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What's the silliest way that you've hurt yourself?
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Well, this thread has jinxed me too! i was just cleaning (surprise) and putting something away on the top shelf of the closet, when something came flying down at me and hit me just under the eye! Hopefully I won't have a black eye!!
Oh no! And I inspired this thread!Originally Posted by menagerie mama
Well, this thread has jinxed me too! i
Oh my god - that reminds me of a big shock my bf gave me a few weeks agoOriginally Posted by Purr
Very true!
He came home late (he works shifts) and as he arrived, he called out "Hello Darling, I cut my wrists today!"
I had been busy at the pc and that came totally unexpected, so at first I thought he was joking, but no, there was a huge bandaid on his wrist and I just gasped in horror.
He was aghast at how much he had shaken me up and it was all the more weird when I found his sms (which I hadn't noticed) saying he had had a little accident at work. I remember myself sobbing:" Don't you ever scare me that much again!!!!!!
I once tore a muscle in my chest due to excessive vomiting.
I slipped while wearing socks and fell down the wooden stairs, bruising my heinie pretty badly but not seriously hurting myself.
I was mowing the lawn one day and fell into the basement window pit. The pit had one of those grates on them that are supposed to prevent people from falling in, but it wasn't attached. I stepped backwards, my heel hit the grate, the grate fell in and I fell in after it. Thankfully, I landed on the grate which was at an angle and didn't hurt myself too bad. I did have to yell for my neighbor to fetch the ladder out of the garage because I couldn't get myself out.
I slipped while wearing socks and fell down the wooden stairs, bruising my heinie pretty badly but not seriously hurting myself.
I was mowing the lawn one day and fell into the basement window pit. The pit had one of those grates on them that are supposed to prevent people from falling in, but it wasn't attached. I stepped backwards, my heel hit the grate, the grate fell in and I fell in after it. Thankfully, I landed on the grate which was at an angle and didn't hurt myself too bad. I did have to yell for my neighbor to fetch the ladder out of the garage because I couldn't get myself out.
Ouch! How far did you fall!?!
My goodness! You lot are terrible!
I can't say that I am any better. I mean, I am always hurting myself one way or another every day. Like last night, my brother and I were play fighting and he went to pretend punch me in the eye and I actually moved forward and he actually punched me in the eye!
My husband was sooo stupid when he was here in NZ - we went on the hydroslide at the pool and he broke several rules, one being do not go head first and he actually dove into the slide which is really narrow and he is not exactly the smallest guy in the world. He ended up hitting his calf into the holding bar sooo hard it hit the bone and we had to take him to the after hours clinic to be sure that he didnt have any clots as he was due to fly out in 2 days. The doctor gave him some bandages, told him to take ibuprofen and sent him on his way. I wasnt satisfied so when he got back to USA, I told him to go to the doctor and they did an ultrasound, thankfully no clots but there was so much blood that it had travelled down to his ankle and swelled it and bruised it and so he was put on painkillers and told to take the rest of the week off work.
I keep telling him, that the rules are there for a reason.
My husband was sooo stupid when he was here in NZ - we went on the hydroslide at the pool and he broke several rules, one being do not go head first and he actually dove into the slide which is really narrow and he is not exactly the smallest guy in the world. He ended up hitting his calf into the holding bar sooo hard it hit the bone and we had to take him to the after hours clinic to be sure that he didnt have any clots as he was due to fly out in 2 days. The doctor gave him some bandages, told him to take ibuprofen and sent him on his way. I wasnt satisfied so when he got back to USA, I told him to go to the doctor and they did an ultrasound, thankfully no clots but there was so much blood that it had travelled down to his ankle and swelled it and bruised it and so he was put on painkillers and told to take the rest of the week off work.
I keep telling him, that the rules are there for a reason.
The basement window pit was about 5 ft deep, I guess. I totally went in butt first with my feet in the air. I'm sure it would have been funny to witness.
I am always finding new and creative, embarassing ways of injuring myself.
