Bloody hell - that HURT! I'm an idiot.

[Vinosaurus]

Just burnt the tip of two fingers (one on each hand), whilst making a once in a blue moon fry up for DH and I. Was trying not to break the yolk and got far too close to the oil, which splashed up.

Jesus wept, it was excruciating. I cried, and I haven't done that from pain since I was a kid. Can't take them out of the ice cold bowl of water I've had them in for the past 45 minutes for more than 30 seconds without the searing pain coming back (writing this using the dictation function!).

Shall I just amputate and get it over with (Melodramatic? Me?).

Owowowowow.

When I was a child, I was warming up some milk on our electric hob except I didn’t think the ring was working as it wasn’t turning red as usual. So I took the pan off and decided in my infinite wisdom to check if the ring was heating up by placing my hand palm down on it.

It was most definitely heating up. 😖 I can still remember the pain.

so sorry op and the first few posters... I am unable to read further as they are making me queasy and I do not want to topple ffrom my seat and join you with another entry to the idiot injuries list. I already have several entries registered under my name, from shutting head in car door (it was a windy day) feet legs, arms, hands in car door. walking into things, stubbing toe on things, getting my toe caught under the cooker... etc, etc, etc.

Many years ago I got a new electric oven with flat grey coloured plates on top, rather than those spiral rings that go red. These didn't change colour at all. In a moment of stupidity I put the flat of my hand on one to see if it was warming up. Every pad on my fingers and palm stuck momentarily to it

I spent the next few days carrying a blue ice pack in that hand. I had to tie it to my hand at night, otherwise the pain woke me up if it wasn't there.

Please don't put anything on it without advice from a professional. I have fond memories of the thread where the OPs DH had severe sunburn and an astonishing array of condiments were recommended. You could have made a meal out of him by the end of the thread.

I burnt my wrist and then five days or so later I managed to burn the same spot on the same wrist. Nearly a year later I still have a burn shaped mark there.

Next time, crack the egg into a bowl and slowly tip it in that way. Would mean you don’t need to crack it on the frying pan.

My lovely bruises which I did at work. I work in a supermarket and as I reached up to get what I needed, I fell and landed on some totes. This is my upper thigh and arm...and they hurt

Burns are horrific.

I was sanding, lying flat doing a threshold. I passed the sander over my head to do the other side. Of course I dropped it-on my eye. The bruising was horrendous. I spent the day in A&E then the eye clinic. I tried to disguise it for work, but it was visible under the tattoo covering foundation! The kids were fascinated.

I once too a cast iron Dutch oven casserole dish out of the oven, with gloves. Put it on the hot, put the oven gloves away and then took the lid off. It took a few seconds to realise the freezing cold pain I was feeling was due to the fresh out of the oven hot lid! It hurt like anything, and like you, every time I took my hand out of the cold water it hurt again. I found, after a few hours of my hand in cold water, just letting it go to room temp made it much easier to take it out.
Here's some nice cold gin, fresh from the freezer, to either hold, or drink. Your choice ;)

I managed to stitch a handbag to my finger at work a few years ago...had to go to A&E with the bag still attached. That raised some eyebrows in the waiting room, and a "well that's a first" from the Dr.

Oh and I also stepped out the shower once and slipped, that one cost me 2 cracked ribs and a bruise the size of a small country.

When dd was 4 months, we had a night light outside the upstairs hallway. It was a teapot shape made out of China. Anyway one day, dh decided to Hoover and unplugged the night light. He then dropped it and the handle broke off with a rugged spike left. He said he would fix it and plugged it back in. I decided the hallway would be a good place to sit whilst playing with dd. I misjudged my space and promptly sat on the the spikey, broken night light. I needed 6 stitches on my arse and couldn't sit properly for ages!
When ds was a newborn, we bought a rug as we thought it would be safer than the wooden flooring we had (couldn't afford to lay carpet at the time!) It was rolled up and I was so excited (!) To use it that i decided to unroll it. I'd just had a forceps birth with a 3rd degree tear. I stood with my legs either side of the rug and proceeded to unroll. It unrolled faster than I intended and my feet were slipping with the lack of grip on the floor. I ended up doing the splits and crying until my DH could rescue me. Sigh

@Vinosaurus
I hoofed over a kettle that had just boiled {it was on the floor} and scalded my sock covered foot- Even though I sprayed it with cold water for 20 minutes, blisters were raising before my eyes- It hurt so much.

It will hurt when you take the burned/scalded area out of the cold water- they say any burn bigger than a 10 p piece needs looking at by a Doctor
Pain is a good sign, as it shows nerves haven't been damaged.

Burns/scalds can get infected, so do get medical help if it looks bad.
Any peeled away skin they remove with scissors..

My scalded foot was treated by nurses at the GP surgery- Bless them.

Burns and scalds do need good wound care.

One of the ''Should have gone to the Doctor's sooner'' stories features a young man I know.

He was a teenager, and did his own washing. All his boxers were blowing in the wind, and still damp, so he 'went commando'.

He was wearing jeans with a really vicious zip, went for a pee, {away from home} and caught his foreskin in the zip.
He panicked, pulled the jeans, and tore the end of the foreskin badly.

He didn't tell anyone- and it healed itself with a lumpy scar.

I advised him to see his GP, who said ''That requires circumcision''...

The lad wasn't aware that casualty units have zip breakers for zip bite injuries...

He is pleased to have had the op done, though- but a quick trip to Casualty would have spared months of anguish for him, and pain.

