Embarrassing injuries.

I threw out my back cleaning up cat puke. Bent down, twisted the wrong way, and ZING! I walked hunched over like a question mark for a week.

And that sort of thing happened regularly, until I started strength training.

I don't remember how I first injured my left wrist... I think it was carrying a window air conditioner. But I kept re-injuring it due to pure stupidity. Walking fast to push open a door, not realizing it was an "out" door instead of an "in." Pushing my dad in a wheelchair when he forgot to take the brake off. Falling into a creek while hiking with the dog (my husband and I both ended up drenched to mid-hip, but our frickin' Pekingese was bone dry!). Ended up in a wrist brace AND knee brace after that one.

And probably the dumbest was while I was at Target getting an RX painkiller filled, and shopping for a wrist brace... Figured I might as well buy some kitty litter. It wasn't until the 40 pound bucket was over the shopping cart that I very painfully realized I was using my injured wrist. I'm a righty, but I tend to use my left hand for all the grunt work. :laugh:

I will never live down the night that I rammed my face into a wood pile... Drinking too much and strolling around my buddy's yard, I fell down... People were offering to help me up, and I said "No no I GOT THIS!" went to stand up and instead drove my head into a wood pile "DOH!" Broke the glasses and had a pretty little gash from between my eyes to the tip of my nose.

I haven't drank like that since... :blushing: it was YEARS ago, and every time those same people see me with so much as a beer or glass of wine I hear "Keep her OUT of the wood pile!"... :noway:


OH and there was one time where I climbed into a kitchen chair to change the shower curtain... went to get down and took the knob on top of the chair right to the lady bits.... They say that hurts on guys, let me tell you what! It hurts for us ladies too!!! Missed out on a town meeting to sit on an ice pack for a while... OUCH! That was one injury that I chose NOT to explain to people, just told them I was sick.

didn't happen to me, but the summer after my freshman year in HS the choir group I was in took at trip to europe. A girl that was a good friend of mine slipped on a cathedral's stairs and ripped her ladyparts... Episiotomy style for those of you that have had kids, you should know what that is..

she spent the afternoon in the emergency room getting stitched up and had to sit on a hemorrhoid pillow the rest of the trip... poor girl, I always felt bad for her... until....


two years ago, I was having a little bit of rough sex and my (now ex) boyfriend ripped me a little.... level 1, 2 stitches and butt pillow.... yowch

the most embarrassing part was telling the er doc why....

two years ago, I was having a little bit of rough sex and my (now ex) boyfriend ripped me a little.... level 1, 2 stitches and butt pillow.... yowch

the most embarrassing part was telling the er doc why....

You win.

I have a deep smile-shaped scar on my shin from where I tried to change the bathroom light... standing on a director's chair. The fabric ripped and my shin hit the steel crossbars with my full weight. Seconds later my dad arrived for dinner, I cooked and ate, and hours later my shin was still p*ssing blood so had to go to A&E. Believe me, your shin is not somewhere you want stitches :sad:

I fell down a hill. Chasing one of my little cousins, and ended up with a bruise completely around my kneecap. Physical therapy and 3 doctors later It still hurts with the weather.

I also dropped a TV on my tail bone. Had left all my dresser drawers open and when I thought 'that doesn't look safe' and went to push them all in the dresser toppled over causing the TV on top to land on my tail bone... I still have problems with my tail bone hurting, and my hips going out of line because of it.

And... Drum roll please.... I was running though the house naked as a toddler, and went into my brothers room. My brother not wanting his naked little sister in there, pushed me back into the hallway... I fell onto a box, That went right up my butt crack. It was bad enough my parents took me to the ER, only to spend the next two hours trying to convince the doctors I had fallen on a box and was NOT molested... Eventually they agreed, because they finally noticed that I I had a square imprint on the outside of my butt too. It probably helped that my brother was crying saying 'he didn't mean to'. While this one wasn't necessarily embarrassing for me, (as I don't remember it) It was sure embarrassing for everyone else involved! lol

I was using resistance bands to do arm curls. I wanted to up the resistance so I thought I'd give myself less band and pull harder. At some point, the band snapped and I punched myself in the head.

I was texting and walking downhill with my dog, well, you know the rest. My phone flew, my dog was like "hey, lets keep going!" So I got up because people were coming, smiled and kept walking. It was only when I got to the bottom that I noticed gravel & blood on my chin and my a blood stained sock because my knee was cut open! I of course snapped bloody pictures of my knee because I was more proud than embarrassed.

Completed my first Warrior Dash (5k obstacle course) in 2010 in about 35 mins. Was so proud of myself until I rolled & broke my right ankle walking out of the event to go home. :embarassed:

Completed my third Warrior Dash in 2012, then 2 weeks later while at my family reunion in Florida, I dislocated & shattered my right ankle whilst running & jumping into a neighborhood pond behind my cousins house on a dare from my family during hurricane Beryl at 12 in the morning on Memorial weekend! The pond was not as deep as I thought it was, and I thought it would have been all mucky/muddy and I'd sink into the mud, nope it was straight concrete. I had had a few drinks by this point in the night, but was far from drunk so sadly I can not blame my stupidity in the alcohol. :noway:

2 rods and 5 screws later, needless tosay I missed my fourth Warrior Dash in 2013 based on doctors orders.

