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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 21:15:18 GMT
Elementary school, maybe 1st grade. I was going down the slide at recess. We used to have one person go down, wait at the bottom, then have more people go down kind of creating a chain. Well, I was the first one down, and the second girl really walloped me, and I sat down hard an the hollowed ground in front of the slide, and swung my head back and knocked it on the slide, requiring stitches.
I had never broken a bone in my life, until I was hit and dragged by a bus 7 years ago. The toe next to my big toe on my left foot broke, and since they were focusing on the other injuries, it healed wrong, and does not bend anymore.
ETA: I lie. I broke my tailbone. Rollerskating. In my 20's.
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jarmommy
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Post by jarmommy on Sept 6, 2014 21:45:10 GMT
When I was 5 I decided to ride my bike to the carnival I could see from my bedroom window. Only the carnival wasn't open and I had chicken pox. I fell off my bike before I had even gotten there and broke my collar bone.
Also when I was 5 a group of friends and I were playing with the door to my bedroom. I decided to stick my finger in the hinge side of the door while a friend of my closed the door. I nearly amputated the tip of my right middle finger, it was just barely holding on. Thankfully the ER doc was able to reattach it. The nail grows funny but otherwise it's completely fine.
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Post by hollymolly on Sept 6, 2014 22:08:18 GMT
I have many many stories, but here are the 3 that jumped to mind while I was reading:
1. Cut my finger with safety scissors. I was trying to cut about an 2 inch stack of strips of construction paper.
2. When DS was a baby, noticed a bump on my shin. Thought I had bone cancer. After a good workup with an orthopedist, he determined it was a repeated injury that had calcified. Took me a few days to realize how I was injuring it. My mom kept my son for me 6 days a week while I was working or in class. We did not have a spare car seat. I drove a car that was very low to the ground. Every morning I would pull the car seat out of my car and it would swing down and hit me on the shin. 24 years later I still have a visible bump.
3. Once I slipped in a parking lot and had to grab my car to keep from falling. Once I got my balance, I looked down to see what I'd slipped on. It was a banana peel. For real.
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Post by Legacy Girl on Sept 6, 2014 23:23:45 GMT
I was at a picnic at friends' house when we heard a large cracking noise overhead. One of their gigantic trees lost a large limb, which fell from 75 to 100 feet up. I put my arms over my head and ducked, so it clipped my elbow and arm. My arm turned completely black from the bruising, but I was very lucky. I cringe every time I hear of someone being injured or killed by a falling limb...there's a lady nearby who was paralyzed from the neck down when she was hit while taking a bike ride.
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Post by weaser714 on Sept 7, 2014 4:10:50 GMT
These are hysterical !!
Here are my top 3 stupid injuries... 3. Bruised tailbone from chasing toddler down bowling lane while bowling with dh and his co-workers.
2. Tore hamstring doing the splits showing a bunch of little girls that I could still do the splits. The doctor got a real laugh out of it.
1. Sliced my nipple while shaving my armpits. Really have no idea how this happened. That hurt like crazy!
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Post by sharlag on Sept 7, 2014 4:25:01 GMT
I am going to Hell. Yes, I know I am because it is just not right to admit that I laughed all the way through this thread. And now I am afraid I am jinxed. I'm enjoying it far too much, also!!
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Post by grammanisi on Sept 7, 2014 4:34:50 GMT
Yes. Especially since I made her go the doctor with me when they were removing the splinter. I don't know who cried more, her or me!
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Post by sillyrabbit on Sept 7, 2014 13:05:11 GMT
Not me but my Father In Law...took my DS and nephew fishing at a lake a couple of hours away. While on the water in the boat, the anchor flew out the side of the boat, bounced on the water, and flew back in to hit FIL in the head. He was stunned a bit but thought he was ok. Drove home pulling the boat (DS and nephew were 14 so unable to drive even if FIL wanted them too). After he got home, he complained of a headache. Then he started vomiting. Went to the emergency room and had a large fracture in his skull and a brain bleed. They did surgery, and he recovered then went home. Started feeling bad the day after he was released so went back to the ER. Brain was bleeding much worse than the first time. Another surgery was performed and the doctor thought he wouldn't survive. But he did. Craziest thing I've ever heard. He was so lucky in so many ways.
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Post by Daikon on Sept 7, 2014 16:20:37 GMT
There were firetrucks at the neighbors house one night. I was nosy and wanted to see what was going on. I walked outside and went down the front steps, I mis-counted and fell down the last one and landed on my knees and twisted my ankle and broke my foot. My ex just walked back inside. I couldn't get up on my own because I was also 8 months pregnant! His mom picked gravel out of my legs all night and took me to urgent care the next day. Where it was confirmed that I broke my foot. They wouldn't give me crutches because they said my center of gravity was off. You don't say?!
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simplylovely
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Post by simplylovely on Sept 7, 2014 18:53:28 GMT
These are great. I'm amused and horrified at the same time!! I have two but they are not very good.
1. I was in the shower and didn't want to get my hair wet just wash my body. So I crouched down to turn the shower head on and somehow startled myself when water turned on and my neck got stiff. Couldn't move it for 3 days.
2. Quite a few years ago I got a little too drunk at a New Years party. Got into a huge fight with now DH and behaved badly. We got home and were mad so decided to sleep in different rooms. I decided I wanted a cigarette so I went out in the backyard to smoke it. Ended up dropping it so I leaned over to pick it up and fell head first onto the concrete. It didn't hurt so I just went to sleep. In the morning DH came into the room all prepared to lecture me on my antics last night and when he saw me he gasped. Apparently I had blood caked all over my forehead and side of the face. It was a totally superficial cut but you know how head wounds are. I haven't gotten drunk since.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 4:21:09 GMT
I seem to get injured in the oddest ways. Here is the list I can think of off the top of my head:
I ran straight into a jumping cactus. I was only 15 and didn't know what to do. My mom took me to the ER WITH the cactus still attached. That is one way to get seen fast. If it ever happens to you or someone you are with, take a towel and put it over it and pull it out that way. Then use tweezers. Do it as quickly as possible. I got poisoning from it and ended up being admitted for fluids.
