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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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CormoranStrike · 22/01/2019 13:42

I was abroad on holiday and languishing on a bed late at night reading - totally naked but for a sheet, as it was so hot.

My DD (about nine at the time) came in to say goodnight and I started tickling her; her leg bashed mine and my kneecap dislocated and jammed out in an awkward position.

We needed an ambulance as I couldn’t move, I was mortified and could only dress the top half, paramedics and I had a total language barrier. It was tricky all round.

Did I mention I was upstairs, and the only access was a spiral staircase?

They popped me on a stretcher, tried to get me down, dropped the stretcher and bashed me off a wall, which knocked the kneecap right back in. Job done!

I leapt off the stretcher despite their protests to out some clothes on.

CatnissEverdene · 22/01/2019 13:43

bobstersmum yes, it was pretty hard going for the first year, I'd say it took a full 2 years to recover properly and I can still really struggle if I get overtired. My DDs still laugh about it now and my eldest has refused to let her DC have a waterslide Grin

Mumberjack · 22/01/2019 14:39

I also fell off a gym ball in my spare room into the corner of a plastic storage box. Massive bruise on my arsecheek and for days it was so hard to sit down. Worst was, I was on the phone at the time to a call centre and the poor guy just heard a good 30 seconds of clattering, me going “oh no oh no” and my DH wheezing with laughter like he was going to die.

RiverTam · 22/01/2019 14:43

I slipped over at school and managed to break both bones in my lower leg and was in plaster for 9 week (full leg plaster for 6).

I repeat - I slipped over. That's it. No ice, no rain, no nothing, pleasant day in the summer term.

ln1981 · 22/01/2019 15:40

Was about 4 or 5 y.o and was running about our living room when my mum called me through to the kitchen, which was just through the other side of the door. Without stopping, I kept on running but didn’t notice a small plastic toy pan with its handle sticking out-I tripped over it and flew the length of the kitchen into the glass back door... blood everywhere-I only had a burst lip!

MamaLovesMango · 22/01/2019 15:43

Head butting the kitchen tap and giving myself concussion. I laughed and cried all at the same time.

Applesaregreenandred · 22/01/2019 15:45

Injured hand on the dodgers at Butlins around 10 years ago. DH deliberately drove into my car. Hand hasn't been right since Sad

safariboot · 22/01/2019 15:47

I stood on a ceramic bread bin. Strangely enough, it did not support my weight, and the broken pieces sliced some skin off my feet.

I am still not quite sure why I thought standing on the bread bin would be a good idea.

ReaganSomerset · 22/01/2019 15:49

Slipped on a bean from a beanbag we were using in pe. Badly sprained my ankle.

chasegirl · 22/01/2019 15:49

I stapled my thumb to see if it would hurt. I was 22 and yes it did. Although surprisingly there was no blood

SagelyNodding · 22/01/2019 16:08

All of my injuries have been ridiculous so far!
Aged 8 I tried to somersault over (around?) a tree branch and fell head first onto a rock...
Aged 11ish my friend ran into me and snapped my little toe (the bone and the skin...) It flapped around Envy vom...
At uni I fell off a speed bump and broke bones in my foot and sprained my ankle badly... I was drunk and went to a club before admitting defeat and going to hospital Hmm
Ooh and I fell off a galloping horse who bolted on a beach-I was very lucky to escape with a beard-shaped black bruise on my chin and jaw Grin
Now I am quite careful but bruised coxxyx on a v fast waterslide not so long ago

twinkletoedelephant · 22/01/2019 16:13

Crushed my finger in the closing mechanism of a kids scooter...worse was I had to crush it more to get it to the release point... was a very nasty fracture I sat in the car and cried.

amusedbush · 22/01/2019 16:34

I had a penchant for massively baggy jeans as a teenager (I was a bit "alternative" in 2005 Grin) and one day I was walking up the street when I put one foot inside the opposite trouser leg and fell the length of myself. I had just got off the school bus too, so there were loads of people from my school around me Blush

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 22/01/2019 16:42

I swallowed a piece of glass that had snapped off the side of a tumbler because I thought it was ice Blush

BearSoFair · 22/01/2019 16:52

Almost knocked myself out at work last year fetching the newspaper delivery from the metal cabinet outside...I thought I saw a spider so jumped up and back and smacked my head on the metal shelf. It was a bit of fluff.

