What is your worst injury?

[alm4rr]

I'll see if I can scrounge up some pics and if I can get my scanner working

To this day I still consider myself lucky I didn't get my eye smashed in, or my jaw and teeth smashed, or my forehead caved in or nose obliterated.... how it missed all these parts of my face to this day is friggin amazing

 

[ZowieHowie]

Separated shoulder from when I played baseball. I can still dislocate the shoulder on cue

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: ZowieHowie
Separated shoulder from when I played baseball. I can still dislocate the shoulder on cue

Kinda like Mel Gibson in lethal weapon?

So if you ever get stuck in a straight jacket you can escape

 

[Adn4n]

As a child I played street hockey on rollerblades a lot. My friend went for a swing, and hit me in the face full force. Had a huge opening. I didn't get stitches, which left a light scar that looks simply amazing. Also bent my lower leg sidewards during soccer camp.

 

[Deeko]

Soccer when I was younger. Freezing cold night game. Full out sprint, head to head with opponent. I kinda charged him...definitely was a foul....his knee hit mine...still bothers me every now and then.

 

[Spamela]

i broke several bones in my shoulder in a 100 mile bike race through the mountains.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: bradruth
3 head wounds that should have been stiched, but I elected for the "butterfly" bandage instead--one was from tripping on a sidewalk when running in a halloween costume, one from a bike accident (with a nasty knee cut that went with it), and one from having a rubber golf club smashed over my head.

Other than that I've had a few sprained ankles & fingers and a bad case of shin splints, but no serious injuries.

And these aren't really injuries persay, but I had a hernia operation when I was 3 and a tonsilectomy at 18.

I should learn to be more gentle.

 

[imported_judge]

at age 6, broke my right leg after getting a ride from friend on bike rail and 30sec latter he crashed and my leg got stuck in front wheel

 

[Carbo]

A large, aggressive female lover hurt me once.........bad.

 

[MoPHo]

2nd degree burns...from ramen noodles.

 

[MDE]

Nasty road rash from a one man moped accident.

 

[Brutuskend]

Well lets see, where to start.

My left knee was broken playing Hacky Sack of all things and I never got it operated on.

I screwed up my left shoulder trying to move a VERY heavy tool box by myself. Never got that operated on either,

My lower back has been bad for about 10 years (Mountain biking did that one)

My neck got messed up while I was in the service. (getting worked over by a few fellow Marines did THAT one) It's never been right since.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: crab
Diving

No fair. You shouldn't be allowed in this thread. You'll win by default.




As for me, probably the concussion I got when the guy broke in my house and konked me over the head with a vase. Still have a crease in my mellon.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Well lets see, where to start.

My left knee was broken playing Hacky Sack of all things and I never got it operated on.

I screwed up my left shoulder trying to move a VERY heavy tool box by myself. Never got that operated on either,

My lower back has been bad for about 10 years (Mountain biking did that one)

My neck got messed up while I was in the service. (getting worked over by a few fellow Marines did THAT one) It's never been right since.

Yeah im pretty amazed at the story involved with your neck. I couldnt imagine myself in that situation, thats for sure.

 

[compudog]

OK, you asked...

I was hit by a rock thrown from a lawnmower while playing in a sandbox in 1970. The rock hit me just above my right eye. As luck would have it, my eye was not hit, but the blood from the wound stained my eye and created pressure in the eye socket and I lost my sight in that eye. In 1974, I had my damaged eye removed because the pressure in the socket was too great and I would never see with the eye again. I was fitted with a prosthetic eye (fake, glass, whatever) in 1976 and have been wearing one ever since.

All of this makes me horrible at any sort of ball sports since my depth perception sucks, but I am and have been a productive member of society. I have a wife and two beautiful children, a decent job and a nice home.

 

[mattgyver]

Originally posted by: Chompman
Half a dozen or so stiches in my forehead when I fell on a escalator edge (sharp one) in Disney World but that was when I was like 5 and just have the scar to remember it by.

I tell everyone that my brother pushed me

Not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't read about some escalator accident involving some b@stard kid
that could have been easily avoided had some parent--I don't care which one--but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!


Oh--I shattered a bone in my hand during a fistfight. Then I re-broke it a month after I got the cast off--that time it was a "dislocated" (I guess you'd call it) fracture. Pretty gross, seeing my knuckle pushed halfway back into my hand.

 

[Wag]

I was lifting weights, and I bent over to put the dumbbells down and I felt something go "POP!" in my back. I managed to finish my workout, but the next morning when I awoke I couldn't move.

Ruptured disc in back L4-L5. Had Laminectomy L4-L5.
I've never been the same. Probably have a full spinal fusion sometime in my future (not too far off).

 

[SWScorch]

surprisingly, mine aren't all that impressive... I do a lot of stupid stuff so I'm amazed I don't have more injuries.

The worst probably occured when I was 5. I was carrying a 14-pound dumbbell, the kind with weights on a bar, not the sand-filled plastic ones. I lifted it over my head to get it over something, and it slipped. Luckily, it missed my head, but it landed right on my hand and split open my palm, right below my index finger. I could see the bones and nerves and everything and started screaming bloody murder. Took about 12 stitches, and I still have a nice scar. Lost some sensation around the area too.

