Landed on my hip during tumbling practice in karate. Hurt for about a week. Worst injury I had in there. I always thought it was funny that I had a hobby which actively involved full contact without sustaining serious injury for 6 years while the various school sports team members regularly broke bones, sprained muscles, received concussions, and pushed themselves to the point of exhaustion and vomiting. This is because for all the supposed theories of physical education and notions of sportsmanship, they never learned one simple thing I did in karate: restraint. My instructor once said he would rather spar a black belt than a white belt because a black belt knows his own power and how to limit it in practice, while the white belt can seriously hurt someone without intending to.
What's the worst injury you've sustained?
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I was hit by a car, I had lacerations and bruises going up the front of my torso, I had a gouge in my side from the impact, there were glass shards in my head, and I couldn't walk right for a week or two. It wasn't such a bad hit really, but I was 10 and the car really hurt me.
I can't do it anymore, it requires certain emotions and it becomes too self destructive.EHKOS said:
Broke my left wrist 3 times over the course of the 4th grade school year. Not too grisly if you think about the separate incidents, but the repeated damage in such a short time has left said wrist permanently messed up.
Hmm...When I was 17, my sister pulled a chair out from under me, causing me to smack my head (go concussion!) and break my elbow. About a week later I fell partly through the ceiling of my hallway (Was helping my grandmother in the attic, didn't know to stand on the planks) and got a nice long cut up my right leg. The only reason that I didn't fall totally through was that the cast on my elbow caught on something, yanking the entire thing out of socket.
Hmm...When I was 17, my sister pulled a chair out from under me, causing me to smack my head (go concussion!) and break my elbow. About a week later I fell partly through the ceiling of my hallway (Was helping my grandmother in the attic, didn't know to stand on the planks) and got a nice long cut up my right leg. The only reason that I didn't fall totally through was that the cast on my elbow caught on something, yanking the entire thing out of socket.
Anyone spilled what you mum believed were "strawberry squash" on the entrance walkway coming from your head, and not your mouth... ;-) when you were like 5? that was fun not serious though just a "lesser head wound" but irritating since the squash dripped down my eyes... haven't been to a hospital more or less since then (for myself)
Hmm, I have two tales to tell, but neither of them compare really to OP's, or most of the pretty horrific stuff of other posts.
1. When I was about five or six, I was in my school's playground during break. Being winter and in Somerset (British West country), it was naturally icy and as we all know, concrete (which the playground was mostly made of) is particularly slippery when icy, as are most surfaces. Well, it turns out that trying to chase the school bully round the school library at speed in icy conditions...is a really stupid thing to do. I attempted a sort of sideways slide round the corner of the library building on both feet, almost pulled it off too if I hadn't hit one of the significant icy patches. My feet carried on, I didn't. Result? My head, or more accurately, my chin, meets the concrete at some significant velocity. Hurt like a bastard and resulted in a concussion and some time off school (though I don't remember how long).
2. Fast forward 5/6 years to Ireland, approximately 8 miles outside of Dublin. Just starting to learn from my neighbour how to lead a horse. Made the rookie mistake of standing too close while walking the horse to the stable. Horses hoof comes down on my right foot and while I don't recall hearing any crunch, my foot hurt for bloody ages after that, more so than any other time I got stepped on.
Protip for any aspiring horse owners: Put at least a foot between you and your horse, or you will get hurt. Invest in steel-toed boots as well, trust me, you'll need them.
1. When I was about five or six, I was in my school's playground during break. Being winter and in Somerset (British West country), it was naturally icy and as we all know, concrete (which the playground was mostly made of) is particularly slippery when icy, as are most surfaces. Well, it turns out that trying to chase the school bully round the school library at speed in icy conditions...is a really stupid thing to do. I attempted a sort of sideways slide round the corner of the library building on both feet, almost pulled it off too if I hadn't hit one of the significant icy patches. My feet carried on, I didn't. Result? My head, or more accurately, my chin, meets the concrete at some significant velocity. Hurt like a bastard and resulted in a concussion and some time off school (though I don't remember how long).
2. Fast forward 5/6 years to Ireland, approximately 8 miles outside of Dublin. Just starting to learn from my neighbour how to lead a horse. Made the rookie mistake of standing too close while walking the horse to the stable. Horses hoof comes down on my right foot and while I don't recall hearing any crunch, my foot hurt for bloody ages after that, more so than any other time I got stepped on.
