What kind of bad injuries have you had?

[CobraKai]

broke my wrist riding some trails
broke my elbow skating
shattered my hand playing baseball (i was the catcher and the waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles at the plate stepped back and swung and took out my hand instead of the ball)
broken a few fingers and toes
now for cuts and shit...my knees have scars from riding, hands have scars from riding/skating, shins have scars from riding..


pretty normal shit for growing up i guess hah

[z31maniac]

Worst was probably the nasty ass concussion last year when I wrecked my bike at the track.

Fucked up the 7-8 sequence at Hallett, ended up bouncing my head off the ground at about 65mph, 13 months later and I still have a nasty cherry on my leg and nerve damage in leg about the size of a softball where I can't feel anything.

But I had I wrecked like that on the street, I would have surely not walked away.

[ditchdigger]

About 6 years ago here at work my right hand was pulled into a set of motorized pinch rollers. All 4 fingers and midway to my palm were crushed flat. When the machine finally shut down a worker tried to turn it backwards to get my hand out. The pressure burst the tip of my middle finger. They ended up removing the top wheel after 8 minutes or so and my fingers and most of my palm were only about 1/4 inch thick. It was almost like a cartoon. My fingers were flat and wide.

1 year of physical therapy later I could almost close my hand all the way. 5 years later (now) I still cannot close my hand all the way or make a tight fist. My fingers look messed up now. The second knuckle on my middle finger is alot wider than it should be and I have about 30% sensation on the back of my hand. Plenty of strength though.

While working on the E30 a few months ago I had a good one. It turns out my lug bolts were too long and they were rubbing the hub carrier on the front. I swapped lugs and put it back together. To check that everything was OK I gave the wheel a few fast spins and on one spin I managed to get my ring finger on my right hand inbetween the spokes of my panasports. Well that finger met with the caliper carrier pretty quickly and with the momentum of the spinning wheel it broke the tip of the finger almost clean off. Right through the center of the fingernail and bone. There was about 1/8 inch of finger pad holding on. I thought it was just a cut and when the doctor opened it up it looked like a section of a cut ham with the bone in the center. they were able to sew it back on and its doing fine. The fingernail is all messed up looking now. The nail isnt attatched to the tip anymore. There is a pic on my cell phone but its a POS and wont let me email it to my PC.

[andyman2487]

shattered my hand playing baseball (i was the catcher and the waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles at the plate stepped back and swung and took out my hand instead of the ball)

Hahaha, awesome mental picture. ROFL.

[markseven]

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

Coke :(

[ZM Blue Devil]

Coke :(

I would have never thought! Wow, we all learn from our past. Good to see you are all good now.

[mattdk318i]

14 stitches in my right eyebrow. Due to a E36 M3 sunvisor clip..... to the bone

[SamE30e]

Not my knee

both bones, spiral fracture, on an angle plus a broken ankle.

Skatepark > Me

<---- Ohhh 666 DEVILL!!

[E30_fiend]

When I was 4yo I decided that playing Superman on the couch was a good idea. I jumped for the arm of the couch from the top of the couch, caught the edge of the arm and went head first into our glass coffee table. Went straight fuckin through and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance due to massive amounts of blood. They didn't know where the actual cuts were until they cleaned all the blood off. My eyebrow was peeled toward the top of my head. I have multiple cuts all over my body but my head took the beating for sure. 11 stitches in my eyebrow and sets of two and three stitches all over my head. 26 in all.

When I was 6yo, I was riding one of those bad ass scooters that were basically a skateboard with two bike sized tires on it and handle bars. I was riding it barefoot and got going too fast down my driveway and put my feet out. My right foot went in front of my wheels and got caught in the spokes which tore my big toe bail and skin completely off and scraped the shit out of the rest of my foot and the other foot.

Also when I was 6yo, I was looking over our rock wall which looks down into what was a horse corral at the time, I lost my footing and landed hands first in a pile of wood paneling that had just been taken off of the house and stored for fire wood. Long story short, full of nails but surprisingly just cut the shit out of my right wrist.

When I was 8yo, I was at my grandpa's house, he raises goats and I liked to play with them. I was standing next to a big rock pile that they like to climb on and a buck came up and rammed be backwards and I landed on the rocks ass first, breaking my tail bone.

