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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
    
United States
 | | 06/07/2007 6:13 AM |
| Posted By Wolfgang on 06/06/2007 2:41 PM
I have served in the Canadian army as a radio operator for 8 years before i broke my back and was discharged
This post in another thread got me thinking. What are some of your more memorable injuries? Here are mine.
Year: 1971
Age: 3
Injury: Fell off the handlebars of my Dad's bike as we were out for a ride. I fell straight down, and my right leg went in between the spokes of the front tire. I twirled around until my leg hit the fork holding the tire. That chewed up my right leg, down by my ankle, pretty terribly. I'm okay now.
Year: 1971
Age: 3
Injury: While still wearing the cast from the fall mentioned above, I tried unsuccessfully to navigate the basement stairs. I fell down a flight of stone steps while wearing a full-leg cast on one leg.
(Okay, I managed to survive my childhood, but I'm not sure how.)
Year: 1988
Age: 20
Injury: During a spelunking expedition near Bloomington, Indiana, I fell down a shaft in Trapdoor cave. I fell over backwards, and went down about 12 feet. I landed nearly flat on my back (caving helmet and three layers of clothes probably saved my life). On the way down, my left humerus snapped in two like a little twig (took about 8 months to fully heal, and my left arm is still 1/4" shorter than my right).
Those are the most memorable.
What are your stories?
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Wraithborne
Commander
4195 Posts
West Virginia
| | 06/07/2007 8:39 AM |
| Following your format:
Year: 1977
Age: 4
Tied a red towel around my neckand dove headfirst off of the piano, yelling Superman at the top of my lungs. The corner of the piano bench met me just above the eye. I can't dive to this day.
Year:1978
Age:5
Took off running from my mom in a local department store called Anderson & Newcomb. Ran head first into a peg hook, narrowly missing my eye. Still have a scar, but no lingering bad effects.
Year: 1980
age: 7
came upon some friends who were launching toys like Bert and Ernie puppets and cars up a 15' high slicky-slide. For some reason, I walked behind the slide as one of the older kids launched a brick up the slide. I stood there, paralyzed like a wrestler when the bad guy is on the top rope, and watched as the brick soared through the air, finally connecting with my skull, narrowly missing my eye. I am missing a chunk out of my skull to this day and have discovered that even now, if I rub the spot, I'll get a splitting headache. This was the first of 6 concussions I have had over the years. Explains a lot, eh?
Year: 1990
Age: 17
Had a $20 bet that I couldn't military press 250 lbs. Got it up and ws about 1/2 way to having my elbows locked and was losing steam. Bounced the bar off of the top of my head 3-4 times for a quick rush and pressed it the rest of the way. Collected $20 and a permanent dent in the top of my head.
Year 2002
Age: 29
I was walking in the Backroom at work at Wal-Mart when a 60lb. Portable Shelter fell from the top of the Green Steel Racks (about 15') and clonked me in the back of the head. Out cold, Concussion #5.
Those are the major ones.
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Ghendar
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The G Spot
| | 06/07/2007 9:02 AM |
| Cool thread  I don't remember dates for any of these.
70's
Fell off a swingset as a kid. This was probably mid 70's. Back then the swingsets didn't have the plastic safety caps over exposed metal such as a bolt or nut. Well, I fell off and my arm caught the exposed edge of a bolt and ripped a gash in my arm from my elbow to my wrist. Still have the scar on my wrist.
80's
Fell off a skateboard backwards (lost my balance) landed on the ground with my legs folded underneath me and snapped one of the shin bones. Femur(?) I think.
70's
Playing wiffelball. Had a large scab on my elbow from some other injury. Dove to catch a ball and scraped my elbow on the ground causing the scab to rip off. Still have the scar.
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Teflon Jeff
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7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/07/2007 9:31 AM |
| No major injuries, fortunately, but here's the most painful moment of my life.
Summer, 2006- after cracking my tooth on a gummy worm (right after having the lone cavity filled) I had to endure an entire root canal with no anesthetic.
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Faragdar the Wise
Commander
3518 Posts
Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | 06/07/2007 9:50 AM |
| Man, after reading those, I got nuthin'. But hey, if Ghendar piped up with a scab story, I'll throw my little stuff out there, too:
high school - broken toe: at swim team practice, several of us thought it would be fun to run and jump into the pool. The pull had a lip around it - kind of a cement "curb" - and I slid when I tried to jump. Broke my toe when I connected with the lip of the pool and pinwheeled into the water.
