Whats the most traumatic injury you have experienced?

katiemae1277

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When I little, around 4 or 5, my mom was cleaning out the garage and I was helping her move a cart full of glass bottle back into the garage when it tipped over, shattering all the bottles. Once piece hit my ankle and gouged out a triangle shaped piece of flesh- it didn't hurt me at all, but my mom was sobbing hysterically so that made me cry. Had to get stitches and I still have a scar.

Broke my foot a few years ago, my foot went over the side of an uneven driveway, broke the 3 center meta-tarsals right scroos the middle. Drove home (it was my right foot) and went to bed, when I woke up my entire foot was black and blue and I couldn't stand on it. I told my ex, "I think I need to go to the hospital"
 

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Originally Posted by katiemae1277

Broke my foot a few years ago, my foot went over the side of an uneven driveway, broke the 3 center meta-tarsals right across the middle
That's what I broke too... only it was my left foot and I slipped on ice. Oh - and I went to the ER right away - LOL... I couldnt imagine waking up to the black-n-blueness the next morning.
Too funny (but not)
 

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Wow, I feel really lucky after reading everyone's post!!
I have never broken any bones or ever had stitches!!

I dunno if I have ever had a "traumatic" injury worth posting about lol....
 

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I've broken all my toes at least twice, I think.
Ripped my big toe nail off once. Cut the bottom of my foot open on a tiller blade. Beat my knee to heck once, still bothers me years later. Been bit by several dogs & my own cats a few times.
Cracked my head on the ice this winter, had a headache for over a week but was too dumb to go to the ER.
 
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Originally Posted by krazy kat2

I got kicked in the mouth by a size 13 steel toed boot by by ex. He was trying to kill me because I woke him up. If it had not been for my now SO, a wonderful man, and another friend, I have no doubt I would be dead right now. My jaw was broken, and I had 22 stitches down the side of my mouth, with a scar to this day. I am going to try to have my name changed because I still have his last name. I have also had my collarbone broken several times due to a birth defect in it.
Wow!
That really sucks! Thats pretty severe mental and physical trauma. Hope he went to jail!
 

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Wow! I havent really had any injuries. I've had a Cesarean, and two cataract operations, and a peri-acetabular osteotomy (surgically broken pelvis) and a hip resurfacing, though! LOL. My son broke his femur snowboarding though! That was REALLY scary.
 

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I haven't really had any injuries or broken bones (except for the deliberate cracking open of my sternum!).

My only actual injury was falling over while rollerskating and fracturing my wrist when I was 13 or so. It was 3 days before I even saw the doctor, because my mum didn't believe me - she thought I was just trying to get out of doing dishes


I came off my mountain bike once and whacked my knee which may have been the cause of an arthroscopy a few months later. Might not have been.

I only ever have uncommon, random things wrong with me.
 

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Mine wasn't as painful as the other stories, but looked very bad: 9 years ago, I bent over to pet a strange dog, who proceeded to tear off most of my top lip, a quarter-sized chunk of the area above it, and bit my nose in 6 places, 3 of them all the way through. (Gee, I always wanted a pierced nose!). He tore my lip down to the artery in a few places. Basically, the lip was gone. I had emergency reconstructive surgery (with a few shots of novacaine--what fun). I was awake during the surgery--all 3-4 hours of it, but honestly, the whole thing didn't really hurt--the worst part was getting a shot of novacaine in my left sinus area (for the nose part). We thought it had taken effect, but it hadn't, and I could feel, see, and hear the suturing in all 6 spots on my nose. I didn't complain, as I just wanted to get the heck out of there, and go home! Then, as the owner fled the scene, I had to get rabies shots, just in case. Not too bad; just in my arm (they prefer to inject at the injury site, but decided not to). The most embarrassing part: the anti-colagulant shot prior, as you get that one in your butt--and it was a male nurse. All I wanted to do at this point was: pee (held for many hours), eat (no food for about 8 hours), and go home!

