What has been your strangest injury? (Warning! Thread contains gory images)

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I would when I was about 8 , being on the middle of a slide and falling off it , injuring my back

Fell out of a moving car when I was 3, no one noticed for 3 miles I was gone , a scar on my leg from that.

Pinky finger twisted round until it’s completely shattered and was just a bag of bones inside after getting thrown from a horse and it got caught up in saddle

Compartment syndrome from being stood on by a horse, bottom calf muscle died and got necrotic so had to be cut away and skin grafted over.

Broke 2 fingers and knocked myself out falling downstairs in a pub.

Broke 2 ribs when my dog knocked me over while he was chasing the cat.

Tore my anterior cruciate ligament and partially dislocated my kneecap parachute jumping (well, strictly speaking it was hitting the ground that did the damage - the jumping bit was fine)

Broke my nose when I slipped while running for a night bus in Trafalgar Square and headbutted a litter bin

Got a very badly bruised tit when I was hit in the chest by a bit of a firework

Brigante9 how did that actually happen?? I'm horsey (and a bit of a wuss around big horses!) and something like that is my worst fear!!

Brigante how the f**k did a horse's hoof do that??!! Yikes!
My hand slipped as I pulled the duvet up and I punched myself in the face. I also bit my tongue in my sleep and made it bleed. It then swelled up so no one could understand me when I spoke.

Compartment syndrome from being stood on by a horse, bottom calf muscle died and got necrotic so had to be cut away and skin grafted over.

Got any pics? We could compare injuries! Do you have a daughter with springers? There was an amazing poster on another forum who messaged and kept my spirits up during recovery who’s mum had a similar injury to mine.

Brigante9 how did that actually happen?? I'm horsey (and a bit of a wuss around big horses!) and something like that is my worst fear!!

Was catching in a mate’s ID. She objected to another horse standing too close to me, went through me, I was thrown down, she stamped on me to get to the other horse. She was shod, her hind scraped down my leg, I guess, there was a huge triangular lump hanging down when I lifted up my trousers. Didn’t feel a thing bar her weight on me. Lots of gore/fat fell out as I ran up the lane to meet the ambulance. Needn’t have bothered, they took 45 minutes thinking it hadn’t sounded serious as the YO screamed down the phone.

The first picture is post 3 debrides, removal of necrotic tissue, the big hanging triangular piece was removed.

My big toe on right foot was spontaneously sprained in about my 22nd week of pregnancy. I say spontaneously because there was no obvious injuring event involved or warning it was going to happen. I was just walking, bam horrible pain, then could barely walk, and took about 4 weeks to heal.

This is the heaviest I've ever been, guess my toe just caved under the pressure.

Stupidest injury was when I was cutting up a cauliflower and went nearly all the way through the finger that was underneath. Duh!

When I was in primary school I was too busy playing to realise anything else, then subsequently got knocked down onto a small wall and bruised my knee. I still have a scar that I'm rather proud of.

I broke my middle swearing finger playing snap. No one believed until the next day when it had bent completely and stuck to palm. Getting it straightened at hospital was not fun.

Also broke 2 ribs during a command task. 2 men and a bridge fell on top of me. I completed the command task, did an assault course (including monkey bars the right way - was the only female to do so!) and then realised a few hours later I couldn't breathe and had better go to A&E!

1. ligament damage in my hand from rolling over in bed

2. was hit in the head by a saucepan as a child and have a scar on my eyebrow (dad jokingly pretended to hit me from the other end of the kitchen, and was left holding the handle while the bit you cook in flew across the kitchen and hit me-there we're some questions when 7 year old me told the nice lady in A&E that dad hit me round the head with a saucepan )

3. tripped over on an adventure holiday and broke my wrist

4. the most painful of them all - cat sitting for a neighbour when I was about 11 and accidentally catching my nipple between the handles of a tin opener (I was opening the cat food and was stood too close and at the wrong height to the worktop)

Crikey, no wonder I'm afraid of horses!!!

I'm 7 months pregnant. Got out of the bath the other day and put my foot on what I thought was the floor. It wasn't. It was the plastic stool my DD uses to stand on to get to the sink. The whole thing just shattered in plastic shards and cut up my foot. Makes it even harder to walk and I already waddle like a weeble.

Fell over when I had my hands in my pockets. One hand was holding my bunch of keys and the biggest, a car key, went right through my hand at the base of my thumb.

But .... Brigante...!!!!

Bloody Nora, Brig!

But .... Brigante...!!!!

S’ok, it didn’t hurt, promise! :D

Also, when I was about 30 I'd moved back to the UK after living abroad and was staying with my folks. Got out of the shower one day without my glasses on. Eyes were a bit dry so I went to get some optrex drops. Problem was, what I picked out of my make up bag was an almost identical bottle of nail glue. Which I duly dropped in my right eye. Ended up in A&E with a very unimpressed mum and a lot of confused medical professionals asking why I put nail glue in my eye . One of them even said "if you do it again..." and I had to point out I wasn't planning to do it again. I was actively going to try to avoid it.

Knelt down and discovered half of the previously dropped needle- the other half went into my knee and took a couple of hours to remove a week later when I finally went to a&e.

I woke up one morning with knee pain, unable to walk, turns out I had sprained it in the night. That was 3weeks ago and I'm just getting back on my feet.

Using drawing pins to put a poster up on my bedroom wall as a teen, and one pin wouldn't go in. So I pressed a bit harder and suddenly there was a bit of give, as the pin part pushed back through the head and embedded itself in my thumb.

Another time at a sleepover I was walking across friend's bedroom in my bare feet when I trod on a sewing needle that must have somehow been pointing up, as it went right through my foot and almost out the top. Except it didn't quite break the skin on the top, but pushed it up like a tent pole. I certainly got some queer looks at A&E.

Being knocked out (and almost killed!) by a golf ball!

Read that and immediately thought of

Oooh, just remembered more...

5. slipped getting out of the bath as a young child and (as I had one foot in and one foot out) badly bruising my 'wee' (which is what I called it then!)

6. stabbing myself in the leg with a pencil - I had a hole in my pocket and it had fallen into the lining, then I ran for the bus. Still have the scar

Mental note never to go near horses again....

Cut the tops off 3 fingers chopping tomatoes in a pub kitchen. Tomato juice stings like fury.

Cooked whole of left palm, leaning on the same kitchen hotplate thinking I was resting it on the shelf next to it. I smelt it rather than felt it. Nightmare.

Took a HUGE flap of skin, a good inch wide from ankle to knee with a crappy razor. I was due to give evidence in court an hour later, but couldn't stop the bleeding. Had to call the court to beg permission to be late whilst trying to find an open chemist to buy dressings for my leg.

Burned my arm on the exhaust of my motorbike. Had to have it dressed at hospital every day for a week.

There are many more.....

7. playing on the pile of wood from our demolished shed and a large nail going through my flimsy flip flop into my foot

I just want to point out all of these happened in the 80s 😂

This is one of the worst and best threads I've ever read.

I want to stop reading and staring at those pictures but I can't! Omggggggg