Worst Injury You've Ever Gotten?

[Trackstrong83]

It was a little two seater ultralight plane. Me and my dad were flying for my birthday is 2006 and something went wrong with the engine and it shut off. There was a huge parachute attatched to the plane, so when we realized we couldn't go anywhere else, we pulled the chute. The nose of the plane went straight up and it slowed us down a good bit. Then we landed in some pine trees and crashed our way to the bottom. But both me and my dad were completely unscratched. One birthday I will never forget

[4Ballz]

My last active duty deployment was to FOB Lagman in Qalat, Southern Afghanistan. I spent 13 months assigned to an Army unit doing a provincial security mission. In 13 months I manage to hit 4 IEDs.

The one that did the most visible damage was a triple stacked AT-6 mine that lifted our 6 ton up armored HMVEE off the ground and landed us on our lid. That one shattered my right collar bone so badly that it healed non-union, which means the bones did not reconnect (the x-ray is pretty epic). They just kind of float around in there held together by scar tissue. I'm actually 1.6 inches narrower from the center of my sternum to my right shoulder cap than I am from the center of my sternum to the left side.

The damage you can't see is the TBI that I have from the accumulated blast damage to my grey matter. In the long run, it's going to be a lot harder to live with than the collar bone.

But, and this is a huge, monumental but, I consider my deal to be scratch, worthy of no more than a band-aid, compared to how badly some of our guys got hurt. I have zero complaints.

I had suffered 3 right shoulder injuries in sports, and those moments were terrible. However, I will reconsider. Thanks for your story, and your duty.

[angllady2]

Oh my where do I start ?

Ok, so I've broken both arms, both collarbones, three fingers, broken both of my big toes repeatedly, and my pinky toes too many times to count. Cracked six ribs on my left side and five on my right. Most fun was when my second child actually cracked my ribs while he was in the womb. Three on one side, two on the other. Spending the last month and a half of my pregnancy and going through labor with cracked ribs was no fun at all.

Let's see, I have also dislocated my left hip once, my shoulder twice, broke my left wrist so badly I need a 3 1/2" steel plate and 8 screws to hold it back together. That was just about the worst injury, because they could not do surgery for a week after the break because of swelling. Spending a week with your wrist broken so badly the doctor said it was a miracle I didn't amputate that hand at the wrist wrapped up in nothing but an ACE bandage was just about the longest seven days of my life. I was taking 1000 milligrams of Ibuprofen and 1000 milligrams of vicodin, and it never stopped hurting!

Other than that, my absolute worst experience isn't technically an injury. I had an ovarian cyst the size of an orange rupture while I was at work. The pain was beyond words. It took three EMT tech to pick me up off the floor in the fetal position and lay me on the stretcher. They gave me enough Morphine to put an elephant down, so said my nurse, and I couldn't stop screaming. Thankfully it stopped bleeding on it's own. My doctor said, after he finally figured out what it was, that I probably would have bled to death right there in the ER before they found out what was wrong!

So, those sum up most of my battle scars.

Gale

[Trackstrong83]

Thanks for your story, and your duty.

X2 Slim, thank you for your service.

[Mike41793]

I had suffered 3 right shoulder injuries in sports, and those moments were terrible. However, I will reconsider. Thanks for your story, and your duty.

x2. But at least you can walk with a busted shoulder, my toes on the other hand... jk jk lol
My friend broke his collar bone trying to land a jump on a bike. You have any pics of the xray slim?

[KatStoverReptiles]

Riding my horse in 5th grade I fell off and hit the ground pretty hard. Saw colors and stars and passed out. Ended up at the hospital with a VERY low blood pressure. Come to find out I'd contused one of my kidneys. Meaning I bruised the kidney but the sac around it remained intact. Lots of pain meds and lots of staying still while it healed. Peed blood for probably 6 months and even longer when I would walk too much or exert myself.

Injured my wrist in that fall and it still pops every time I move it a certain way.

Fell off of the same horse a year later and got a concussion. Lots of nausea and throwing up.

On top of those, lots of sprained wrists and ankles. Hyper extended one of my knees. All my joints tell me when it's about to rain.


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[jben]

Let's see, stitches on left eyebrow, stitches on top of my head, broke and dislocated right knee-had a cast from thigh to ankle, hit with a yard stick in my right eye when really young, shot with a bb gun and lost a tooth, stabbed in the back, slipped a disc in my lower back-talk about pain. Plus I have a few injuries from lifting

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[Slim]

One birthday I will never forget

That is an amazing story. The plane crash survivor club does not have a lot of people in it!

[Slim]

x2. But at least you can walk with a busted shoulder, my toes on the other hand... jk jk lol
My friend broke his collar bone trying to land a jump on a bike. You have any pics of the xray slim?

I might have one on the CD the hospital gave me when I retired. It is supposed to have all my medical records on it...to be honest, I've never even opened that disk to see what's on it, LOL Guess I should check that out

[Trackstrong83]

That is an amazing story. The plane crash survivor club does not have a lot of people in it!

It sure doesn't lol
And it was funny because after all of the hectic events taking place within those seconds, when we hit the ground, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "next year I'm spending my birthday with mom" hahaha it was great to know that the first thing out of my mouth was a joke, and hearing both me and my dad laugh was a good sign that we were both okay. I am still grateful that we both managed to come away unhurt.