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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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LeighaJ · 29/07/2018 01:01

I spontaneously sprained the big toe of my right foot while pregnant. One minute it was fine the next sprained without any trip, fall, or any kind of accident beforehand.

BanjoStarz · 29/07/2018 01:05

I have myself a black eye dropping my kindle onto my face whilst reading in bed.

I was tired, fell asleep and boom, kindle to the face.

So embarrassing trying to explain that Blush

Twotabbycats · 29/07/2018 01:17

Fell backwards through a glass partition door (1970s!) when I was 3. Was tilting my chair on back two legs. Stitches only but could have been much worse. Neighbour took me and mum to hospital, Dad came home to find blood everywhere 😱

Turned my ankle over walking from my car to work. Ended up having 3 operations and still not fixed, need a fusion or replacement now...

Bent down in the shower to wash my leg and slipped a disc in my back!

Caught my open toed sandal on an uneven kerb and wrecked my hip, still can't sit down 3 years later...

Im a bit accident prone. I need a suit of armour or something...

LilMadAgain · 29/07/2018 01:17

I opened the car door and fell out on the M4(?) when I was five. I was scratched up and bruised but I didn't break anything from what they tell me.

pennycarbonara · 29/07/2018 01:19

I have a scar on my leg from when I was caught in an impossibly packed crowd in a nightclub where Noel Fielding was making an appearance. I'm not even that big a fan; a friend and I were in the area and thought we may as well check it out, but after a while there were so many people you couldn't really move between rooms. There is no way it wasn't severely over capacity and a hazard. I got a big blister from the friction of my own bag against my thigh, as people jostled in the very humid room for what felt like a couple of hours.

LilMadAgain · 29/07/2018 01:20

I sneezed and gave myself a black eye, I have hayfever trouble so it was a steady flow of sneezes.

FatTory · 29/07/2018 01:34

My dad broke three toes country dancing at my school summer fair.

I once fell off my bed, landed on my knee. There was a sharp pain but I couldn’t see anything. Forgot all about it. Three months later I see a little thing in my knee, it looked like one of those tiny blue balls in exfoliating scrub. I squeezed it and out popped 3/4 of a needle that I must have landed on that day!

Cantthinkofabloodyname · 29/07/2018 01:37

I was bunking off school with a friend and we decided to climb over the metal gate (about 4ft high) on the school drive to go & buy some cigarettes. As I sat on top of the gate my feet slipped between the metal railings and I dropped straight down onto my right knee. I couldn't walk properly after that, I can't remember how I managed to get home but I should have really gone to a & e to get it looked at. It hurt for months and still causes pain in cold weather 30+ years on.

SingingSands · 29/07/2018 01:46

About 10 years ago I tripped on DDs toys and fell onto the rug in our living room, put out my hands to catch myself and landed on top of her Peppa Pig play figures. Stood up to find Pedro the bastarding Pony's spiky little hand embedded into my palm. It left a scar!

Bouncingbelle · 29/07/2018 01:50

Tripped over a beanbag and faceplanted into a windowsill (drunk) 2 days before presenting paper at big conference. Looked like drunken black eyed, swollen lipped thug & couldn't speak properly for days.

Also had chemical burns on lady bits after going on impromptu sesh with friend and forgetting to wash off cream in time.was agony!!!

I'm glad I don't drink any more!!

Ofthread · 29/07/2018 02:07

This is reminding me of a seamstress I read about who used to keep pins in her mouth, she inhaled one and lost a lung. It was a true story in the Guardian.

hottestsausage · 29/07/2018 02:08

When I was a teenager I was at a shopping centre where a well-known TV chef was launching a new brand of crisps.

He was throwing big packets of them into the crowd with gay abandon. One came whizzing towards me and the corner of the crisp packet cut my cheek open right under my eye Shock

Ofthread · 29/07/2018 02:12

I witnessed an accident at a market stall where a woman held out a record sleeve for a bloke to look at and he put his eye into the corner of it & his eye filled up with blood!

delphguelph · 29/07/2018 02:23

Stuck my finger in a cigarette lighter, smelt like bacon.
Managed to trip over doing a Barefoot charity walk and sliced the top off my big toe. Still did the entire walk. It healed in about a week! Didn't hurt the day I did it, hurt like fuck the day after.

Weirdest one isn't an accident really : had my appendix removed urgently during my ELCS - so a 2 for 1!!

