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What is the worst accident you’ve had?

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Theearthisntflat · 27/12/2023 19:18

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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Anotheronenearlydone · 30/12/2023 10:01

Rocksonabeach · 29/12/2023 21:54

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.

Jesus Christ this is horrendous!

I am so sorry your colleagues were all so fucking awful to you.

Anotheronenearlydone · 30/12/2023 10:02

I feel almost hypnotised by this thread - all of these stories are making me shiver but I can't stop reading!

Beetlebumm · 30/12/2023 11:25

@Anotheronenearlydone

I know! I'm wincing at the pain others have experienced x

BaffledOnceAgain · 15/01/2024 20:34

BaffledOnceAgain · 27/12/2023 22:50

Now wondering from the poster above with dyspraxia if I should be considering it too?!

Chipped the front off my pelvis falling on top of my son's ice skate and then drove 15 miles home.

Broke all 3 bones in my arm in a failed vault at gymnastics.

Fractured my knee cap playing kiss chase.

Broke my toe playing football last year. Broke the same one 20 years earlier when someone jumped across a dance floor onto it.

Torn the tendon in my big toe by slipping on a wet wooden fall and ending with big toe under my foot. It has never bent since.

Sprained my ankle sliding down a pole of an old high slide.

Broke my finger trapping it between two plastic swing ball racquets.

Broke my finger trapping it between a door handle and the crutch I was using for my fractured knee cap.

Two black eyes from falling forwards on to the table edge on a swinging chair.

Fell full length down a spiral wooden staircase at school an hour after they said I couldn't have any more xrays for two years.

Tore my quad muscle kicking a rugby ball on a school trip (I was a teacher and the Head was neither impressed, nor sympathetic!)

Tore an abdo muscle spontaneously at 8 months pregnant.

Fell off a desk at school and landed on my knee cap. Fell over in the sea on a school trip and landed my knee cap on a rock.

Fell over an infant chair whilst carrying three plastic fish tanks and landed on my knee cap on a concrete floor at work (school).

Tore my bicep when a canoeist came sideways into me on a wave whilst I was bodyboarding.

More painful than all of these was self-catheterising after the birth of my eldest when everything was too swollen. Or being stitched without anaesthetic after the birth.

After typing this, an old lady drove into my legs as I was walking along the pavement ten days ago. Fortunately, she was going so slowly that my knees weren't even bruised, although swollen, and my hip, back and neck are sore from trying to jump back and contorting myself weirdly in a hurry!

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 15/01/2024 20:56
  1. I’m osteoporotic and fell over in the dark onto my bedpost (this sounds stupid but I live in a narrow room and have roughy 1ft on each side of the bed). Cue two ribs absolutely crushed. I took some cocodamol and went on with my day. Then shifted somehow in my sleep after a couple of weeks (when I say crushed, they have healed actually crossed over) in my sleep and punctured a lung with them. Chest drains are not fun and I do not recommend.
  2. Bike accident. Very old bike and we hit a root on a path and one of the supports for the mudguard got caught in the wheel and I went head over heels. Bumps and bruises only so I walked to my one hour long train journey. At the other end I decided to get on the bike again (also sounds stupid and this one actually was but I was achy) and about two minutes in when the same thing caught in the same wheel and I went head over heels again and this time it was on a road and the bike clonked me on the head. I also snapped the tip off my elbow.
  3. More osteoporosis - I made a misstep off a kerb - a normal kerb to the pavement and heard a snap. It was a bone in my foot. During lockdown so really not good news.
  4. Bonus: I’ve technically died twice. During acute kidney failure I was put on dialysis and the first time the machine went on my heart stopped and my circulation collapsed. It was eerie as I said “I’m dying” and collapsed, then turned into Carry On as nine attractive doctors rushed in to hoist my gown up (a lot of tubes and wires inside you in A&E and I’d gone in with a focus on wearing some clothes for decency rather than underclothes) and shove massive amounts of adrenaline into me. After a couple of hours the machine malfunctioned. Once they’d sorted the issue out the crash team just lined up in my room for when they restarted it. Sure enough, heart stopped again.
Abelard40 · 15/01/2024 21:02

Crossed a road and got knocked over.. woke up in ambulance and long term facial nerve problems since. Hardback books in my bag saved my life though.

Girl at primary school swung a kg weight at my head, missed my eye.

Numerous bone breakages.

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