Little league baseball - gash on ear: I tried to scoop a grounder that took a bad hop. It zinged past my right ear and stung just a little. I kind of lost interest in chasing the ball when I touched my ear and it came away with blood. It just took 3 butterfly stitches to fix it up, but I still have a teenie little scar.
High school - sprained ankle: I can't even remember how I sprained it. The injury is only memorable because it was just before going to Disney World. This was back when you could borrow wheel chairs for free, so I had loads of fun zipping around and using the handicap lines to get into the rides in half the time (or less) that it took everyone else.
Kindergarten - hornet sting on the eyelid: Out in the back yard, my clever brother decided it would be fun to poke a stick into the compost pile. He stirred up a hornet's nest, literally. Of course, they came after me, not him, and I got a nice painful sting on the eyelid. Not a lasting injury, but a sucky one, I can tell you.
Junior high - bike accident that probably should have killed me but left just a couple scabs on my back: I was racing my cousin, coming back to his house from the beach, so we were wearing nothing but shoes and a bathing suit, towel draped over one shoulder. This was back before bike helmets were in vogue. At full speed, we hit a down hill patch. It's his neighborhood, so he knows the hill is about to take a tight turn to the left, and he slows down. If he tried to warn me, I didn't hear it, so I found myself unable to keep up with the turn. I hit a mailbox with my handle bars and went head first over the bars. The edge of the road had a raised asphalt curb, so of course I land half on the road and half on the curb - nothing but asphalt. Somehow, I did a somersault in the air (my cousin described it as a half-gainer) and landed almost lightly on my back. I got scraped up on my arms and bare back, but that was nothing a little antiseptic couldn't cure. My aunt and uncle saw the bike before they saw me, though, and they thought sure they were going to have to go find me at the hospital, if not the morgue. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 06/07/2007 10:05 AM |
| | The only big one I can think of was when I was two. The first time my parents took the sides off my crib to make it a regular bed I rolled off the side and banged my head. I still have the scar over my eye to this day. Everything else luckily has been minor. | |
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yack
Commander
3254 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 06/07/2007 3:26 PM |
| 70's - try to jump over the old water sprinkers with the metal and nearly cut my big toe off my left foot.
90's - smashed my head in a car wreck through a side window...split it good. We hit a parked school bus and booze was involved (no I wasn't driving)
1998 - drunk at a bar and went to flip my gf at the time as a joke on the ice and it back fired and I dislocated my right shoulder.
2006 - wrecked my left shoulder doing weights at the gym and was laid up for about 4 months. | |
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WakeXX
Warlord
10147 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 06/07/2007 11:55 PM |
| | Only thing serious that ever happened to me was I broke my arm in like 84' when I was 7...don't even really remember it so I guess it's no too memorable,eh? | | | |
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10147 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 06/07/2007 11:57 PM |
| | oh yeah and I dropped an iron on my hand the first(and last) time I tried to use one ...still have a nice triangle scar on the back of my left hand. | | | |
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Cthulhufnord
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10983 Posts
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| | 06/08/2007 12:20 AM |
| First Star Wars related Injury: This must have been the early to mid 80's as the Empire Strikes Back was out on video. It was around the end of March and there was still a fair amount of snow on the ground so my little brother and I went out to play Rebels on Hoth. I remember climbing an icy stone wall of sorts, my brother made it okay but I slipped and fell on my arm. While this was happening my mother was watching the part where luke is ambushed by the Wampa. Shortly afterwards she hears the same screaming from outside........
Other stuff I did in the early 80's...... I tried to put out a brushfire with flamable oils, cut a lamps power cord with a pair of sissors. | |
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Ghendar
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The G Spot
| | 06/08/2007 4:56 AM |
| Ooooh, just remembered another one.
Late 70's
Was eating an Italian ice and didn't want to finish it. It was pretty well melted at that point so I put it in the freezer with the spoon still in it. Next day, the spoon was (naturally) frozen solid in it. So I got out a steak knife and started to chip away at the ice to get the spoon out. On one particular stab, I missed the ice cup and cut a nice deep gouge in the index finger on my right hand. Strangely, I don't remember it hurting. I calmly walked into my parent's bedroom and told them I just cut my finger, blood dripping all over the place. My mom freaks out and flies out of bed to get me a towel or something. Still have a nice scar.
