What's your stupidest injury?

[ForQuaintMintCat]

Fell out of bed injured my knee

Two.. when I was 7, my brother fell off a rope swing and broke both his arms and wrists and my mum made me promise to never go on one myself just incase. When I was 10, I went on and broke my wrist too 🤣

Last weekend, fell out of my mums car on the A69 when trying to get out. Grazed my knee and cut my hand.

DH needed the toilet one night..... didn't turn the light on. Tripped over his own boots which he had left in the middle of the floor, landed on the tile step into his bathroom. Broke several ribs.

Similar situation here - did the same with one of those stupid little cocktail umbrellas. Wasn't worse for the wear as it was the first drink of the night - and last because I had to go home with blurry vision and also had to wear an eye patch and have regular eye baths for a week!

Stapled my finger to a wall display with a staple gun.

Peeled down my finger instead of a vegetable.

Tore my calf getting off a train as I misjudged the height of the gap - six weeks on crutches and months of physio.

Tripped over the trailing lead on my big lab. Stand stay I said, he did. I caught my hiking boot on the lead - face planted, broke my shoulder. Nine weeks on it’s still excruciating. Physio says four months before it eases twelve months before I reach whatever strength and movement I recover . My grand age doesn’t help

Weeding out self seeded hibiscus in our front (tiny strip at front of terrace) and it snapped my finger

Caught my hand in a squirrel trap. In the loft, on my own, in the dark, balancing on the rafters.

I knew it was there and I knew it was set on a really fine trigger. But I still decided to 'test it'.

I had to climb down the loft ladder with my hand trapped in this metal thing the size of a shoe box and prise it open the incredibly strong snappy bit with a kitchen spatula. I was very lucky my fingers weren't broken.

Did my back in having a poo.

Fell down the stairs of a double decker bus and sprained my wrist.

Misjudged one step whilst chatting to a friend and broke my ankle.

Playing snowball fights in the park with DDs and their friends, went base over apex and broke my wrist.

DP wasn't impressed as he had to dig the car out of the snow and take me to A&E while DDs watched films on the TV with friends.

Dislocated finger from being kicked by a newborn foal.

Felt sick in the night, got up and went into the bathroom, fainted and smacked my face on the floor. Gave myself a black eye and a thick lip.

Broke my ankle putting on my trainers. Surgery the lot!

Tore a ligament in the ankle while picking flowers

Tore a meniscus in my right knee while shoe shopping (and they weren't even for me)

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Missed a step and messed up discs in my lower back

trying to avoid falling over something and tore my meniscus

tried to avoid stepping on something and fractured my foot

Once I sprayed hairspray on my fringe and the smell caught me off guard and caused me to sneeze so violently I pulled a muscle in my back. I was in pain for months.

Sliced a sizeable chunk off the end of my thumb using a viciously sharp sellotape dispenser

Fell off a horse, into a horse trough and bruised my bum.
The horse was stationary at the time

Did something to my hip that required weeks of crutches because I fell off an upturned plant pot I was standing on trying to see if someone was weeing in our garden side passage. Yes alcohol was involved.

Thought I’d see if I cut fit my thumb in the hole in a drinks can, I could fit it in, I didn’t realise how tight it was so I wasn’t expecting to skin half my finger when I pulled it out.

The community kitchen I was working at had loads of legs of lamb, one was too long to fit in the pressure cooker so I offered to cut it, we didn’t have a saw but we had a pair of those like big garden scissors for cutting thick branches, so I gave them a wash and used those, I slipped while doing it and the force of my hands on the scissors meant I punched myself in the face, black eye, split eyelid and concussion.

Imagine the dissapointed look on my mums face when attempting just this, i managed to staple bith thumbs together while literally about to leave the house for school...

Fell off a beer garden slide. Broke my back.