Worst Injury You've Ever Gotten?

[Vasiliki]

Most of my stuff has been internal, which is no fun at all, I can promise you!

Too many sprains to count (I'm highly double-jointed, so I shift things out all the time). Some joints dislocate if I'm not careful, or paying attention. My pinky finger is notorious, which is fun when someone watches me put it back in. They tend to go white.

Hm. First big one was when I was a kid and fell of a 2nd story balcony when the railing gave way. Landed on grass.... almost. My knee didn't. And I caught it on an edge of concrete on the way down. It cut my knee open just below the kneecap, and folded the skin up and back into my thigh so my kneecap and all my tendons were exposed as I sat there screaming. Fortunately, the homeowner was a paramedic and his buddy a fireman, haha. They wrapped me up so good that the doctors didn't even want to unwrap it because it was held together perfectly. Didn't need stitches, and now the scar is only 2" wide.

My two worst were internal infections. I ended up with a kidney infection that was hyper aggressive and spread to both kidneys within 48/hrs. I couldn't sit, sleep, lay down... I was bent over and just 'rocked' back and forth to manage the pain. They had me on massive doses of anti-biotics and gave me two days for it to get better. I had a fever, chills, muscle spasms, nausea, the whole bit.

Another time several years later I ended up with food poisoning. Ick! Anyone who's had that knows how painful that is sometimes. Well, I was doing okay for a day afterwards, then I ended up with brutal abdominal pain. I left work, went home, felt better. But by the middle of the night I was at about an 8 out of 10 for pain. It was just awful. Went to the family doctor. He tells me: "It's just cramps" (Yes, because I'm a complete moron and don't know what those feel like ). He sent me home with pain meds. By midnight, I couldn't even move. I couldn't stand up. I couldn't even walk up the stairs to tell my mom that I wanted an ambulance. Who asks for an ambulance? Gah. I barely remember anything after that.

Ended up in the ER getting poked and prodded. I was told: "It's probably just cramps." Meanwhile, I can't stop sobbing. Another few hours later and after running some tests, the head guy finally walks in and starts asking me questions, rather than the 'student' they had working with me. He finally determined that I wasn't 'faking it for drugs' or 'just having an anxiety attack'. Turns out I had blood poisoning of the lower abdomen, specifically the intestines. Basically, I was dying, haha. See? Told you it wasn't cramps! I even got morphine with that one. Whew.

Needless to say, if that's anything like childbirth, I want no part of it. Worst few days of my life. Just thinking of it makes me anxious.

[CherryPython]

How do you hit your head on doorframes?
1. Your super tall?
2. Doorframes in the UK are built for short people? (a courtesy to all the leprechauns that live on your isle im assuming...)
3. If youre really that tall, like 6ft+, then that means that Grant needs to be playing in the NBA. Bc in the pics of you two, hes at least a foot taller hahaha

Basically. I'm incredibly accident prone. For instance:

The other day I needed to be up at 7:15am. I woke up to my alarm and looked at the time and (somehow) read 8:15am...needed to get the bus at 8:30.
So launched myself out of bed, which is fairly high up off the ground, and also didn't realise quite how close to the edge I was so fell onto the floor hitting my face on the side table. I threw myself at the door, pulled the door open - but at the same time...tried to go through the door, and so opened the door into my face, cursed a bit...then walked into the side of the doorframe with my eyes closed.

Believe it or not, this happens on a regular occasion.

No Leprechauns in England and I'm only 5ft Hehehe

[snakeluvr#3]

I am the luckiest unlucky person when it comes to injuries haha

I've been in a plane crash, four wrecks, came face to face with a bobcat over a deer I killed....and came away unharmed from all of these. But I went to go get the mail last year, and as I was walking down my driveway I stumbled, hit my face on the concrete, snapped my arm, and bruised my collar bone. Hahaha FML.

wow/!! plane crash!??? holy cow thatscrazy iam deathly affraid to fly

[cecilbturtle]

Did someone shoot you up trying to rob your brewery???

nah, nothing crazy like that. a 12 year old shot me! it was an accident at an out door shooting range.

i guess that's actually crazier!

[Mike41793]

Most of my stuff has been internal, which is no fun at all, I can promise you!

Too many sprains to count (I'm highly double-jointed, so I shift things out all the time). Some joints dislocate if I'm not careful, or paying attention. My pinky finger is notorious, which is fun when someone watches me put it back in. They tend to go white.

Hm. First big one was when I was a kid and fell of a 2nd story balcony when the railing gave way. Landed on grass.... almost. My knee didn't. And I caught it on an edge of concrete on the way down. It cut my knee open just below the kneecap, and folded the skin up and back into my thigh so my kneecap and all my tendons were exposed as I sat there screaming. Fortunately, the homeowner was a paramedic and his buddy a fireman, haha. They wrapped me up so good that the doctors didn't even want to unwrap it because it was held together perfectly. Didn't need stitches, and now the scar is only 2" wide.

