What is the worst accident you’ve had?

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Thought this would be interesting to read peoples stories.

All mine have generally involved sharp objects. Knives, graters, rocks!

I think the worst was walking in Spain across a very sharp and rocky rocks when I tripped (wasn’t clever enough to be wearing shoes, I was on the beach before I decided to walk), I proceeded to slice the top of my big toe off on the rock. With toe flapping and blood dripping I somehow had to hop to get back and have top of my toe reattached. That wasn’t much fun.

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Don't read the last paragraph of this is you get easily queasy.

For me I fell off a horse while cantering and ended up being trampled on. Got up and went to horse I was riding and he turned around and bit my leg.

Now the gorey bit - DD got her chin stuck under the grab rail on the bath, pulled her head back and just about ripped out four lower teeth - I was naked at time in the shower. She had to wait until the afternoon to have an operation to remove them as she'd just had her breakfast - the poor thing was walking around with her dress covered in blood (didn't want to remove as it had to go over head) and her teeth hanging out.

Stood on a dressmaking pin that went into my foot and broke. Had to have an operation to remove both parts because I have wonky feet!

Went to get on a motorbike and just sort of kept going, splatted the road on the other side of the bike!

Slipped in some beer (I was barefoot) and somehow wrapped my leg underneath my back resulting in a misplaced kneecap! I honestly don’t know how bad the pain was because I was a tad the worse for wear!

I remembered another that left me in hospital.

I was cooking (microwaving) my amazing hot chocolate sauce with one of the main ingredients being golden syrup. Once I saw the sauce was boiling nicely I went to take it out but it slipped, covering my chin, parts of my face, chest and arms with delicious boiling syrup. To say painful is an understatement! That trigger burnt for hours.

Also, I partially chopped my little finger off. I was getting every last bit of moussaka out of its little foil container I'd cooked it in, holding it in my left hand while using a standard knife (not a sharp one) and with my desire to not leave a scrap the knife went through the foil and through my finger. My determination to not leave any behind left my finger hanging. I didn't realise I'd done anything until I saw the blood dripping down my arm.

The worst part of that story is that the butcher of a nurse didn't use any numbing to 'stick' it back together, yes, STICK! That bugger wasn't going to stick back together. She was basically pushing all the guts of my finger back in without an injection. That was hell. I don't think I'd said fuck in front of my mother until that day.

I still have no feeling where the scar is. It's completely numb, but the butcher nurse certainly left a scar - ON MY MEMORY!!!!!

PS - reading these, I will never get on a horse!

Ouch!!

Just after Christmas 2002, I was at my sister's and she asked me to put ice cream in a bowl for niece. It was Haagen Dasz and rock solid. I was digging away with a spoon and got a couple of shavings in a bowl and the spoon handle went in the palm of my hand and up to my wrist.

It was very painful and for a few seconds, I didn't realise how far it had gone in, I just held my wrist with my left, muttering, "Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck..."

Sis called through to ask if I'd found the ice cream and I said I needed a hand. As she came through, I held my hand up in a mute show.

"Oh, hah dee bloody hah. Very convincing," she said and bustled past (she's a nurse). I said, "It's not a joke and she looked, then went, "Aah, OK." We had to wait half an hour for her husband to come home, so she could drive me to hospital.

They pulled it out, did an ultrasound and confirmed no tendon / nerve damage, sluiced it and dressed it, then told my sister she could change the dressings!

Age 11 I lifted myself up to get out of a swimming pool. Hand slipped and I came down on my front teeth. That's a sound that never leaves you. Years and years of dentistry followed.

A train spooked my horse and I came off and landed on my bum with my legs straight out and broke my coccyx.

When I was 16 I had a rotational fall showjumping, pony stumbled on landing and rolled over me. I had a fractured spine, nose, all the fingers on one had broken, skinned legs from friction, and really bad concussion despite wearing a hat. I was very lucky though! Could have been so much else. I was back riding as soon as I could and it didn't really put me off, still have a horse now although she is retired and I don't ride her.

Slipped on a wet marble floor at a temple in Myanmar and broke my wrist. Not actually that bad - the medical care was excellent and the anaesthetist kept me entertained with stories of his favourite British rock bands while half the orthopaedic team hung off my wrist to get it back into position!

@Vitriolinsanity both of those examples made my fanny pout (sorry)

The teeth thing is a bit special isn't it?

Had a bath after a 10 mile run, during which I'd had no food or gels (so low blood sugar). Was feeling fine until I stood up, at which point I fainted briefly and hit my head on the taps. Sat down again in the bath, took out the water (in case it happened again and I drowned), washed my hair sat down then felt fine to try again. Decided that if I felt faint again I'd sit on the side of the bath so I just had to swing my legs over. Bad decision.

I stood up, felt faint so sat down. Fainted completely and fell backwards, hitting my dead on the edge of the radiator and thus knocking myself out.

Came to a few minutes later. Had to open my mouth to pull my upper incisor out of my bottom lip, and get my arm away from the radiator where it had landed.

