Tell me your Stupid injuries

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Tell me about your stupid injuries

Feeling very silly today. 28 years of owning horses and while doing a worm test yesterday in horse’s mouth I got my index finger caught in his molars. The finger is crushed, the bone broken and the nail spilt in two. Yesterday I had to get a tetanus jab and course of antibiotics and I’m off to see a plastic surgeon tomorrow to have the nail treated. Feeling very stupid as should have known better and now struggling with everything as it’s my right hand!

Last weekend - desperately trying to clean our empty house to move, went to put the shark wand on the skirting board and hit myself in the groin with such a force that I fell to the floor. I am still very bruised and embarrassed. (Did think I might have impaled myself at one point.) oof.

Broke both my big toes by tripping over in flip flops 🤣

A different time broke my little town by getting it stuck under the fridge door 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Using lime mortar to build a stone wall. Finished finally and in triumph, stood back and threw the trug containing remaining mortar to the slate floor whereupon the mortar splatted right back up hitting me in the face and all over my open eyes. Unbelievable pain. Washed what I could off but for some reason did nothing else that day. Agony overnight. The next morning had my kids guide me (at that point basically blind) to the local minor injuries where they drew breath in horror at the mess that used to be my left eye and had me off to hospital. Still have a scarred retina and reduced vision.
Wear goggles guys.
N. B. My kids now have ZERO interest in D. I. Y.

Fell asleep with a plastic hot water bottle on my tummy, woke up with burns

Many years ago I pushed on a drawing pin whilst putting up Xmas cards and the inner centre of the head of the pin buried itself within my thumb. I literally had just the pin sticking out of my skin which could not be pulled out. Trip to A & E and local anaesthetic in the thumb to retrieve it!

Walking in the lobby of a posh hotel checking something on my phone.Fell up 2 steps and ended up with a severely bruised hip and knee

Running round a 1’3 mini hunter trial leading my son’s pony and tripped over the last jump, tearing ligaments in my foot and I was on crutches for weeks. I was the only casualty the St John ambulance dealt with all day, a fallen mother!

I’m a Sister in a Fracture Clinic, I would like to thank you all for keeping us in regular employment.

After moving in together for the first time me and dh (then bf) went and bought posh pillows and bedding for our bed. The pillows were memory foam and really heavy. Dh and I were making the bed together and he threw one of the pillows across the bed giving me a huge black eye. He felt so guilty especially as I was telling everyone who would listhow dh had given me a black eye!

I also sprained my wrist making the bed. All I did was flick the duvet, but nobody at work believed me.

Who knew bedding was so dangerous!

Fell off a stationary bike dislocating my shoulder and breaking it.
I can still remember it in slow motion and hear the crack 😷😷😷

Fell down 1 step and did this

Currently sporting a nasty burn off the steam from my kettle. Reached for a tea bag caught the steam and jumped back. Not a mark on me so made tea, felt a bit stingy so guessed where I was hurt and rubbed sudocrem in which numbed the pain.......a little while later and I have a huge blister. Its now burst and sore and I'm having to lather in cream and bandages.

Didn't even occur to me to run my arm under the tap even when the stinging started. I know better, I have no excuse!

I also ironed over my hand as pp have, I was a child and asked to iron and my Mam said yes so didn't want to miss out but needed a wee. Ended up on the toilet with my hand in the sink...oops.. but at least I put running water on that burn!!

Four years ago I closed the car boot on my head knocking myself out. Four years on, I still suffer from regular dizzy spells as a result.

I like this post, haha! Mine (probably only some as I'm quite accident prone!) are;

-Was making a slim fast milkshake, put a makeshift lid on a mug, shook it hard and the handle of the mug came off and the sharp edge of the broken part ripped a nasty cut in my hand....still have the scar years later.

• Was holding my pet cat, DH put his remote controlled helicopter on, cat went mad, cue frantic scrabbling to get away and a nasty scratch across my arm (again, still have the scar years later)

• Fell off the bed once and jumped down right onto an upturned plug, which gashed the side of my foot open.Sooo painful, and bled alot!

You are all making me feel better 😂 I’m giggling away at the stories!! Brilliant!!

I tripped over a pair of slippers and fell arse backwards into my wardrobe. I hit the pointy corner of a storage box and had a hard bruise for weeks.

This summer- trod on the bloody rake! I didn't know people really did that. My word it hurt, and bked like a bitch. Happily I have a minor injuries unit over the road so staggered over with a wad of kitchen paper clasped to my forehead. They did an excellent job of putting me back together. Bit of a pity really as I rather fancied a Harry Potter scar.

Making bean burgers (irony...) using a hand blender. Beans got all gummed up in the blades. Turned it upside down and cleared it with my finger. Turned the machine on at the same time. Blood and what have you all over the kitchen. Have permanent nerve damage in that finger. What a chump. My friend wrote a poem about it.

Damn. That should read scarring to cornea, not retina.

I stabbed myself in the eye with a ice lolly stick as a child. Another time, there were no ice lollies left so I decided to try and eat the ice off the freezer and got both my lips stuck to it. My DM had to pour warm water over my face to release me. I had a school photo the next day with lips that looked like two burst sausages.

So many! My fave two were when I misjudged the steps up to my office at work, tripped and went flying into the office door which popped open (used my head). Fell into the office, did a forward roll and landed at the feet of my horrified colleague.
Other colleagues pissed themselves and still do. Banged head, back, legs.....

Still recovering from worst one. Jumped on trampoline at trampoline park with DS. Of course I was having fun, acting like the kid my stupid head still thinks I am. Landed badly on knee. Tore my cruciate ligament and meniscus and fractured the top of my fibia. Still hobbling now.

So many. As a teenager we had lots of power cuts in our village. I once fell down the stairs holding a candle and ended up with the metal spike from the candle holder stuck in the sole of my foot.

DH is the winner though. He once ended up in A&E while building an Ikea sofa and also broke his toe while changing DD's nappy. One of his eyebrows won't work after he fell down some stairs in a night club years ago.

He also has a fused angle now after an awful break caused by falling off his bike. No other bikes or vehicles involved - no dodgy terrain. Just him peddling and he wobbled off. Six weeks in total in hospital for three rounds of surgery.

I dislocated a rib (yes it is possible), standing in my bathroom after brushing my teeth and sighing, and relaxing.
It was agony, and I had to ask my eldest DC to help me to move so I could go and lay down and wait for it to pass.

I'm crying, especially the wide leg trousers one 😂

I tore a big chunk out of my ear on a rose bush while out running.