My two worst were internal infections. I ended up with a kidney infection that was hyper aggressive and spread to both kidneys within 48/hrs. I couldn't sit, sleep, lay down... I was bent over and just 'rocked' back and forth to manage the pain. They had me on massive doses of anti-biotics and gave me two days for it to get better. I had a fever, chills, muscle spasms, nausea, the whole bit.

Another time several years later I ended up with food poisoning. Ick! Anyone who's had that knows how painful that is sometimes. Well, I was doing okay for a day afterwards, then I ended up with brutal abdominal pain. I left work, went home, felt better. But by the middle of the night I was at about an 8 out of 10 for pain. It was just awful. Went to the family doctor. He tells me: "It's just cramps" (Yes, because I'm a complete moron and don't know what those feel like ). He sent me home with pain meds. By midnight, I couldn't even move. I couldn't stand up. I couldn't even walk up the stairs to tell my mom that I wanted an ambulance. Who asks for an ambulance? Gah. I barely remember anything after that.

Ended up in the ER getting poked and prodded. I was told: "It's probably just cramps." Meanwhile, I can't stop sobbing. Another few hours later and after running some tests, the head guy finally walks in and starts asking me questions, rather than the 'student' they had working with me. He finally determined that I wasn't 'faking it for drugs' or 'just having an anxiety attack'. Turns out I had blood poisoning of the lower abdomen, specifically the intestines. Basically, I was dying, haha. See? Told you it wasn't cramps! I even got morphine with that one. Whew.

Needless to say, if that's anything like childbirth, I want no part of it. Worst few days of my life. Just thinking of it makes me anxious.

Ive gotten sick from eating food before but nothing to that extent lol. My stepmom gave me blue cheese dressing for a salad a few weeks ago that was like 8 months old. I was vomiting like 10 minutes later, didnt even make it to dessert lol. Im actually kinda thankful that im one of those people who can just throw up. Idk how to explain it exactly without being gross but if something hits my stomach that my body doesnt like it pushes the eject button pretty quickly. Id much rather have it be like that than coming out the other end lmao!

Basically. I'm incredibly accident prone. For instance:

The other day I needed to be up at 7:15am. I woke up to my alarm and looked at the time and (somehow) read 8:15am...needed to get the bus at 8:30.
So launched myself out of bed, which is fairly high up off the ground, and also didn't realise quite how close to the edge I was so fell onto the floor hitting my face on the side table. I threw myself at the door, pulled the door open - but at the same time...tried to go through the door, and so opened the door into my face, cursed a bit...then walked into the side of the doorframe with my eyes closed.

Believe it or not, this happens on a regular occasion.

No Leprechauns in England and I'm only 5ft Hehehe

Idk if brits are as obsessed with reality tv shows as americans are but it seems like everyone watches them over here. I can assure you that if you had a tv show and caught that whole door-to-the-face ordeal on camera then it would be much more popular than Jersey Shore

nah, nothing crazy like that. a 12 year old shot me! it was an accident at an out door shooting range.

i guess that's actually crazier!

yea but you said you got shot twice... did he try and take you out and then go back for the double tap to finish the job? lmfao!
That is definetly crazier. Hopefully he learned a bit about gun safety that day...

[cecilbturtle]

yea but you said you got shot twice... did he try and take you out and then go back for the double tap to finish the job? lmfao!
That is definetly crazier. Hopefully he learned a bit about gun safety that day...

it was a semi automatic .22. could have been a lot worse. just damaged some meat, no bone or anything vital.

[foxoftherose]

I think that the worst I've ever had came from a tumble down a 20 foot cliff. I cracked four ribs, sprained my ankle, wrist and elbow, skinned both knees, most of one leg, and most of the bottoms of my feet. What makes me laugh is that I landed about a foot away from a patch of poison ivy. Because the idiot park ranger was ill prepared, I had to climb back up the cliff, cross a waterfall, and then walk half a mile uphill to where we parked because the jerk wouldn't let me into his car because I was wet and bleeding.
The most pain I've ever experienced was probably after hemorrhoid surgery, with kidney stones and ovarian cysts being tied for second. I had the misfortune of having a couple of cysts rupture during an ROTC inspection. I was stabbed in the leg once, but the guy ran away, and I scored a nice Benchmade knife, so it wasn't all bad.

[Mike41793]

I was stabbed in the leg once, but the guy ran away, and I scored a nice Benchmade knife, so it wasn't all bad.

Well thats one way to look at it i guess... LOL

[BallsUnlimited]

got t boned an rolled in a hummer. 2 surgeries a year of physical therapy an lots of spine\shoulder\knee problems im still alive a kickiin

[Mrl249]

I was 17 years old. Thinking I was a bad ass, I tried to kickflip a ten stair.. Landed it awesome the first time, but my board shot out from under me. Second time going at it...I bail after catching it with my feet in the air, end up landing on my left foot in tippy toe position with all my weight on that foot. So I end up snapping all my bones in my left foot, the doctor described it as hanging half my foot off of a curb and taking a sledge hammer straight to the top of it. In a cast and crutches for 6 months.

-Mark


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