Injuries thread

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You know that grainy blue/white laminate that some office tables are lined with that, supposedly, resist microbial contamination (3M)? I was in an introduction to tech class in the ninth grade that had the shittiest fucking equipment that was always either breaking entirely or refusing to turn on so we would flunk out the class every month because the school wasn't doing enough to give that specific room up to date equipment. Recession and all that, you know?

Anyways I was sitting at one of these tables and it looks like the Tasmanian Devil had a head-on collision with this specific tabletop, the black bumper was peeling and the laminate was frayed and sticking upwards. Anyways I was attempting to use a paperweight from the front desk as a means to keeping the surface flat an I caught my thumb on the sheer, cutting straight through the bottom-left side surface of my thumb. I had to be stationed somewhere else.

I hated the ninth grade and the teachers were cucked into letting their students have a shitty time.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I've already talked about how I stupidly got myself seven stitches for thinking playing with poles was a great idea one evening. So I'll talk about how I broke my brother's arm when I was twelve (if not thirteen).

My twin brothers and I weren't supposed to be jumping on the trampoline on Sundays 'cause of church, but we did anyway the first year or two we got a trampoline. So while my parents are getting ready, we were out jumping and LARPing something stupid I don't really remember anymore (we used the trampoline to LARP, I don't know why we did that). I then suggested all three of us should jump at the same time so we could go higher and pretend like we launched for flight. First time we kinda messed up, but it was alright, still one of the boys didn't want to do it again. I was the big sister, though, everything I said goes, so we did it a second time.

The one twin went soaring and landed on the springs, and broke his left arm (he's right-handed, so he was one of the lucky ones, I suppose). I didn't hear the crack, but watched him painfully sit up to show this rather nasty dent in the middle of his forearm which I had never thought was possible to happen. We led him upstairs to our parents' room a couple minutes after Mom had just gotten out of the shower, and she was horrified at the sight. We didn't go to church that day so bro could go to the emergency room, and if I remember right, it was the kind of break where they had to knock him out in order to reset the bone, which Dad said was pretty nasty to watch.

I'm pretty sure I'm a terrible big sister since I don't think I ever apologized for it, but we laugh about it now.

 

[DrJonesHat]

I am missing the nail on my left index finger. Lost it in a fight. I have scars from surgery and one from my cat which in no way resembles a botched suicide attempt.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

My arms are covered in scars thanks to the grouchy cat I lived with for the first 12 years of my life. She didn't have claws, but she had fangs, and I made sure she put them to good use. And a lot of mosquito-bites-turned-scars as well (because if someone tells me not to pick at it, I will).

 

[Bassomatic]

What haven't I broken?

I waited till my 30s to start playing contact sports, nuff said.

Humor aside, I have broken almost all my ribs, have a floating part of one too still, it's cool can pop it out, great party trick and way for girls to touch my abs. I've stitched myself up a few times including when I pulled all the skin off my left thumb (I'm a south paw so extra props I did surgery with my off hand) I've had bone burrs taken off my shoulder, while I was awake, that was... interesting to say the least.

Got nicked by a .22 ricochet once. Thankfully deformed so just burnt and stung. Got a scar between my eyes from scope bite. Got a raised part on the middle of my gums from where I got kicked in the face reaching for a steal in HS basketball.

Various other dings breaks bruises over the years. Split my head open really badly on a metal bar on the playground as a kid, I didn't know the head has a lot of blood and was sure I was gonna die. Matted my long hair up so badly had to get a buzz after ER.

Broke my finger lately ended up in the ER against my wishes but everyone was being a worry wort, did get another girl's number out of that so paid off.

Had an ex mistakenly slice off my left nipple it was hanging on by a thread patched myself up, it's never got feeling back.

Blew out my inner ear diving, and then had to fly home with an ear infection, blew up again lost a good chunk of my hearing. I was drooling, coughing, sneezing whole flight. Figures time I sat next to cute girls flying by myself.

And that's just what is off the top of my head. Life is short, enjoy it..and try not to get hurt.

 

[Uncle Warren]

Man you all listing horrible shit you had to go to the hospital for. Meanwhile I get hit by a car, and I'm perfectly fine.

 

[Internet_Loner]

I had a half-dollar sized hole in my left knee from a middle school football injury, ran into a gravel pit/parking lot. Tried to walk it off but staff pointed out the injury. School was in the middle of nowhere so I had lay in the nurses office for an hour till my father could take me to the hospital.

Other notable injury was a spider-bite on my leg that became infected, had to be hospitalized for a week for drainage and the swelling to go down. The area of the bite is still discolored and annoying.

I've fallen multiple times onto hard surfaces back first too, I'd take a chunk of missing flesh and muscle over those incidents.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I did a bunch of yard work yesterday and neglected to wear work gloves. Now I have two nasty blisters forming on the palms of my hands. It doesn't hurt too bad, but enough to be annoying.

 

[polonium]

Man you all listing horrible shit you had to go to the hospital for. Meanwhile I get hit by a car, and I'm perfectly fine.

I've been hit by a car twice (two different cars on two different occasions, not someone persistent) and I just walked it off so I didn't list it.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

I once fractured my right foot falling out of bed due to very low blood sugar. Oblique fracture, too--one of the worst. Hypoglycemia sucks.

 

[Prince Jello]

During my teen years, my left wrist started to hurt without explanation. No swelling, no redness, just a dull pain every time I tried to bend it. X-rays revealed it was a synovial cyst. It seemed to be pretty small, as I didn't notice any bump under the skin. I hoped it would go away on its own, as this kind of cyst sometimes does, but eventually I settled for an operation. It was supposed to be a routine procedure, no more than fifteen minutes before stitching up. Turns out the surgeon hadn't anticipated how deep the cyst was rooted. It took him a full hour, swearing under his breath and scraping the bone with his scalpel a few times.

