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

I’ve had a few but the worst was definitely when I was about 6 , I was playing handball at my Nans pub and scraped my hand along the floor to scoop the ball and got a huge splinter that went under my fingernail to halfway down my finger . Had to be sedated to have it removed , it was very painful .

My teen and her friends were playing basketball, not very well. I decided to join in and show off a bit cos I seldom get the chance to impress teenagers. Being American, I had wasted many hours playing in my youth, just as kids here kick a football around at the park.

Overweight and middle-aged, I dribbled circles round them and made a remarkable shot, which was pure luck but they weren't to know that. I stood there nonchalantly as they all stared at me open-mouthed. Then for no particular reason I can determine, I slowly toppled over sideways, landing awkwardly and bruising my knee and bum. I had to be helped to my feet. Then I limped off the court. It rather spoiled my moment of triumph.

I knocked myself out cold on the kids water slide in the garden. Try telling that story in A & E...............

Brigante9 that sounds horrific! I'll stick with ponies I think

The most embarrassing was when the children were young and I was frantically trying to feed, bath and settle them whilst getting ready to go out to a smart event for my husbands work. I’d had a bath and was ironing my husbands dress shirt in my underwear in between lots of other stuff. Unfortunately I leaned over a little close and ironed my post baby belly instead of the shirt. I caught the side of the iron with steam spurting out right across my lower abdomen. Quite uncomfortable, horrid weeping blisters but I had to just dress it, take some paracetamol and go and make polite conversation. Luckily my dress wasn’t overly fitted. I still look like I’ve had major abdominal surgery or a bad section.

Not me but Dsis. When she was 8, she decided to ride her bike from the top of the street, which is a rather steep hill, without using the brakes. She chickened out applied the front brake only and went straight over the handlebars and needed several stitches to her chin.

Split my head open as a toddler falling into a fireplace
Split it open again when I got it stuck in a gate
And again when I fell off my bike trying to go with no hands
And again when I tripped and fell on a stair
Almost bit my tongue completely off when I fell off a wall
Went down a steep hill on my bike and didn’t press the brake, hit a fence at the bottom and went straight over

Those were all as a child but more recently I tripped over the dog rip roaring drunk, fell face first into the tiled floor and smashed my front teeth and burst my nose. Woke up still drunk the next day, and went to Ibiza. Didn’t sober up for about 3 days and started wondering wtf had happened to my teeth and where the hell I was.

I’ve not had any accidental injuries in a few years, must have gotten sensible in my old age

Adrian - thankfully mine can't have been as bad as yours. Though I do remember for years putting up with what I thought was an occasionally very painful coccyx until I casually mentioned it to the gp one day.

I do have some experience of packing though. When ds was 2 he had a surgical wound under his jaw bone which had to be packed so it could heal from the inside out. Pinning a 2 year old down on a hospital bed while the dressing was pulled out of the wound and it was repacked was horrible.

On a 'lighter' note, DH once went to A&E with a broken finger. Fainted at the sight of a needle (as always), knocked himself out. Was kept in with concussion and caught flu while he was there.

I must say, this thread is giving me the best laugh I've had in ages!

I dug a sesame seed out of a lump in my stomach ... it’d been there for 4 years.

My brother stabbed me in the head with a hoe when I was 5. Nearly lost my eye ( didn’t and just a little scar now TG)

Am currently sporting the most spectacular bruise from tripping over a sock! Bashed into the corner of the dining table.

I still have no idea how I managed to bruise it so badly from such a minor incident, but I’m slightly proud.

Did not need to see that leg... going to go pass the fuck out now. Cheers.

Split my head open falling off a swing as a child.
Falling off a swing again aged 8 breaking my coccyx

Broke my right ring finger putting my hand up to block my face from an incoming netball that was thrown at me by my PE teacher in year 8 because I hadn't taken my earrings out.

Breaking the same finger and my middle and my knuckle trying to stop the bottom part of my recliner sofa flipping back out (we had an awful downstairs neighbour who complained if we shut cupboard doors past 8pm and wasn't in the mood for her banging on the ceiling if the back of the sofa thudded against the wall)

Most recently the New Years before last I slipped (sober I may add) on the top step and went all the way down on my bum and back down the stairs, ending with me taking the stair gate out with my bum. Rang in the new year on all fours in my livingroom on my own while my DD slept in bed. My DDad took me to hospital next morning and I had several large bruises on my back, delayed concussion and had broken my coccyx again. Spent the next few weeks having to sit on a donut cushion taking painkillers and lactulose 😂

@bananafish81 I've been offered to have my coccyx removed as it hasn't fully healed and can get quite achey and sore, I'm thinking maybe I should say no and put up with it if it's been bad for you

@VioletBow mine is unquestionably better for having come out - I couldn't walk without crutches for the 9 months before my op! I just have a very long back so my anatomy means my sacral stump is more prominent than it should be. My coccyx absolutely had to come out, was just the issues from the injury rather than the surgery that cause me the problems

I was chasing DH around the house, tickling him. Fell down the stairs and broke my little toe.

I was 29 years old, if you're wondering.

Fuck me Brig!

Not me, but when DD was about 10 she jumped over a wall and fell on some sort of rusty metal which cut her leg wide open, really clean cut. She came flying in to me screaming her head off. I had no idea what was wrong, but without my specs on the cut looked like a slug, so I started whacking it with a tea towel to try and get it off her

Oh, and one that was me. The blade from a he good processor fell out of the cupboard and I instictively tried to catch it. Ended up with it embedded in my hand. Took one look and went down like a sack of spuds in a dead faint. Landed on the blade and stabbed myself in the stomach.

Fell up some stairs. Forgot I had arms and took the full force of the fall on my face and put my teeth throughout my face. Fucking hurt to brush my teeth

Rode my bike at full pelt down the street as a kid. Missed the brake. Went careering over a main road narrowly missing a load of cars and got flung over a wall into the front yard of a solicitors office.
I bent my front wheel and I massively bruised my fanny. Refused to wee for several days until my mother took me to A&E who sat me in a salty bath.

Tore a ligament in my knee while having sex.
Broke the scaphoid bone in my hand putting my coat on.
Split my fanjo open while standing on a dining chair to reach a cupboard, resulting in five stitches.

I dislocated 3 toes, closing the curtains

I managed to throw my back out getting into DHs car in a car park. I was stuck half in and half out for about 10 minutes until the pain subsided and I could move again!

Brig - here is my photos

Nope not me with a daughter