Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Most Ridiculous Injury you have ever had in your life?

386 replies

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.

OP posts:
kaytee87 · 27/01/2019 09:26

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

I slipped on ice and broke my ankle in 4 places Sad couldn't walk for months and now a year later need a 3rd operation on it plus have arthritis in it. Bloody ice!

AYellowUmbrella · 27/01/2019 09:54

On New Years Day I tried to use a hoverboard and crashed into a table, breaking it and several glasses on top. I had to go A&E for muscle spasm

petmad · 27/01/2019 13:06

hurt my monkeybone whilst hoovering the stairs (fell down them )son broke small bone in his wrist punching a punchbag with the correct gloves on worst thing about it i didnt believe him but xray told otherwise . bad mum lol

Fusioluxe · 27/01/2019 13:07

What’s a monkey bone?

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 27/01/2019 15:04

DH once broke a finger putting on his shoes - I kid you not!

QueenofallIsee · 27/01/2019 15:06

Broke my finger whilst drunk, in a small loo, wearing full Spanx. Those pants ricochet given the chance and my pinkie stood no chance

SausageSmuggler · 27/01/2019 16:17

Early 00’s skaters will remember those ridiculously wide leg jeans (the ones that had the ability to soak up entire puddles). I was wearing them and climbing the ladder to my cabin bed. Tried on the end of the jeans, slipped and bruised a couple of ribs from landing on the top of the ladder. Fuck, I was so cool.

SeamstressfromTreacleMineRoad · 27/01/2019 16:45

Was changing my DS on a changing mat on the floor when he was 18 months and old. He kicked out and caught me directly on the chin, knocking me out completely...
Luckily a friend was there, and I came round to see her anxious face and hear her repeating, 'You went down as though you'd been poleaxed..!' again and again...Shock
He still hasn't lived it down (he's 44) Smile

Burpsandfustles · 27/01/2019 16:53

Stuck my finger into my brothers battery operated pencil sharpener. Yuk.

Fusioluxe · 27/01/2019 18:38

Burpsandfustles ouch!

I always thought about doing that but never actually tried.
How old were you? I want to get one of those pencil sharpeners for DS but daren’t!

Fusioluxe · 27/01/2019 18:53

Burpsandfustles ouch!

I always thought about doing that but never actually tried.
How old were you? I want to get one of those pencil sharpeners for DS but daren’t!

Bumbumtaloo · 28/01/2019 16:38

Thought of another memorable one...

I once got my foot caught in my trousers - shocking pink valour tracksuit bottoms, yes I know they sound awful, but they were so comfy - at the top of the stairs. Managed to fall down them - top to bottom - and knocking myself out by hitting my head on the stair gate whilst crushing the cats litter tray (we’d just got a new kitten and put it there for her). I woke up to dd2 screaming and dd1 putting a blanket over me and getting me my mobile. Luckily no serious injuries but I scared the shit out of myself, safe to say the trousers were binned!

HalfBloodPrincess · 28/01/2019 17:55

Dd (15) has asked me to add hers.

Aged 8.5, 3 days before she was a bridesmaid for the first time, her and her little brother decided to have a race to the kitchen to get the last chocolate biscuit. She won the race, started to eat the biscuit, did an ‘in your face’ victory dance and twisted awkwardly, fracturing two toes on her left foot.

Hobbled down the aisle behind my sister in pink fluffy slippers and spent the remainder of the wedding with her foot propped up on cushions (her choice - she wouldn’t entertain the idea of missing a thing!)

DionneB · 28/01/2019 21:41

Managed to slip on ice this morning and hurt my bum bone.

OP posts:
AlexaAmbidextra · 30/01/2019 22:38

This very evening. Having a big clear out to make way for a couple of items of new furniture. My Dad’s ashes have just fallen out of the top of the wardrobe on to my head. They were bloody heavy and really hurt. Attacked by my own dear departed father. I really need to decide where to scatter them. 😂🤕

FrangipaniBlue · 30/01/2019 22:56

Broke my big toe trying to wrestle with DH - I was trying to sweep his legs, missed and kicked him square on the shin

Slipped in the bath while shaving my legs = 2 black eyes and a boxers cut. 3 days later my job at the time required me to work at a police station. That was an interesting conversation......

