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!

Ouch!! That looks painful!

@limitededitionbarbie

I take it you don't want to see a photo of my scar? 🤣

They're really horrible but I was a drunken fool.

@ParentallyUnprepared

I'd love to see it

So many! Dislocated my thumb photoctopying.

Punched myself hard in the face because I turned over in bed and my hair tickled my cheek, and in my half-asleep state I thought it was a spider, and that the best way to deal with it would be to punch it.

Tripped going up the stairs carrying an open box of pins, threw the pins everywhere and then slid back down the stairs through them, thus turning myself into a human porcupine.

DH damaged all the ligaments in his lower back pushing toddler DS's chair closer to the table. He still has back pain 13 years later.

Mistook the nail polish remover bottle for the micellar water bottle. It was in the middle of rubbing my eyelid that the smell hit me. Thankfully no lasting damage.

Happens to the best of us, don't feel silly!

Ha! I did exactly this at the weekend, trying not to wince every time I move.

I was in a hotel room drying my hair when I glanced down and noticed a spider on my hand.

I screamed and punched myself in the face with the hairdryer, managing to burn my ear at the same time. I then scuttled backwards at an impressive speed and whacked the back of my legs on the wooden bed frame, causing a nasty bruise.

I looked down again and saw the "spider" on the floor. It was a tangled bit of cotton.

Randomly got super motivated to start working out and jumped rope very enthusiastically for way too long on the first day of my new routine. It messed up my ligaments for weeks. Couldn't walk up or down stairs. Horrendous.

Omg @Therewere5inthebed I’ve given myself a nosebleed whilst washing my face in the shower when my little finger went right up my nose I thought it was only me that did this

Gave myself 2 black eyes after slipping, whilst kneeling in front of the loo, whilst being sick in the loo, bashed my nose on the rim of the toilet.

Punched myself in the face trying to unstick a zip.

I have given up sports of any kind after numerous injuries. One of the more memorable occassions was when jumping at a horse show, landing hard on the front of the saddle, really bruising my pubic bone. I was in agony and had to ride home from the horse show which took over an hour. I was a teenager and was too embarrassed to tell anyone that I was in a lot of pain in that particular spot!

I have a dodgy shoulder and ever so often, I'll pull it if I've put on or taken off a top.

I once tripped over someone's feet. She was my guide runner and we needed to turn.

Racing across trampoline nets in a cave in Wales - had to be stretchered out after galloping a la Miranda causing massive ligament injuries (wheelchair for a few days and crutches for 6 weeks)

Tried to get a really close shave when a teenager - so pressed down hard with my Dad's Bic razor and took a whole strip of skin off my shin - still have slight scars 35 years on

Why I’m not allowed a real Christmas tree.

I nearly severed my thumb completely when cutting off the bottom straggly branches of a Christmas tree with a freshly sharpened serrated bread knife (obviously the best tool for the job), just before going to pick up my son from school on the last day of term.

I had visions of the perfect afternoon; peeping the tree, putting true baubles out, then taking her to pick her brother up & decorating the tree with the family in our new home for our first Christmas - DH was finishing early for Christmas that day too.

Instead, DH returned to a 7ft tree sprawling across the lounge, branches everywhere, a first aid kit & half the downstairs covered in big blood stains (every door handle I touched, the kitchen was awash with red blobs, it was splattered across the sink, blobs across the hot chocolate mugs I’d prepared, it was quite literally bloody everywhere).

I then walked in with my daughter in her pushchair, blood in her hair, 4 year old son as white as a sheet (he’s never done blood well!) & what could only be described as a red boxing glove of dressing & bandages soaked through. I mean, you could see the ruddy bone.

One A&E visit later, thumb reattached, we dressed the tree the next day & I escaped the washing up through the whole festive season.

And we found out DH is allergic to spruce trees so spent the whole of Christmas on antihistamines & sneezing.

Next year we bought a fake tree.

I also managed to get full thickness burns on the same thumb after picking up a giant 100w soldering iron (meant for big wiring jobs) without looking, but that’s a different story.

And that's just Mumsnet members!
Combination of crying with laughter and wincing at this thread

omg I'm dying along with many of you! Op horses are dangerous... think my silliest one though was slipping on the ramp for the muck heap - landed smack on my bum, not too much harm done, but later realised I was concussed and needed 2 weeks off work. Think I've been concussed about 6 or 7 times so far...

That said, when I was a lass I managed to impale my thigh on an inch-long piece of nail sticking out of a wall... no idea how, it would have been difficult but I managed it! Still have the scar.

Apologies for any spelling mistakes.

Unsurprisingly, my thumb is mostly numb now, like a plump sausage, so typing using my thumbs on the iPhone keyboard is an exercise in futility.

Ouch! I've also given myself a nosebleed in the shower with a finger up the nose.

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy they do some lovely fake trees nowadays!
Hope your dc have recovered from their early trauma 🤕

@Gindrinker43 thank you for your sterling work and endless patience x

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s given themselves a nose bleed by shoving their little finger up their nose while face washing in the shower, there are at least five of us!

This year I fell over on the beach, banged my head and gave myself concussion that took 2 weeks to settle.

A couple of months later I let go of a climbing wall having forgotten that I was about 8ft up, and fell on flat feet. Damaged ligaments in my foot and couldn't do anything for 4 months.

I stepped onto a boat in the Maldives (on our way home), went over on my ankle for no reason, got home after a very painful 23 hrs travelling to find out if broken it

Broke my tooth on a kitchen cupboard
Broke finger and tooth falling over going on a date, phone fell on my mouth

Broke tooth banging head on wall

Fell down a large rabbit hole behind our barn. I knew it was there, but was eying up the sloes for gin. Straight down to my thigh, luckily I could get out., Might have done something to the ligaments in my hip because walking sitting standing sleeping are agony, but at least it's improving.