It was so bizarre: I was wearing 1860's garb at the time, stripped down to my chemise and drawers (convenient for shot above, as they are split open from front to back!). I discarded my corset, so I could lay down for surgery. The laces were knotted, and I was trying to undress with 1 hand; the other holding up gauze to staunch the blood. The nurse wouldn't cut the laces, even though I said it was ok! She said (another nurse): "How can you wear this thing??!!?" We were trying to also find a place to hang my hoop ups in the ER cubicle. In triage, I bargained with the nurse to reduce my weight on the scale to allow for the weight of my costume! Typical woman!
 

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Originally Posted by LDG

The one that was most traumatic, however, was a couple years before that. Some boys on bikes were chasing me, so I hopped a neighbor's hedge to get away.
Turns out there used to be a fence there - the kind with the metal posts that you string wire through? Anyway, I heard my pants rip and thought "Shoot!" I looked down to see what happened - and there was this huge hole in my leg! I was obviously in shock because I felt nothing. I was across the street from my house, but my parents weren't home. I saw other neighbor kids playing and ran over there - but I couldn't scream or speak. I just pointed to my leg - and I guess I passed out, because I woke up to the neighbor's dad in an ambulance with me. I told him my mom was at the library, and I guess they called and had her paged once we got to the hospital. He stayed with me until she showed up, which was really nice.
I had something similar happen to me. I climbed over one of those wire fences once because I figured it would be faster and easier than walking all the way around to use the gate
. I ended up with a piece of wire that went straight through my right hand. I have permanent nerve damage in my hand now and can barely feel anything.

The most traumatic injury I've had was about six years ago. I burned off almost all the skin on my right arm in a vat of hot deep frying oil back when I worked a McDonald's. That was by far the worst pain I've ever been in.
 

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Lets see here when I was 8 or 9 I got hit by a speeding car. I was on a bike crossing in a crosswalk. I did not get hurt but it was traumatic.

When I was in 3rd or 4th grade I fell hard on my knee and twisted it. It hurt so bad I could not even bend my knee. I ended up having to go to the hospital and have a large behind needle had to get stuck into my knee cap to drain the fluid that collected. Yeah very traumatic for me because I had to be held down by 2 nurse and my mother to get the procedure done.

When I was 14-15 I got bit bad on my thigh butt area. I had several puncture wounds and turned many shades of the rainbow.

When I was 18 I got into another car accident. We hit a pine tree head on going 30 or more mph. My poor head almost went straight through the windshield. The windshield was bowed out and cracked from where my head it.
 

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i broke my left ankle. it happened when i went horse riding! as am disabled, i was supposed to have a person either side of the horse, that day i only had one person, & that was on the right side. also, i had a completely different horse, once he started to trot, that was it! i fell off the left side, & my left ankle was stuck in the stirrup!

ouch! i'd never been in sooo much pain before LOL! since then, i havn't gone horse riding again.
 

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Yes, cheylink, they finally put him in jail for a few weeks, then I had him committed to a mental institution since it was the only way I could keep him away from me long enough to get a restraining order to keep him away from me legally and for at least 90 days. I also still have post traumatic stress disorder from all the things he did to me. That was not even the worst.I just hope I never run in to him again.
 

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3 kidney stones 2 passed,3rd have to have it lasered,in April
all the toes broken,when a 50 pound table fell over and slamed down on my foot!
That was the only broken bones I have had.
 

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I going to go backwards in life to too what I can remember.

Last April (the 24th) is when we were picking stomes for our fence and the LAST ONE came down on the tip of my left ring finger smashing it like a grape. I got my wedding ring cut off and none stitches. To this day that part of my finger is thicker and I still have not regained all nerve regeneration.

When tearing down our two stall garage I stepped on a board with a rather substantial nail. Pull it out of my foot and shoe, cleaned it wrapped it up and continued our work. Needless to say the next day it was a tad bit painfull. I stepped on a nail wne Iwas a kid too.

Stepped over a small pile of lumber in garage and broke a bone in my foot-Neil of course didn't believe me until the docs at the ER showed him the xray.

Two auto accidents-one I was rear ended and had 6 wks of PT. The earlier one a van ran a stop sign and due to the angle of the intersection smashed into the front of our car-this was in 1988 and we had $7000 of damage. No injuries-slight whiplash and brusing from the seatbelts. Our groceries in the trunk were not so lucky.....