Not a really bad injury but quite memorable. | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 06/08/2007 6:25 AM |
| Wraithborne: you seriously have some bad eye Karma. Were you some kind of evil, eye-removing necromancer in a past life or something?
Fell off a swingset as a kid. This was probably mid 70's. Back then the swingsets didn't have the plastic safety caps over exposed metal such as a bolt or nut. Well, I fell off and my arm caught the exposed edge of a bolt and ripped a gash in my arm from my elbow to my wrist. Still have the scar on my wrist. Oh man, elbow-to-wrist, ouch. I can almost feel the burn in my arm as I read that.
Faragdar's bike story reminds me of a good injury story of a friend of mine. He was riding home on his old 10-speed, and something went unexpectedly awry (perhaps he hit a stone or something), but the front brake locked up as he was going downhill. The bike flipped forward, catapulting him off the bike. He landed, front-teeth first, on the curb of the street. He knocked out six of his top teeth. I think he was about 12 at the time. He's had false teeth ever since.
Other stuff I did in the early 80's...... I tried to put out a brushfire with flamable oils, cut a lamps power cord with a pair of sissors. You sound a little like my 13-year-old. He's tried to kill himself in so many ways I can't count. We've managed to prevent electrocution, fire, stabbing in the eye, a pierced back (near the kidney) (that scream could have awakened the dead--I've never, ever heard a little kid scream louder in my life)....
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MechaKingGhidra
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632 Posts
| | 06/08/2007 7:53 AM |
| Year: 1992
Age: 3
Shortly after learning to walk, our wood stove (fireplace, you could call it but isn't that elaborate) had a pot of boiling water on it to offset the extremely dry air in our house, courtesy of my mother's odd ideas on humidity. I reached out and grabbed the pot's handle (which had been accidently bumped outwards earlier) and spilled it all over me. I learned things could be extremely hot. And wet.
Year: 1995
Age: 6
My dad always burns his fields for whatever farming reasons he has (I still don't understand the process to this day). I helped him and went all around, deep into the far reaches of the fields, much to the dismay of my mother who would've, understandably, killed my dad if anything happened to me (meh, it's a guy-farmer thing that has little kids running around and doing work while actually enjoying it). By the time I was done, I was simply ash-covered and came back home and when I ran off to do something else for my dad that involved the still-burning fields, my mother called out to me and I turned my head while still running. I winded up tripping over the different levels of which separate our lawn from one of the fields, and I landed face-first into a smoldering pile of leftover hay. Needless to say, it was hot and I burnt off pretty much all of my leg and arm hair and was severely burned in a few other places.
Year: 2005
Age: 16
While helping my dad burn off a bunch of junk shortly after the majority of the snow melted to make way for spring, he had to leave to do some other things. I had done this a number of times already, including the burn-offs right before winter, so I simply continued onwards with the fairly mundane task. By the time I emptied and cleaned all the jugs of oil, gas, mixed gas, etc. that were no good, I was done, saving those things for last. I chucked them into the pile to be burnt and didn't realize I missed one of the jugs, though I can't remember what exactly it still had in it. Well, anyway, this jug somehow got to the bottom of the pile without me noticing and when I lit a match, my mother called out (seeing a pattern here?) for something or another, I couldn't understand her as she was on the other side of the lawn. Well, this gave enough time for the match to burn down to where I was holding it and I, of course, let go of it. It dropped straight into the jug and my hands were inconveniently placed above said jug as flames shot straight up and my hands severely scorched. I dove straight into the melting snowbank, which provided initial relief before I realized I needed something more consistant with relieving effects. I looked for about 10 minutes before I found a huge barrel of water and dunked my hands in there. Amazingly, I was able to hide my condition for 4 days before my mom found out and took my to get a bunch of polysporyne (spelling?) and bandage wraps.