Also at work, tripped over my own feet while carrying a crate of magazines. Pulled a muscle in my bum, grazed my knee, and damaged tendons in my wrist that took months to heal. I leapt up hoping that no one had noticed, hobbled back inside, then cried Blush

Bluemascara4 · 22/01/2019 16:57

When I was around 17, I was getting read for school and plugged in my curling tongs.

While waiting for them to be ready, I casually decided to chew the plastic bit on the end Shock

The hot metal stuck to my lip giving me a horrendous burn . I'm in my 40s now and still remember the pain !!

TheHorseyouRodeInOn · 22/01/2019 23:12

I was getting ready for bed and went into the living room to tidy up, failed to notice that one of my cats had been sick, slipped and went down hard, compound fracture, bone sticking out and blood everywhere. Dd ran in and called an ambulance. The operator said ' are you sure it's broken?' 😂 what sticks in my mind is my daughter trying to change my pyjama bottoms before the ambulance came because they were covered in cat sick !

BasiliskStare · 22/01/2019 23:35

Borrowed my MIL's sewing machine to make a little cute cover for DS's cot when he was a baby. In my haste ran up a seam and needle went straight though my finger , nail , bone and everything . FIL had to dismantle the sewing machine as we could not get the needle out so I went with bits of sewing machine still attached to me , DS and PILs to A&E. Lovely doctor had to brace himself against a chair to pull the needle out. I now outsource any sewing which is not by hand.

longtompot · 23/01/2019 00:00

On a seasaw I decided to cross my legs underneath. Not the best idea.

Popped a calf muscle on the last leg of a 5k race for life. I was walking, overtaking some slow coaches. I finished it though and my fab sis walked with me the rest of the way :)

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Cantthinkofabloodyname · 23/01/2019 00:26

Cycling home from school down a big hill, when all of a sudden something caught on the front wheel and I went over the handlebars, grazing my hands, face and legs. The worst part was that I was staying with a neighbour while my DM was away for a few days. I didn't think too much of it at the time but I bet our neighbours must have felt awful about it when explaining it to my DM.

At college in a woodwork lesson, I was using the big electric saw (can't remember the proper name of it) when I realised that I had pushed my thumb into the blade. I just remember being very calm and saying to the teacher "erm, I have just sawed into my thumb". It went straight through my nail but healed really well afterwards.

BasiliskStare · 23/01/2019 00:27

My mother went to pick up a friend's golf ball from the rough , tripped over and has been in a plaster cast since the beginning of december.

sweetkitty · 23/01/2019 00:29

I’m in the middle of recovering from one just now!

Moved my coffee table to hoover and mop the floor, went to push it back, my feet slipped and I fell into a hard vase/ornament.
Fractured my sternum, first week it was painful to breathe or move and this is the second week and I’m still in painkillers unable to do much

KittyHugs · 23/01/2019 00:50

walking down from a hill fort I slipped on a cow pat and fell backwards my keys were in my back pocket and I had a lovely key shape bruise for weeks.
I cut the knuckle of my finger trying to open a cat food tin - loads of blood and stitches needed.
fell down the stairs of a double decker bus and dislocated my knee.
And my best one yet - I fell UP the stairs landed in the bathroom opposite scraped all my knee and broke my big toe a year on and it still gives me pain.

AuntieOxident · 23/01/2019 01:10

I was in my 20s, we were going skiing and had a practice session on a dry slope several weeks beforehand.
The slope was made of linked plastic hexagons with hollow middles so when I fell, as I inevitably did, I put my hands out to break the fall and caught both thumbs in the holes - they were wrenched backwards, breaking one and dislocating the other.
I was out of action for a fortnight. It’s surprising how little you can do without the use of your thumbs, including but not limited to -
turning taps on or off, turning door knobs, putting on and pulling up tights, fastening bras, (or pretty much getting dressed at all), opening tins. I could just about operate the tv remote. Thankfully.
The one that was broken still isn’t quite right, over 30 years on.