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Most Ridiculous Injury you have ever had in your life?

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DionneB · 21/01/2019 23:19

as we have had serious injury , what are some ridiculous injuries you have had in your life before?

i would say slipping on some ice outside Bargin Booze and not being able to walk properly for 3 days afterwards , not fun times.

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FinallyFree123456789 · 25/01/2019 22:22

Tripped over the doorstep and broke my toe

Leaning against a front door with a boy I was seeing whilst kissing, he opened it and we fell onto the hallway floor - I broke 2 ribs ...

FuckBrussel · 25/01/2019 23:03

Decided to walk down to a cafe, buy myself a take out and walk back on a lovely sunny day. Wore a floaty skirt and high heeled sandals. Felt like the bee's knees.

By the time I was back home my feet were covered in blisters and the insides of my thighs were chopped liver. I had to wear tissues down the insides of my jeans for weeks so I didn't stick to them.

bucketfullofwater · 25/01/2019 23:12

Slammed my head in a car door as i was getting in. No idea how I did it but I must have shut the door as i was still getting in.

Still got the dent in my skull

couchparsnip · 25/01/2019 23:57

DM still has a scar from where she fell off the back of a moped and put her stiletto heel through her foot. Right through. Ouch!

EspressoButler · 26/01/2019 09:25

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DontCallMeCharlotte · 26/01/2019 09:45

It's the bathroom ones that are turning my stomach Sad

Daytimetellysucks · 26/01/2019 10:04

Accidentally punched my daughter’s horse in the face - was trying to undo a tangled hay net when it suddenly came free and broke my little finger

Caught my jeans belt loop on the living room door handle when rushing to answer the door, whacked my face on the little hall table and gave myself a black eye

Still not sure why I did it to be honest, but thought sitting on DD’s skateboard and riding it down a steep hill would be fun. Managed to remove quite a lot of skin from my forearm

JeremyBerimy · 26/01/2019 11:22

I sneezed while looking slightly to the left. Cracked my neck and could barely turn it for weeks. Failedy driving test as I couldn't check my mirrors Blush

jessebuni · 26/01/2019 12:30

I have a 3 inch scar on the inside of my bicep from a toothbrush. I was changing the head of my electric toothbrush and it shot off and the metal bit it goes on sliced up my arm. It bled loads!

Also have a now nearly gone scar from an egg box. You know the plastic ones? It somehow cut through the carrier bag as I was carrying the bags up the stairs on the way home and sliced my leg. It wasn’t a deep cut but I’m really pale so it has had a mark for the past 6 years. I think it will disappear in the next year or so though as I can barely see it now.

I smashed my front teeth on my brothers head when we were tugging one another around on the sofa when I was about 10. Smashed both teeth and have had to have fillings on them ever since.

I also have a scar on my thumb from a rabbit. It did a good job. I bled everywhere it looked like a murder scene!

FoodologistGirl · 26/01/2019 12:44

Been pretty lucky so far only broke my toes at 8 jumping off the sofa pretending to be Danny from grease. Husband cycled his tricycle down an open manhole. Sister had a whole pot of black paint fall on her while playing under a neighbours ladder. Daughter skidded into a nettle patch at 5.

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mrshousty · 26/01/2019 17:20

Jumped over a tiny wall.. caught my toe... fell flat in my face in my garden and ended up in hospital with a hairline fracture in my big toe - worse than childbirth!!! I swear!!!

GoodGirlsGuide · 26/01/2019 17:25

I couldn’t get the end bit of my Hetty hoover off some years back (I wanted to change it to the little brush nozzle) so I sat with the tube between my legs pulled so hard on the attachment end that it shot off and the metal tube bit shot straight back into my chest right between my breasts. Explaining the perfectly round shaped bruise to others was very amusing. I’ve got a photo somewhere lol...! I never took a hoover nozzle off that way again Blush

RumbleDoll · 26/01/2019 17:26

When I was 7 I fell off my pony, broke my arm.
Full of bravado at A&E, really quite proud.
3 weeks on, arm in plaster cast, which was huge compared to skinny 7 year old me, I fell off the loo.
No bravado when my dad announced to all and sundry that 'she fell off the lavatory'.

kitkatsky · 26/01/2019 17:32

2 years ago I slipped on a wet piers and broke all the bones between my knee and my foot. All over a tiny patch of water. Then this week I've slipped on the ice and my right butt cheek is entirely purple!

