Worst injury

[MsBehave]

Just curious. Whats the worst injury any ABer has gotten? Im just the sort that gets the odd bruise but i know there are people out there who get broken limbs all the time. Whats your worst?

[butter1]

My worst injury was a broken jaw.  I had to have my jaw wired for 6 weeks and I had to have melt plates inserted in my jaw... look very good with I see my x-ray at the dentist and very good way to loose weight! ;-)

[Champagne]

When I was 8 years old I was involved in a car accident and took the full impact of the windscreen on my face. I had to undergo plastic surgery as a result.

Oh, and I had a Harley Street surgeon called Dr. Hackett! No lie.

But at least I have a good excuse for the looking the way I do.  :o)

[Tock389]

I play rugby, and sustained a two-inch gash in my scrotal sac..and yes, I did have stitches!

[smudge]

• 1 x broken little finger (shut in car door & husband locked it by remote on the other side - didn't realise I was standing there with mouth open, silently screaming, nearly fainting).
• 2 x Broken toes (smashed one on the vac cleaner & one on a bed castor - it hurt).
• Fractured collar bone (slipped on ice at work).
• Damaged knee cartlidge (staring at a gorgeous life guard whilst climbing out of a pool & up the metal steps - serves me right).
• Damaged nerve in neck (running up the stairs, tripped on top step, fell forward & hit top of my head against landing wall).
• Badly bruised neck & back (standing on chair at a wedding taking a photo, chair slipped, I fell, the chair hit my neck & back with such force, I knocked myself out & was carted off to hospital for x-rays)

That's about it really!

[butter1]

ooh just thought of another.  Fell down a flight of metal stairs (yes, drunk), hit my head, knocked myself out and whilst I was rolling down the metal stairs I bit through my lip.  Got rushed to A&E but ended up waiting for 8 hours....yes that's 8 and decided to go home.  I should have had stiches as I've got a thick white scar underneath my lip.

[ICEMANSAV]

not had one injury up until owning a motorbike then

• broken little and index finger
• smashed shoulder plate
• broken ankle in 3 places
• splintered knee cap

 

Brilliant things unless you come off at speed, alls well now though and I have a groovy scar!

[woofgang]

broken wrist as a child hospital treament but no biggie

Tore muscles in both calves as teenager absolute agony and off legs for two weeks (stayed indoors,went everywhere on my bum and spent all my time resting with legs up on settee)

fell downstairs bumping from step to step on my bum about 10 years ago, result coccydynia for about 3 months again absolute agony but no lasting effects

so all in all a pretty uneventful life

[luckystrike]

Torn cartlidge in knee - playing rugby - WORST

Dislocated left shoulder - playing in primary school play ground

Broken collar bone - playing rugby

Broken hand bone - playing hockey

[luckystrike]

Oh, and I fell when sledging on a primary school ski trip, skidded over a tree stump, and torn open my bum cheek.  It's git a big scar on it now!

[undercovers]

No front teeth anymore! (well real ones anyway)

[nicola_red]

I've had lots of surgery but none of it has been for injuries as such - unless you count coming out of the womb with a dislocated hip as an injury.  All I've ever done is sprain my wrist once falling over my own feet in the lounge.

[MsBehave]

Teeeheeeheee

Sorry guys but thats some of the funniest things ive read on here....ever! lol. I cant believe ive escaped doing any of those things up till now!

[Jackson74]

You will not beat this!!  Didnt happen to me, but I witnessed this one in 2001 as a first aider in Oz.

Aussie rules player had dislocated hip.................physio tried to pop it back in on pitch immediately...................did so...........................forgetting that this guys scrotum was in the way....................scrot jammed between pelvic joint....................never heard a scream like it!!

[georgit79]

fell off a wall and fractured my skull at 18 months, so I can't remember that one.

Xmas 99- skiing far too fast down an iced-up black run, fell at top, skidded for what felt like about 3 hours and was saved from going over the edge into oblivion by a tree. Only cracked three ribs though which was slightly disappointing!

[OBonio]

Neanderthal + Stella = split lip for me. Bit of a scar...

My dad let an M&S door close on my forehead when I was 3. 8 stitches.

My favourite involves some imagination and a tricycle. When turned upside down, my tricycle (I was about 4!) turned into an ice cream factory. I sat on the bottom of the seat and operated the pedals with my hands. Turns out I decided to 'lick' the ice cream (the spinning whell). Split my bottom lip very nicely.

Actually, there is one more injury that has resurfaced from suppressed memory... I think I'll leave that one though. Makes me whince thinking about it.

[maxd]

• Sprained wrist fighting with my brother when I was 8
• Broke several bones in my foot by dragging the aforementioned foot behind me (rushing to answer the phone with a dead leg)
• Chipped a bone in my ankle and tore ligaments tripping over wires in work
• Dislocated my knee doing yoga

Accident-prone, moi?

[juliely]

My first major injury was a broken wrist at 9, a few years later, broken toes. After that, cracked ribs ( fell off my ped), then my daughter accidentally closed the door on my fingers ( 2 broken). Helping at youth club in goal playing 5aside footie, broke my other wrist ( saved the goal though). Torn ligaments in legs, and the latest one, Halloween last year, put my foot through floor in the loft, 1 leg was dangling in the hall way below and the other was scrunched up underneath me. Broken leg, in plaster and had to use a wheelchair.
I am hoping that nothing else is going to happen to me.
I do not ski, rollerskate, or do anything else that may be even slightly dangerous. Boring now.

[Ward-Minter]

Ripped the end of my middle right finger off whilst opening a can of corned beef.

Had it sewn up but it got infected under the nail which became loose.

Said nail was then subsequently ripped off just as it healed.

During the secondary healing process I stubbed my toe and that nail fell off too

Weird thing was it was my middle right toe. Strange.

[peagreen]

I was four and jumping on my cabin bed - it was christmas eve and i wanted to see Santa! I stumbled on my teddy fell off the cabin bed, fractured my arm in four places, three broken ribs and a lot of bruises... great story.. been scared of cabin/bunk beds and wary of santa ever since!

[smudge]

Nearly forgot:

• Very badly bruised back & buttocks (I was carrying an armful of washing down the stairs late at night, couldn't see a thing in front of me, trod on the cat who was stretched out asleep on the second from top stair, she meowed & shot off, I panicked, fell & bumped down every step until I reached the bottom. The washing was all over the place, but husband & kids were fast asleep in bed & never a damn thing).