Around winter of 96 or 97 I got cat food out of the bin in the gargage and the concrete floor there was a bit smooth and I didn't have shoes on and bent my big toe on my right foot underneath. A couple of years later I had (and still have) limited flexibility in my big toe and pain so I had bone spurs removed between my big toe and the next one. The incision got infected and now I have much scar tissue so lets just say 3" heels or taller aren't a reality until I decide to get a joint replacement.

I've had many wasp stings in my life, and small scars from random childhood accidents.
The worse is 17 stitches on my right leg due to gashing it to the bone while swimming.
A dandy scar too (mom said the doc who stitched me up had been drinking earlier that day)

Severely sprained my right ankle as a senior in high school playing basketball and jammed a finger too. Also severe hamstring pull from cheerleading in college.

ok I'll stop now!!
 

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Originally Posted by xLaydeexTaniax

went horse riding!
There's been a couple horse riding incidents here. When I was about 13 me and a best friend went horseback riding at her grandmother's farm. There was a gunshot in the woods that spooked her horse. It bucked and tried to throw her off but her foot was stick in the stirrup. She was drug by the horse til it eventually fell on her crushing her shoulder. She had to have it totally rebuilt and missed a whole school year because of it. Lucky Dog
No, I'm just kidding.

She got right back in that saddle when she was allowed though.
 

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Originally Posted by GailC

I going to go backwards in life to too what I can remember.

ok I'll stop now!!
Wow! You have one heck of a memory!!!! You reminded of the time I stepped on a nail at the beach and had to go get my tetanus when I was about 10 years old. I had completely forgotten about it.

Jeez thanks a lot - LOL - just kidding.

And I was stung by a bee once when my parents were on vacation on Israel. My neighbor was watching us and of course we found out I was allergic.
Isnt that always the way? The one and only time I would ever get stung was a time my parents were thousands of miles away - and then to have a reaction. Ha!
 

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Originally Posted by kluchetta

Wow! I havent really had any injuries. I've had a Cesarean, and two cataract operations, and a peri-acetabular osteotomy (surgically broken pelvis) and a hip resurfacing, though! LOL. My son broke his femur snowboarding though! That was REALLY scary.
The only operations I've had are 4 c-sections... Hopefully that's my quota
And I agree... of any of my "inflictions" even the time I woke up in the ER with the doctor asking my husband if I was an organ donor, none of them are as memorable as the things my children have gone through, even the little fat lips. LOL. I guess that's a perk to being a parent, huh?
 

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Broke a small bone in my foot

Tore a ligament in my arm which i had to have physiotherapy and ultrasound on because calcium deposits had formed because i left it for 3 weeks before dragging myself to the doctor in agony
 

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my worst injury happened in 2001.. i had a wisdom tooth extracted and now i have lingual nerve damage.

id rather give birth than deal with this.its horrible unrelenting mouth pain that doctors including dentists dont know how to cure or treat for the most part.my tongue and gum is still numb..
i get electric like shocks in my tongue where its numb and it feels like i have a clamp on my jaw..i joined the cat site here to keep myself from visiting the nerve damage site all the time..

i had stitches more than once and sprained my ankle 2 times, those were nothing compared to nerve damage in my mouth.
 

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oh gosh, i guess the worst was playing baseball with my mom and sisters. I got hit in the face with the ball and it knocked out 4 teeth, broke my nose in two places, and i had to have 14 stitches in my lips and a very sore tounge.


i have also had
my last three fingers on my right hand broken (no explanation)
my thumb on my right hand broken (drunken slap-boxing a friend)
my left foot broken (dropped a maglight on it)
my nose broken about 6 other times (various reasons)
my big toes broken (no explanation)
my tailbone cracked (jumped out of swing on a rock)
both knees messed up (knocked off bleachers at basketball practice)
a stick the size of a pencil ran into the top of my right foot (running barefoot)
concusion twice (car wreck and fight in school)
right collar bone cracked (another car wreck)
apendix surgery (spent 28 days in the hospital because of gangrene in my stonach cavity)
my pinkytoe on my left foot broken (kicked the fireplace edge on accident)
 
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