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AIBU to ask about your weird injuries?

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Binkybix · 28/07/2018 21:52

I was trying (and failing) to fly a kite today. I somehow managed to get one of the strings in my mouth as I looked back as I ran inelegantly trying to get the fecker up in the air. My gums are bruised and sore.

I once also threw myself on my sofa in a teenage strop and punctured my buttock with a sticking up wire coat hanger.

Anyone else? Amuse me. I bored.

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polkadotpixie · 28/07/2018 22:36

I tripped over my friend's foot, tore my cruciate ligament in my left knee and was on crutches for 6 months 😩

hungryhippo90 · 28/07/2018 22:37

As a child (about 9) I managed to slit my wrist with a glass.
I remember dropping it, but it hadn’t hit the ground before it sliced my wrist. I was in such shock I covered my wrist in my tshirt and ran around the house screaming. My mum tried to ignore me until I thrust my wrist in her face, at that point I still didn’t know that it was open from one side of my wrist to the other.
My mum bandaged it whilst we were waiting for an ambulance, but I didn’t see until we were at the hospital that it was cut to the point all that you could see beneath was white.
We’re 18 ish years on, and I’ve still got a cracking scar, still can’t explain how it happened as the glass didn’t have the chance to hit the floor and smash until after my wrist was cut... I know because I tried to catch the flipping thing- we weren’t allowed to drink out of glasses all the time, and I thought it was so fancy to drink out of proper glass.

TrudeauGirl · 28/07/2018 22:38

When i was 14 I was doing an improvised "12 days of Chrismas" aerobics dance in P.E at school.

I stood still in a pose for partridge in a pear tree. (Which for some reason was on one leg) i fell awkwardly, ended up dislocating my knee somehow. Ended up in a cast for 6 weeks. Really hurt.

On the plus side I gave my class mates entertainment.

pippop1317 · 28/07/2018 22:38

I hate going to the toilet at night. (It's dark and the monster on the stairs might get me). So I jumped out of bed and ran straight into the edge of the door and ended up with a massive egg in my head.

my dh through me seductively onto the bed. Our bed was pushed up against the window. As I fell I hit my head off the window sill and was knocked out. Needless to say sex was off the menu after that.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 28/07/2018 22:38

Similar to LadyPenelope when I was 5, I tripped over at school, put my arms out to stop myself, my elbow bent the wrong way and broke.

DD 10 recently strained a knee ligament by "running too fast for her own legs".

CherryBlossom23 · 28/07/2018 22:39

Two from my childhood. When I was about 5 my friend and I were running across the yard at school holding hands. She fell and dragged me down with her. She was fine, I fell on my arm and broke it!

Then about a year later I fell at school again and split my forehead open. Don't actually remember anything about the fall, just remember asking the teacher who was first aiding me if it had stopped bleeding yet (I was impatient to get back to playing) and them replying very seriously "no Shock". Still have a slightly jagged scar from it and use it to claim to be the real Harry Potter 😁.

It's tough being clumsy accident prone!

TrudeauGirl · 28/07/2018 22:39

Unfortunatly I didnt realise the danger and pulled it out bursting my eye.
I lost the eye in my 20's

Oh damn Shock

I'm sorry to hear that, hope you're ok!

jazzyfizzles · 28/07/2018 22:40

I broke my wrist when I fell over because I was running and got my left foot stuck up my right trouser leg, my friend wheeled me to the hospital on his skateboard Grin I was 15

I also shattered my cheekbone when I walked into my friend, she was dancing in a club and threw her head back just as I walked by!

Both very painful, both involved alcohol

waffledoggy · 28/07/2018 22:41

Whilst ironing, I stood too close to the board and ironed my tummy, I had a long thin burn across my tum for a long time.

Whilst walking in the rain I fell over onto my umbrella. Then plastic cap on the metal spoke came off and stabbed me in my ear and perforated my eardrum.

Whilst heavily pregnant and up a step ladder painting the ceiling, I slipped and fell down the ladder and my leg went through the covered cat litter tray. My leg was jammed in the broken plastic and blood was pouring off into the litter underneath.

TrudeauGirl · 28/07/2018 22:42

Whilst walking in the rain I fell over onto my umbrella. Then plastic cap on the metal spoke came off and stabbed me in my ear and perforated my eardrum

Oh good lord Sad

Hope you're ok too...this thread will male me wince in sympathy.

elaine26 · 28/07/2018 22:43

Taking DC's to school in the winter I got out of the car to open the frozen back door (it was frozen stuck) both feet on sheer black ice and fell painfully on my behind. DC's sitting in the car in stitches because mummy hurt her bum. The bruise was massive and painful but my embarrassment was worse.

UrsulaPandress · 28/07/2018 22:46

I've found my people.

Brigante9 · 28/07/2018 22:47

Sprained both wrists coming off my horse who decided she wanted to race the pony I was hacking with, I disagreed, she won by bucking me off in a field. I couldn’t pick anything up for days. My dh took me for a restorative pint which I had to drink through a straw.