Birdsgottafly · 29/07/2018 02:56

Knocked a bedside lamp over, reached down to pick it up. Missed the lamp and stuck my finger in the melted waterproof cover on the pillow. It was extremely painful, for about two weeks. I had to have dressings and antibiotics.

Stood up to take a cup and plate/spoon out. I'd had tea and cake. Sort of threw the cup up in the air, slide on the tea and scooped my toenail out, with the dropped spoon, somehow.

Tidying the garden, just pottering about really. Leaned forward too much, started to fall, leg shot out behind me and I slashed open my foot, had to have stitches. I'm still not sure what I cut it on.

I punch myself regularly when I have to pull lids off things.

Queenofthestress · 29/07/2018 04:34

Walked home from school in the middle of a thunderstorm, me and some mates thought we'd be clever and cut across the fields of a local primary school. Friend couldn't get the gate at the end open so clever me thought I'd climb it. Cue my back foot slipping, landing on the fence whilst front flipping off it. Left a 2 inch by 2 inch hole all the way through to the muscle needing 14 stitches to sew the skin back together.

Cracking scar though!

OhMyMirror · 29/07/2018 05:11

Smashed 2 toes when I was 7 months pregnant. Was having a blazing row with my then DP about him playing Xbox. I grabbed the console and turned to shove it at him, it was obviously still plugged it and snapped back with the wire tension. I dropped it on my foot. Blood everywhere. The Xbox came out unscathed.

Broke the same foot last year when a big church candle rolled out of a cupboard and landed on it.

My last pregnancy I was trying to close the bathroom window. It was behind the toilet but I was too big to fit in the gap. Kneeled on the toilet lid to pull it closed and my knee went right through it. Got myself stuck and was there for a good 5mins as my dad and DH were laughing too hard to help me out. Had bruises and scratches from half way down my shin to my thigh for weeks.

bushtailadventures · 29/07/2018 06:14

@BlackandWhitePostcards I've never 'met' anyone else who did that! I was 13 and stood on the lid of my Nans loo to close the window. Ancient loo seat wasn't up to it and I went straight through, had to have stitches, and a tetanus jab in a&e...My mum laughed about it for years, while I still cringe a bit.

Littlechickenleg · 29/07/2018 06:28

Used a cross body handbag whilst on a busy city break for a a few days. The strap was rubbing across one of my nipples the whole time but I didn't take too much notice. But I should have done. Ended up at the docs a few days later needing a course of antibiotics for a nipple infection!

In my haste to get out of a caravan with ex DP for some outside nookie, I fell off the step and broke my wrist and thumb.

cricketmum84 · 29/07/2018 06:39

My sister broke my finger in primary school, she was stood on a gate swinging it, swung too far and slammed it closed onto my hand!

cricketmum84 · 29/07/2018 06:42

Oh another one! I turned the wrong hob on when I had one of those electric ones that fake ages to heat up. Then leant across the oven to reach something and of course lent my hand on the hob plate that was turned on. The whole of my palm blistered. That was a painful one!

MardAsSnails · 29/07/2018 06:45

In work last week, I was moving some boxes of documents. I put an A4 box on top of an A 3 box, and picked them both up

A4 box was falling, so I leant back so it wouldn’t fall off. Whacked in my in nose. Blood everywhere, including in the documents which were the original
Contract docs for a major new project we’ve just been awarded. That was an excellent conversation with the client...

waterlego6064 · 29/07/2018 06:59

Oh my word, these tales are horrendous but fascinating!

My daftest injury occurred when I was texting while crossing the road. When I got to the other side, I tripped up the kerb and was propelled forwards, face first into a flint wall. My sunglasses broke, resulting in a nasty cut above one eye.

I tend not to text while crossing roads now 😬

barbiegrl · 29/07/2018 07:28

Fwiw my father nicknamed me embroidery as a child. Let go of a odd spaceship shaped merry go round type thing-ended up splitting the side of my mouth open (6 stitches)....climbing over an old iron gate,slipped (some bastard bulky came and shook it) and one of the long pointy ends of it went into my leg (15 stitches) came
Off my moped at 17,severe road rash up my left hand side (but no stitches) and lastly two years ago (at the grand age of 41) playing Pokémon go with the kids, in a field in the middle of nowhere,fell into a ditch and broke my wrist-had to have a plate and screws-all in all a nice selection of scars all over my body! Lol

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Binkybix · 29/07/2018 07:46

Some of these are eeeeek! I’ve got off lightly in my life so far I think (famous last words).

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