But the best of all had to be back when I first moved into my house in PA. My computer was downstairs, the phone was upstairs. I was in the basement online and had been talking to one of my friends in PM's. She and I decided it would be easier to just talk in person, and she signed off to call me. Moments later, the phone rang. I ran upstairs to answer it and as I picked up the phone, I realized I'd left a snack unattended on the computer desk, ripe for cats to run off with. So I told her to hang on for a moment and went to run back downstairs. Only I hadn't seen the door in my way; it was open at an angle and I literally ran into the side of it, the part that has the latch on it, about 1-2" wide, face first, and broke my nose. The doctor said it was the neatest broken nose he had ever seen, no setting required, since I ran straight into the door and the it wasn't displaced at all. I had two black eyes and a nasty headache for days, and my friend Kathy laughed at me mercilessly.
What can I say, I am a spaz.
What can I say, I am a spaz.
I had to have stitches in my nose once cause I was lying in bed and the dog walked on my face. Her claw went inside my nose... three stitches...
I've also walked into the divider between two doors.
I've had stitches three times total and should have had them four times... Once I was sitting in one of those plexi-leather chairs you find in resturants. The back had broken out of it and I thought it would be cool to see how far back I could slide... I have a 4 inch scar on my thigh to this day.
I've also walked into the divider between two doors.
I've had stitches three times total and should have had them four times... Once I was sitting in one of those plexi-leather chairs you find in resturants. The back had broken out of it and I thought it would be cool to see how far back I could slide... I have a 4 inch scar on my thigh to this day.
Fell down the stairs TWICE in one day...
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was jogging slowly down a steep mountain trail, picked up speed, and then couldnt stop....went flying into a ditch filled with rocks....got sliced and diced in several places
I managed to dislocate a rib while 8 months pregnant! It got so bad I had to go into hospital because I couldn't move - mind you it took the docs about 3 days to work out what I had done. I don't know what caused it.
My other kind of funny injury was really an injury but when pregnant (again) and waiting in the waiting room to be put into a delivery room in the hospital I got soooo close to having my daughter on the floor that my husbane had to march up to the nurses desk and demand we be given a room before they delivered the baby on the floor. I was in the room in 5 mins and my daughter was born about 2 minutes later!
My other kind of funny injury was really an injury but when pregnant (again) and waiting in the waiting room to be put into a delivery room in the hospital I got soooo close to having my daughter on the floor that my husbane had to march up to the nurses desk and demand we be given a room before they delivered the baby on the floor. I was in the room in 5 mins and my daughter was born about 2 minutes later!
When I was little my brother and I were climbing these giant rock piles in Oregon. My brother went one way and told me to get down over where he was. Well....me being 1 year older didn't want to follow him. So I started climbing down another way and realized that it was too steep. I started to climb back up when I sliped on some pebbles, fell, and hit my head on a large rock. I had to be air lifted out of the camp site to the nearest hospital! The doctor said I had so many layers of stitches he couldn't count! All of this beacuse I wouldn't listen to my brother.
Hmmmm I once dropped a rock on my pinkie "worm-hunting" nothing broken, but I did go to the emergency room.
The most damage was a few years ago my ex and I were at a party and we were walking down the driveway when I kinda fell off it.... to make it a little clearer the driveway was above the ground surrounding it so it was like a miniature cliff (a 4 inch high cliff). Thought maybe I twisted my ankle, maybe sprained it, but no, i actually broke my foot! Drove home on it that night and everything, by the time I woke up the next morning my whole foot was black and blue. I swear I was not drunk either! If I had been I would have admitted it because at least then I wouldn't have looked like just a complete klutz!!
The most damage was a few years ago my ex and I were at a party and we were walking down the driveway when I kinda fell off it.... to make it a little clearer the driveway was above the ground surrounding it so it was like a miniature cliff (a 4 inch high cliff). Thought maybe I twisted my ankle, maybe sprained it, but no, i actually broke my foot! Drove home on it that night and everything, by the time I woke up the next morning my whole foot was black and blue. I swear I was not drunk either! If I had been I would have admitted it because at least then I wouldn't have looked like just a complete klutz!!
I have hurt myself badly twice in really silly ways. The first time I tripped over a suitcase in a hotel bedroom and dislocated my shoulder. The second time I went riding in icy weather and was very very careful what I did - stayed on the gravel, no canters, and half an hour of walking exercises in the school. Then I came into the paddock, dismounted, tied my horse up and one step later I went flying, hit my arm on the fence and broke my wrist! I could have sworn the horse laughed.
