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Please cheer me up - stupid injury

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MrsPear · 12/02/2020 18:47

So moving a pan of boiling water with cooked pasta to the sink and the bloody handle just snapped. My right thigh took the brunt of the water. So whilst I sit with a throbbing leg please amuse with similar daft injuries.

Ps on my own currently with no support and so will be sensible and get it checked tomorrow if it still looks awful after the school run.

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dryishjan · 12/02/2020 18:48

I'm sure you've done this already but at least 20 mins cold water to cool the affected area.

Hope it's all ok

DivisionBelles · 12/02/2020 18:53

I stood on a hotel loo seat at the weekend, the loo seat cracked and I fell into the pan and got my foot stuck round the u-bend. I was on my own in the room and couldn't get my foot unstuck. I was having visions of being there for hours until DH, who was down in the bar, rescued me. I am now sporting four very black toes.

AuditAngel · 12/02/2020 18:55

I was on holiday on my own with 3DC (DH couldn’t get away due to staffing issues at work) and broke my toe, knocking it on the sofa.

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 12/02/2020 18:55

If it looks blistery or is a large patch, do get it seen too. Burns can get nasty.

As for my stupid injuries... There's the time I got my foot trapped in a fence and fell off backwards, leaving me hanging upside down by my leg (dislocated knee). Or the time I fell off my bike into a storm drain... Sober. Or the time I brome my foot by falling down a rabbit hole. Or the time I sliced my finger open by breaking a wine glass washing up. Or the time.... You get the idea about me!

SleepingIsOverrated · 12/02/2020 18:58

Oh op, that sounds sore :(

@DivisionBelles that sounds awful too and I'm so glad you were rescued.... but can I ask why?! Just tying to decide if you were ravaging something high or trying to get a good angle for a photo 

Natsku · 12/02/2020 18:58

I filled up my hot water bottle, tilted it towards me to check if I had filled it up enough but tilted it too far and it flopped over and poured the boiling hot water down me!

outtathelefteyei · 12/02/2020 19:04

Poor you, I once forgot to use a sieve and drained a pan full of peas all over my arm and leg - duh.

I am currently recovering from surgery yesterday for haemorrhoids and an anal fissure partly brought on by me having a mega hot takeaway curry about 2 years ago, majorly suffering the next day, then the day after that eating the rest cold. Pooping about 30 times in two days turned out to be a bit of a catalyst. Sat here with the most painful arse tanked up on pain relief. Still quite want more of that curry :D

When you have a burn the key watchword is get it under cold water for "LONGER THAN YOU THINK"

Hope you feel better soon x

Cooper88 · 12/02/2020 19:07

So I have just had 10 days off work, I work as a carer. Went back to work yesterday, first visit leant over to press a button to lower a bedside and it looks like I've slipped a disc in my back 🤦 hadn't even been back at work for 10 minutes

DivisionBelles · 12/02/2020 19:07

@SleepingIsOverrated I'm a bit of a short arse and couldn't find a switch to turn on the light over the mirror. I thought it might be on top so I stood on the loo seat to look. Was a bit of a dumb thing to do in hindsight!

scrivette · 12/02/2020 19:17

Ohh ouch, are you sure it doesn't need to be seen?

When I was 11 I was having an argument with my Mum and tried to kick the door, I missed and kicked the corner of the door frame and broke my little toe.

MrsDoylesTeaBags · 12/02/2020 19:23

Ouch Mrs Pear, that sounds horrible, make sure you keep an eye on it. I've just sliced a chunk out of my arm trying to rip cling film Sad

exWifebeginsAgainat46 · 12/02/2020 19:40

i once severed a finger on a metal fence. i don’t drink any more.

Lordfrontpaw · 12/02/2020 19:44

I hope you are chilling it with cold water - it takes a long time to cool it down (I only know because the family joke is that I am very flammable).

I just trip over things - a lot. I broke a toe tripping over a wheelbarrow but thankfully I’ve not broken anything else amazingly. I burn myself almost every time I cook and sometimes when I iron.