Elderflower14 · 26/01/2019 17:49

Sliced my arm open on a barbed wire fence after Bumbledog took off after a muntjac and got his extending lead stuck. Walked home dripping blood. Wil(who has an autistic fear of blood) opened the door and announced that he didn't do blood and shut the door again. FA trained neighbour patched me up.
Tripped over the telescopic handle of Wilfs suitcase and sliced my second toe open from one side to the other. Mum arrived to pick us up and Wilf announced to his Granny that there was lots of blood and that Mummy was at C's house (FA lady). Cue my Mum arriving swiftly and breathless at C's house. 😁 😁 😁

DrMadelineMaxwell · 26/01/2019 17:58

3 come to mind, which i've posted before.

I sewed through my own fingernail with my sewing machine and had to pull the needle out the other side of my finger with pliers as I couldn't get it out the way it went in. I didn't have it looked at so do wonder if I missed or broke my fingertip.

I roller skated over my own hand, definitely breaking a finger. I was too embarressed to tell my parents (I think, maybe I did and they just didn't take it seriously as it was a long time ago) and I didn't get it seen to at the hospital. I can't fully straighten that finger.

I once poured a bottle of clear nail varnish into my eye thinking it was eye drops. I didn't look as had rubbed my eye so much it was nearly closed and I just picked the bottle by touch. The triage nurse at the hospital asked 'You did this to yourself ???'

WendelFong · 26/01/2019 18:06

My husband shattered his kneecap in a fool-hardy attempt to jump across a footbridge, holding the metal bars on either side (think Inspector Clouseau on the parallel bars). He misjudged his upper body strength and basically launched himself into the air only to drop immediately on to the concrete bridge on his knees. Fortunately one of the people he was showing off (unsuccessfully) to was a doctor, and was able to administer first aid. This was ten years ago, and I can still make myself cry with laughter every time I think about it Grin

libra101 · 26/01/2019 18:12

As a child, my elder brother was giving me a lift on the handlebars of his bike. I stuck my foot in the front wheel, causing the bike to stop suddenly, and did a double somersault over the handlebars, cracking my head on the road.

Another time, after bickering with my younger brother, I went too far and decided to hoof it. Grabbing my bike, looking behind me I saw said brother getting on his bike, and flew speedily out of the gate. Only to be run over by a neighbour. I needed my knee stitching and had to walk backwards for ages.

Brothers and bikes have always been my downfall!

Middersweekly · 26/01/2019 18:38

I managed to break my big toe by stubbing it on a bit of uneven pavement on the way to breakfast at a hotel. I have never sworn so loud in all my life! The people in the breakfast room were eyeballing me as I winced through! We were only staying one night ready to meet our removal van the next day to move into our new house. It was bloody murder lugging boxes whilst limping about with my black and blue swollen toe! I couldn’t speak the local lingo and was too scared to go to the hospital so I taped my big toe to the one next to it with a makeshift splint. I had to wear sandles for 8 weeks straight!

Lwoj · 26/01/2019 18:40

My son once hid his Optimus prime transformer under a blanket on the floor. I walked over blanket ripping the sole of my foot on Optimus’ helmet in the process. Stitches on the sole of my foot was bloody painful.

mumlost1940 · 26/01/2019 18:46

As there has not been mention of a sports injury so far: here's what happened to me. A crashing football tackle grounded me. As I lay there the referee, attempting to avoid me by jumping over me, trod on my scrotum. The stud marks and bruising lasted for weeks.

catitude · 26/01/2019 18:49

A couple of good ones.

Broke my foot picking up one of the kids cuddly toys.

Tried to copy some teenage lads by standing up on a water slide, bashed the back of my head on the side of the pool (I was 43 at the time!)

cheeseislife8 · 26/01/2019 18:49

Opened an eye-level cupboard door in the kitchen, bent over to pick something up and stood up under the door, knocked myself out. Still got a dent in my head!

babybean19 · 26/01/2019 18:50

When I was about 4 I was running around in the toilet block on a camp site singing
'Na na nun a na na nuttt na' (Batman that's meant to be)
I slipped, smashed my mouth into the handrail by basin and was left with a hole going all the way through my front tooth that looked like a brown blob...

It eventually was pulled out by a dentist years later and took sooooo long for the adult tooth to come through....the. When I was 10/11 I had an accident on a seesaw where I smashed the same bloody tooth and it turned black where the root was fractured 🙈 it now has a veneer on it and remains wonky which I hate!!

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