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Bizarre minor injuries

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 31/07/2022 19:40

I have given myself the tiniest possible burn blister, head of a pin tiny. I cut myself a piece of bread to toast and didn't notice that there was a small blob of jam on the bread board. I toasted it, took it out of the toaster with tongs and then held it to steady it while I buttered and managed to put my finger on the tiny blob of jam that had been toasted to super hot. I yelped and DH thought I had cut myself or something serious. Grin

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TokyoTen · 31/07/2022 21:05

I papercut my earlobe whilst fanning myself. Blood everywhere.

geminiflanagan · 31/07/2022 21:09

I once walked into the bedpost at the foot of the bad and kneed it so hard, I couldn't walk properly for days. Actually had to take the day off work as I couldn't bear any weight on it for a good 24hrs. Prob should have had it checked out really

sueelleker · 31/07/2022 21:11

Having a regular chiropractic massage, I got my thumbnail caught between two ribs and all the intercostal muscles went into spasm. Took 3 further sessions to sort them out!

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Notjustabrunette · 31/07/2022 21:13

I split my lip and nearly knocked my front teeth out trying to take apart a large cardboard box. A wardrobe had come in it and I was trying to break it down to put outside for recycling. What I didn’t know was there was still a piece of wood in there, it shot out and hit me in the face. I was about to go to work and had to get changed as there was blood splattered all over my top. I also had to hold ice cubes wrapped in a tea towel on my lip on the bus on the way to work. It was an eventful morning.

Utini · 31/07/2022 21:13

I somehow managed to punch myself in the nose while taking a bite of an apple at work. Gave myself a small nose bleed.

Hotenoughtoburnasausage · 31/07/2022 21:13

Hanging out washing ddog didn't see it was me and went to attack.... Big rottweiler.. Dislocated my knee.

FuckingHateRats · 31/07/2022 21:16

I'm currently recovering from an incredibly painful torn tricep. .

Which happened throwing a ball for my dog :/

DeepSeededUrbanDecay · 31/07/2022 21:16

I tripped over a hedgehog, and fell into stinging nettles.

TeddyBeans · 31/07/2022 21:21

Sneezed while bending over to pick something up off the floor. Pulled a muscle in my back that hurt for a week 🤦‍♀️

DieDeutschLehrerin · 31/07/2022 21:22

Opened the car door into my face last week and have myself a conspicuous bruise in the middle of my forehead.

Shut the boot onto my boob.

Caught my little toe round a chair leg and broke it.

Stepped back the wrong way off a step stool and really hurt my coccyx.

Climbed up my sister's bunk Ladder after my dad had taken the carpet up and it slipped and collapsed. Fell back on top of it and had a bruise for each rung all the way up the back of my body.

Got cement mix in my eye and had to be doused in eye wash (got my husband out of that one though)

Also I have just removed the world's tiniest splinter or Thorn from the outside top of DS's ear. He had no idea it was there.

ScampiFlies · 31/07/2022 21:24

I'm fairly sure I broke my finger a couple of months ago changing a bed.
I once pulled a muscle in my back stepping onto a bus whilst coughing. It was sore for two weeks.

rainbowzebra05 · 31/07/2022 21:28

I burst the capillaries in my thighs doing a hand jive many years ago now. They were purple for ages and I ended up walking like a cowboy where they'd seized up.

Dontlickthetrolley · 31/07/2022 21:30

I slit my wrist - flushing the toilet! The handle snapped and caught my wrist, 25 years later, the scar is still quite prominent 🤦‍♀️

Tarkan · 31/07/2022 21:31

I'll likely forget some and have to come back later.

Right now I'm nursing a twisted ankle after I tried to nip to the loo in the dark at the cinema two weeks ago and missed a step at the end of the aisle. Instead of walking left to the door I somehow fell to the right and ended up on my back. Must have looked amazingly acrobatic.

As a kid I slipped forward off a swing on holiday and cracked my collarbone on the chains.

I've had a knife stuck in my hand thanks to an avocado (I pop the stone out without any sharp implements now) and once when I was making jewellery I had a really sharp file for making the hole in a bead wider. Accidentally stuck that halfway through my finger.

A glass broke with my hand inside it when doing the dishes and took a slice off my pinky finger. It didn't fully heal so I have a dent out of it now.

I pulled a lamp off an overhead shelf which hit me in the nose and dented it permanently.

Shut my nipple into a door hinge.