The really amazing thing is that for my hobby I use a blowtorch and I have never ever singed a hair using that.

ChipBap · 12/02/2020 19:54

@exWifebeginsAgainat46 Shock Which one? (finger, not fence)

Did you get it reattached?

Figmentofimagination · 12/02/2020 20:14

A broken toe kicking a chair as I was looking behind me when I was walking

A very sore head by bending down underneath a sink and then hitting my head on the underside

Or the most embarrassing, as a child at a friends birthday party. Slipped on the grass running towards the bouncy castle, my leg went through a plastic covering and down into a hole that was full of their dogs poo. It was all runny and went up to my thigh. 🤢

MollysMummy2010 · 12/02/2020 20:33

Last Christmas I had very bad flu. Still had to feed my daughter so made her some pasta. Drained it over the sink but didn't then put the colander over a pan and walked off - looking at huge scar on my foot ........

Brianmaysmagicfingers · 12/02/2020 20:46

Snapped my Achilles’ tendon while just walking.

Had a cup of boiling water split in two and pour all over my stomach.

Broke my thumb putting on a cardigan too vigorously and accidentally punched the wall.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 12/02/2020 20:46

i think you should go get it looked at as soon as possible....isn't it any burn bigger than the palm of your hand needs urgent medical attention?

keep a cold compress on it in the mean time. ...lint free cloth and cool water

Sexnotgender · 12/02/2020 20:50

Ouch @DivisionBellesFlowers that sounds sore!

OP I hope you’ve been running your burn under cool water.

Heismyopendoor · 12/02/2020 20:51

Haha @DivisionBelles that happened to me at home a few months ago. I couldn’t tell DH what happened as I was too embarrassed and just told him we needed a new loo seat and not to ask questions 😂

Hope you feel better soon @MrsPear. If it cheers you up, I’ve got two sores just under my butt as I was on my exercise bike (At home) and my shorts rode up so my bare skin was rubbing off the saddle and now I’m walking like John Wayne with two plasters stuck under my bum cheeks as they were bleeding!!

TrainspottingWelsh · 12/02/2020 22:15

I had a spectacular fall when riding that could have been really serious, but resulted in nothing more than a few bruises and minor grazes. Less than an hour later on my own feet I broke a wrist falling over a jumping pole that was on the floor, on lovely soft grass.

I've also poured a pan of boiling water over myself. Draining potatoes over the sink I tipped the pan towards me, instead of the other way over the sink and colander. I haven't a clue what I was thinking when I did it.

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MrsPear · 12/02/2020 22:53

Is it wrong that I’m comforted by other people’s daft ness? Particularly heismyopendoor who made me chuckle. As for my sore thigh even ds1 agrees it’s looking much better. It is pink now rather than bright red although there are a three very sore bits particularly near my knicker line. Smaller pants rather than short style tomorrow. I’ll see how I get on. I’m still confused how the pan handle snapped off. Plus I really think I scared my boys - big cuddles at bed time with lots of stories.

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CheddarCheesy · 12/02/2020 23:01

I went on a hike last weekend and got a blister. On my foot? Nope, on my bum cheek from my pants chafing as I walked Blush

exWifebeginsAgainat46 · 17/02/2020 10:29

little finger on my right hand and yes, had it reattached. i degloved my forefinger as well and fucked all the tendons up. luckily i am left- handed, and luckily the surgeon who fixed me gave up his Sunday afternoon to do 5 hours of surgery and sort me out.

the only issue i have is that when they took the pins out my little finger contracted and now it looks like i’m always trying to be posh if i drink from a cup in that hand.

i’m very lucky. it could have been my thigh; or my neck if i’d got any further. i was quite a long way from the road, somewhere i wasn’t supposed to be and there was nobody about.

amusedbush · 17/02/2020 10:46

I fractured my ankle just walking along the street. I was sober as a judge, wearing normal trainers, but my foot rolled and I hit the deck like a sack of shit.

I got up and walked around for the rest of the day (we were in Paris, it was the last day of our holiday), but when I woke up the next morning it was black and blue.