OK...unfortunately, I have a great one...
When I was about 13 I was seriously into dancing and I took several ballet classes. A 17-year-old football player joined our class. (He had been sent to dance class to help improve his footwork.) He was SO CUTE I could have just died. I wanted nothing more than to get his attention.
One day, we were doing grande jetes across the floor. (For those non-dancers, those are those big split-legged leaps you always see dancers doing.) However, I was paying more attention to the football player than to where I was going. I decided that this was my moment to impress him...and took off into a huge, beautiful grande jete...right into the post in the middle of the room. It was a total Wile E. Coyote move.
I broke my nose in the process...but I DID get his attention.
When I was about 13 I was seriously into dancing and I took several ballet classes. A 17-year-old football player joined our class. (He had been sent to dance class to help improve his footwork.) He was SO CUTE I could have just died. I wanted nothing more than to get his attention.
One day, we were doing grande jetes across the floor. (For those non-dancers, those are those big split-legged leaps you always see dancers doing.) However, I was paying more attention to the football player than to where I was going. I decided that this was my moment to impress him...and took off into a huge, beautiful grande jete...right into the post in the middle of the room. It was a total Wile E. Coyote move.
I broke my nose in the process...but I DID get his attention.
The first thing that came to mind was the time I was carrying a large canvasboard thru my apartment into my room, horizontally. As soon as I tried to go thru the door, 2 corners caught on either side of the door & drove one of the remaining corners right into my sternum. Needless to say, I went down on that one!
Update: I managed to hurt myself badly *again*...!
On Tuesday night, cycling on my way home, it was pouring and so I had pulled my hood a little lower than usual or the rain wouldn have gone straight into my eyes.
Well, anyway, I was just riding around a curve into a quiet side lane when something at my collar was feeling wrong, maybe a cold gust of wind, whatever.
I tugged at the collar and cast a quick glance down to see what was wrong and therefore could only see about 5 ft beyond my front tyre. I thought, watch out, there are the parked cars coming up in front of you [= within a few seconds from my position at the time] and as I look up, all I can see is a license plate and BANG!!
At first I was like, oh no, I'm in trouble, need to call 911 and all that...then I realized the car wasn't damaged at all, not even tyre marks, but my bike was making weird noises and my whole body ached soooo badly!
I even thought I had a concussion or such a thing from the big shock _I_ had absorbed [instead of the car's bumpers
] and waited a few minutes , but I wasn't feeling dizzy or sick and so I slowly pushed my bike home...
The next two days I stayed at home cause I couldn't move a bit, every joint in my body was aching like hell!
Fortunately, some heat and rest did the trick and today I'm ok again, thank God!
On Tuesday night, cycling on my way home, it was pouring and so I had pulled my hood a little lower than usual or the rain wouldn have gone straight into my eyes.
Well, anyway, I was just riding around a curve into a quiet side lane when something at my collar was feeling wrong, maybe a cold gust of wind, whatever.
I tugged at the collar and cast a quick glance down to see what was wrong and therefore could only see about 5 ft beyond my front tyre. I thought, watch out, there are the parked cars coming up in front of you [= within a few seconds from my position at the time] and as I look up, all I can see is a license plate and BANG!!
At first I was like, oh no, I'm in trouble, need to call 911 and all that...then I realized the car wasn't damaged at all, not even tyre marks, but my bike was making weird noises and my whole body ached soooo badly!
I even thought I had a concussion or such a thing from the big shock _I_ had absorbed [instead of the car's bumpers
The next two days I stayed at home cause I couldn't move a bit, every joint in my body was aching like hell!
Fortunately, some heat and rest did the trick and today I'm ok again, thank God!
Well, no bodily injury but my pride took a beating when I fell in front of the brewery - that faces a major roadway.
My only broken bone to date was my big toe when I pulled out my dresser drawer and it came all the way out and landed on the toe.
My only broken bone to date was my big toe when I pulled out my dresser drawer and it came all the way out and landed on the toe.