As you can see, my mother + inconveniently-placed fire or other heat sources, is a VERY, VERY BAD COMBINATION! | |
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Ghendar
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The G Spot
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| Posted By MechaKingGhidra on 06/08/2007 7:53 AM
Year: 1992
Age: 3
Shortly after learning to walk, our wood stove (fireplace, you could call it but isn't that elaborate) had a pot of boiling water on it to offset the extremely dry air in our house, courtesy of my mother's odd ideas on humidity. I reached out and grabbed the pot's handle (which had been accidently bumped outwards earlier) and spilled it all over me. I learned things could be extremely hot. And wet.
That reminds me of the time in high school when I grabbed hold of a soldering iron not realizing that it was turned on. Melted the thumbprint right off my thumb.
I had to keep a glass of cold water nearby for a couple of days and dunk my thumb in it when it started to hurt. It was easier to do that than keep an ice pack on it all the time.
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I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 06/08/2007 10:53 AM |
| Some of these stories makes me wonder how people are still alive. Or are they...  | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5082 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 06/08/2007 1:42 PM |
| Hmmm...
Stuck my head through a TV when I was 2. Tripped and sliced open my knees twice (once on a sprinkler head, once on rocks). On numerous occasions have sliced my fingers to the bone with razor/x-acto knives/saws. Microtore all of the muscles in my lower back while moving furniture at work. Was tripped by a classmate in elementary school and landed headfirst on the edge of a table--22 stiches in my forehead. Oh, and dry socket in two places when I had my wisdom teeth pulled (during the pulling the dentist shattered one tooth, broke two of his little prybars, and had to cut one of my teeth with a saw).
Never broken a bone. My bones are incredibly hard a dense according to both my doctor and my dentist (apparently drinking a gallon or so of milk a day does wonders for bone density). | |
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dumdragon
Sergeant
684 Posts
Amityville, NY
| | 06/08/2007 5:37 PM |
| This hurts just remembering...
1975: Crushed right thumb in refridgerater door-thumb is still slightly different shape of other thumb
1977: Softball to face
1977 or 1978: approx 1000 bee stings. Walked into and stood in the middle of a huge nest of Yellowjacks while picking Blackberries.
1978: Softball to face
1979: Softball to face
1980: Softball to face-you think I would have learned something
1981: Softball to face
1982: Softball to face-I wonder why I have no interest in baseball ?!?!
1984 or 1985: Left ring fingertip-removed while skinning a deer
1986: Left index finger, skin/flesh removed to bone over first nuckle by broken Rumppleminz bottle-nice scar. Probably should have gotten stiches but I think my popsicle sticks and duct tape did well.
1987: Left ribcage-several cracked/bruised ribs--Safety message-- Do NOT attempt to ride up a curb when the front wheel is not securly attached to the front forks.
1990: Left ankle severly sprained/bruised- Drunk wrestling with someone much more skilled and drunk than me.
I know there are more but I can't bear to think about the torture I put myself through.
No wonder everythings hurts now 
edit: reread Z's comment about dryrot- All four wisdom teeth at once. Apperantly it is not a good idea to eat BK and then spent the evening and next day drinking at the pub. Who would have though? | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 06/09/2007 8:24 AM |
| Ah yes, sports injuries. I forgot about those.
Scene: a soccer field on a crisp autumn day circa 1984.
I am playing midfielder, I'm just behind my right wing and we're headed to the opponent's goal. A fullback comes up and takes out the wing just as the ball is being scooped up by the goalie. The goalie looks right and punts left. I am jumping over the pile made by the forward and fullback. Simultaneously, in my leap, I go spread-eagle while the punted-soccer ball heads for my crotch.
Down I go, with a "dislocated groin" injury.
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 06/09/2007 8:27 AM |
| And, wisdom teeth stories...
So, get get home from having all four wisdom teeth removed. I think I'm about 17.
I'm on some crazy drugs from the surgery (I was out cold as the teeth had to be cut out from my gums). These drugs wear off and I take a Demerol. The pain just keeps getting worse, so my mom calls the surgeon who tells her to give me another Demerol. An hour later, no pain relief (at all), she calls again, he says to take a third pill.
About 20 minutes later, all the Demerol in my system triggers vomiting. So, out comes the contents of my stomach, which is mostly liquid, and highly acidic. Let me tell you, stomach acid really, REALLY burns when it's being forced at high speed over multiple fresh wounds in the gums.
That's how I learned that Demerol doesn't work on me.