When I was 15 I was at football practice and qe were going through defensive run throughs. I was starting strong tackle and we performed a stunt where the nose guard crosses in front of me. Well the whole I went in to was the running hole. Stepped up and fuckin leveled the running back but as we came down I landed with my weight and his on my right hand with my index and middle finger in the peace sign formation. The weight forced my index finger out away from my middle finger and when doing so, completely broke off a full corner of my finger's connecting joint. One titanium screw and 15 internal stitches later, the bone was brought back together.

When I was 16yo I was at work, where I currently work, working on one of our big sweeper trucks. I was above the hopper with the access door open and my head inside. A gust of wind came and blew the 1/4 inch thick door down on my head. My head landed and was smacked on the cross member that stops the door when it is completely closed. Busted the same eyebrow open as I did when I was 4. No stitches. Just cussed like a sailor, went and got a butterfly bandaid and got back to work.

Also when I was 16 I had a level 1 separation of my left shoulder playing football. I was out for a week by coaches order. Still don't have full mobility of the shoulder. Sucks on cold days too.

Also when I was 16yo, every year my football team has a lift-o-thon. Basically people give your per pound wagers and whatever you lift you multiply by that wager and that's what they owe you. Well I attempted 275 after I had just done 265. I brought the bar down and began going up. I tried to tell the spotter and the coaches to take it off but I had no breath. The bar came down pretty abruptly on my chest. I had chipped the bone off of the tip of my sternim called the zyphoid process. Or however you spell it. By far the worst on going pain of my life. I couldn't strech in the morning, coughing, sneezing, and hic ups were like dying. Horrible pain.

When I was 17 I dislocated my shoulder playing football. popped the bitch back in and continued. My mom had to run home at half time and grab my shoulder brace from the previous year. Basically like a lace up ankle brace but for your shoulder. Basically I won't be buying from that company again. Later on in the same game, I separated that same shoulder. This put me out for the rest of the game. Being a captian and a two way starter, I just rested that weekend and took it easy at practices for the rest of the season. Just took like 8 advil before a game and rubbed some horse muscle cream on it. Its like icey hot on steroids.

Later that year, I rolled my Mitsubishi Eclipse off of a bridge. Attempting a corner to fast in a FWD car and hit gravel. Went up some packed dirt on the side of the road and began rolling. I'll see if I can take some pictures of the damage. I walked away after 7 rolls with a concussion and cuts and bruises. Pretty damn lucky. I later got "BLESSED" tattooed on my left arm.

When I was 19yo I was working on another sweeper truck and I was prying a piece of metal back so it would sit flush so my boss could tack it in place with the welder. Before he could grab the welder, the pry bar slipped off and I basically punched the side of the truck. I fractured the tip of my right ring finger. The nail turned black and fell off eventually. Nail is back and healthy now but that shit hurt. Finger injuries wouldn't be so bad if we didn't always use our hands. The constant motion of your fingers makes them very hard to heal.

The last two years have gone pretty good. No major injuries have occurred. **knocks on wood**


E30_Fiend

[markseven]

I would have never thought! Wow, we all learn from our past. Good to see you are all good now.

L, after surviving the last OD, I gave my life to the Lord. That was 10 years ago. :-D

"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you."
Joel 2:25

[2Big4a3Series]

I once put a screwdriver through my hand. It went in one side and out the other. When I used to install alarm systems (in houses and buildings) I would always use a screwdriver to break through the pre-cut knockout plugs on the plastic devices. On this particular day I was using a long skinny flat head that had a very sharp point. I was installing a smoke detector that had a knockout plug that was not pre-cut all the way through to I started pushing the screwdriver harder into the plastic as I braced it using my other hand. Ever since that day I started using the floor for leverage rather than my hand.

[uofom3]

- fractured my right hand in several places at the same time (ouch).
- my spine is semi-S curved thanks to a hit and run accident when I was 15, which causes continuous back problems.

[der affe]

this year i caught fire!

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=95957&page=2

i broke the tip of my left pinky on the side of a guys head in a fight when i was 18, now it curves to the right permanently

when i was 23 i was stabbed in a bar fight in the shoulder

when i was 25 i had a front tooth knocked out with a bottle in another bar fight.

(I used to like to fight a lot and was a bouncer/bartender for YEARS!)

i have had several YARDS of stitches from years of soccer, skateboarding,& snowboarding.

when i was 19 i had a stingray stinger go through my foot while surfing in Del mar

[scabzzzz]

Fractured pelvis, broken wrist, multiple fingers, sprained ankle. Bunch of bad cuts thanks to BMW. Thats about it.

Oh yeah, I hate horses.

[eric (^__^)]

my hand is still stiff from punching a skinhead on Friday