Weird Injuries...

tammyquinnlmt

I'm the queen of injuring myself in totally strange and unusual ways. Tonight, I managed to cut, not 1, but both of my thumbs while cracking crabs. Who else has this kind of problem...please don't let me be the only ungraceful wretch out there!

dragonbug300

All. The. Time. In middle school I taught myself to shave WITHOUT lotion or shaving cream, and now 5 years later my knees are dappled in purple shaving scars. So lovely. I have two random cuts on the back of my left thumb, and an assortment of scratches on my knuckles from making the bed.

Domestic activities leave the worst scars, I've found...

sarahsmom1

I took a pan out of the oven and forgot to use an oven mitt and couldn't just drop it because it was glass It really hurt

tammyquinnlmt

I took a pan out of the oven and forgot to use an oven mitt and couldn't just drop it because it was glass It really hurt

Oh man, are you ok??! I've been there though...more than once!

sarahsmom1

I took a pan out of the oven and forgot to use an oven mitt and couldn't just drop it because it was glass It really hurt

Oh man, are you ok??! I've been there though...more than once!

It happened the day of my Christmas Party my poor sister-in-law had to come early and finish up everything for me Thank goodness i had some ST37 for the burns my fingers never got blisters because it got it on my fingers quick that stuff is a miracle

Atlantique

The best ones are the mystery injuries--where you just wake up with a bruise or a scrape and have no idea how you got it. ( No alcohol involved either. )

emariec78

I injure myself in silly ways all the time! My best one is probably the time I sprained my foot swatting a fly. It was on the ceiling and I jumped up to swat it. Somehow I managed to not jump straight up and down and landed about two feet back from where I started which happened to be on top of a pair of shoes sitting near the door. I twisted the foot some weird way and I ended up with a sprain! The doctor in the urgent care actually laughed at me when I told her what happened.

Losershawn

I dislocated a rib from walking too much....never thought that was possible.

tammyquinnlmt

The best ones are the mystery injuries--where you just wake up with a bruise or a scrape and have no idea how you got it. ( No alcohol involved either. )

I woke up with a huge bruise on my calf last weekend...had no idea where it came from!

tammyquinnlmt

I injure myself in silly ways all the time! My best one is probably the time I sprained my foot swatting a fly. It was on the ceiling and I jumped up to swat it. Somehow I managed to not jump straight up and down and landed about two feet back from where I started which happened to be on top of a pair of shoes sitting near the door. I twisted the foot some weird way and I ended up with a sprain! The doctor in the urgent care actually laughed at me when I told her what happened.

Sorry! I'm laughing at you now! I did something like that once. I was getting in the shower before school (200 years ago) and the sliding door on the shower fell off the track and severely damaged my neck. I missed a week of school and got some really good pain drugs!

koosdel

I dislocated a rib from walking too much....never thought that was possible.

Wow.

I once pulled a muscle tying a shoe. I couldn't stand up with out help for days.

StaceyL76

I grew up on a go-kart track and in the morning when I was opening up the track, I had to start all the go-karts and bring them for a lap and then park them... Well, I started the go-kart, as I sprang to get in the kart, I kicked the steel frame and split my pinkie toe right under the nailbed.. It was awful!

In 8th grade, I was in industrial tech and we were printing our own paper... I had long hair and I leaned over the machine to see the paper coming out and my hair got sucked in and wound around the gears of the machine. Thankfully, I had the teacher wind the machine back and I was able to pull most of my hair out... I did get a concussion and lost quite a bit of hair!

One other time I split the skin right between my 4th toe and pinkie toe because I somehow got it caught under the leg of the kitchen chair I was sitting on... It all happend so fast.. not sure how I did that one!

jeffrodgers1

While running a marathon, I tripped over a Japanese Photographer and tore up some cartilage in my knee...and limped thru the last few miles of the marathon.

My fate is to qualify for Boston, run 26 miles and get run over by a bus .2 miles shy of the finish line.

Heather75

I once had to take 3 days off work because I tripped over a shoe.