Got a new cooker a few months ago, and somehow it has fucked with my internal map of where I should put myself. I've never had so many burns from hot oven shelves, boiling oil splashes and kettle steam attacks. I swear things have only shifted a centimetre or so, if that. I can't trust myself not to lop off a hand or at least a finger with a sharp knife, so I buy relatively cheap ones and keep them blunt for my own safety.

Take some painkillers as well, it will help.

@trappedsincesundaymorn

I managed to stitch a handbag to my finger at work a few years ago...had to go to A&E with the bag still attached. That raised some eyebrows in the waiting room, and a "well that's a first" from the Dr.

That is IMPRESSIVE! 🥇😱😳

That is IMPRESSIVE!

why thank you. Although the irony was I was training somebody at the time. My brain screamed "ow fuckity ow ow ow bollocks shit owwww", and my mouth said..."so let that be a warning as to what can happen sometimes, now could you fetch the 1st aider please?", as cool as ice.

Blimey! Fingers in iced water for 45 minutes? I do hope DP's egg wasn't neglected during this time.

As a teenager I put my finger on the exhaust of the lawnmower that had been run I g for about an hour 🤬

(Mum was mowingbthe lawn and a bit cane off the mower and I saud I think it's come off of here).

That's the stupidest & most painful thing I remember doing)

Weirdly I reading this thread holding a glass full of ice and water after I picked up an oven tin that had been on the (burning) gas hob. The pain is excruciating if i putthe glass down. It’s been 2 hours. I feel like a total wimp. The nhs guidance says just cold water And no ice but I tried that and it was unbearable.
I have had loads of medical procedures and thought I was stoic. But apparently not!

@heartonastring

When dd was 4 months, we had a night light outside the upstairs hallway. It was a teapot shape made out of China. Anyway one day, dh decided to Hoover and unplugged the night light. He then dropped it and the handle broke off with a rugged spike left. He said he would fix it and plugged it back in. I decided the hallway would be a good place to sit whilst playing with dd. I misjudged my space and promptly sat on the the spikey, broken night light. I needed 6 stitches on my arse and couldn't sit properly for ages! When ds was a newborn, we bought a rug as we thought it would be safer than the wooden flooring we had (couldn't afford to lay carpet at the time!) It was rolled up and I was so excited (!) To use it that i decided to unroll it. I'd just had a forceps birth with a 3rd degree tear. I stood with my legs either side of the rug and proceeded to unroll. It unrolled faster than I intended and my feet were slipping with the lack of grip on the floor. I ended up doing the splits and crying until my DH could rescue me. Sigh

I actually winced at your second one

OUCH!

@Soubriquet, I can laugh about it now! Not so funny at the time!

@Gingaaarghpussy

I tripped over my toe the other day and now have a large bruise on my shoulder and lower arm where I hit a corner wall. I've also tripped over the same toe up a step and ended up with a large bruise and carpet burn on my knee. My 2nd toe is longer than my big toe, so if I rush, it bends under, et voila, trip hazard,. I now wear slippers all the time.

Me too!

The things Iv caught it on!

Slippers or sliders always now.

Oh gosh I’ve become somewhat accident prone over the last few years.

As far as I remember it started with this...

DH decided he wanted to hire a sunbed for a couple of weeks. Was supposed to a stand up one but they had run out so gave a lie down bed instead which meant moving the sofa from the spare room in order to fit it in. DH decided to store the sofa in our bedroom up on its side. Unbeknownst to me he had put it right in from of the light switch. Later that evening having forgotten all about the sunbed and sofa I went to go change into my PJ’s went to turn on the light switch and walked smack into the hard back of the sofa which hit right back busting my eyebrow. Still have a nice scar from that one.

A year later came home from a boozy lunch, plating up dinner for the kids I finally went to sit down with my own meal. I had my lovely bowl of chilli in one hand and a glass of water in the other. Tripped over my rug, unable to save myself with my hands full, I fell smack into the fireplace. I smashed a bowl of hot chilli into my face and broke the plate cutting my head, and nose. That one required a trip to A&E to get glued back together. The following days I looked like I had been run over, cuts all over my face a swollen nose and two black eyes. Still have the scars from that one too!!

Most recently and the most painful by far was trapping my index finger in a car door. Windy day, trying to exit the car and the wind blew the door completely shut onto my index finger as I didn’t quiet manage to move my hand fast enough. My god the instant searing pain, I was so sure it was broken, heavy Audi door completely shut on it I thought there was no way it couldn’t be a mangled mess. I was so frightened of how bad it would be I did not dare look for fear of passing out. The pain made me so nauseous I spent a good while being sick and then dry heaving. Luckily it hadn’t broken but it had badly bruised the nail which turned black and the swelling took months to properly go down and for the feeling in my fingertip to fully return. Ever since I live in fear of trapped fingers in doors, even just the thought sends me all funny

I have found my people. In the fortnight after I qualified as a first aider as I take pupils on an overseas residential excursion I had to perform first aid on myself 3 times .

First fell headlong and cut my knee with a nasty skin flap which continued to open back up painfully and bleed every time I changed gear on the hour long drive home.

New chef standard knife slipped when I was chopping an onion.

Boiling eggs for breakfast I like them soft everyone else hard so had tipped mine into cold water. Plunged my hand into to wrong (bubbling vigorously) pot .

I am really good at looking after 75 12 year olds just not myself.