a boot for a month or two. Every time someone would ask me how it happened I'd try to be vague and just say doing a workout video....but my face would get all red. The orthopedist kept asking more questions. What kind of video? What kind of workout was it? I just wanted to crawl under the table.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Sept 4, 2014 18:46:51 GMT
I broke one ankle (and nearly broke the other) wearing heels that were too big. Dh and I were waiting for a table at a restaurant and I saw a Pier One across the parking lot. It was dark and I thought I was walking down a sloped part of the sidewalk but I stepped straight off the curb. Both ankles caved and bent, and I could feel the one snap. I was so focused on buying my candles that I wasn't looking where I was going. LOL To this day I have a fear of heels. Jeez, that make me gasp! I can only imagine how painful that was! Did you at least get candles as a get well gift??
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Sept 4, 2014 19:01:08 GMT
I seared my pregnant belly with a hot iron while ironing a shirt that I was going to wear. I still have a scar, it's hardly noticeable with all the stretch marks I have! HA!
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