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zenthrus
Warlord
5082 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 06/09/2007 12:15 PM |
| Posted By dumdragon on 06/08/2007 5:37 PM edit: reread Z's comment about dryrot- All four wisdom teeth at once. Apperantly it is not a good idea to eat BK and then spent the evening and next day drinking at the pub. Who would have though?
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Alisair Longreach
Sneak
120 Posts
Denmark
| | 06/09/2007 1:31 PM |
| Eleven years ago I busted my knee. I was down at the local laundromat getting my laundry done. It is the middle of winter and there is a foot of snow outside. I'm sitting and eating a sandwich while reading a book as I notice that a pair of other customers are stuck with their car in a snowpile outside. I am a very helpful guy so I put down my sandwich and book and go outside to help push the car. Somehow I make a wrong twist and my knee goes "pop" and my kneecap relocates to the side of my knee.
That hurt.
An ambulance is called and I am brought to the local hospital and I am given a morphine shot while enroute.
In the emergency room the doctor tries to slide my kneecap back into place. Three times, Three screams, Two extra morphine shots.
Then came surgery and wearing a legbrace and physical training. My knee is a little stiff and I have permanently lost a bit of muscle mass. I can no longer sprint and I have the movement rate of a Dwarf.
A couple years later I break the little finger on my right hand because I stumble on the pavement. The finger broke down ath the knuckle so I had to wear a cast for three weeks. | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 06/10/2007 5:18 PM |
| hmmm, let's see:
I broke my collarbone in 2002 tripping over my dog, talk about glamorous...
My left hand is pretty much a criss-cross of knife cuts from various things, a couple were down to the bone I think, including one that just about took off my left thumbnail at the root- but fortunately missed by about 1/16th of an inch.
I also got an iron filling in my eyeball once, had to be drilled out. Let's just say that you don't want to see a drill from that perspective...
I also split my forehead open on a swing made out of a piece of 2x4- on Christmas Eve. Nothing says Christmas spirit like stitches, particularly when the painkiller doesn't start working until after you leave the hospital... | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 06/10/2007 7:03 PM |
| Posted By warty_nosed_goblin on 06/10/2007 5:18 PM
I also got an iron filling in my eyeball once, had to be drilled out. Let's just say that you don't want to see a drill from that perspective...
OH MY GOD!
I heard a story on the radio once about some country doctor that saved all the fishhooks he ever removed from people. He told a story about removing one from an eye...
Oh man, that gives me the shivers.
Dave
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Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10983 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/11/2007 1:39 AM |
| Posted By Vrecknidj on 06/10/2007 7:03 PM Posted By warty_nosed_goblin on 06/10/2007 5:18 PM
I also got an iron filling in my eyeball once, had to be drilled out. Let's just say that you don't want to see a drill from that perspective...
OH MY GOD! I heard a story on the radio once about some country doctor that saved all the fishhooks he ever removed from people. He told a story about removing one from an eye... Oh man, that gives me the shivers. Dave
I hooked my sister's eyelid around 20 years ago while casting... | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/11/2007 9:31 AM |
| Yeah, looking at this list, I'm a pretty lucky guy... Once I get a new dentist.
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WakeXX
Warlord
10147 Posts
Edinboro PA
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| Posted By Cthulhufnord on 06/11/2007 1:39 AM Posted By Vrecknidj on 06/10/2007 7:03 PM Posted By warty_nosed_goblin on 06/10/2007 5:18 PM
I also got an iron filling in my eyeball once, had to be drilled out. Let's just say that you don't want to see a drill from that perspective...
OH MY GOD! I heard a story on the radio once about some country doctor that saved all the fishhooks he ever removed from people. He told a story about removing one from an eye... Oh man, that gives me the shivers. Dave
I hooked my sister's eyelid around 20 years ago while casting...
Oww... I've hooked myself once or twice but never in the face or eyes.
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Wraithborne
Commander
4195 Posts
West Virginia
| | 06/13/2007 7:14 AM |
| Posted By Cthulhufnord on 06/11/2007 1:39 AM Posted By Vrecknidj on 06/10/2007 7:03 PM Posted By warty_nosed_goblin on 06/10/2007 5:18 PM
I also got an iron filling in my eyeball once, had to be drilled out. Let's just say that you don't want to see a drill from that perspective...
