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What is the worst physical injury or pain that you have experienced?

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I've been lucky---was working on back of a movie projector console, the 2.5x4 sheet steel back got away from me, dropped on my toe. They heard me in all six theatres, and over the phone in corp. headquarters. Don't know if I broke anything, but the blister was the size of a silver dollar, and was a unmitigated varking pain to drain by myself... The better half (Momofone) had me beat---she threw blood clots in her lungs, and was sent to the left coast to have them removed via open chest surgery---they had to "stop" her on the table, chill her down, and take a nice leasurly five minutes to debride all the blood vessels in her lungs, sew her up and cold-boot her. We had 40Kg of LOX in the bedroom for three months to assist her breathing. After that I resolved not to do anything stupid--I hate hospitals!
 
Besides over 24 hrs. (combined deliveries) of childbirth pain. I'd say the worst was when I was little and tripped while playing tag with my sisters. I hit the license plate of a car and it sliced my lip in two and then gouged out a chunk of bone from my eyebrow. Damn scar still hurts when I touch it and that happened decades ago! I also stepped on a rusty nail that went entirely through my foot. That didn't feel so good, either. Coincidentally, that happend the same year my face met the license plate. Bad year! 😱

At least with the childbirth pain, I got something great in return...all I got from the license plate was a painful scar and an infection.
 
Went to nationals in Tae Kwon Do in 1996 in california last match (after fightin 27 matches in a row) went to fight (with an already bad shoulder which had surgery 4 times before) opponent closed in with a swift right leg axe (drop) kick to my right shoulder putting the heel in my torn ligament/remaining scar tissue literally ripping it, in which it felt like in twain. THAT WAS PAIN!


p.s however team north dakota walked out first in our sparring class, and dead last in paterns (katas for the karate oriented) oh well....=-)
 
8th grade:
Extended the forks on my bicycle making it into a chopper. As I was delivering newspapers, I wheelied off the sidewalk and the forks broke. I landed on my face on the rough asphalt. I broke three teeth and damaged my jaw. The whole left side of my face was raw hamburger. I ate Cream Of Wheat thru a pea shooter for 2 1/2 weeks. Other than a lump in my lip and 3 capped teeth I have no scars.

21 yrs old:
Was doing approx. 45 to 50 mph on a brand new never before ridden dirt bike. As I was coming out of a curve, I cracked the throttle open and the front end came up off the ground (I later discovered that the engine timing wasn't set properly drastically reducing my low & mid range power & causing the high end to come on like a Kenworth slamming into the back of ya). Before I could get the front end down and under control I slid into two large trees. The first tree struck the right grip of the handle bars smashing my pinky finger and causing the bars to jerk 90 deg. right. The second tree was immediately to the left and slightly behind the first tree. My momentum carried me directly into the end of the handle bar which nailed me squarely in the nuts as I slammed into the 2nd tree head long. I woke up in shock unable to get up. My friends hauled me to the doctors office. The doctor splinted my right arm (broken radius and ulna) and had me rushed to the hospital. My nuts were swollen bigger than large grapefruits & had a hole punched in the left one. I was hospitalized for 5 days. Everything works fine, I am the father of 4 boys. 🙂


Two months later:
Had a paracardectomy (removal of the heart sack) caused by a trauma to the chest 3 years earlier. At the time of the trauma, a car accident, I was totally unaware of any injuries and the bleeding that had occurred in the heart sack. The blood dried up and over the next three years the body's defense mechanism caused the heart sack to inflame and calcify (turn to bone). After three years the heart sack was totally calcified completely encasing the heart. The heart itself was beginning to calcify when they finally discovered it. 7 hours of surgery consisting of literally chiseling the bone away returned my health to me. Prior to surgery, I had stomach ulcers and severe edema (swelling) in my lower legs. If I tried to run around the block it would take me two weeks to recover from the sore throat I'd get from breathing so hard. I felt as if I had the flu everyday for 2 years. After surgery I have had no stomach problems. 2 weeks after the surgery the doctor informed me I had no more heart problems, only a broken sternum to recover from.


