Im a clutz. The Jeep won this time...

Yeah so I was on my way to work, stopped at the gas station 9 miles from work to get a frap (needed my caffene) and as I was walking back to the Jeep I got distracted by a cop who had someone pulled over in the parking area of the station. I went to walk around the concrete median in front of the gas pumps, while reaching out to open the door, pushed the button with my thumb while stumbling on the corner of the concrete block.

Now all I have to catch my fall is the door handle in my hand. By this time the door was already opening and the reaction of trying not to fall caused me to jerk the door to me.

In essense I punched myself in the face with the very edge of the metal door. Oh the headache.. Oh the blood dripping on everything and running down my face.

So after sitting in the Jeep for about 5 minutes with a pile of napkins over my eye, I very dizzily drive the rest of the way to work (im 30 miles from home by this time) Cut a bandaid in strips to try to hold the gaping gash closed and proceed to clock in.

Now my relief is coming an hour early tonight so I can go get a stitch or to. This thing swelled so much it split open twice as much as when I took this pic with my camera phone. If I dont get it closed up I will look like vanilla ice with a huge stripe in my eyebrow!

OW!

Its actually alot worse than the crappy pic shows. The hair from my eyebrow covers the widest part of the split. I still have a headache and this happened 4 hours ago.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...1259191501.jpg

I guess you did bust your eye open :O Hope you are okay and you feel better soon :gj:

Isn't being clumsy just wonderful? lol Hope you're ok

At least the jeep is ok right? :8: ;)

Maybe you can use this as an excuse to be pampered by someone ;)

OUCH!

BUT, scars always make you look cool:D

Glad it wasn't any worse, and I hope you recover quickly.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

At least the jeep is ok right? :8: ;)

Maybe you can use this as an excuse to be pampered by someone ;)

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Oh yes the Jeep is just fine. In all of its 250,000 mile glory, im pretty sure I heard it snickering at me while I was sitting in there digging in the glove box for napkins.

Im thinking it was all planned. See, Im looking for another one. Newer, less miles etc.. My Jeep knows this...

Ouch!!

Hope you get patched up ok and get some nice headache tablets too. :hug:

And I like Debs pampering plan too. :gj:


dr del

Wow, you completely underplayed that. You should have went running up to the cop, screaming and stuff with blood all over your face, and when he asked you what happened, tell him you spilled your coffee...:8:


Rob

Holy cow....you really did split that open. Maybe they can try to glue it shut or tape it shut so you don't have a stich scar. Ow..ee

Ouch! Maybe the Jeep did plan it all. I know mine can hear me talking of getting a new car. That's why she keeps breaking down on me!

But yea, that is going to be a nice scar. Looks painful!

"Ran into the Jeep ... n the jeep won!"
Que music from
I fought the law and the law won
by Bobby Fuller

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Originally Posted by Deborah

At least the jeep is ok right? :8: ;)

Maybe you can use this as an excuse to be pampered by someone ;)

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I knew it. Women have a secret set of guidelines we guys cant understand LOL

It looks like you need a couple of stitches girl, or you're gonna have a leeetle scar.

Let this be a lesson. If you weren't looking at that cops backside this would have never happened.:D

That will sure make an awesome scar!

Good luck with getting it stitched up. Looks like it hurt pretty bad, but I'm sure it will be fine. :gj:

I am still laughing at myself over this. One person at work found out and all day i had an audience. People kept coming over by me to see. So i get off early and head to the hospital 7 hours after the fact. They yelled at me saying if i had waited any longer i would have surpassed the time limit to get stitches. Turns out they put 4 stitches in it. Wow i didn't think it was that bad. It kept bleeding at random all day though. So now im home and still have a headache. Its all swollen and looks worse with the stitches but at least it won't scar quite as bad now. I'll post another pic of my idiocy a little later. For now im off to bed.

Hey!
Scars are kewl, you should see the one on my forehead from where I had to have a bit of skin melnoma removed by a dermatologist!!
IT looks soo kewl..
And my hubby and I have matching scars, on the same place on our left hands, below the thumb, near the wrist.... purely coincidence!!

Can't wait to see pics
Carol

Bad pics since I took them myself with phone. Its harder to take self pics with my good camera.

Taken today to show my rainbow eye. Its just annoying now. Woke up to it being almost swollen shut. Looked funny til I washed my face with cold water and actually woke up.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...1259355004.jpg

Just throw on a bit of eyeliner & the puffy black eye isnt so bad!

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...1259355046.jpg

Yet another reason to keep women from getting behind the wheel....

Hope it heals quickly are relatively scarlessly.

OUCH! Hope it heals soon!

Btw, I just realized your signature is Slipknot. It kept playing back in my mind and I couldn't place it. They're my favorite! :rockon:

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Originally Posted by Elise.m

OUCH! Hope it heals soon!

Btw, I just realized your signature is Slipknot. It kept playing back in my mind and I couldn't place it. They're my favorite! :rockon:

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Yep Yep! Slipknot is awesome! The drummers are amazing.

As for my eye. The Dr at the hospital who stitched me up said facial injuries like this heal very fast and I have to have the stitches out in no more than 6 days to avoid a bad railraod scar from the stitches. As long as my eyebrow doesnt have a quarter inch gap in it im fine with it lol. Just one more scar to add to the collection. Except this one is getting more colorful as time goes by! The bruise is now running down under my eye. Its beginning to ITCH too! Ugh.

Dang :O.At least you shared the pic with us :rolleyes:

Hey Kiddo,

Sorry you got hurt. Remember the vitamin "E" helps the healing and reduces scaring.