OH MY GOD! I heard a story on the radio once about some country doctor that saved all the fishhooks he ever removed from people. He told a story about removing one from an eye... Oh man, that gives me the shivers. Dave I hooked my sister's eyelid around 20 years ago while casting...
My brother hooked my Grandad in the back once when we were little....from about 20-30' away. He always cast like a madman. | |
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies.
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/13/2007 3:06 PM |
| My brother managed to hook my dad in the shin about 12 years ago. when he threw forward, my dad lost his balance and when into the lake. Funny, with no injury (Hooked his lowest cargo pocket)
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10983 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/13/2007 8:36 PM |
| | Well in my defense, she was standing right behind me and I do stink at casting. | |
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Diomedes
Commander
3173 Posts
| | 06/14/2007 8:12 AM |
| Wow, a lot of cringers on this thread!
It makes mine look like a walk in the park, but here goes.
Way back when I was still in middle school I used to ride my bicycle a ton. Anyhow, I was doing some work on it, and I yanked off both of the pedals. On this particular bike, that meant that instead of pedals, there were just two large screw pegs hanging off the sides of the bike. Well, I ran out of time before I could reattach the pedals and I was supposed to meet my friends over at the pool. I walked out to the car in bare feet and accidentally brushed against the bike on my way out. The thing tipped and the screw peg fell right on top of my foot. The force of the fall drove the peg clear through my foot.
I didn't loose anything and I'm fine now, but I still rub the huge divot in my foot and remember the pain of it.
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10983 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/14/2007 7:23 PM |
| | Foot Piercing? Man the ladies must love that. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 06/18/2007 9:37 AM |
| These two don't count, because they aren't my injuries/accidents.
I used to be a phlebotomist, and I sometimes worked on Saturdays and on those days I'd have to help out in the ER whenever we got busy.
Once, I saw a chainsaw injury to the forehead. A guy whose chainsaw hit a nail or something inside a branch he was cutting bucked back and slapped him in the forehead. He's lucky he lived and that the blade only grazed onto his skull. Blood was everywhere though--foreheads seem to like to leak blood like crazy.
Another time I saw a little kid almost die from drinking wiper fluid (don't try this at home kids!). His dad brought him into the ER because he'd ingested an unknown amount of it. I called Poison Control to find out what to do, and they said we should immediately put the kid on an ethanol drip. Yep, we got the kid mind-numbingly drunk. Turns out that if the liver is so busy keeping the kid from dying from ethanol poisoning, it doesn't process the methanol from the wiper fluid as fast, and if it processes the methanol slowly, there's a lower chance of brain injury or blindness.
It worked. The kid eventually went home okay. But he sure was scared being drunk out of his mind for a few hours.
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MuscledDestroyer
Sergeant
435 Posts
Prospect Park, Pa
| | 06/20/2007 3:20 PM |
| Read the whole thing you may enjoy this one.
10yrs: kicked in nuts by 13 yr old girl so hard I came off the ground. my uncle had to come to carry me home.
12yrs: pulled a wheely on my BMX at bottom of a hill street . Didn't know trash kids on street were throwing buckets of water on road so they could slide on it. Went back so fast back of head hit the ground. Too young to have sense to tell parents. definite concusion.
26yrs (about): concusion; head on collision.
15 or 16 yrs: while collecting water samples for enviro class. Friend bombards goofy kid with large rocks and chases into woods not to be seen till next day at school. Then throws tennis ball size rock from about 50 yards away and hits me square in the temple and he ran to me before I rolled off bridge into ice covered stream . Concusion ;with right eye cocked to the right for a day.
33yrs: Hit over head repeatedly with pot almost unconscious loosing alot of blood. Concussion ,stitches and percoset.
26yrs: Concussion with convulsions . Went for header during indoor soccer match teamate did also. played rest of the game. Dont remember it or driving 50 miles home. Basically I was sitting at home with a beer and wonderind how I got there.
4yrs to now 34 numerous fights no serious injuries
16 yrs: beat up a guy and when my back was turned 250 lb friend of his beat me from behind. After the fight i discovered a large bite on my crotch I think on the right side. From the first guy. I guess he really was attracted to me.
28 yrs : During soccer match my foot and the other guys foot met ball at same time my ankle gave but I won the ball. I then scored with the ankle. Ankle not completely broke about an inch off center to the right. Crappy doctor did nothing for it ( my dad warned me about him too).
