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Most serious injury you have ever had in your life?

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DionneB · 20/01/2019 16:21

Three come to mind for me

I have twice broke my arm

I have 5 times sprained my ankle

Also a small burn due to boilling water dropping on me

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Gilead · 21/01/2019 00:14

Breast abscess, was bright red and hot from shoulder to waist. So bad I was operated on at four in the morning. The wound had to be packed but the district nurse wouolisten when I was telling her it was healing too quickly due to my psoriasis so I ended up having the exact same operation two months later to the day. Got into hospital at twelve was on the operating table at half twelve. GP packed it the second time.

TitsalinaBumSquash · 21/01/2019 00:30

Oh this is my kind of thread

I have broken most my bones, the worst being a shattered wrist and arm up to my elbow, falling 13ft onto concrete.

I snorted boiling hot tea when I was younger and burnt my upper respiratory system and face. Blush

I have a tendency to develop cysts, my most impressive was in my armpit and grew to the size of a large grapefruit when they removed it early hours of the morning, the relief when waking was glorious until I saw the gaping hole that was left.

I had a very rusty nail go through my shoe/foot and out the other side, I had to go to hospital with the plank of wood still attached to me.

Toddlerteaplease · 21/01/2019 00:42

@waterlego I had one of those too. Omg it hurts! Broke my ankle holding the end of a skipping rope.

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Redpriestandmozart · 21/01/2019 08:13

@Brigante9 that is truly horrific, I cannot even imagine the pain and how long that took to heal! Talking of horses, I was a kid we had a TB mare who jumped an ornamental gate and ripped open her knee and it looked pretty much like that. The vet wanted to destroy her, every time he stitched it the wound would split open again. I spent 5 months daily dressing and splinting her leg until it repaired. She never did more than a hack after that.

That is one injury you're never going to forget, very impressive indeed.

LittleCandle · 21/01/2019 08:22

Broke my collar bone aged 2 falling down stairs.

Had innumerable sprained ankles when a teenager and discovered a few years ago that I had broken both ankles several times... Thinking back, I can pinpoint those times. Had a bad sprain of one ankle almost 12 years ago. Finally had surgery to sort out the ligament last summer and its like having a new ankle! I also had a horrific black eye after that fall, too, and split my head open.

Cracked or broke (not too sure as nobody bothered to tell me) my right forefinger knuckle coming off a horse.

A concussion from coming off a horse.

Two broken toes - same horse, same toe, different accidents.

Broken coccyx - coming off a horse.

But the worst had to be the fall I had off a horse (had owned him for precisely 3 weeks - he was a Christmas gift) where the fastening of my skull cap gouged a huge hole in my cheek that required 14 stitches. It should also have had internal stitches, as I discovered much, much later, but I have been lucky and my face has not collapsed. The hole was so deep that the first question I was asked was if it went right through into my mouth. It didn't - quite. I also hurt my thigh quite badly in that fall, as the horse stood on me, too.

Jammiebammie · 21/01/2019 08:25

ollivander so glad your physio sent you for an mri, and you managed to get to surgery in time.
I was thinking the same about ces, I’ve been on a fb group for a few years and it always surprises me the sheer number of people that actually have ces, I’ve even met a couple irl, I wonder what the actual statistics are? I can honestly say I hadn’t even heard of it until it happened to me.

brigante ouch! That’s an impressive wound, must have been so painful Flowers

PassTheGinPlease · 21/01/2019 08:26

Dislocated my knee at 14.
That really, really hurts

CigarsofthePharoahs · 21/01/2019 08:58

I've only had minor injuries although I think that's more luck than judgement.
My dad was driving me to a university interview and our car was t-boned on the motorway by someone who'd swerved to avoid someone else and had lost control.
How we didn't end up with serious injuries I don't know as the car spun fully round one and a half times. Just "whiplash" and shock.
My dad was also in a serious accident after dropping me off at Heathrow. Some knucklehead decided to undercut someone on the motorway, didn't see my dad, side slammed him into the hard shoulder - into a stationary police car.
One of the police officers wasn't in the car and saw it all happen. My dad said the policeman was beyond furious and at the same time was in tears about his partner in the car.
Again, no injuries. I can only assume everyone in my family is made of rubber as the last time I needed A&E I'd got a sewing machine needle in my finger.
I was told that as the needle was broken I'd probably need surgery and the bone could well be damaged.
Wrong on both counts (which I was glad about!) but a bit galling to be in a lot of pain and only have a tiny pin prick to show for it.