Fell over at the yard, promptly got cellulitis, just got rid of another bout where I hit my leg on the bed frame. (Getting out of bed, nothing sexy!)

Cut nearly to the bone chopping up a cauliflower, didn’t hurt, didn’t realise. Blood flowed.

CherryBlossom23 · 28/07/2018 22:49

One day I was cutting a piece of paper in two and stupidly held the sheet in between my index and middle fingers which were placed horizontally - one in front, one at the back of the sheet. (I was standing while cutting it and didn't want one half to fall on the ground when I finished. Ended up jamming the end of one scissor blade into my middle finger (at the back of the sheet -
couldn't see it) and it bled for ages! Probably should have gotten a stitch or two but I made do with steri strips.

Nogodsnomasters · 28/07/2018 22:49

Was running while giving a friend a piggy back, tripped and fell flat on my face, knocked out a front tooth (luckily it was a baby one but my sister found it lying on the pavement 5 minutes after!), split my lip wide open and I was wearing one of those old hairbands that had the spikes in them to drag the hair back? They're made out of plastic now but mine was wire/metal material in the 90's, that came down and was impacted between my forehead and the concrete, it left a scar! I had one huge adult tooth the following 6 months after it grew with a mouth full of baby ones, looked so stupid.

Bezm · 28/07/2018 22:52

Staying on a caravan site in France with DH and DD many years ago, I slipped in the shower and cracked my elbow on the metal edge. I was convinced I'd splintered a piece of bone and for years after could feel the splinter if I leant on it a certain way. DH thought it was hilarious. I can still feel it now 25 years later!

WontBeUsingPassMyParcelAgain · 28/07/2018 22:54

Cracked knee cap and lacerated shoulder in two separate kiss chase incidents aged 11!!

mavismcruet · 28/07/2018 22:57

I grilled my finger when I was about 14. I was making toast under an old fashioned cooker grill at my Nans house. I thought it wasn’t working as the grill bit was white, not red. I touched it and it was white hot. My finger stuck to it and started cooking. It hurt and shocked me so much I vomited all over the cooker. My Nan was cross with me for weeks after as she said she could smell sick every time she cooked something!

My poor finger had to have a skin graft, it was pretty bad and hurt like hell for a long time.

FrozenMargarita17 · 28/07/2018 22:58

@Bezm omg I smacked my knee on a bannister on a New Year's Eve when I was a teenager and to this day I can feel the bit of my knee floating about in there and if anyone touches it, it's agony!

Hygge · 28/07/2018 23:00

I had an extreme knitting accident when I stabbed myself in my nose (the bit between nostril holes) with a hook from a knitting loom.

RitaMills · 28/07/2018 23:02

I gave myself a concussion flying a petrol airplane into my head, I was in full control and actually saw it flying towards me thinking I could avoid at last minute... I didn’t.

FrozenMargarita17 · 28/07/2018 23:02

Sorry I keep thinking of new ones haha.

I went to go to the bathroom in my mums house but she had left the hoover behind the door so it didn't open full and I walked smack bang into the side of the door. I had an enormous egg on my forehead and it was an awful bruise.

When I was small I fell off some monkey bars in a park, this was when parks had concrete on the floor, not that squishy stuff. I got a stone embedded in my forehead.

BlackandWhitePostcards · 28/07/2018 23:05

A child locked themselves in the toilet next to me. I stood on the lid of my toilet to try and climb over to theirs.. except the plastic lid couldn’t take my weight and my whole leg went through it. Leg cut to pieces and bruised from bottom to top. The funny thing was, as I was doing my heroics and cutting myself to pieces the child’s mum had unlocked the door and led the child out unscathed totally unaware of me sitting there bleeding in the toilet next door. I was just sitting there my leg trapped in the lid, my foot in the toilet water, dazed and in shock whilst they just walked away merrily Grin.

tazzle22 · 28/07/2018 23:06

I was threading a needle to do some sewing and had sewing box on arm of the chair. DD toddler having a strop swept box off chair and all contents were strewn all over the carpet.

I went to kneel down to pick things up and felt sharp pain in knee...looked down to see long piece thread hanging from knee.
x ray confirmed that needle had gone straight in and hit paella then bent to almost 45 degrees.

Doctor on duty to perform minor surgery to remove it was a playgroup mum and friend who found it rather amusing lol.... and wanted to show the whole a&e dept lol

ScreamLikeYouMeanIt · 28/07/2018 23:06

Running in socks across the school's drama studio aged 12 and impaled a 4inch nail that had fallen off a prop into the sole of my foot. Had to hop across the large school to first aid which older students found hilarious and took ages.

Only 3 weeks ago was visiting a friend in a very messy house and once again was barefoot. I tripped on raised carpet one end of her kitchen. As I put my foot down I stepped onto a plastic box lid, skating across the kitchen doing the splits and then stepping onto a load of lego pieces. Slow-motion Comedy slapstick but I managed to remain standing. Recovered and entered her dining room where I promptly stubbed my toe on her table and broke it....