I've had a few injuries in my lifetime, but the most embarrassing one was when I was 32 and learning how to ski for the first time in my life. I rode the ski lift to the top of the BUNNY HILL, and when getting off the lift, on which I had ridden up with one of my sons, I bumped into him. According to my family (who was laughing their collective arses off while describing the scenario!) I pirouetted beautifully and went "BUMP!" right onto my then very ample rear end. I was unable to ski back down the hill due to pain, so I earned my first First Aid toboggan ride down the hill to the First Aid hut, got an ambulance ride to the hospital (try imagining riding in a Jeep with a broken tailbone on a bumpy ski road for 45 minutes! :noway: ) and discovered that my tailbone was broken. It took a full 6 months before I didn't feel pain when sitting on a wooden seat!

I didn't let a broken tailbone stop me. I still ski, and I'm in my mid-forties now. It's easier to ski with less body mass, I've discovered this past winter. That was a nice NSV.

A) Dislocated my left lumbar-sacral joint being body-checked by a female who had already attacked me once. She came out of her office as I was coming out of my cube, and she thought she'd be cute and threw her whole weight into me. I went sideways over the workshelf of my cube and couldn't walk right for 2 1/2 years. (it was going to take surgery to fix it, an option I did not have as a sole-earner) And even though it was on camera, I couldn't claim assault or worker's comp because... well, she was protected status given her boytoy - looooong story.

Said injury was fixed 2 1/2 years later when I was crossing a freeway onramp with the walk sign, and was hit by a car that ran the red light. He hit me on the same side, I bounced 15' and somehow still managed to jump up and find my glasses before they got run over, based on sound. A nurse saw the wreck and sat my butt back on the ground until the ambulance got there because I had hit my head on the asphalt. I had a concussion and a body-length bruise that took 3 months to heal, but I could walk normally again, and boy did I.

C) Last year, I bought a pair of amazing 7" BCBG stilettos. I went out dancing with my girlfriends and got a little overzealous and wasn't used to the shoes yet. I tipped over a little far, and put my hands out to catch my fall on the seating area... spraining my right wrist bad enough to require a brace. And I don't drink...

I have a few embarrassing injuries.
1) Broke my ankle while walking one a flat sidewalk. No idea how it happened. One minute walking, I must have rolled it, next minute down on the ground in pain. My friends were trying to figure out what the heck had happened.
2) A year or two ago I managed to sprain my ankle while standing still. The doc kept asking me, "No, really, what were you doing?" "Nothing, just standing there....." Yup, on crutches for awhile with that one.


And, not me, but a friend of mine broke her leg while streaking a final exam during college. Imagine that trip to the ER. I was the one she called to bring her clothes to the hospital. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

I wish I could say this is a shorter list.

I will preface this by saying I am actually generally very coordinated, was a hardcore athlete from the age of 4-20 (swimming, gymnastics, trampoline, baseball, diving, rugby etc etc)

and I never had much mroe than repetitive motion injuries from all of the sports BUT I seem to have a tendency to get major injuries in very stupid ways...

I broke my nose with my own knee when I was 15 tubing behind a boat

I fractured my ankle because I missed a step running down the stairs

I broke my ankle in 3 place and dislocated it .... walking down the street

I tore my right shoulder labrum over 180 degrees, detached a ligament and dented the ball part of the shoulder but grabbing a wall to stop myself from falling down the stairs

I herniated a disc (and have had chronic low back issues ever since) cleaning the litter box

splits on the monkey bars when i was still really little. hips were all sorts of messed up and if i dont get into a chiropractor at least once a month im an inch shorter as well as my hips start to ache something fierce.
so the embarrassing part was i had also bruised my pelvis very badly at this incident and i had a male doctor.
i was still really young and the look i gave my mother when the doctor was asking me to take my panties off so he could look, must have been priceless. she was mortified at the whole thing.
cant say ive ever wanted to have a male doctor again after that < <

When I was eight, my sister and I were playing cops and robbers. I was the robber. She "caught" me and tied up my hands and feet. Then I was supposed to escape and she was supposed to catch me. Well, as I was hopping(remember my feet are tied together) away, I was trailing a piece of rope behind me. She stepped on it and I went down. Since my hands were tied up as well, my nose broke my fall. She was freaking out b/c she didn't want us to get into trouble. So I went into the bathroom, wiggled it a little (it never bled), and went back to playing. It wasn't until Mom called me to help with dishes, that she realized something was wrong. They took me to the ER, where the doc looked at me and said, "Well, it's broke, but she's already popped it back into place!"