2bFitNTrim

You know those rollaway trash containers you roll to the curb on trash day? Imagine it filled with acorns and yard debris. As I was rolling it to the curb, it fell on me because it was so heavy and I lost control of it (I'm short and not all that strong). I was trapped for awhile til I managed so wriggle myself free. Got a cracked rib from that. :ohwell:

JJtexasgirl

I broke my toe rather than kick the dog. It was in the midst of the pre-Hurricane Ike chaos and I was trying to get around the her. She was panicked and wouldn't get out of my way. When I tried to dodge her, I stubbed my toe on the kitchen table. Actually had to have surgery on it. :ohwell:

tammyquinnlmt

While running a marathon, I tripped over a Japanese Photographer and tore up some cartilage in my knee...and limped thru the last few miles of the marathon.

My fate is to qualify for Boston, run 26 miles and get run over by a bus .2 miles shy of the finish line.

Haha that would so totally be my fate too!

tammyquinnlmt

You know those rollaway trash containers you roll to the curb on trash day? Imagine it filled with acorns and yard debris. As I was rolling it to the curb, it fell on me because it was so heavy and I lost control of it (I'm short and not all that strong). I was trapped for awhile til I managed so wriggle myself free. Got a cracked rib from that. :ohwell:

I was mowing the yard last year and slipped on some freshly cut clover and busted my a**! I limped around for weeks from the sprain in my butt!

celticcat63

I tend to scoot way down to the foot of the bed when I sleep. One morning upon waking I dug my heels into the bed (water bed, this was many many years ago) and pushed up. I had very long hair and was laying on it. This caused my head to be pulled back and I sprained my neck. I phoned my Dr's. office and told them that this morning while in bed I had pulled something in my cervical.... before I could get the word vertabrae out the receptionist began laughing. She couldn't stop long enough to let me finish my sentence for quite sometime.

beesareyellow

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!! Cervical lol!

Sonofabiscuit2

this one should go in confessions...

I was trimming up down below, using a small set of scissors, I slipped cut the *kitten* and had to scream for my then wife to come save me as there was a lot of blood and I was getting faint imagine "Stand by Me" leach scene, fortunately out was a minor nick but O M G

TDGee

I'm still coming back from my weird injury. In early November, I tore my medial meniscus (knee cartilage), got it surgically repaired, feeling great! The day after surgery, I was walking thru the bathroom, and slipped (I did not fall!!) in my wife's hairspray slick on the floor and burst three discs in my lower back. After three weeks of increasingly aggressive therapies, I had it surgically repaired in late February. I still have some significant nerve damage to my lower leg and foot. Freaky!
Ted

Rurouni_Kou

I think I'm the queen of injuries. Here's just a few of mine:
-Put a staple through my finger last friday. (As in theres a red spot under the nail where it was just barely shy of breaking through the nail on the other side of my finger.) After I went to give it first aid and sat down, I had a seizure. What a crappy friday that was.
- (Backstory: I make stained glass windows.) Had a shard of glass in my hand when I was steadying a stool to sit down on. Bad idea. I sliced my thigh open with the glass in my hand when I sat down. I got a good 4 inch scar nearly on my *kitten* from that one.
-Burn on one hand from accidentally hitting the back of it with a soldering iron. (Again, from working on stained glass windows.)
-Nastier burn on the other hand from my best friends twin sister throwing a glob of hot glue onto it (somehow she didn't realize that a giant hot glue gun puts out hot glue, was startled by the temperature and flinched at it, throwing it across the room onto me.) Nice third degree burns from that one.
-Another burn right underneath the last one, smaller though, where another friend accidentally shoved me partially into the oven and I hit my hand on the hot racks.

