Injury

[Klynne]

Big ass knot on the temple. Ouch. Tell me about your injuries. Maybe I should put this on the drunken thread, but it happened to me whilst I was sober...Ow. Still hurts.

Details are welcome...

[Magpie]

Yippee gory stuff! Last year around this time I in one of my more graceful moments, I was in a tiny closet like bathroom, lost my balance, twisted and fell onto the toilet tank breaking/cracking it with my kidney

Ended up w/a hematoma on my throughly bruised kidney and a was incredibly sore for what seemed like forever. My kids got a whole lot of mileage out of Mom breaking the toilet. Ha ha, real fvckin funny

Click if you dare...Graphic Bruise Pic

[Smartypants]

Two years ago I fell off my bicycle (the day after I bought it) and broke both my arms.

Some friends brought me home from the ER and then went out and bought me groceries and porn magazines. I thought it was really funny until the Vicodin wore off.

[madasacutsnake]

One day I went to the hospital and they pulled a real, live human being out of me.

[Frieda]

last serious injury was probably when someone wanted to lift me up and squeezed too hard, he broke two of my ribs.

couldn't even breathe without pain for a week, then 2 weeks of not being able to do anything and then 4 weeks of minor pain.

gah.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I was tempted to stop reading after "Injury... Big ass knot" but I'm glad I didn't.

[Aphrodite]

You all saw the picture of my cat fight face.
Well the weekend before that, I went to open a window and caught my finger in the jam at the top.
The nail went black.

Basically last June, I looked like a survivor or a victim.
Nope...Just me being me.

[masterofNone]

knock on wood, i've never had a really serious injury... the closest thing was when i was wearing cut-offs and used a weed-wacker to mow down a field of "brush." turned out to be poison ivy. i was in bed for two weeks and my legs swelled such that my ankles were about the width of my thighs. the doc put me on steroids (prednazone) to counteract the hideous plague of blisters. it took a year before the scars were gone.

[nycwriters]

17, birthday party, toboganning beforehand, food back at the house. First run, all piled on an inner tube, hit a bump, all fly up in the air, friend at side goes up higher, comes down crunch on my hip, breaking my pelvis in two places, boyfriend terrified my dad is going to kill him; get up take a step, can't figure out why leg won't work, faceplant in the snow, then pain hits, ambulance comes, er room, demoral, ahhhh .... no cast for broken pelvis.

[zenbabe]

July 4th houseparty...to many cocktails..what happened to the banister that used to be there? Then out of the blue and damn lightpost attacks me.......

[Audreyvgs]

I fell down on a racing sailboat, onto the windows and tried to put my elbow into my ear. Sliced my rotator cuff. Couldnt move the arm for a year, 10 years later got the nerve to have an op, and now it feels much better.

I was tryin to go up front to look at the dolphins racin the boat. I still would.

[lapietra]

Bowling with some coworkers, I took too wide a step when I let go the ball and did the splits (without a proper warm-up, mind you!! I think I got a strike, tho'! ) Tore my hamstring good... I stood up and tried to walk and my leg just kind of flew out in front of me... almost fainted from shock.
I seem to remember it took very little time to heal, considering my sprained wrists and ankles from earlier spills when roller skating (my favorite thing as a kid) usually took a couple/three weeks to heal... horrible huge bruise tho'. Wish I'd taken a pic.

Another time - coming down some uneven stairs in the dark after a rehearsal, I misjudged the distance (the stairs were of uneven lengths and heights and slanted downward), pitched forward, wrenching my ankle horribly, and luckily (due to my previous skating experienced) managed to land in the grass. It took *forever* to heal and was so painful for the first couple of days that any movement was excruciating. Tried to sue the owner of the building (*not* the person I was visiting - he was responsible for keeping the stairs lit but only turned on the light when he, his family or visitors had to walk down the stairs) but only managed to get a small amount (didn't have a very good lawyer), even though witnesses (the other people at the rehearsal) saw him and some companions laughing at me, after coming out and turning on the light, and then turning it off when they went back inside, without helping me.
Some people...

[daverbee]

Ooh! What a fun thread!
1995, one month after having my gall bladder removed. In the shop working on a chair for Speech Therapy. I had my hand in a place it shouldn't have been. I knew it shouldn't be there and was thinking that to myself when the box cutter I was using slipped and buried itself into my second finger on my left hand. Deep!
Cussing up a blue streak, I went to our Day Visit nurse and she sent me to the emergency room at the hospital. They sent me to the Occupational Therapy Clinic in another building! *They* sent me downstairs to Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute where I finally saw a Doctor who had me x-rayed, prepped, and off to surgery to repair a severed tendon and pulley. I never knew we had pulleys in us until I cut one!
I was in surgery for two hours and in a splint with this rubber band contraption on my finger to keep me from moving it in any direction but the one they wanted me to move it in for a month!
Doctor told me before the surgery that I would have been better off breaking it. Turns out tendons take up to four months to heal. Broken fingers take four weeks. If I had only known...
btw, the coolest thing about the whole deal (And I experienced this after the gall bladder surgery, too) was anesthesia. They wheel you into the OR, the nurses are talking to you and joking around, the Anesthesiologist comes in and jokes around a while and then says, "I'm going to put you under now.", and then you wake up. it feels as if no time has passed yet you're now two hours into the future!..that's the way it feels, anyway.

[lvlycwgirl]

9 sports surgeries...but most recently...

Last week I was finally given a full release from my Podiatrist after being in tennis shoes for 10 weeks. I noticed my right foot was hurting when I ran. I go to my family doctor and she puts me on some anti-inflammatories and tells me to come back in 10 days. In two days and went and saw a specialist only to find out that I had stress fractures in the exact same spot on both of my feet. He said in 30 yrs of practice he had never seen such a thing. Go figure, if it's weird or unheard of, I'll have it.

[Smartypants]

Shortly after I learned to snowboard, I fell and got a compression fracture of my spine. It took a few months to heal, and then I was really timid about snowboarding or skiing again. I gradually got up the nerve to get back on my skis, but it seemed really boring after the excitement of snowboarding. Five years after my accident, a bunch of friends who knew how much I missed it got together and bought me a snowboard for my birthday. (I have very generous friends.)

My first opportunity to use it was on a trip to Santa Fe, but after I bought my lift ticket, I put the board on the ground and was about to strap my foot into it when I realized... I didn't remember how to snowboard!

So I went to the ski school and explained that I had been just getting the hang of it five years earlier so I wasn't a rank beginner, and that I'd had an acccident so hadn't been since, and I asked if they could recommend either a class or a private lesson. The woman at the desk told me she had the perfect solution: There was an all-day beginner class that had already started, that I could join after lunch.

When I met the class at the bottom of the chairlift, the instructor tells everyone to hop on and meet him at the top. I am nearly at the summit when I realize that it must have been in the morning session that everyone learned HOW TO GET OFF THE LIFT...

I'm in a complete panic, and sure enough, as the lift gets to the top, I step off the chair, catch the edge in the snow, and do a swift face-plant into the ground, knocking the wind out of me and breaking two ribs.

Sigh... I'm not very good with sporting goods.