He also botched the stitches; when I went to the clinic to have them removed, the doctor had to tear off the scab to remove the thread. Even now, my wrist is still wonky. I lost a lot of mobility (thank god I'm right-handed), and the joint hurts in cold weather.
...And the cyst came back a year later.

 

[Joey Caruso]

At one point I was riding my bike on a paved sidewalk and turned onto a gravel one, but ended up taking the turn too hard and the wheels skidded out from underneath me. Ended up breaking the fall with my elbow, didn't realize until I got back home and looked in the mirror just how many cuts and scrapes those little rocks ended up giving me. Still got a few scars left over from that one.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

All my bad injures are to the left side of my body for some reason.

- Cut my left palm to the bone on a bushcraft knife, severing two flexor tendons. I've posted pictures of my injury and surgery here before.
- Split my eyebrow open by falling onto the corner of a wall.
- Dislocated my left kneecap falling off my bike.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

When I was a wee lad, I watched my brother as he tried to pry the lid off a milk bottle(yes, I'm ancient) with a steak knife. The knife slipped, and he stabbed himself in the eye.

Like 40 years later, and that eye still works, but it looks scary as hell. My brother uses it to intimidate people. He glares and gives you "the zombie eye". It's really creepy.

 

[AmeliaWise]

Yesterday I went to a trampoline park and may have injured myself:
I bounced off of an angled trampoline on the wall (it was JumpSport 350, approx. 45 degrees) and landed on another trampoline with my knee bent under me. Right afterwards I had pain at the back and side of my knee and trouble walking/ straightening my knee out. I limped around for about 15 minutes and the pain went away. I then proceeded to spend about 2 hours jumping from trampoline to trampoline, flipping and dunking off of trampolines with no problem.
After the 1hr drive back to my house, however, my pain had returned. I took an ibuprofen and went to sleep. In the morning it was worse than ever and it has only gotten slightly better throughout the whole day. My fear is that I may have strained a ligament in knee (LCL or PCL). I don't have trouble putting weight on the leg, but bending it too far or really straightening it cause pain. The joint is not loose. Ice and Ibuprofen have done little to help it as far as I can tell.
I need to be running again soon bc we're getting into indoor track. What's going on? How do I treat it? Are there stretches or anything else I can do?

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

3 small burns on my shoulder from being in a truck that was on fire.

A small piece of rock shrapnel that caused a scar that discolored a small tattoo I had just gotten a few months before the trip I was one.

A deviated septum from impacting against a metal plate.

 

[LateNightMuffin]

I've broken plenty of bones, and had other injuries, but the one that always sticks with me only required a bandage. A friend was a woodworker, and got a big order he had to get out. Then he died, and he'd already received the money so the order had to get out. I didn't know shit about woodworking but someone had to do it. So I'm running all these boards through his table saw, and one board catches in the saw and gets thrown against the wall. When it catches it pulls my hand with it. My finger ran into the saw. I was stunned--I've known a lot of woodworkers in my life, and most of them are missing fingers. But then i saw that the spacing had been perfect. It only cut into the flesh of my ring finger from the tip to the middle of the fingernail, but off-center enough that it didn't hit bone. When i looked it I was fine. it wasn't much of an injury and I've been cut a lot. But when i thought about what a close call that was i got kind of woozy: just a few millimeters over and it would have hit bone and been a whole different thing.

Oh, and just the other day I took a lot of stuff to the dump. It was really cold out, and there was some water in the back of the pickup. My hands got really chilled. When I was almost done I happened to look at my hands and they were covered with blood. I thought i had cut myself on some broken glass but my hands were so cold i hadn't felt it. There was so much blood i thought I'd cut something major. i start wiping off my hands trying to find the cut, and finally realized it was tomato sauce.

 

[Blop]

Didn’t start mountain biking til I was 40, I love it but in the past few years:

- broke both my collarbones (separate crashes)
- broke my 2 front teeth out and turned my lower lip into hamburger
- slid out in a rocky turn, thought I was fine and kept going til a guy rode up to me, looking horrified, yelling ARE YOU OK DO YOU NEED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL? I had sliced my forearm open and was covered in blood. That took 15 stitches to close up
- crashed in a race and got my leg perforated by someone else’s chain ring.

The good times are totally worth it.

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[MerriedxReldnahc]

Little me was re.tarded and decided that running down the hall with a chopstick in my mouth was a really great idea. It was not. I tripped and the chopstick jammed into the roof of my mouth. No severe damage but there was plenty of blood. I still have a little indentation on the roof of my mouth.

Little me was once again re.tarded and ran down the hall with a pillowcase on my head, and I tripped and fell onto a plastic container that was already broken and had a very sharp edge. Tore up my knee real good and I still have a mark on my right knee. I really should have had stitches put in becasue of how bad it was.

Somehow I managed to fracture my wrist playing vollyball in P.E. My teacher was a dick about if and refused to let me sit out of any subsequent classes. It was my dominant hand too.

There's a little burn mark on one arm from some lit incense landing on it.

Amazingly I've never been badly hurt skateboarding despite being Very Not Good. I do have a little mark on one elbow from my very first fall.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Got run over by a drunk driver two years ago. Nasty business. Apparently had to cut my clothes off my body because they were so soaked with blood. "Died" and had the doctor/healbot on point with the rezz spells, had to be resuscitated. I now walk with a permanent limp and get horrible migraines at random. I have no memory of the accident taking place, I remember walking across the crosswalk that afternoon and then waking up in the hospital about two days after. Happy to be alive, but that's the worst injury I ever suffered.