Has anyone else had any stupid injuries lately?

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I tried to squash a small tin of Heinz beans to put it in the recycling and my thumb split open. I didn't even cut it on the lid, it just burst open from the pressure. It took over an hour and a half before it stopped bleeding. Now it's bloody painful.

I'm thinking of suing Heinz for trauma,(Not really)

Has anyone else done anything similarly foolish?

Really fancied a bacon roll, so heated up some oil in a pan, and when I went to lay the bacon in the pan, forgot to keep my fingers out of the way. Result = two large blisters on two fingers.

And I didn't even enjoy the bloody roll anyway.

Did you see a Doctor? I did the same in 2017, never had a scan and now a Private physio appointment to try and deal with the weakness has informed me I should have had surgery back when I did it.

Don't discount how much these things can start to effect you as you age... 😭

I tripped over a step in the pub recently. Almost 5 weeks on, I'm still recovering from the broken arm I sustained.

Worryingly, I broke the other arm less than 2 years ago. I fell off my bike. I was on a joint cycle/path wat and was coming to a corner. I could see a child with a helmet on but couldn't see the child or whether they were on a bike or scooter. In my attempt yo avoid the child at the corner, I swerved and landed in some fencing. I ended up having surgery to pins and plates in that time, which was so painful I begged the hospital not to do it this time (though I would've if there was no other way of treating it.).

Before this, the only broken bones I have had have been a broken toe around the time of the millennium and a greenstick fracture of my arm age 7. I have since been diagnosed with early stages of osteoporosis (osteopenia). Orthopaedics told me even at this stage I am at slightly higher risk of fractures than someone without it. I am now taking calcium and vitamin D supplements and will need regular bone density scans to see if it develops into osteoporosis.

I was opening the window (it's a sash window), accidentally dropped it and automatically went to try and stop it from falling by shoving my hand under it. It's a pretty heavy window and landed full force on my hand. I now have a broken little finger and badly bruised knuckles.

A couple of weeks ago DH got up off the sofa after dinner, accidentally trod on his dinner plate that he'd literally just put down and skated a couple of feet across the laminate flooring on it, before falling over backwards and landing heavily on his side on the arm of the sofa - result, two broken ribs.

We're both feeling rather sorry for ourselves and also rather stupid at the moment 😅

My great big daft labradoodle spotted a squirrel when I wasn't paying attention last week. He pulled me over and I broke my nose. Feel like a right twat.

Got the dog’s longline wrapped around my ankle as she took off across the field. Ended up with an extremely swollen, bruised ankle and then a large necrotic area developed. 12 weeks of twice a week dressings and I have a horrible scar, it looks like a bullet hole!
Frequently walking into the same cupboard edge, re bruising my hip (cupboard has only been there 15 years)
I catch my shin on the open dishwasher door nearly every time I open it and walk by it, I clearly don’t learn anything!
I have miscellaneous bruises that I don’t recall how they arose, I’m so clumsy 😵‍💫

DH was pressure washing the patio. When he popped inside, I picked it up and decided to use it to clean the cobwebs off the IKEA Octopus things that hold the socks on the washing line. They kept just spinning around from the pressure and weren't actually getting clean so I picked one up and pointed the pressure washer at it whilst I was holding it. The pressure slashed through my little finger, almost to the bone. DH came out to find me soaking wet and bleeding - he'd only been gone 2 minutes!

As a result, he won't let me use either the strimmer or the weed burner

I've just remembered a stupid accident I had 20+ years ago. Fortunately though the only injury was to my pride, which was seriously bruised!

I'm a psychiatric nurse by profession. At the time I was ward based. The Consultant on the ward was gorgeous (think George Clooney in ER). I was in the nurses station discussing a patient. He asked me to pass the patients files, which were on a shelf behind me. I got the notes, and walked a couple of steps towards him to pass them, and tripped over one of those little round stools used to put things on or off high shelves, and landed the other side of the office.

I am hoping the ending to this story was;

'Reader, I married him'.

But ouch and ouch again- that could have been really serious so glad just a bruised pride!

I cam across this on YouTube the other day. It should be a great comfort to those of you who have had a stupid injury! It's Allan Carr reading an actual letter form a claimant to his insurance company. Hilarious

OMG I've just remembered one horrible accident on the same ward. I wasn't on duty, but those that were on were traumatised by the incident.

We had quite an elderly nurse G working there. Tbh he wasn't really up to the job and should have been retired but he didn't deserve what happened.

There was a patient M who was quite clumsy. He used to stomp around the ward, oblivious to all going on around him, often accidentally bumping into people.