Those are just the more interesting ones. I'm not even counting the scraped knees and broken fingers from the more mundane bicycle accidents and misc. cuts and scrapes from glass and working with tools, or stabbing myself with needles from sewing and leatherwork. -_-* I'm really good at hurting myself it seems.

bbb84

After hitting the ball playing while playing softball, I tripped over my own two feet coming out of the box and basically face planted.... we call it getting hit by a sniper... It happens often...lol Also I once had food poisioning (unknowingly),I was outside cleaning up after a hurricane that had come through at work, felt ill and went inside. Dizzy, I stumbled into the mens room and to reach to open the stall door and fainted and wound up splitting head open on the stall divider... luckily it was just a few stitches. I think my pride was hurt more than anything else, telling my all male coworkers what happened was the worst part. And finally, I slipped and fell out of a treestand while hunting a few years back... it had just finsihed raining and everything was wet... There were piles of leaves all around and my big behind had to find the biggest root around to fall on. Had a giant bruise from my butt to my hip for about two months, every shade of black and blue and purple you can imagine was there.

ineednapkin

One time I was taking spaghettios in a ceramic bowl out of the microwave and it was really hot and I threw it cause it hurt, and I got 2nd degree spaghettio-shaped burns on my arm!! haha

Last week I ran 6 mi, my back started hurting the next day but I just thought it was regular muscle pain.... and then the day after that I couldn't get out of bed! I couldn't stand up straight! I'm still recovering... it was so weird!

lilbuddytatertot

i was thrown from a lawn mower trailor, being pulled by a lawn mower, and when i landed my collar bone found the only random brick in the yard to land on, and it broke my collar bone...

tammyquinnlmt

i was thrown from a lawn mower trailor, being pulled by a lawn mower, and when i landed my collar bone found the only random brick in the yard to land on, and it broke my collar bone...

Sorry, not to laugh...but teehee!

stephc71885

last summer i insisted on taking my dog out without shoes on. my mother warned me... but i'm 25 and i "don't need my mommy any more." yeah... two steps onto the cement patio and i some how managed to get my toes bent underneath my right foot, putting all my weight onto 2 toes and scraping the hell out of them. i almost passed out from the pain. 2 broken toes later and i'm not ashamed to say i need my mommy.

wanttogetskinny

I have a great one. And I do give you permission to laugh. The urgent care doctor, and everyone else who's heard the story, either laughed or gave me strange looks.

Last May I was biking on a somewhat open bike trail. A bird flew down into my face and bounced off my helmet/sunglasses. No, I'm not kidding. The bird hit me so unexpectedly and fast, I didn't have time to slow down, and I was thrown off balance. I hit the ground, slid off my bike and across the asphalt at about 15mph.

Needless to say, I had huge chunks of skin taken out of one knee and elbow, my face was scratched up, and I severely sprained one wrist. The worst part was having to get back up and go home, bleeding, unable to use one arm, and having a front wheel that was literally ready to fall off.....

arrellemm

I teach third grade, so whenever there's a holiday, I usually end up with several small gifts, whether it's candy or Bath and Body Works stuff, etc. It was no big deal when one of my kids brought me one of those over-sized Hershey's kisses last year for Valentine's Day, but about a week later, I ended up in the ER getting stitches. Here's what happened:

I got home from a long day of school and decide I'm going to have some chocolate. (By the way, if you know the appropriate way to eat these, please let me know. I'm tempted to write the Hershey's company to find out. ) Well, Oprah or Ellen or something interesting was on TV, so I decide in my infinite wisdom that I'm just going to take my chocolate in a plastic bowl, and a very sharp knife to the living room to eat. (Bad decision number one.) I sit next to the arm of the couch with my legs up on the couch and put my Kiss and bowl on the arm. Not having much luck with trimming off the edges, I decide to insert the knife from the top of the Kiss and cut straight down. This worked out fine for a few minutes. Then, for some reason, I moved the bowl onto my leg and continue to chop off my chocolate. I apparently got to a really thick part that wouldn't cut off as easily as the other, had been, so here I go, pushing almost as hard as I can (forgetting that the bowl is on my leg). Yep, stabbed myself right in the thigh.

The part my husband and friends enjoy the most: I stabbed through the Kiss, through the plastic bowl, through a blanket that was on my lap, through my pants, and into my leg. I wasn't really thinking of the "never pull the knife out" rule, so I did not go to the hospital with everything still "attached".

That was Valentine's Day, 2010, so now I have a little scar about an inch long, and my teaching partner still calls me "Slash".

MrsMills712

I was sitting in my chair, Indian-style. I got up and went to walk away and my foot was asleep. My foot rolled forward as I took a step and I tripped over it and landed face first on the floor. I was home alone at the time, but got back up cracking up about it.