worst injury?

_snw_
_snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
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What's the worst injury you've sustained?

Although my profile pic shows my best bruise, it's not my worst injury.

I've had a lot happen to me, but if I had to pick my best, compound tib/fib fracture from not quite making it to the landing pad of a large gap jump while snowboarding the terrain park.

I sketched myself out, speed checked, flew off jump and landed about 6" down from the landing. Snowboard stuck in mountain, I kept going. Something had to give. And that was my leg. CRACK. down I fell. A trip down from ski patrol, a ride to the hospital, ecrutiating wait until I was given whatever pain elixir they gave me, 3 surgeries, multiple pieces of titanium later, I was like new.

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  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a Toyota Camry to the knee.
  • h0m36r0wn
    h0m36r0wn Posts: 33
    65mph on my motorcycle, pothole with metal spike in it, locked up front wheel, wearing a tank top and no gloves - narrowly missed by an 18 wheeler in the next lane. Never mind having no skin on my hands, arms, and shoulders... I was looking at my white knee cap - even the medics were making faces when they cut my pants off.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    Would you call a ruptured appendix an injury? Yea, me neither. At least, not technically.

    I guess the worst injury I can think of is trying to land a jump in figure skating. I bypassed landing on the blade and landed on my knee, instead. I had what looked like a golf ball sized lump for about a week. I couldn't climb stairs properly.

    Yea, not as cool as yours....
  • Jain
    Jain Posts: 861 Member
    It's nowhere near as impressive as the OP. But I managed to slip on a hike & dislocate my ankle. Had to walk another 5 miles on it to get to a road. A year and a half later I'm still having problems with it.:grumble:
  • ChitownFoodie
    ChitownFoodie Posts: 1,562 Member
    I was playing soccer and someone kicked the bottom of my shin guard. It moved the shin guard right into my knee cap, separating the knee cap and placing into my quad muscle. I tore or broke the muscle, ACL, MCL, menicus, knee cap...etc. On a positive note, my shin was in tact. LOL
  • _snw_
    _snw_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    65mph on my motorcycle, pothole with metal spike in it, locked up front wheel, wearing a tank top and no gloves - narrowly missed by an 18 wheeler in the next lane. Never mind having no skin on my hands, arms, and shoulders... I was looking at my white knee cap - even the medics were making faces when they cut my pants off.

    ~shudder~
  • love2cycle
    love2cycle Posts: 448 Member
    I was doing a 150 mile bike ride to benefit MS, and on the second day, I felt awesome! We had already ridden 80 miles the first day, and as we started on the second day, it was a little rainy. I skidded in an intersection, smashed my whole left side face, left arm and elbow, and busted some teeth. Had to go to the emergency room, get stitches, go to the dentist (which to me, was a worse event than falling on the bike) and wait for my face to heal up, which took about a month! So much for awesome.
  • 76tech
    76tech Posts: 1,455 Member
    Pretty tame here.

    I used to skate with normal sized inline skate frames. Rollerblade stuff...short frame, easy to cross over (step over when turning)

    Got into speed skates. Frames + wheels are 14 inches tip to tail.

    Time to make a left turn. Let's try a crossover. Left skate goes under me, to the right. Right skate in the air, going up and over the left one, about to cross.

    Except the rear wheel smacks against the side of my shin.

    So instead of planting my right foot down where it belongs, I somehow land really weirdly. Sprained my right ankle pretty badly, and ended up with a partial ACL tear on the right.

    Completely asymptomatic now, except I can move my right lower leg forward and back a little more than normal.
  • yesiamaduck
    yesiamaduck Posts: 531 Member
    OH OH OH ME! I now go to my standard PAIN story

    Basically I used to play in goal quite a lot during football (soccer) (because I was very good at it, not because I was fat)

    During a match I rushed out and dived at the ball to claim it in the penalty area, when 2 players chasing the ball were sliding in at the same time, one caught me in the face and the other thrusted the rest of my body into the goal post... my hip hit the goal post and went the separate direction to the rest of my body.... woke up in hospital needing 8 fillings and a dislocated hip..... IT REALLY HURT and I couldn't actually play sport for a year after due to a combination of minor injuries & the hip thing which caused me problems for several years! It hurt.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Mine is snow skiing related...

