What kind of bad injuries have you had?

[andyman2487]

I was a dumbass kid:

- Drank a sizable glass of peroxide when I was 4. Fuck you, it was in a damn glass sitting on the kitchen counter. Threw it up all over a paramedic in the ambulance. Haha.

- Rode my big wheel barefoot down our steep driveway when I was 4. Picked up speed and had to stop before running into the garage door, so I put my feet down and ended up with large portions of skin missing and blisters all over the bottom of my feet. I had to wear slippers for the next few months, but they had ninja turtle heads on them so it ruled.

- Was knocked down a flight of concrete stairs by a golden retriever when i was 6. Got stitches in my forehead. I'm a cat person now.

- Ran over 6 of my fingers with a skateboard when I was around 7. I came up with the genius plan to sit on the skateboard and use my hands for propulsion to get started going downhill, but my fingers found their way under the wheels and all my nails ended up falling off. That is still the worst pain i've ever experienced thus far.

- I've been shocked by alot of shit including butterknives in the electrical socket, shorting car batteries, and grabbing the prongs of electrical plugs on removal. None were life threatening.

Nothing too bad since then, knock on wood.

[Danny]

I fell and cut my toe wide open when I was 2, 6 stitches in a 2 year old toe, thats alot.

I am still recovering from a broken humerus+separated shoulder+rotator cuff injury I got during football.

4 big ass pins sticking about 3 inches out of my shoulder for a month ftl.

[Rennsport]

when i was little i was rollerblading in my garage and tried to climb the stairs into the house... tumbled down the stairs resulting in 14 stitches across my left knee (still have the scar)

broke my left phemor downhill biking

broke my left arm drunk snowboarding into a lift post

and an abdominal hernia from work, 2 years ago and im still fighting L&I

[E30SPDFRK]

I shut my finger in a tailgate when I was like 7 and, uh... That's it.

I have been pretty lucky with bones so far, which works for me because I have a wicked weak stomach when it comes to things like that. The first few pics in this thread were starting to get me.

[bimmer8604]

slammed hand in car door
fractured right eye socket
cracked forehead
split open kneecap
broken arm
burned off my face and arms
broken big toe

the best is running through our band room and running straight into a stand-up bass with the pointy thing on the bottom that sits on the floor. jammed that into my shin and had to get stitches, that was neat.

the worst was catching on fire. fire=bad news bears.

[blunttech]

I'm wondering what kind of injuries all of you have had. I had a pretty bad one when I was younger, so I'll start:

I found copies of some old Polaroids, so I took a picture of them. They are low quality, but you can get the picture.

When I was nine, I was at my dad's house being baby-sat by my older sister. My dad had two Siberian huskies, and they had gotten in to the trash. My sister was afraid to go outside at night, so I took care of it rather than her (thank god). I went to take some trash out of one of the dog's mouth, and it got pissed, growled and mauled the shit out of me. He bit my face, tore my nose off, tore my lip up, knocked out two teeth and got under my chin pretty bad as well. My nose was hanging on by a small amount of skin. Here are the pics:

Pre-surgery in the ER:



And these two are during surgery. You can see my nose being pulled back before being sewn back on.



Thankfully the surgeon on call was one of the best in the area, and he did a very good job. After the initial surgery, I still needed further reconstructive surgery, but my father's insurance company though they were just cosmetic, and would not cover them. My mother sued the insurance company and it was settled for an amount of money. The money paid for the other four surgeries, and I had enough left to put a down payment on a house a couple years ago.

what happened to the dog? i hope that fucker got a bullet in the head
no excuse for a dog like that to be walking around

[Erik]

Do heart transplants count?

I meant that was pretty serious.

[Justin B]

Probably one of the worst injuries i had was when I was 10, I slammed my right middle finger in the door leading to my garage, and the door LATCHED. I had my finger between the metal parts by the latch and had to turn the knob to open it back up after a little tugging on my hand wondering why I hadn't let go of the knob yet before I turned around and saw :P Nail broke in 3 pieces, fractured tip of the bone, and LOTS of stitches. It was just a bloody stump. I had one of those padded finger things on for a long time too even after the stitches were out, but once i took it off, I touched my desk at school weird I guess and it split back open somehow.

That hurt. BAD.

[AndrewBird]

Broken wrist, LOTS of road rash, blow ear drums. Nothing too major or painful. On a regular basis though I get little cuts and gouges on my hands.Mostly embarrassing (like falling on your ass and getting road rash).



You can see my current ripped cuticle (drill slipped) on my index finger and burns from welding on my ring finger nail. The cuticle WOULD NOT stop bleeding. And it hurt like a bitch!

[TwoJ's]

what happened to the dog? i hope that fucker got a bullet in the head
no excuse for a dog like that to be walking around

Ha, you sound just like my dad. You're probably similar in age/era as well.

I came back to his house three days after the incident. When I got there, I was wondering where the dog was. I asked my sister, and she told me that dad had taken the dog to the back yard, she heard a gun shot and never saw the dog again.

I asked my dad about it a few years later. He said he found a suitable spot, dug the dog's grave, threw a treat in the hole, told him to sit and put a bullet in the back of his head. Then he buried him. I have to say, I would do the same if something like that happened to my son.

[Justin B]

Ah, yeah cuticle injuries suck. That shit happens to me all the time...its surprisiing how such a small seemingly insignificant thing can be so painful. Kind of like slivers, especially fiberglass and you cannot see them :)

[Jand3rson]

Ah, yeah cuticle injuries suck. That shit happens to me all the time...its surprisiing how such a small seemingly insignificant thing can be so painful. Kind of like slivers, especially fiberglass and you cannot see them :)

Cuts on your knuckles are the best, because they never close up.

I think the worst injury I've gotten was fracturing my sternum when I wrecked my first E30. I could never have imagined that having the hiccups could be so painful. And sneezing? My god, I thought my chest was coming apart.

[AndrewBird]

And sneezing? My god, I thought my chest was coming apart.

Eh?

[markseven]

• 4 - YO - Hit in the mouth with a field hockey stick - can't remember how many stitches
• 11 YO - Bitten by a dog - 18 stitches
• 12 YO - Hit by a car - left leg broken in 3 places
• 15 YO - Fell off the back of a Vespa - concussion, 10 stitches, mass scrapes
• 15 YO - tore mass ligaments in right ankle
• 25 YO - Dislocates shoulder and bit off a piece of my tongue
• 25 YO - OD
• 25 YO - Skull fractured in 3 places, 17 staples in scalp, chipped vertebrae, broken nose, black eyes
• 28 YO - OD
• 29 YO - Broke right hand

[TwoJ's]

You OD'd at 25 and 28? On what?