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Most Ridiculous Injury You Have Had In Your Life?
- Thread starter Reecejackox
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As I read these stories and look back on my injuries over the years, I realize ALL of them were ridiculous. Not once did I injure myself while heroically saving a child or something...No, for me it's she was walking in a field and fell in a hole or reaching for something on a high shelf in the grocery store and knocking over a can of corned beef that chipped a tooth as it fell. 
I have absurd accidents.
I have absurd accidents. 
I had to pair of curtains that needed to be hemmed. I went the easy route using the fusing tape you iron on. I don’t iron anything. So I borrowed my MIL’s iron and set to work. I wasn’t sure if the iron was hot enough so I checked the temperature by placing iron on outside of my thigh. The fleece pants I was wearing melted to my skin. I ended up with a 2nd degree burn. My dr. shook her head at my stupidity.
Ouch!!
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OK, here comes the comedy hour!!!
1) Got run down by a kid in a wheelchair, dislocated my knee.
2) got a concussion from my cousin who threw a mitten full of rocks at my head.
3) **THIS HAPPENED TWICE IN THE SAME WEEK**
Schoolbag strap hooked onto my boot while running for the school bus and I face planted and skinned the knee that I was unable to straighten because of the strap. Still have the scars.
First time ,Bus driver - was very concerned and asked if I was OK
Second time, Bus driver -
4) Got a black eye running into a tree (playing tag)
5) Broke my toe on a coffee table.
I've got a few more but I have to get ready for work, wish me luck that I don't hurt myself!
1) Got run down by a kid in a wheelchair, dislocated my knee.
2) got a concussion from my cousin who threw a mitten full of rocks at my head.
3) **THIS HAPPENED TWICE IN THE SAME WEEK**
Schoolbag strap hooked onto my boot while running for the school bus and I face planted and skinned the knee that I was unable to straighten because of the strap. Still have the scars.
First time ,Bus driver - was very concerned and asked if I was OK
Second time, Bus driver -
4) Got a black eye running into a tree (playing tag)
5) Broke my toe on a coffee table.
I've got a few more but I have to get ready for work, wish me luck that I don't hurt myself!
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Remind me to stay far, far away from you!OK, here comes the comedy hour!!!
1) Got run down by a kid in a wheelchair, dislocated my knee.
2) got a concussion from my cousin who threw a mitten full of rocks at my head.
3) **THIS HAPPENED TWICE IN THE SAME WEEK**
Schoolbag strap hooked onto my boot while running for the school bus and I face planted and skinned the knee that I was unable to straighten because of the strap. Still have the scars.
First time ,Bus driver - was very concerned and asked if I was OK
Second time, Bus driver -
4) Got a black eye running into a tree (playing tag)
5) Broke my toe on a coffee table.
I've got a few more but I have to get ready for work, wish me luck that I don't hurt myself!
I ran into the corner of a door at a doctor’s office when I was a kid. I wanted to play outside and my mom ran after me but I ran into the corner of the open door as someone else was walking in. I had to get stitches and still have a scar on my forehead.
I tripped over an uneven spot on the side walk across the street from Wrigley Field walking around before a baseball game walking around with my dad as an adult. I was completely sober when this happened. An usher in the ball park saw me fall and brought me an ice pack. Some complete strangers helped me get up and get to a chair on the patio of a bar. The usher that brought me an ice pack told my dad to ask for a wheel chair when we were ready to enter the ball park. I was taken to first aid when we got into the ball park. My ankle was wrapped and I was given portable ice packs to use during the game. A 2nd usher got me more ice packs during the game. A security officer wheeled me out of the stadium and got the Chicago Police Department to let my dad park in front of the stadium to get me in the car without walking anywhere. I found out years later that I actually damaged a ligament in my ankle. I thought it was just a bad sprain when it happened. I was unemployed and never sought medical treatment. We went out for a nice meal after the game. The restaurant brought an office chair outside and my brother rolled me into the restaurant. My dad and my hubby carried me into the house after the game. My hubby almost had to cut my gym shoe off my foot when I got home from the game. I was going to watch my Braves play the cubs and hell would have to freeze over for me to miss that game. One of my friend’s who was a neighbor was off work for a week after he hubby had surgery. She was nice enough to check on me to make sure I could eat while hubby was at work. After a week I could hobble around enough to make easy meals.
I tripped over an uneven spot on the side walk across the street from Wrigley Field walking around before a baseball game walking around with my dad as an adult. I was completely sober when this happened. An usher in the ball park saw me fall and brought me an ice pack. Some complete strangers helped me get up and get to a chair on the patio of a bar. The usher that brought me an ice pack told my dad to ask for a wheel chair when we were ready to enter the ball park. I was taken to first aid when we got into the ball park. My ankle was wrapped and I was given portable ice packs to use during the game. A 2nd usher got me more ice packs during the game. A security officer wheeled me out of the stadium and got the Chicago Police Department to let my dad park in front of the stadium to get me in the car without walking anywhere. I found out years later that I actually damaged a ligament in my ankle. I thought it was just a bad sprain when it happened. I was unemployed and never sought medical treatment. We went out for a nice meal after the game. The restaurant brought an office chair outside and my brother rolled me into the restaurant. My dad and my hubby carried me into the house after the game. My hubby almost had to cut my gym shoe off my foot when I got home from the game. I was going to watch my Braves play the cubs and hell would have to freeze over for me to miss that game. One of my friend’s who was a neighbor was off work for a week after he hubby had surgery. She was nice enough to check on me to make sure I could eat while hubby was at work. After a week I could hobble around enough to make easy meals.
Another it’s maybe not ridiculous but..