Eight Years Later:

After living an active life after the surgery, 3 of the stainless steel wires used to lace my sternum back together broke. One of them broke in such a way that it stuck straight out and was quite visible when I wore a t-shirt, not to mention extremely uncomfortable. It was just a matter of time before it poked thru the skin. The doctor gave me a local and nawed thru the scar tissue to get at the wire to perform the wirectomy. He rolled the forceps up in the wire and tried to pull it out, but it wouldn't budge. The doctor gave it one more good try. He pulled on that wire so hard he literally lifted me off the table except for my heels and shook me. I felt like a gaffed fish. The wire was healed into the sternum too soundly. He ended up snipping the wire off and filing the end down. The wirectomy was almost worse than the heart surgery.

I have since had hernia surgery and a vasectomy which were both a stroll in the park compared to the previous injuries and surgeries.

Eye injuries are also nothing to sneeze at, they can be absolutely excruciating.
 
geez i feel lucky now i have never broken a bone or ne thing i have spranged ankles and stuff
but i would have to "not the worst pain but funny "
i got into a fight with this kid and he had braces and i hooked him in the jaw more of the teeth though and i swear the kid smoled just so i would cut the heck outa my nuckles ,,, but that is ok
i knocked out five of his teeth and broke his jaw

but i bet he was in some pain
 
Oh, I remember one now! 😀 Lucky me. 🙂

I was about 18, working as a cook in a nursing home. I was in a hurry because the meal was late, and needed to puree up some chicken noodle soup for the toothless patients. I put too much in the blender and it splashed out all over my hand and arm. Scalding hot liquids can cause pretty painful burns.

People needed to eat, so I stuck my hand in a bucket of ice and put it on a wheeled cart and dragged it around with me until someone came to replace me. My hand was seriously messed up for a month or so after that.
 
groin pull. you may laugh at it when you hear athletes are out for 2 days with strained groin, but it's **so** not fun.
 
Definantly having my 4 widom teeth removed. I only used novicain, and i felt super until that wore off. They wouldn't stop bleeding either. Then all the sudden while I was spitting blood out of my mouth it hit me. OMFG it was so painful. I've broken stuff before but this was nothing compared to that. It was like inside my friggen jaw. It was not like a sharp quick pain you get when you break your leg, because that goes away and a dull pain replaces it. This was like feeling that sharp pain constantly AND a dull pain at the same time. The worst of it only lasted 15 min. But that was pure hell. I've never been in a situation where I've been in so much pain that I just wanted to DIE. Once you've experienced pain like that you really admire those who have undergone that amount of pain in torture and yet still refused to let go of their beliefs.
 
I've broken bones, teeth, torn flesh, nard-knocks (all guys agree on this one), skidded on my head after falling off my bike, but nothing compares to rowing. I"m on the crew team here at Cornell, and nothing hurts as much as a 3K meter erg (rowing machine) test (it's 10 minutes of rowing your nuts off..trying to beat the rest of the people on your team). Your whole body shuts down afterwards for 10 minutes and you can't move...you just lie on the floor trying to move your legs because you feel like you should, but you can't. Puking is not a rare sight.
 
At the age of 6 or so a BED fell/closed on top of me - I had one of those compartment beds that you can open and put your sheets in...it was made out of full oak wood - weighted about +40 KG - it has closed on me and smashed me on the top of a 1 cm wooden bulkhead - it was like a +40 KG thin pipe fell on your chest - I think I have fractioned my chest bone but because I was small the docs said it is OK and all will be normal when I will grow up (I will be 18 in may) - they didn't fixed it...and I can feel the fraction to this day - I think I have a 1 CM^2 of bome missing...

at the age 9 I was shoked 3 times (almost for a straight minute) from a 220 volt power source.

at the age of 12 my entire bookcase fell on me as I was getting up from bed...talking about smooth awakening - all my the HEAVY dictionaries and encyclopedias hit me but I have managed to avoid the bookshelf itself....