On a night shift G knocked on S's door because it was midnight and he was playing his music to loud. M kind of grunted at him ( normal for him) and closed the door on him. Well, not closed....more slammed. G's hand was caught in the door, he was screaming in agony, and when staff came, his thumb was literally hanging off. It had gone completely through the bone, and it was only a tiny bit of skin keeping it together. He had to have loads of surgery and plastics to mend it. I thought he'd retire after, but he came back 6 months later. His hand, while mended, was never quite the same again. Poor guy.

Great thread. Funny. Tripped over opening a bottle of wine, huge bruise all down back of arm.

I got the big toe of my right foot stuck in the flowy hem of my left trouser leg, tripped over and landed on my youngest child (on the couch, thankfully). I also stopped at a downhill junction whilst on my bike, fell into a sort of daydream because the lights were taking so long to change, somehow FORGOT I was in a cycle and tipped over. Luckily my work laptop, which was in my pannier bag was unharmed.

My daughter managed to fall down the stairs while I was on the phone to the OOO dr about an injury from a previous fall 🥴. Then the next day wrenches her knee and got her hand stuck in a window. Like at some point you just have to be more bloody careful!

I'm dyspraxic so yes, always

The one that sticks in my mind for peak comedy was when I was a teenager, around 2006. I was outside and my mum shouted from the back door that my best friend was on the (house) phone, so I ran back up the garden. However, I didn't duck under the washing line and literally clotheslined myself. I bounced backwards like Wile E Coyote, my glasses pinged off my face into the flowerbed and I almost broke my nose.

I dropped a suitcase on my head the other day pulling it down from the top of the wardrobe. It landed on my head wheels-first and bloody HURT.

I've got a veritable duck egg of a bump on my forehead now.

I'm sure you'll all be pleased to hear that I gave it a damn good thrashing with a coat hanger, because everybody knows that shouting and screaming at non-sentient objects for hurting you is a completely normal and appropriate response (ahem).

Dh was trying to rearrange a soft settee throw and ended up with a so called ' mallet finger'

It was bizarre and he ended up having an x ray and wearing a splint for ages and physio. It was such a pain and so weird how the top of your finger being all loose can affect your day to day life.
It did go back into place , but it will never be the same he thinks and happened in an instant over nothing.

I just cackled LOUDLY in public at this

OK, here are my few:

• slipped whilst hiking and one of my poles smacked me in the face. Gave myself a black eye
• banged my hand on the inside of my locker at work. Huge gash + stitches
• sliced my palm open while unscrewing the lid on a fizzy drinks bottle. Turns out there was a pointy bit of plastic sticking out of the ring that held it to the bottle

I was messing around at the top of a slide yesterday (trying to fetch a tennis ball from the top!) and slipped down (but backwards and kneeling down). At the very bottom of the slide there's a gap between it and the ground. I fell, backwards, landing on my back with my legs folded underneath me.

My ankles and knees hurt so much. But my god I laughed SO much.

I don't think I retrieved the tennis ball either....

And for a moment as I landed as I said out loud to DH "Oh god I broke both my ankles. How will I explain this to the doctors in A&E?"

😂😂😂

There are big moveable lights over the tables in our operating theatres. They're attached to the wall by a long, jointed metal 'arm' which can be swung/moved around as needed. I was operating one day and needed to change sides quickly so ducked under the arm, except I didn't duck long enough, came up fast and cracked the top of my head so hard I split it open. A colleague had to quickly scrub in and take over while I sat on the floor with cartoon stars revolving around my head and holding a puppy pad on it to stop the bleeding. Everyone has banged their heads on those arms at some stage but not quite as hard as I managed to 😄

Walked out of my garage. Got my foot tangled in a tarpaulin I didn't avoid as I normally did because I was eating a sausage (a real sausage!) and fell and cut my knee and broke my finger.

I've just remembered another accident, in 2018.

We were in Brighton for the weekend and I stepped out in front of a Deliveroo cyclist and he hit me in the leg leaving a huge gaping wound in my calf. I had to go to a&e and needed 13 stitches in my leg.

My sister as a child managed to get a crochet needle through her finger. Don't ask me how but she had to go to A&E to get it out.

OMG...some of these are horrific.... but I think I've beaten the lot. Nearly three months we had a post Covid family reunion. Big slap up meal, lovely food and wine (lots!!). After the meal we drank at the restaurant bar. I was, I confess, a little pissed, but happy. Next thing I know I'd fallen backwards with a mighty thump. Turned out I had 6 broken ribs, and a brain bleed because I'd cracked my head. I was in hospital for a week. Never broken a bone in my life..... I'm just 69. I think I should stay at home in the future.

This was right at the start of the pandemic, so noooooooooo!!!! It wasn't that bad, it swelled up a little but not hugely at all and I was walking normally within a few days. I remember being surprised it ached for so long. I remember being quite impressed with myself for managing to injure myself by following government guidance to stay at home/ sit on the sofa😂