Protip for any aspiring horse owners: Put at least a foot between you and your horse, or you will get hurt. Invest in steel-toed boots as well, trust me, you'll need them.
when i was about 14-15 years old, i did ju-jutsu. had been doing it for around 8-9 years by then, and i had to do a backwards roll over somebody. however i didn't do it properly, and ended up landing on my Coccyx with quite a bit of force. since then have had permanent back trouble. couldn't walk properly for about 2 months afterwards. i am ok now, but had to go through quite a bit to get to this stage. i get a bad back pretty quickly so i can't really slouch.
not a horrific accident but the worst i have had.
not a horrific accident but the worst i have had.
Hmm, near death at birth as a result from being prematurely born count? 10 weeks early and in intensive care for a few weeks, born the length of my dad's wristwatch. Completely fine and healthy now though, no long term complications, though i do seem to have a heightened pain resistance, something about not all my nerves developing to their full extent. Hell i've never since had to go back into a hospital since.
If that doesn't count then i suppose it would be either when i sliced my knee open as a kid when running alongside a pool on holidays (incidentaly teaching me that no running in pool areas is one rule you should obey, wicked scar though). Or chipping my rightmost incisor (not the big one at the front, the one next to the canine) in half after smacking my face into the metal bars of a trampoline frame. Unfortunately it was an adult tooth too.
If that doesn't count then i suppose it would be either when i sliced my knee open as a kid when running alongside a pool on holidays (incidentaly teaching me that no running in pool areas is one rule you should obey, wicked scar though). Or chipping my rightmost incisor (not the big one at the front, the one next to the canine) in half after smacking my face into the metal bars of a trampoline frame. Unfortunately it was an adult tooth too.
1. Kindergarten: A buddy filled up a bucket with sand, slid it along the slide and it hit my face (mouth).
Result: my right front tooth (first tooth) popped out and i swallowed it and i now also have a chunk missing of my right frotn tooth. Also bled alot.
2. Also during Kindergarten but at a resort: Me and my family were about to go into the city, I had forgotten my aeroplane toy insde so I went back in to fetch it. It had been raining all day so on my way out i tripped, cut open my whole knee on a rock and some gravel then went into the wound and then got stuck behind my kneecap. Needed surgery about 1 year later since i couldn't crawl..
Result: my right front tooth (first tooth) popped out and i swallowed it and i now also have a chunk missing of my right frotn tooth. Also bled alot.
2. Also during Kindergarten but at a resort: Me and my family were about to go into the city, I had forgotten my aeroplane toy insde so I went back in to fetch it. It had been raining all day so on my way out i tripped, cut open my whole knee on a rock and some gravel then went into the wound and then got stuck behind my kneecap. Needed surgery about 1 year later since i couldn't crawl..
Well I had birth complications and nearly lost my left eye. It wasn't attached to the brain so it could have fallen out! luckily they attached it back somehow though im blind in my left eye.
recently I nearly broke my thumb in football practice.
recently I nearly broke my thumb in football practice.
I really have nothing to say..., or at least nothing which can compare to some of the stuff in this thread. I have never had a broken bone in my body. I've never had a serious cut, only small ones.
The biggest injury I ever had must have been knocking out a tooth (or more, not sure) by falling on to a table, teeth first, after been standing on said table. This is supposed to have happened when I were about 3-4 years old, but I can't remember anything from that, and this is what I've been told up through my childhood.
Also, when I was 4, I was bitten by my little brother, so now I have a tiny scar, left to my left eye, forever reminding me of the teeth of my brother...
The biggest injury I ever had must have been knocking out a tooth (or more, not sure) by falling on to a table, teeth first, after been standing on said table. This is supposed to have happened when I were about 3-4 years old, but I can't remember anything from that, and this is what I've been told up through my childhood.