Electrocuted myself putting fairy lights on my Christmas tree.

Craftycorvid · 30/01/2019 23:08

Broke my ankle jogging....on one of those mini rebounder things (like a small trampoline). Good explaining that in A&E.

Irrational with hunger, I once decided it was a really good idea to use an extremely sharp knife to separate two frozen burgers....it was not. I still have a scar.

SuperMam123 · 30/01/2019 23:15

On a lovely walk through the forest, my oh slipped on a tree root, flung out his arms to try and steady himself and broke my nose in the process!

Wickedbitchofthenorth · 31/01/2019 05:39

Sniffed the steam coming out of one of the vents on the food steamer Blush ended up with a big blister then scab on my nose for 2 weeks

Blompitude · 31/01/2019 21:07

Not looking where I was going, I ran into the glass pane of a bus stop and broke my front tooth.

Headbangdesk · 31/01/2019 22:15

Poked my eye with a sharp pencil.

It's been a year and a half, optician says its fully healed now but weirdly it still aches from time to time and is very sensitive to light.

goose1964 · 31/01/2019 22:19

Bruised my coccyx sitting hard on the arm of the sofa when I thought I was sitting on the seat. Also dislocated a bone in my foot on a flight, god knows how. I only realised what had been causing the pain when I tripped over a trainer and the pain disappeared

PhilomenaButterfly · 31/01/2019 22:22

Tripped over in the school playground when I was 5, put my arms out to save myself, my left elbow bent the wrong way and fractured.

Wouldntyouliketoknow90 · 02/02/2019 19:16

Oh dear, here goes:

When I was about 7, me and my friend were going down the hill, sitting on a skateboard (her at the front, me at the back). She stood up without warning and the skateboard flipped up and hit me in the mouth. I had to have stitches under my lip.

When I was 8, I was having a water fight with a neighbour - everything was soaked. In an attempt to hide, I tried to run up the wet outdoor red brick steps to my Mum’s flat and slipped, thumping my shin on the sharp edge. Old lady across the road claimed she was a retired nurse, squeezed the wound and a piece of muscle burst out the cut. I had to go to A&E and they had to push it back in. Sad

When I was about 13, I was swimming in the sea and dived under the water, not realising that it was only a couple of feet deep and took all the skin off my nose and between my eyebrows.

A couple of years ago, I was outside having a cigarette when I saw a swarm of maybugs flying towards me. I proceeded to run away, staggered and fell, hitting my face against the wheel of a car, breaking my thumb and my kneecap. Maybugs pelting me over and over whilst I screamed on the floor. I got inside but then had such a bad panic attack at the thought of going back outside with the bugs in order to get to hospital. DH bundled me under a blanket and got me in his car. Sitting in A&E waiting room and maybug crawls out from my cleavage.

Last week, I was making DS’s formula and stupidly didn’t let the kettle water cool. I shook the bottle and hadn’t screwed it together properly and it exploded, covering me in boiling, curdled formula milk. Ripped pyjamas off, sat under cold shower but very badly burnt neck, chest and breasts. Pharmacist put on burn plasters next day but removing them took the skin with it, making it ten times worse. Couldn’t drive with my seatbelt, had to sleep sitting up and missed three days of my health visitor training because I developed a wound infection. Blush

Greyhound22 · 02/02/2019 19:25

My cruciate ligament snapped whilst I was in my pony's stable.

I lay underneath him shouting 'help' feebly as I realised my phone was elsewhere.

He was only a baby I was lucky not to be trampled. He was a shit Lassie though just carried on eating his hay off me.

I also really bruised my arm once - reached through the bars of DS's cot rather than going over and got my arm stuck. Baby DS was on the bed and I was panicking he was going to roll off. Told the dog to go for help he just lay down next to me. I need better trained pets.