I ran into my friend's couch. She was vacuuming and I was looking at her and ran straight into the couch. Head wounds bled a lot. Her poor kids were freaked out when the bathroom looked like a murder scene. It was funny too because she was selling the house and they were showing it that day. We had to wait for her to do the dishes and drop the kids off before I could go to the ER. I was fine 4 stitches later.
But possibly the absolute oddest was when I dislocated my shoulder taking off my sports bra. I am a DDD and wanted some good support but I guess it was a little too good. That hurt pretty bad. It still pops out from time to time. It was hard to explain to the doctor though. At least he kept a straight face.
I also rolled my ankle on the sidewalk and fell and broke my left elbow.
And one time I broke my toe by jumping off of a swing.
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Post by happyOCgirl on Sept 8, 2014 7:27:24 GMT
A guy was showing off back flips in the big open area in front of "It's A Small World". I was walking and didn't see him until he fell on top of me mid flip. I got a concussion and fractured my ankle. I had graduated high school two days before.
Yep, I broke my leg at Disneyland.
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Post by Flowergirl on Sept 8, 2014 13:08:25 GMT
Well, let's see, if got a few really stupid sounding injuries:
I have a scar on my right leg from playing miniature golf. Stepped back to putt on the 17th hole and fell off the wooden retaining wall and cut my leg open. Stitches needed.
I broke a toe with a jar of wheat germ.
A couple weeks after DH and I were married, I was putting things back on a shelf after steaming the carpet in our apartment. A thick glass award he had won fell off the top shelf and landed squarely on my nose breaking it. I knew where the term "seeing stars" came from after that,
Oh--I also broke my foot after slipping and falling on icy stairs in a parking garage while taking my mom, Dd and a friend to see Wicked. I sat thru the show thinking it was nothing, but by the end of the show, my foot hurt so much. I still have no clue how that show ends since I was so distracted by the pain.
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Post by jenjie on Sept 9, 2014 2:11:00 GMT
I caught my finger in a folding chair and my fingernail came out at the root. No lasting damage thankfully. In 6th grade we made linoleum block prints fo stamp on graduation invitations. I took a nice slice out of my thumb. Blood gushed everywhere. My thumbprint is extra unique because it has a line going down it from where it was stitched back together. When my big kids were little, we were at the corner waiting for the bus. This is why I'm no longer the fun mom. We had races while we were waiting. I wanted to impress upon them that they were NOT to go in the street. So I told them, if you go in the street you WILL be disqualified. So I was racing with ds and proceeded to FALL into the middle of the street. I am dazed, I can't stand up, I'm in the middle of the street. And ds, who was in First grade, yells, "you're disqualified! I win!" Yes dear I'm disqualified. It was only because the little one was a baby - in a stroller - that I was able to make it home. The bus came and went. Sil picked up ds, took him to school, dropped the others off somewhere and took me to the hospital. I had a bad sprain and ended up in a walking cast.
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Post by jenjie on Sept 9, 2014 2:19:04 GMT
I went over the handlebars of my friend's bike and broke my two front teeth.
The strangest of all was probably when we were on vacation in Maine. We would go to the same place every year, and close by there were these boulders we would climb, thinking we were mountain climbing. So this one year on the first day we arrived, my brother and I raced to the mountain. I knew I was going to be first up. As I got to the top, the grass up there was untouched and long and SLIPPPERY. I grabbed and lost hold. I remember feeling like I was spinning for what seemed like forever, although it couldn't have been more than 20 feet high. My brother ran and got my parents. They took me to the doctor. Happy first day of vacation! They got the scare of their lives but there were no lasting repercussions.
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Post by peanutterbutter on Sept 9, 2014 3:48:00 GMT
Not major injuries but... 2 days before I left for college, I picked up a huge splinter in my foot just walking into my bedroom. No one could get it out, and then we went to the doctor who started laughing at us for coming in until she couldn't get it out either. It took a good while for the doc to get it out, and then I had to walk on the side of my foot for several days while I moved into college.
And the 2nd weird (but not major one) was some lady backing into me while we were doing the electric slide at a friends wedding. She was wearing stilettos and gave me a big puncture. I still have a scar (18+ years later).
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Post by jenjie on Sept 9, 2014 9:35:27 GMT
chaosisapony your post makes me think " holy hashtags, Batman!" Lol Only because when I post from my phone the # looks like [hash]
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Post by eastcoastpea on Sept 9, 2014 10:04:10 GMT
Not me but my Father In Law...took my DS and nephew fishing at a lake a couple of hours away. While on the water in the boat, the anchor flew out the side of the boat, bounced on the water, and flew back in to hit FIL in the head. He was stunned a bit but thought he was ok. Drove home pulling the boat (DS and nephew were 14 so unable to drive even if FIL wanted them too). After he got home, he complained of a headache. Then he started vomiting. Went to the emergency room and had a large fracture in his skull and a brain bleed. They did surgery, and he recovered then went home. Started feeling bad the day after he was released so went back to the ER. Brain was bleeding much worse than the first time. Another surgery was performed and the doctor thought he wouldn't survive. But he did. Craziest thing I've ever heard. He was so lucky in so many ways. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk This is what I worry about when my husband goes on a sporting adventure with the kids alone.
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