Whyislarryhappy · 21/01/2019 09:03

Never broken a bone. Worst was slipped down stairs of train station holding Ds. I protected him well so I twisted my ankle really badly. Went to work as normal but limping. They sent me home went Hosp for xray ect signed off for a month. Returned to work, suffered a miscarriage (didn't know I was pregnant) turned out the fall was the likelihood of miscarriage

hatethinkingofusernames · 21/01/2019 10:41

Broke a couple of bones inc my arm which I needed a big operation on. Worst for me though was when the dr sent me to AnE and I was awaiting appendicitis surgery was nil by mouth and due that morning- one clever dr decided it might not my appendix, few more tests and it was actually IBS- I hadnt had a poo in almost a month and was in complete agony, was on a morphine drip! So nearly got my appendix about and instead was just constipated 🙈

PickAChew · 21/01/2019 11:08

Forceps are a bugger. Looks like I got off lightly compared to pps but I'm sure my recovery from a section would have been faster.

Pph twice, too. My first transfusion led to fluid overload so I couldn't lie down without drowning in my own body fluids.

PortiaCastis · 21/01/2019 12:00

Loss of a toe because of sepsis and a broken arm because of exh + facial injuries

Dillyson · 21/01/2019 12:02

Ruptured achilles tendon, very painful at the time. But healed quickly after surgery.

juneau · 21/01/2019 12:08

I've got off pretty lightly, compared to a lot of you.

No broken bones ... (yet!). Just two cracked ribs (one front, one back), sprained my ankle badly twice, snapped medial ligament (skiing injury), two concussions ... I think that's it.

juneau · 21/01/2019 12:09

I hadnt had a poo in almost a month

Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock Shock

noego · 21/01/2019 13:49

Cruciate ligaments both knee's more than once. I couldn't move for 15 minutes on every occasion. Very painful.
Ruptured Achilles tendon, complete split. Came out the cast after 6 months and it ruptured again after a week.
Kidney stones (not an injury as such) but the pain........Jeez

onlyhereforthefood · 21/01/2019 14:58

Another cauda equina here

Managed to get myself in to urinary retention in midst of that one and sported a catheter for two weeks.

Also broke my foot in two places shopping in Zara

KeptTheBeachesShipwreckFree · 21/01/2019 15:15

Cut my finger with a sharp knife

Smashed a window by slamming the door and sliced into my wrist

My eldest sibling bashed my head with a big broom and also pushed me down the stairs

My youngest sibling punched my face giving me a black eye

DonDrapersOldFashioned · 21/01/2019 15:29

A few emotional/psychological traumas but nothing spectacular in the physical department.

JustMarriedAndLovingIt · 21/01/2019 15:33

I had a bad seizure and fell flat on my front and broke a couple of ribs. That was one of the most painful things i’ve Ever done and was so frightening waking up on the floor and not being able to get up and call for help.

vampirethriller · 21/01/2019 18:12

Hit in the head 3 times with a crow bar
Fell downstairs in a cinema and broke my ankle

Brigante9 · 21/01/2019 19:01

@Redpriestandmozart oddly, it didn’t hurt cos she’s heard straight through the nerves. I literally thought she’d just bruised me. I wasn’t pleased when I pulled up my trousers and saw the big lump hanging off.

The skin graft was worse, the skin grew into the dressing and every time I moved, the granulation cracked. Fun times, I ended up dressing it myself daily.

Worse is the fact that I can’t go in the field to even catch my own horse these days. Pisses me right off but I finally admitted I was way too scared.

Maelstrop · 21/01/2019 19:02

*she sheared

bibbitybobbityyhat · 21/01/2019 19:05

Bimalleolar fracture of the ankle 20 years ago. Was feeding ducks at the time. It was repaired with plates and wires, now my ankle isn't great and gets stiff and painful in the cold - certainly can't do weight bearing exercise on it like running.

Elephantina · 21/01/2019 19:17

I'm fortunate enough to have had very few injuries in my life, only sprained an ankle or two - but a relative partially severed her own arm with a chainsaw. Had it reattached though.

DH also had a run in with a hedge cutter when he cut open a hornets nest. Threw the hedge cutter in the air as he leapt desperately off the ladder to escape, and it caught him a glancing blow off the forehead on the way down. He had a small cut, could've been a lot worse!