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Although I haven't bled in ANY of the events ? I think that they did left some trauma in me.



EDIT: - totally forgot
when I was 4-5 someone putted a blazing hot iron (for cloths - not just a pice of hot metal)... I was so small that I don't remember the pain so much anymore

and at the age of 7 my father coated the roof with a *hot* tar - guess who was lucky enoght to get some of this "warm" substamce on his hands - I ended up in a hospital...

all those events made me very cautious (at least in the sub conscious level) because I always stayed out of trouble for last ~8 years.
 
well, yeah, i did all 4 wisdom teeth in one shot about 2 weeks ago, no "dry socket" i've heard of friends who were out cold for the next three days, but it was bad, and for the next week the head aches were killer.
Then there was a rock i stepped on when i was ten, and the doctor spending 45 minutes picking the tip out from between the bones on my feet.
The appendix was bad, but i dont remember the pain.
My dad's motorcycle slipped out from under him at a stop sign, and whipped him over on his side shattering the ball of his shoulder, but the atrophying of the elbow on that arm he says is whole heck of alot worse.
oh once on a bike i hit somethin with the front end, it swung 90 degrees and i started going over the bars, but the handle (without the grip) dug into my gut.
edit i dont find electric shock painful, the pain doesnt endure, though for nice quick pain, sharp blows to the shin are always fun, slipping going up stairs. Speaking of stairs, once i was going down the stairs, rug slipped out, legs went straight out, and i DRILLED MY TAIL BONE into the rest of the stairs. that still hurts when i think about it, and really bad some times if i sit wrong. Also needles, dont hurt but just typing aobu em makes me shulddeer
 
I sprained my rotator cuff playing soccer when I was 18. That didn't hurt so much, but when my shoulder popped out of the socket after the initial injury and I had to put it back in place, it hurt like hell. The only other comparable pain I've had was when the doctor removed the staples from my shoulder after I had rotator cuff surgery....

-Tom
 
Wiping out at 30mph on a wooden cycling track, 200+ half inch long splinters and big chunks of skin burned off all the way up the right side of my body.
 
I would have to say having the smaller 3 toes on my left foot cut off except for some skin hanging on. No wait....I KNOW! I KNOW!!!! It was the 3 months after that when I had to go back and get the 8 metal pins cut and pulled from my foot. The doctor had to straddle my leg and hold it down to pull out a couple with a pair of ViseGrips. He pulled so hard on one when it came out I thought "Great...3 months of pain and a cast just have this quack pull one back off!" :Q It stayed on my foot though.

"Do you need more novacaine?" he asks. Quite possibly the dumbest question I was ever asked.

Having my wisdom teeth pulled wasn't fun either. Right before I went under, the doctor asked if I had Native American in my blood. I said "I don't know, why?" He said "Well, you have a fifth wisdom tooth that hasn't come through yet. It's a trait of Native Americans. Oh well...we're gonna take that one too. Start counting from 100 backwards for me please." Night mommy. All five at once.
 
I had my bookcase fall too, but I had to be thinking all half assed. I thought, whoa, don't want books falling on me, better knock them to the side with my long ass arm and then let the oak shelf fall on my 100 lbs of bone and sinew. Everyone down stairs heard the noise and ran into my room, I looked up at them and said, "...whoops..." But drinking half a gallon of milk a day makes for some damn strong bone and sinew so nothing really happened...but the shelf cracked, honestly. That weirded me out.
 
Pretty good compound fracture of the forearm in a skateboarding accident.
Hitting your shin (that has terrible shin splints)
Gonads
Migraines (the ones right behind your eye)

But my worst ever was when I was in middle school, and I had the worst pain in my abdomen I'd ever felt. I was doubled over screaming for about an hour, then it just went away. Never figured out what happened. That was excruciating.

 
That sounds like kidney stones my friend, once they move out of the uriter (dunno about spelling) they don't really hurt again until you pass them, and that doesn't always hurt.
 
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