Also, when I was 4, I was bitten by my little brother, so now I have a tiny scar, left to my left eye, forever reminding me of the teeth of my brother...
i fractured my hand in a fight once thats about it. ive never broken a bone.
i guess probably the worst injury was at some point i lost a tooth that i wasnt meant to but i didnt realise and my teeth moved around a little and push one of my bottom teeth in. so i guess its my more serious injury cause it will cost losts of money to fix if i get it fixed.
i guess probably the worst injury was at some point i lost a tooth that i wasnt meant to but i didnt realise and my teeth moved around a little and push one of my bottom teeth in. so i guess its my more serious injury cause it will cost losts of money to fix if i get it fixed.
Lots, and the majority animal related. I suppose that comes with the job though.
Kicked in the knee by a horse, nearly snapped my leg in two.
Kicked in the balls by a cow, spent 15mins in the foetal position after that one (thank God everything still works down there).
Crushed my wrist during lambing time, this one needed surgery to fix. I needed part of the joint capsule removed, had fractured the articular cartilage, lacerated the synovial membrane, and torn the tendons running over the back.
Also tore my gluteal muscles playing badminton, that'll teach me to warm up properly.
Kicked in the knee by a horse, nearly snapped my leg in two.
Kicked in the balls by a cow, spent 15mins in the foetal position after that one (thank God everything still works down there).
Crushed my wrist during lambing time, this one needed surgery to fix. I needed part of the joint capsule removed, had fractured the articular cartilage, lacerated the synovial membrane, and torn the tendons running over the back.
Also tore my gluteal muscles playing badminton, that'll teach me to warm up properly.
Worst thing to happen to me was I broke my nose twice in less than a year playing baseball. First time it happened in the summer during the infield warmup prior to start time. Groundball took a funny hop out of the grass straight into my face. It was pretty embarrassing and I sat out most of the game.
Fast forward about 6 months to indoor practice for my high school team where I was feeding a pitching machine behind an L-screen for batting practice. The guy hits a line drive straight back at me, which bounces off the edge of the screen, off the pitching machine and straight into me face. This time really didn't hurt like the first one and I was most like "son of a ... it happened again!"
There was definitely a noticeable curve in two different directions on my nose for quite a while until I had surgery to remove some polyps and they reset it.
Fast forward about 6 months to indoor practice for my high school team where I was feeding a pitching machine behind an L-screen for batting practice. The guy hits a line drive straight back at me, which bounces off the edge of the screen, off the pitching machine and straight into me face. This time really didn't hurt like the first one and I was most like "son of a ... it happened again!"
There was definitely a noticeable curve in two different directions on my nose for quite a while until I had surgery to remove some polyps and they reset it.
I've broken a couple of fingers playing football (real football or what some choose to call it, soccer). All of them where when I played on the local team as a goalie. The worst was during a match where this one guy broke through our defence and was left alone with me and a clear shot on the goal. So he hammered the ball towards the right corner, I jumped after it and it only hit my right index finger which broke backwards. The bone was broken, and I didnt save it... failure
When I was 10 years old I fell down from the monkey bars and landed on my shoulder which then broke my right arm, right under the shoulder, so they could'nt put a cast on it. It was broken for a couple of months before it healed, but I dont think the bone healed as it should because when I run my fingers down from my shoulder to my elbow I can feel this bump where the bone broke, so I dont think it healed as it should. This makes me unable to push ups and when I work out it'll sometimes become really painful after a while. It kinda sucks, but I got used to it and I know my limits now.
I also had some trouble with my right heel (what the hell is wrong with my right side anyway?). When I was running it it would quickly begin to hurt like hell in my heel, and I could barely stand on it. I had a doctor check it and I cant really remember what he said about it, I think it was something with my nerves in my heel. It doesnt hurt anymore... thank god
When I was 10 years old I fell down from the monkey bars and landed on my shoulder which then broke my right arm, right under the shoulder, so they could'nt put a cast on it. It was broken for a couple of months before it healed, but I dont think the bone healed as it should because when I run my fingers down from my shoulder to my elbow I can feel this bump where the bone broke, so I dont think it healed as it should. This makes me unable to push ups and when I work out it'll sometimes become really painful after a while. It kinda sucks, but I got used to it and I know my limits now.
I also had some trouble with my right heel (what the hell is wrong with my right side anyway?). When I was running it it would quickly begin to hurt like hell in my heel, and I could barely stand on it. I had a doctor check it and I cant really remember what he said about it, I think it was something with my nerves in my heel. It doesnt hurt anymore... thank god