3yrs: sprained my left arm falling off monkey bars. Dad told me dont worry Ill catch you if you fall. WTF! Didnt want to go on those damn things in the first place.
14yrs: broke 4 bones in my left wrist after my BMX goes into street construction ditch . I go over the handle bars. three weeks later with cast on arm mother sends me to store for bunch of stuff + 2 gallons of milk. Another WTF moment.
25 yrs: playing outdoors soccer.I go for loose ball, I kick the ball to teamate. This jackass Jose comes in a whole 2 or 3 seconds after and slide tackles my left calf with his lovely new screw in spikes. Spike hits the bone cant walk right or work for three days big bruise and I never bruise.
Also i have more head incidents but for now as you can image I cant remember them. I'm either there or almost to full blown Al Toon.
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MuscledDestroyer
Sergeant
435 Posts
Prospect Park, Pa
| | 06/20/2007 3:38 PM |
| | Heres a good one. my younger cousin and I were in the kitchen of our house after a summer soccer match. we were cooking and talking by the stove while my cousin stirred the pot with a fork . Odd choice for stirring but I just thought he was too lazy to wash a spoon. While deep into the conversation he pulls the fork out of the pot and brands my chest. Yes you can be branded by hot metal heated by water. I stared at it while he did it like a dummy then the pain kicked in and i realized I was being branded for his amusement. He didn't realize he had to go though me to get out of the kitchen so i guess we were both stupid. | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
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Wraithborne
Commander
4195 Posts
West Virginia
| | 06/22/2007 4:50 PM |
| Missed one in my earlier post.
Year 1998(I think)
Age(25ish)
Working in a local upscale restaurant as a prep cook and needed to refill my fryer to make Ice Cream Taco Shells. Had to open a new thing of grease, which comes in a large plastic container(about 2.5 gallons IIRC) with one opening and a small nub on the back that you can cut off to make it a "No Glug Jug". I looked around for a knife to cut it with as I talked to my buddy Chief, and the only one I could find was a double handled cheese knife with a blade about 14" long. I grabbed one handle and started sawing on the nub. Chief opened his mouth to tell me I should move my other hand about the time the blade sliced throughand slammed into my left index finger. Nasty, angled cut to the bone. Massive bleeding, to the point where I was getting close to passing out and seeing all kinds of pretty colors. Doctor said if I had hit a little closer to the middle knuckle, I would've taken the finger off.
By the way, the numbing needle hitting your bone hurts worse than the stitches going into your finger. When the Dr. got around to the side of the finger, he could tell by my face it wasn't numb. he asked if I wanted him to numb it more, but I passed. The needle indeed hurt much worse than the stitching. | |
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies.
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Ghendar
Warlord
12319 Posts
The G Spot
| | 06/22/2007 5:01 PM |
| Oh wow, just remembered another accident.
It was around 1986. I was working at KFC during my first year of college. Well, one night after closing I go to wash the kitchen floor. Problem!!! No hot water. No matter, I'll just boil some up and use that to wash the floor. Water comes to a boil (in a LARGE pot). I pick it up and in the process of walking it over to where I wanted to dump it, I spill some on my feet. Near boiling water on flesh is not fun. | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
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Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
12319 Posts
The G Spot
| | 06/22/2007 5:11 PM |
| And another.
This one goes back to around 1990 or 91 I think. I was sick. I woke up one morning remembering this vague dream about walking into the bathroom, bending over and bashing the bridge of my nose against the edge of the counter. Well, it wasn't a dream. As near as I can figure it, I was fevered and sleepwalking and indeed bashed my nose on the sink counter in the bathroom. I only realized that after waking up and seeing the gash in my nose in the mirror and I had no recollection of any pain whatsoever. Very strange incident because I don't sleepwalk. | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
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vanrulzz
Commander
2523 Posts
¯\(°_o)/¯
| | 06/22/2007 8:52 PM |
| Today i staple my finger. 3 years ago i was on my tramploine and went flying toward the bars that held a fence up around it (safety, safety) and caught them. I still went flying over and i sprained my ankle. That was seriously the worst injury of my life. I am lucky. o and last week i ran a lawnmower through a rosebush... that hurt. | | | |
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