I was 6 or so and had a Q-tip I was cleaning my ear. My mom didn’t see me and the huge laundry hamper she was carrying bumped my arm and I perforated my ear drum. Ouch.
I was 6 or so and had a Q-tip I was cleaning my ear. My mom didn’t see me and the huge laundry hamper she was carrying bumped my arm and I perforated my ear drum. Ouch.
I was reupholstering a chair and using a hammer with a magnetic head. This allows you to place your tack or nail on the hammer head and it will stay in place so you can use one hand to hold your fabric in place and the other to swing the hammer. Except my aim was off and when the hammer came down I ended up nailing a finger to the chair. It was painful but relatively easy to get my finger off the chair because it wasn’t stuck very deep but I had to use a plier to remove the tack from my finger. I did okay until I got the tack out and then the room started spinning and I had to sit on the floor for a long while.
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I'm clumsy, so there too many to remember, but here are four. All happened in bed, except #4.
1. I sprained my knee and tore cartilage while being "romantic" with DH. And we weren't doing anything weird.
I spent a few months in a knee brace.
2. Many years ago, a had a female cat, Ming. The head of my bed was up against the wall, under a high-up window, which was open (with a screen in it). The outside had a deep ledge. I was lying on my stomach, with my arms outstretched, sleeping. There must have been a male cat on the outside ledge, and Ming was on the inside sill, freaking out. I awoke to her savagely attacking my upper left arm, putting a 3" gash in it. (She fell off the sill.) It was 2:30 AM, and no way was I going to the ER for that, even though it needed stitches. I just put iodine and some bandages on the wound and went back to bed. I still have a scar.
3. Again, in my current bed, #1, I re-sprained the knee, I think because of a cat. I woke up several times during the night to find myself pushing Loki (who was very heavy) off my ankles.
4. #1 was my left knee. Five months later, I sprained my RIGHT knee. I went to a bridal expo at a country club for my friend, as I was her matron of honor. As we were descending the dramatic spiral staircase, I turned and said to her fiance, "I always fall down these kind of stairs." I missed the last two stairs.
This has been a learning experience. I should avoid stairs, stay of out bed, and never have cats.
1. I sprained my knee and tore cartilage while being "romantic" with DH. And we weren't doing anything weird.
I spent a few months in a knee brace.2. Many years ago, a had a female cat, Ming. The head of my bed was up against the wall, under a high-up window, which was open (with a screen in it). The outside had a deep ledge. I was lying on my stomach, with my arms outstretched, sleeping. There must have been a male cat on the outside ledge, and Ming was on the inside sill, freaking out. I awoke to her savagely attacking my upper left arm, putting a 3" gash in it. (She fell off the sill.) It was 2:30 AM, and no way was I going to the ER for that, even though it needed stitches. I just put iodine and some bandages on the wound and went back to bed. I still have a scar.
3. Again, in my current bed, #1, I re-sprained the knee, I think because of a cat. I woke up several times during the night to find myself pushing Loki (who was very heavy) off my ankles.
4. #1 was my left knee. Five months later, I sprained my RIGHT knee. I went to a bridal expo at a country club for my friend, as I was her matron of honor. As we were descending the dramatic spiral staircase, I turned and said to her fiance, "I always fall down these kind of stairs." I missed the last two stairs.
This has been a learning experience. I should avoid stairs, stay of out bed, and never have cats.
I had an iron fall on my head.
In our small apartment, we had a cheap plastic shelving unit where we kept laundry soaps, trash bags, the iron, starch spray... you get the idea. We had put the kitty box on the bottom base "shelf". I was cleaning out the box one day and bumped the shelving unit, not unusual in itself, except that the iron had inexplicably been set close enough to the edge to topple off. I glanced up, and it landed smack into my forehead... just at the top of my brow.
Nobody was home, it was just me. Usually, I tend to pass out when I get injured (it's a vagus nerve thing). So I sat down for a while, letting the dizzy take it's course, then I drove myself to the local clinic. Once they got me into a room, I was finally able to relax enough for the dizzies to come back. I just remember saying to the doc, "Please do a good job, I'm getting married in 6 weeks!" lol
In our small apartment, we had a cheap plastic shelving unit where we kept laundry soaps, trash bags, the iron, starch spray... you get the idea. We had put the kitty box on the bottom base "shelf". I was cleaning out the box one day and bumped the shelving unit, not unusual in itself, except that the iron had inexplicably been set close enough to the edge to topple off. I glanced up, and it landed smack into my forehead... just at the top of my brow.
Nobody was home, it was just me. Usually, I tend to pass out when I get injured (it's a vagus nerve thing). So I sat down for a while, letting the dizzy take it's course, then I drove myself to the local clinic. Once they got me into a room, I was finally able to relax enough for the dizzies to come back. I just remember saying to the doc, "Please do a good job, I'm getting married in 6 weeks!" lol
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Are you sure?? I'm quite entertaining!
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I was working at a camp for children with disabilities. This particular kid, also had mental disabilities but loved speed. He though it was hilarious to have his counselors chase him. He would sometimes just GO and unfortunately I was in his path. He was not paying attention, and I did not see him until I turned around when someone yelled out. When you are surrounded by children that need your focus and hear the sounds of motorized wheelchairs all the time, you don't look up every time you hear one coming. Anyway, the kid rammed into me, the focus of the pressure was on my knee, I fell over and twisted but my lower leg stayed put as it was trapped by the chair. my knee cap got pushed to the side and I heard a small pop. Thankfully it was not a total dislocation, more a separation, although I've had issues with that knee ever since. I wasn't completely run OVER, just run down.