Broke my pinky toe when I caught it in the spine of a book that was sticking out of my bookcase.

Slipped on some water in the kitchen and ended up horizontal before I crashed down to the ground.

The night I met DH I fell over in the road and scraped off the skin all around my right elbow (he picked me up and patched me up afterwards 🥰)

I once jumped onto a skateboard which went flying one way and I went the other, small but deep hole in my elbow from that.

And the last one I can remember right now, I tripped on a bookcase at the top of the stairs at my granny's house and literally flew down them all head first. I didn't touch the ground until the bottom step.

overitall1 · 31/07/2022 21:37

Snapped the tendon in my finger making the bed. Tucking the sheet under the mattress here a snap. No pain but pulled out my hand and had a really floppy finger! Braced it up and it's now as good as new.

Wbeezer · 31/07/2022 21:38

İ tore my rotator cuff reaching over to switch my electric blanket off, it was very painful for ages!

Glorieta · 31/07/2022 21:38

Was wrapping the cord round the iron to put it away as DH had left it out again.
In my rage i accidently let go the cable and it swung then the plug hit me on the mouth splitting my lip

TeamSpike · 31/07/2022 21:40

I sliced my hand washing up a glass that broke with my hand inside it. Needed 3 stitches.

Dislocated my knee going down a water slide

BlueSkyHammock · 31/07/2022 21:42

My grandma had a stool similar to this. I was sat on it with my fingers wrapped under it and stung my legs. The frame wasn't secured properly and the whole thing collapsed with my hands underneath it and my body weight on top meant I couldn't get my trapped fingers out of it. I was only about 3 but I can remember it clearly

Bizarre minor injuries
Phos · 31/07/2022 21:47

Walked into a boob height sliding door lock in a hotel bathroom in the middle of the night whilst in the nude. Unattractive dodgy bruising.

Damaged a tendon in my foot by standing up. Thats it, I just stood up.

And this one was actually my mum, she knocked out a front tooth when getting a plate out of an overhead cupboard and another one fell out and landed on her chops.

Tarkan · 31/07/2022 21:47

Remembered a couple more.

Back in my skater days I tripped over my wide leg jeans stepping up a kerb and hit the pavement really hard. An old woman walking past helped me up. Grin

We used to have a 3 door car and I caught my finger in the mechanism to tilt the seat forward to get the kids out the back. They learned some new words that day and my finger turned purple instantly but was thankfully just bruised.

On holiday once as a child my brother and I shared bunk beds and we fought over who got the top one so my parents made us take turn about. One night when I was on the bottom I pretended I had fallen out of the bed overnight so the next night my parents put cushions down on the floor since it was my turn on the top bunk. I actually did fall out of it that night while asleep and hurt my back. It may have been a lot worse without the cushions.

Spanisheomellletttes · 31/07/2022 21:49

I banged my pinky nail on the bench and had to be taken to the ER because the pain was so intense, I started fainting. Breaking my leg wasn't this painful. The only other comparable pain was my drug-free child-birth, which also didn't make me faint (would have been nice).

It was especially mortifying, because it was just a bit bruised, not broken. And it looked so, so stupid in comparison to the guy virtually leaking brain juice next to me (probably wasn't his CSF...)

MrsMoastyToasty · 31/07/2022 21:49

Many years ago I fell off my front door step into a flower bed. I was going into the house at the time and had turned around to talk to my BIL. DH is a first aider. He said its nothing. The following morning I couldn't put my foot to the floor. I hadn't broken it, just badly sprained.
I am currently recovering from a broken ankle.

weshouldeatcake · 31/07/2022 21:52

Dropped a marrow on my foot and bruised it badly but some of the marrow skin got right under the big toe nail and it got really infected and swelled up. I couldn't walk on it. In the end, I had to cut the nail painfully short to scrape the marrow skin and other gunk out. It was so gross and I couldn't wear shoes for a couple of days because they wouldn't fit over my foot.

Tarkan · 31/07/2022 21:52

And another. 🙈

I was sitting backwards on a dining chair at my parents' house when I was in my mid 20s I think it was. I fell off backwards and hit my head off the doorframe and had to go to hospital to get checked out for concussion. The doctor couldn't stop laughing when I told him how I'd done it.

I also broke the chair I was sitting on, my parents still have it and haven't fixed it. When people visit they get told not to sit on that one and why. Blush I'm in my 40s now.