More recently, two years ago, I was ravine jumping with some friends. Basically, what we do is we find a nice ravine cared out by a river, and jump/slide down the cliffs to the bottom. It's a lot of fun and a good way to score some nice battle wounds. Anyway, this one time we found a sweet cliff; it was perfect. Composed mostly of loose shale, with a shallow slate-bottomed creek at the bottom. I leapt down, and was "surfing" down the cliff on the loose shale, when suddenly the rocks around my feet stopped moving. I pitched forward and was airborne for a second before slamming down facefirst into the creek. Unfortunately, it wasn't as deep as I thought it was; maybe 8" at most. I landed on my hip and my elbows, right on the slate creekbed. Somehow I missed hitting my head on a large rock nearby, but when I stood up, my left elbow hurt like hell. I mean, I was sure I fractured it. I hopped around a bit, waiting for the pain to subside, and then my friends, who had been at the top, made their way down to assist me. As I'm crawling back up the ravine, one of my friends notices blood just pouring out of my elbow. Apparently when I landed, the force of the impact just split my elbow wide open, and my arm was just covered in blood. So we wrapped my shirt around the wound, jogged the few miles back to school, and from there I went to the hospital at the urging of the nurse, where I got a few stitches. I still have a nasty scar there with bits of rock still stuck in it. It's cool

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: compudog
OK, you asked...

I was hit by a rock thrown from a lawnmower while playing in a sandbox in 1970. The rock hit me just above my right eye. As luck would have it, my eye was not hit, but the blood from the wound stained my eye and created pressure in the eye socket and I lost my sight in that eye. In 1974, I had my damaged eye removed because the pressure in the socket was too great and I would never see with the eye again. I was fitted with a prosthetic eye (fake, glass, whatever) in 1976 and have been wearing one ever since.

All of this makes me horrible at any sort of ball sports since my depth perception sucks, but I am and have been a productive member of society. I have a wife and two beautiful children, a decent job and a nice home.

When my sister and I were little, back in the late 50's early 60's my sister was walking down the street one day and this other kid came riding by on a bicycle and threw a stick that hit my sister right in the eye.

It was SMASHED, and they thought that if she didn't loose it all together, she would at least be blind in that one eye. We were living in Ind. at the time and they took her to the Mayo Clinic in Indianapolis. They stitched her eye back together and she eventually got 20/20 sight in it. She was REAL lucky! And this was a LONG long time ago.

Very sorry to hear about you loosing YOUR eye.

 

[Trey22]

Worst injury: Now don't cringe, but my righ knee bent the wrong way! Basketball injury. Tore my ACL and had a spiral fracture of my lower leg bone and tore the meniscus on both sides. After a 5 hour surgey, spent 3 months in a wheelchair. Then a year of rehab... talk about pain... pain is working through scar tissue to regain range of motion back.

Since that initial injury and surgery, have had two more surgeries and scheduled for a third before the year is out.

Since that initial injury and surgery, I've re-torn my ACL in my right knee.

The kicker is about 4 years ago I tore the ACL in left knee along w/ some meniscus tissue. Didn't have surgery on that one. And will live w/ it for as long as possible.

My college hoop dreams were crushed.

But, I got into PC's and found ATOT!!!!

Beer for me!

Or until I need knee replacement!

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Another Eye-story:

When he was a teenager, my dad and his friend picked up 2 sticks and "sword fought" with them. His friend nailed him in the eye on accident. Even to this day my dad cant really see that well out of that eye. He has to wear a contact so it looks the right color. Yet he leads a normal functioning life so he's happy about that.

 

[kevman]

Fell off my second story deck when I was five.

Landed face first into the grass, would not have been so bad ,except when I landed I somehow ended up with a rusted piece of metal wire right through the skin below the lower lip all the way through into the mouth, got a mini scar there too, can never grow a soul patch...lol

 

[bradruth]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte

Originally posted by: bradruth
3 head wounds that should have been stiched, but I elected for the "butterfly" bandage instead--one was from tripping on a sidewalk when running in a halloween costume, one from a bike accident (with a nasty knee cut that went with it), and one from having a rubber golf club smashed over my head.

Other than that I've had a few sprained ankles & fingers and a bad case of shin splints, but no serious injuries.

And these aren't really injuries persay, but I had a hernia operation when I was 3 and a tonsilectomy at 18.

I should learn to be more gentle.

Oh no, don't you go changing on me.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

big ass branch about 300 pounds fell off a tree in my yard and was leaning against it at a 45 angle. I was cutting through it to make it easier. I got about 2/3 of the way through and decided to break it by jumping on it. Now I have good balance and I knew I could handle staying upright when the branch broke in half. What I didn't expect was part of the bark breaking off causing me to slip. My leg jamed into a spiked part of the branch causing a really wide gash. It wasn't all that deep so I didn't need anything special, but it's pretty much the only injury I've gotten.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Broken right leg (compound fracture) from a school bus wreck when I was in 1st grade, age 6. I'm 38 now, and still have a big, noticeable scar from it.