Most Ridiculous Injury you have ever had in your life?

[DionneB]

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.

I managed to dislocate my jaw sneezing whilst brushing my teeth. It had to be put back under sedation. I also had tendon and nerve damage.
I still can't smile very well on that side of my face, it's all lopsided.

DS and I both have Dyspraxia and no common sense either - not a great combo! I could fill a book with tales of ridiculous injuries we've suffered.

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
I did this too, in a Home Ec class at school. The teacher came over all peculiar, went pale and freaked out, screaming 'Someone fetch a teacher!' while I went, 'Er, you are the teacher^, Miss' . Had to go to A&E with part of the machine still attached to me.

Aged 9, I broke my left arm using my new rollerskates. When the cast was off, I decided to be brave, get back on the horse, and went straight out on my skates again. Ten minutes later I fell and broke my right arm and elbow! My dad chucked the skates.

So many daft incidents like this... A friend of mine is the worst for ridiculous injuries though. She got awful chemical burns when she used electrical tape as 'Tit Tape' under a backless dress (ouch). She drunkenly tried to run up the fountain in the town square, slipped and broke her arm. She also ran across a bridge in a park, not realising it was part of the scenery for an outdoor play - she fell right through the trapdoor in the bridge and broke her leg!

Just remembered my 9th birthday. I somehow trapped my finger in a classroom door as it slammed shut. Went to the school nurse for a plaster as it was bleeding. The suddenly threw up all over the nurse (god it was everywhere, head to toe, must have been due to shock) and fainted, cutting my forehead open on her filing cabinet!

playing with my mum's high heeled shoes when I was about 8 she kept telling me to take them off if I was walking down the stairs I did not listen I fell down them landed on my head literal handstand against the fall with my front tooth hanging out really wish I listened to her

Pissed in a field with friends, aged 17. Got it into my head to try and balance on a full bottle of lemonade, I jumped onto it, it rolled away (obviously!) and I landed on my elbows. I then apparently muttered that I was going home and disappeared. I somehow got the bus home and when my dad finished his shift and saw the pale shade of green I had turned, he took me to A&E. Turns out I had snapped the radial head of my right arm and it still makes my entire forearm go tingly and numb if I lean on it.

We had the St John's Ambulance Brigade in school to give the staff a first aid session. A 'volunteer' was chosen to be placed into the recovery position, the next morning his wife called in, he was at the hospital having his arm set that apparently was broken during the demonstration.

A couple of friends had spent the week before their wedding painting a lot of old furniture, even working on it on the morning of the tiny wedding. As they were getting it on at night, he was 'up for it' but she complained about a draught from a window and he got up to close the window. It was dark and he walked into the door of a still tacky wardrobe, suffice it to say he didn't get paint on his nose!

I popped a rib out if place getting out of bed
Grated my finger along with some cheese. Couldn't get it to stop bleeding so had to go to minor injuries at local hospital to be bandaged up

I stood on a knitting needle that had been left on the floor. It didn't go in, it went all the way along the lenght of my foot. Who would have known that was even possible?

I was coming home after a night out by taxi, wearing some lovely black patent leather KGs.
As i was halfway out of the taxi, the shoes stuck together somehow so instead of putting my feet on the ground I landed right on my chin and had a massive scab/bruise for ages.

... You know when you're reading through these and grinning in horrified sympathy and then one of them makes you curl up and go aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! ? Midsomermurderess's just did that to me.

It's odd the ones that get you.

Tore the ligaments in my thumb when I fell downstairs just before Christmas. I caught my boot on the carpet and was holding onto the banister with that hand. Waited weeks to get it seen (a whole other thread about trying to get a doctor's appointment...) and now have to wear a splint at work to stop me doing the things I need to do in my job. I am, of course, still doing those things, but with a splint on. The thumb, oddly enough, doesn't appear to be willing to heal.

SpoonBlender. Pulling it out, all the way out, was pretty bloody grim, and weird too.

I bet! It's strange enough having a blood donation needle or PICC line out, and that's hosted in a tube. Gah. Hope it healed up ok. (That goes for everyone!)

I slipped off the side of the bath, on which i was standing, bare footed, to clean the tiles. Ended up top half in the bath and my foot hit the toilet. Two broken toes, torn ligaments in my ankle and bruised ribs. 6 wks off work because i was a 'health and safety issue' on crutches!!!! I can laugh now even though i still get cramps in my toes and struggle to wear heals, but the pain at the time was incredible. X

I trapped my thumb in a Quinny stroller when it did it's amazing gas powered automatic opening thing. I couldn't get it out because you need two thumbs to open the thing.
Luckily DH was there so I only had soft tissue injuries.

I managed to trip over the front door mat and broke two toes-a year to the day later-yep I tripped over the same mat and broke the same two toes the (same) nurse who dealt with me both times couldn't believe it!

Stubbed my little toe on the coffee table - broke by fith metatarsal and I had slippers on.

Ironed my bump - dressing gown flew open as I was ironing and I wasn't used to a bump being there.

Near miss - lit a fag whilst my head was covered in party popper streamers...whooosh!

Sliced my hand open getting ready to wash my blender - grabbed the blades by the stick and then dropped it which would have been fine if I let it fall...no, I caught it [ouch emoticon]

We had a pear tree. One year, it had a huge crop of pears, but they were all just out of reach, so we needed a ladder to get them.

Rather than wait for DP to come and hold the ladder steady, I decided to crack on. Up the ladder, reaching for the first pear, the ladder slips and lurches to one side. I flip over, try to hold onto the now underside of the ladder, and dangle momentarily before falling onto the ground and breaking my collarbone.

I wouldn’t mind, but I’m not fussed about pears anyway.

Jumped down off a window sill and Impaled myself on the radiator underneath.
Knob must have been missing it was just a metal pole. Straight through my jeans and up the bum. Still got a scar there now, could have been much worse.

dd Pet rabbit escaped on Easter Sunday and I trapped and broke my finger trying to catch it.

Slicing My eyeball

I slipped on ice and went under the school bus I was about to board when I was a teenager.

It was winter and I was running to not miss it, my bottom half was actually under the bus and I banged my head on the step you board on

Coughed and fractured two ribs.