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To ask what’s the most ridiculous injury you’ve given yourself?

386 replies

Fallinleaves · 26/05/2025 21:52

I’ll start… 3 days ago I took a chunk out of my thumb whilst putting my socks on because I had a really rough toenail I hadn’t noticed. It’s like a paper cut but worse! Still hurts, still stings with everything that touches it 3 days on 😭. Please make me feel better….

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HeronTwist · 26/05/2025 22:53

Relocating a cactus. Cactus slipped and fell and I instinctively grabbed it with both hands.
I was tweezering spikes out of my palms for days.

I have a lot of houseplants but will never let another cactus through my door.

Jeffandpedro · 26/05/2025 22:52

Cleaning my decking with the jet washer. Looked down to see that a huge spider had escaped the water by climbing up my leg. Without thinking I 'washed' it off taking a large chunk of flesh with it.

neilyoungismyhero · 26/05/2025 22:52

Bending down to put my dog on his lead, he spotted another dog and shot off at speed with me still attached. Dislocated a finger and broke my back.

Jannie62 · 26/05/2025 22:51

ninjahamster · 26/05/2025 22:01

I put my hand into the blender to unjam it without switching it off first…

Noooo….!!!

Diydanny · 26/05/2025 22:50

TinyTempest · 26/05/2025 22:08

Last week I was trying to open a bottle of wine.

I pulled the corkscrew hard and punched myself in the face, staggered backwards, banged into the folded ironing board that was leaning against a cupboard and ended up on my arse where the ironing board promptly fell down and hit me on the back of the neck.

I didn't spill a drop of wine though.

So bloody proud of myself! 😁🍷🍷

Edited

Oh my goodness, my stomach hurts 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

SabrinaThwaite · 26/05/2025 22:50

stabbed through my hand separating frozen burgers

I heard somewhere separating frozen burgers and trying to slice through ‘ripe and ready to eat‘ avocados were common reasons for a trip to A&E.

TwistedWonder · 26/05/2025 22:50

Fractured my foot tripping over a shoe - ended up in a boot unable to drive for 6 weeks

WhatMe123 · 26/05/2025 22:50

I burnt my hand when I caught my falling hair straighteners on the iron bit 😵‍💫

randomchap · 26/05/2025 22:50

Dislocated my knee playing a sport

Darts

Crispynoodle · 26/05/2025 22:49

Fell down one step outside a fab 60s house I was viewing. Mid shaft spiral fracture of humerus. Spent 7 months broken before they pinned it for me

Dangermoo · 26/05/2025 22:49

Putting my sunglasses on with car keys in hand. The glasses slipped and I poked and scratched my eyeball with a key. The pain was excruciating. I still occasionally feel the effects of it 20 years on.

HeronTwist · 26/05/2025 22:49

TinyTempest · 26/05/2025 22:08

Last week I was trying to open a bottle of wine.

I pulled the corkscrew hard and punched myself in the face, staggered backwards, banged into the folded ironing board that was leaning against a cupboard and ended up on my arse where the ironing board promptly fell down and hit me on the back of the neck.

I didn't spill a drop of wine though.

So bloody proud of myself! 😁🍷🍷

Edited

I think you win 😂

Tooty78 · 26/05/2025 22:47

ninjahamster · 26/05/2025 22:01

I put my hand into the blender to unjam it without switching it off first…

That is so Final Destination!

Chariots77 · 26/05/2025 22:47

Just yesterday my wheelie bin had blown over. I stood it back up, on a raised part of my garden and bent down to start picking up the bits that had spilled out. An unexpected gust of wind came, and sent the bin flying across the garden and into me. My arm is heavily bruised, have a bump on my head and my neck is bloody sore and stiff. Fml 😭😂

YetiRosetti · 26/05/2025 22:47

I tore my rotator cuff changing the bed sheets

RedBeech · 26/05/2025 22:47

Lying down to paint the skirting board in DS's new flat, wriggling along the floor as I went, and broke my toe whacking it against the adjacent wall as I hadn't realised I'd gone that far. DH and DS just laughed. They didn't believe me until my toe turned black next day. It still has a kink in it.

Also broke my big toe going down a water slide with DC when they were little. It still clicks.

SabrinaThwaite · 26/05/2025 22:46

RedBeech · 26/05/2025 22:43

That is one of my intrusive thought nightmares.

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That and American sink waste disposal units.

willowbuffytara · 26/05/2025 22:46

We could be here a while

slipped running on carpet (shiny tights were in fashion!), split my chin open on a door handle

burnt my hand and arm dropping liquid caramel on it

smashed my nose several times doing up a girth as apparently I don’t learn

broke my ankle and foot walking downstairs

broke the other ankle and foot getting out of bed

injured my back so badly doing nothing I needed emergency spinal surgery

stabbed through my hand separating frozen burgers

Bloodylovecheese · 26/05/2025 22:45

I walked into a man carrying chop sticks in Hong Kong and bruised my arm 🤣

daffodilandtulip · 26/05/2025 22:43

I cut my hand with my new knives ... whilst I was specifically admiring the fact I had new sharp knives.

RedBeech · 26/05/2025 22:43

ninjahamster · 26/05/2025 22:01

I put my hand into the blender to unjam it without switching it off first…

That is one of my intrusive thought nightmares.

Picklechicken · 26/05/2025 22:42

I seriously injured my back to the point I couldn’t walk for 3 weeks due to bending over to take a cake out of a cupboard in the staff room at work whilst wearing high heels. That was many years ago and it was so embarrassing as they put me in a swivel office chair to push me down the road to the doctors to get checked over 😳😂

Cel77 · 26/05/2025 22:42

I'm quite accident prone and stapled my finger with a staple gun as I was making a display in my classroom. I nearly fainted but managed to remove the embedded staple from my finger. It hurt like hell .

Loki64 · 26/05/2025 22:41

Was rewrapping my kitchen cupboards in lockdown, tried to get one of the wraps off but it was really stuck down! I pulled it so hard I pulled back, punched myself in the eye, gave myself a concusion and split my eyelid open

Twinklewonderkins · 26/05/2025 22:41

Broken my toe in the 90s by dropping a huge jar of Dolmio on it, while attempting to make pasta for me and my friends whilst pissed.