I think I have the oddest injury ever, do I win a prize?

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I was filing my long nails down at the weekend as I read that the virus can linger under nails despite a good 20 second wash.

And I filed so vigorously that I dislocated my own finger!

That is seriously the stupidest injury ever, right?

Unless you can entertain me with tales of equal daft ness.

I snapped a tendon by taking a dress out of a suitcase.

Rift
😂 Vision problems!!! Though if she was seeing bison in central London that would indicate problems of some kind I think

Love these!

A few weeks ago I bit into a prawn cracker, and a crumb (shard?) of it flew into my eye! It was quite painful and sore for a while but my friend and I nearly wet ourselves laughing!

I once had a cheese splinter (melted cheese that had dried on kitchen worktop) go right down the side of my nail and deeply embed itself under the nail. It then got infected and I had to use drawing ointment on a dressing to bring it out to the point of being able to retrieve it with tweezers. Unbelievably painful and also mortifying having to explain the huge dressing every day at work!

Hahahah these are very, very good!

Missed a step coming down the stairs, slipped and broke a toe.

DH was doing the recycling last week, stomped on a pizza box...... one of the plastic trivet thingies was inside and pointing up

It cracked, went through the box, through his croc and into his foot. We managed to pick out a sliver of plastic and a perfectly round piece of foam from his croc.

@Heismyopendoor I did similar. Put my hand flat on one of those old metal hob plates to see if it was hot. It had just been turned off and I burned all the skin off my palm and fingers

Another one many years ago.on a night out in Manchester at the end of the night we had just been for greasy kebab and chips and I tripped over the curb it was one of those two level curbs I was possibly wearing flimsy sandals 🤔I fell flat on my face and badly sprained my ankle ,but managed to save the kebab and chips, alcohol may have been involved ......

BertiesLanding

The physicist and magnets is the funniest thing I have read this week. Love it.

Tripped over a shadow and landed face first on concrete floor smashing 6 of my front top teeth and knocking myself out.
Similar incident a few years earlier on the stairs and ended up with dislocated elbow and broken wrist.
Too many others to mention.

@grandmasterstitch that sounds a lot worse than mine! Hope it healed up ok

Colleague once trapped a nipple in a computer at work and we had to put it in the accident book. Took ages cos we were laughing so much.

I was walking down some steps when the muscle in my left calf decided to tear. No sign it was coming; just a sudden pop noise and terrible pain. It was a huge grade 3 tear and took years to fully heal!

You people really have talent!!!!

Not really done any too spectacular - just the usual Mum: Mind the lampost.. Me: Okay - ow!

Plus checking if my perfume spray is working - yes, right in my eye!

I also - totally ours self - dislocated a kneecap when tickling my daughter while on holiday in France.

Kneecap was put back in when the French paramedics accidentally dropped the stretcher while carrying me down a spiral staircase and bashed it off a wall!

@Judashascomeintosomemoney
That’s love!

What a brilliant thread.

I broke an ankle tripping over the tennis ball I had just (badly) thrown for the dog. Indoors, on the living room carpet.

Dropped one of those butchers wooden chopping boards on my big toe. That was horrendous. Chipped a bone. Had to go to A&E.
That was a fun Boxing day!

Love some of these!

Dropped an elderly lady's mobility bath seat on my foot and broke a few bones...
(cleaner).

Here’s a pic of part of my scar from my above mentioned sink incident, but it goes about 3/4 of the way round. My purpose in life now is to tell people never to lean on sinks and to replace sinks with hairline cracks. Most of my friends are now scared of sinks so job done 😂

(Long ago) was standing on my futon which was set on pallets (so 5" off the floor?) to reach window to close...fell off sideways and fractured a bone in my foot.

Hurt my arms fasting a bra when I sat on a wasp. Made me cry with pain.

Paper cut my eyeball

I keep thinking about this one and wincing

DH broke his foot when the buckle of his Birkenstocks randomly got turned over

Well I think that’s an appropriate punishment for wearing the vile things. 😂