Ended up with 2nd degree burns from my shoulder to my elbow, in the pattern of the radiator. Just to make it worse, when dp came in, drunk, he decided the top layer of skin needed to be rubbed off, so it got infected. The nurse I saw the next day was surprised I'd got the injury from a radiator.

Had the dressing changed multiple times over the next few weeks and now, 5 years later, there's almost no sign.

That sounds like a lyric by The Smiths

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think I am another accident-prone person

plugged in a record player and got a bad electric shock from it carpet set fire and I was blown to the other side of the room

fell out of bed and broke fingers and toes

riding my bike downhill and my bike swerved on the gravel came off my knee wide open and my left palm needed hospital treatment all mum was worried about was if I had damaged my new glasses!

dislocated my shoulder being swung into a wall and walked around for a week before I had it treated

stood on a rake went into my foot had my tetanus then had crippling stomach problems turns out tetanus injections don't agree with me!

opening one of those blessed corned beef cans and sliced my hand open hate those damn tins

Chain came off my Chopper, straight over the handlebars, snapped my front tooth in half. Week after, same thing, broke my arm massive gash on my ankle.

Catching in a friend’s horse, she decided she didn’t like the other nearby horse and went for her, but I was in the way. She trod on the back of my knee, slid down my calf as she took off after the other horse, sliced almost all the way down to the bone. The muscle was visible down my calf, moves like a piston! A big flap of skin/all the adipose had to be removed then grafted. The graft site was more painful than the wound, bandages grew in because I heal very quickly, so I did all my own dressings. waves at people who recognise me

Bloody horses 😂 why do we do it?!

I cut the palm of my hand open with a craft knife (long story not worth repeating).
I went to A&E and had to wait several hours, during which the flesh shrank back. The pain of the anaesthetic injections was agonising (worse than childbirth).
I had five stitches and apparently it wasn't stitched correctly as I ended up with a cicatrised scar (basically it all contracted) so I couldn't flatten my hand.
I had to attend physio and massage it as the nerve ends caused an awful nettle rash sensation as they healed. I was also pregnant (although I didn't onow it when I hurt myself), so really needed two fully functioning hands.
When the hard skin (scar tissue?) builds up too much even now, well over twenty years later, the skin splits down to a very sensitive layer.
This is a picture I've just taken to illustrate.
In terms of overall pain and the longevity of it, this in is the winner for me.

Been thrown from a horse and then it tap dancing on my back afterwards. A broken spine hurts a bit!

Doing woodwork in school and not paying attention... ended up cutting off the top of my finger!! It wasn't that much but it was bleeding a lot and the tip was being held on with just a thin bit of skin. It didn't hurt at the time, I suppose because of adrenaline and all that. But about half an hour after, I started feeling really sick and was in a cold sweat. I almost fainted at the top of the stairs which would've made it even worse! Then the pain set in and it bloody hurt like hell!!!!!! I don't have any interesting pics as it grew back and didn't even scar!

Worst in terms of pain.

At staff breaktime and a colleague accidentally dropped her cup of fresh tea down my top. It was a very hot day. I screamed and she laughed and I said that went all over my breast and she said good job you have two then. And waved me off. I saw the school receptionist who was supposed to be first aid trained and she said - should be ok it’s a hot day and will cool quicker. 😕
by then I was feeling very very faint and literally like my chest was on fire. I phoned 999, ambulance came and the deputy heads office which was opposite the main office told me I was being dramatic over a cup of tea!

Ambulance arrived and whipped me off to the burns department as by then my entire chest had blisters and literally my nylon bra had mixed with burnt and blistered flesh. I spent 4 weeks in hospital and was so ill. Have massive scarring across both breasts - it’s faded now but this is 20 years later.
That was the worst pain ever except a burst appendix. Never got an apology either or any compensation as you just didn’t 20 years ago certainly not in that type of school.

I’m a bit strange in that I’m incredibly clumsy but almost never hurt myself. My theory is that I’m just used to it now and manage to fall gently or start and trip and then recover.

I even used to ride horses for years and the worst that happened was some cracked ribs and a badly bulging disc from falling off a horse straight onto my bum.

They had a very sturdy wooden bench in my highschool playground, not fixed to the tarmac and kids used to hurdle it. The frame of it, legs and armrests, were about 10 cm by 10 cm.

I was 12 and decided to try, foolishly unaware that I wasn't the athlete I had imagined I was. I clipped the back and knocked it over, the edge of the seat clattered the backs of my knees and my face went down into a leg, which was coming up.

I picked it up and was surprised at how much blood there was. The art teacher scurried over and grabbed me, I was apologising and said I'd clean the blood off. He said, "Come with me!" and grabbed my arm, marching me off to the office.

At that point, I started crying, as I was terrified I was in the shit. He told me later I'd been motionless for a good two minutes.

An X-Ray showed my nose was broken across the bridge and the backs of my eye sockets were cracked. The doctor laughed, "Topped like a boiled egg!"

I was sent to school next day and my sister and a big lad had to help me off the bus. The school nurse was furious, I spent the day lying on a bench in her room.

Christ that's horrific you poor thing!!!

I fell off a ladder two years ago whilst hanging Christmas lights and shattered my wrist into pieces, and broke my leg. Festive.