    I was heading down at a pretty good speed. Got crossed up when another skier clipped one of my skis. I wound up going down, but only one of my bindings released, the other ski stayed put. So, as my body bounced and rolled, my left knee became badly dislocated, relocated, dislocated another direction etc. I finally ground to a stop in the snow and ice. Someone stopped to check on me, I couldn't really move yet, so I asked them to release the stuck binding. When I managed to move, my left foot was not pointing the right direction because my knee was twisted so bad. Four surgeries over two years put it back together. It mostly works right these days.

    JM
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    I took a 400 lb prop to the ankle in a rugby match trying to juke him out of a scrum...the doctors exact words after looking at the xray were "it's shattered". Couldn't walk right for a year and my ankle still pops regularly to this day.

    Not an injury but I also had an abscess from some kind of flesh eating bacteria on my left arm that I picked up in the tropics when I was younger. I was terrified the bump was cancer so being a bright teenager I didn't tell anyone until it was nearly the size of a softball. The surgery took 8 hours and they had to cut out part of my bicep and tricep. I'm also stuck with a huge scar on my arm that looks suspiciously like a woman's [CENSORED].
  • sinistertitan
    sinistertitan Posts: 603 Member
    Luckily, I haven't broken many bones or experienced any other serious injuries, but this one takes the cake.

    Out halibut fishing in the ocean. It was a pretty rough day on the water. I was leaving the cabin heading out to the deck. We got slammed on the port side by a rogue wave. Consequently my rib cage met the door frame with quite a crunch. It was painful, I couldn't breath, but I finished out the trip and went to the hospital the next day. Three broken ribs and a punctured lung. It was six months later that I was actually able to take a long deep breath. Best breath of my life.......
  • MalibuBeth
    MalibuBeth Posts: 87 Member
    I shattered the left side of my face playing rugby. Luckily I live in Miami, and had a great plastic surgeon put it all back together again, but that was def one of the worst pains I have ever experienced in my life.
  • bahacca
    bahacca Posts: 878 Member
    I fell off the top of a ladder onto my brick patio when I was about 4. Had to have 7 stitches in my hand.
    My husband told me a doozy last night. He went to a property he manages and one of the tenants was telling him how several years ago he had a stroke in the courtyard. He fell into the rose bushes and a thorn pierced his EYE! Makes me vomit a little in my mouth just thinking about it.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    I T-Boned a Cadillac in a small car; when the driver of the Cadillac tried to beat me across a two lane highway, shortening my car by three feet. The impact caused open compound fractures of my left femur (thigh) the bone actually punched a hole in my brand new jeans. I also had a open compound fractures of the right tibia & fibula, shattered my kneecap into more than eight pieces, broke my nose and twelve teeth, I don't even count the lacerations and embedded glass in my face and arms. Call me lucky.


    I have also stepped on a nail once or twice.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    Broken sternum.

    70mph crash on a motorbike.

    I landed in front of the motorbike, the bike hit me in the back of the head, my head was driven forward with enough force onto my chest that my chin broke my sternum.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    My husband has a good one....he kicked himself in the chest. Ya baby. Basketball, he planted his feet and someone fell on his leg, pushing it in and bending the knee joint sideways. His shin bone cracked vertically, his (always forget the name of it) ligament snapped and his leg came up and kicked himself inthe chest.
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    I was hang gliding off a cliff in the tropics and landed in a tree by the water. I fell into the water, and a shark grabbed me and shook me so hard that I ruptured all three lateral ligaments, tore the deltoid & calcaneal ligaments, chipped a bit of the bone off, and acquired an osteocondrial defect.

    Actually.. no. i'm pretty sure I stepped sideways off a stair and did that.
  • mrlazy1967
    mrlazy1967 Posts: 285 Member
    Ruptured spleen.. ambulance straight into surgery, bad
  • jennp1129
    jennp1129 Posts: 277 Member
    I have had a few impressive knee dislocations... But most painful injury was probably taking a charge in basketball and landing on my right wrist... Shattered the wrist and dislocated my thumb. In a cast for 8 months. On the bright side... I learned how to do everything left handed!
  • spskinny
    spskinny Posts: 96 Member
    Broke both arms at the same time (4 bones) getting fouled in basketball. Kinda hard to do anything after that. Had to be bathed, dressed ect. for several days by someone else. Humbling.
  • Begood03
    Begood03 Posts: 1,259 Member
    I better not answer this, as I am sure I would gross some of you out.

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