Worst Injury You've Ever Gotten?

[AK907]

Impaled myself on my bicycle handlebars when I was 15. It went in about 2" below and to the left of my belly button. I lucked up and it pretty much pushed my organs out of the way. I was on BLM land in Wyoming alone at the time. I had to pull myself off of the bike and I walked to the nearest house, which was a good 3 miles away. That one sucked for sure, but I was in shock the whole time and didn't really feel too much pain. I just took my shirt off and held my innards in with it and I was all set. The worst part of the whole ordeal was having to have them pack the healing wound with gauze for weeks. Gave me a nice scar too.

For pain... Kidney stones take the cake, hands down. Those are a whole new animal right there. I've passed them twice. I really don't care to do it again.

[Shadera]

Slim's my hero. I'll never complain about my time spent out in the gate shack waving traffic through ever again.

I've been pretty lucky as far as injuries. Grew up on a farm, so I tangled with barbed wire a lot. Been kicked or clawed by just about every animal out there. Nothing real bad. I guess my worst one I got on my way to trucking school. The greyhound driver got pulled over for speeding and refused to take the ticket. They hauled him in to traffic court right then and there, leaving the entire busload of people sitting on the side of the highway. I went to step over the guardrail to have a smoke with the group, and cut my shin down to the bone. Had fat and everything hanging out. Paramedics tried to take me to the hospital, but I insisted on just some big bandaids and changed my bloody sock and shoes before crawling back on the bus to berate myself for being so clumsy.

By the time I got done training eight weeks later, that darn thing still hadn't completely healed.

My favorite scar is the one on my hand. I had picked up an injured great horned owl from the vet clinic and brought it back to our rehab barn. I had the feet and was admiring them while cleaning the wound on his wing. That's when he reached up and bit through a welding glove and the meat of the fleshy part below the thumb of my hand. Bless his heart, he died a couple days later.

[Mike41793]

Impaled myself on my bicycle handlebars when I was 15. It went in about 2" below and to the left of my belly button. I lucked up and it pretty much pushed my organs out of the way. I was on BLM land in Wyoming alone at the time. I had to pull myself off of the bike and I walked to the nearest house, which was a good 3 miles away. That one sucked for sure, but I was in shock the whole time and didn't really feel too much pain. I just took my shirt off and held my innards in with it and I was all set. The worst part of the whole ordeal was having to have them pack the healing wound with gauze for weeks. Gave me a nice scar too.

For pain... Kidney stones take the cake, hands down. Those are a whole new animal right there. I've passed them twice. I really don't care to do it again.

idk what blm is but i never would have made it 3 miles with my guts hanging out. Even if i wasnt injured the 3 mile walk may have killed me LOL

[youbeyouibei]

idk what blm is but i never would have made it 3 miles with my guts hanging out. Even if i wasnt injured the 3 mile walk may have killed me LOL

BLM - Bureau of Land Management; lands, typically out west, that are managed" by the Federal goverment, Department of the Interior, I think? Not positive on the agency but that's what it stands for, anyway.

Slim, thank you and all who are or have served; very much appreciated, to say the least!

I've broken my tibia twice, my femur in two places, six ribs and collapsed a lung while bruising the other...but I saved a ton of money on my car insurance when they dropped me after that crash, lmao! Amen to whoever mentioned being able to laugh about things after the fact; that makes a world of difference.

[AK907]

idk what blm is but i never would have made it 3 miles with my guts hanging out. Even if i wasnt injured the 3 mile walk may have killed me LOL

BLM is basically public land. Wyoming has a lot of open, unowned and unused land that is riddled with trails for biking, 4wheeling, horseback riding, you name it. Three miles very well might kill me nowadays too, but when I was 15 I was in pretty good shape. I hiked and biked everywhere and it didn't phase me.

AKedit: Slim, if I ever make it down to FL I'd like to shake you hand.