Worst Injury You've Ever Gotten?

[Mike41793]

It was september 2008. We were going to do a training exercise with some grunts so essentially we were role players. We all loaded up in the back of a 7 ton something we call armadillos:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=marin...r:8,s:17,i:155

Not sure if the link works... Anyway these things are like giant steel cans on wheels and they carry troops in the back without seatbelts I might add. The driver decided to have some fun on the way to the training area doing 65 in a 35 around "dangerous curves". well we rolled over. I ended up with a broken nose a 5 inch laceration to my face fracture sinuses 2 sprained wrists and some serious abrasion to my fingers and a sever concussions. $42000 and 72 hours in the hospital fixed me right up. Along with 30 days light/limited duty.... later during the investigation I told the CO I knew were going to be role playing but I didnt actually know they meant litterally... LOL!

Well, cant get much more realistic of a drill than that haha...

My worst injury was a badly sprained ankle... multiple times and the same one. I'm pretty lucky other then having a weak ankle now. I'm afraid to ever break a bone XD

I kinda am too lol. Ive never broken or fractured anything, only sprains.

I really messed up my back a few years ago, the injury resulted in the annihilation of the disks between my L2 and T6 Vertebrae which has resulted in the need for 3 surgeries to 6 install titanium screws (2 at a time for insurance reasons)

I'm on pretty strong pain killers but hopefully I won't be on them much longer.

That sucks dude. Im pretty sure i messed up my back when i totaled my car but never really got checked for it. It only bothers me when its cold and damp out though so its not really that bad, just kinda something you deal with. Good luck getting yourself off the meds, i know sometimes that can be tough for people. I have confidence you would be able to do it though.