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AIBU?

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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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EastMidsGPs · 29/07/2018 19:53

Box of porridge oats fell out of cupboard, the hard corner broke my big toe as the box hurtled to the floor

Torn ankle ligaments and assorted damage that required surgery after falling down a rabbit hole at an outdoor fireworks display

One I've told a million times before on here, met DH when I fell onto him. He was sitting on the floor reading in the uni bookshop. I didn't see him, stepped back, fell over him and as my collarbone made contact with his thick skull, it broke. I have a lovely lump there still to remind him 😉

AlmostPerfect1955 · 29/07/2018 19:54

Newly married; put my hand on the old fashioned ‘radiant ring’ cooker ring to see if it was hot. It was.

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Binkybix · 29/07/2018 19:59

As an update on my kite injury - I now have a blister on my gum.

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zukiecat · 29/07/2018 20:00

Oh, I've just remembered another one

Aged 12, and in First Year of Secondary School:

In Science class I put my finger on the metal tripod of the bunsen burner to see if it was hot

xxconfusedxx · 29/07/2018 20:09

I went downstairs to the kitchen to get a glass of water, I was naked as i'd just got out of bed - the postman walked past the window so I hastily bent down so he couldn't see me but managed to smack my head on the door handle and knocked myself out!

EastMidsGPs · 29/07/2018 20:10

Just remembered:
Busy Saturday in a busy shopping area. Parked car outside Boots and trapped my thumb in car door as I did. I felt faint, so went to lean against the shop window. Fainted. Fell forwards and cracked my right cheek bone on the kerb. Out for a while and came groggily round surrounded by shoppers - ambulance to A&E where I spent the afternoon surrounded by men with sporting injuries, incorrectly guessing how many fingers the casualty doctor held up for me!

cliffdiver · 29/07/2018 20:12

I once tried to open a door by pushing down the door handle with my elbow.

My elbow got stuck between the handle and the door and my mum had to unscrew the handle to free me

Another time, I wanted to see if I could fit a glass bauble from the Christmas tree into my mouth.

I could but it shattered and cut my mouth in several places.

Geekynzmum · 29/07/2018 20:14

I've got three from when I was younger.
First was when I was about 9. Running through long grass on the verge outside our house barefoot, felt something sharp go in to my foot. Saw some blood so went inside to get help. Turned out I'd stood on a broken beer bottle, ended up with stitches for that one.
Second was at 15. Getting into the shower (over a bath), slipped and hit my elbow on a glass bottle that was on the side. Cut it down to the bone, and had a trip to a&e to make sure no stitches were needed.
Third was when I was 16. Went to a small science fiction convention with my mum for the weekend. Made friends with some older guys there and had fun getting to know them. Someone had brought Twister with them, so we decided to see how many different places we could have a game before getting in to trouble. While playing a game in the bar, I stretched over one of the guys to reach a spot that was free. On his move he decided to lift his body up sending me rolling over top of him and landing awkwardly on one finger breaking it at the 2nd knuckle. Didn't hurt that much, so I pulled my finger to straighten it and got on with it. Finger has never been straight since then ... 😀

jaimebravo · 29/07/2018 20:25

I had a gastroenteritis and while I was running to the bathroom to be sick, I slipped on some vomit and broke my wrist...just to add insult to injury!

PurpleChai · 29/07/2018 20:28

I fell off the toilet twisting to the side to reach for the loo roll, ended up snapping a tendon in my knee. It was excruciating and my knee hasn’t been right eight years on. My BIL thought the story was so hilarious he cried himself to tears with laughter

GrumpySausage · 29/07/2018 20:36

New Hoover, trying out the mini hand held bit on the stairs. Long hair which I was wearing down. All of a sudden blinding pain in my head. My hair had got wrapped round the rotating brushes and the hoover had been ripped out of my hand and smacked my right in the face. Black eyes for weeks.

As a teenager I did archery. At a local event with my club and I was showing a family how to shoot a bow. Bent down to pick my bow up but didn't seen an arrow which was stuck in the ground straight up. Stabbed myself in the eye lid. Blood everywhere and traumatised the family.

WorldCupnovice · 29/07/2018 20:42

I broke my thumb while trying to get some ice, couldn't get any out so I bent back the ice tray and somehow bent my thumb back too far!!!

yawning801 · 29/07/2018 20:49

Oh, too many to count!

Got thrown into a wall by a horse when I was about twelve. Twice. The horse first bucked me off (I went out the side door), then after the ride I was putting her away and she decided to paste me against the wall of her stable!

Another horse-related one: I was ducking under a fence after the lesson, forgetting that I was still wearing my hat. Smacked my head against the piece of fence underneath me as I fell forward. Also hit my lady bits then. Ouch.

When I was about eight I was running to answer the phone and stubbed my toe trying to get out of the conservatory. Didn't feel a thing and trotted upstairs, merrily trying to find my parents for the caller, before looking down and yelling "I'M BLEEDING!" The cold caller was not amused. I ended up in A&E for that one purely down to the amount of blood!

I also got pulled into a spiky bush by a pony I was leading. I saw a danger hazard, he saw lunch. I ended up on my hands and knees while he was chomping away. I don't seem to be very good with horses, do I - I promise I can generally ride without too many incidents!

Littlewhitedove · 29/07/2018 21:24

I managed to dislocate my little toe when I accidentally kicked DH. Needed gas and air and a local anaesthetic before the hospital could re-locate it. I have to be really careful with that toe now as I have managed to dislocate it a few times since!! Excrutiatingly painful.

1forsorrow2forjoy · 29/07/2018 22:05

I tripped over my dog and caught my big toe and ripped my toe nail out. It had to be put back in but it hasn't grown back properly and became ingrown so I have just had to have it removed again

AlexaC · 29/07/2018 22:27

Age 3/4ish, mum doing the ironing, turns round for a second, I put my hand flat on the plate of the iron. My hand being burned is one of my earliest memories. You'd never know now, I can't even tell which hand it was.

Age 6ish my sister got in the car and shut the door behind her. Only my fingers were in the way and got trapped. Child look on the door so she couldn't free me, I was screaming too much to free myself, so my mum had to get out the car, run round to free me.

Age 10ish, fell in a patch of nettles and got stung from ankle to hip on both legs. I was wearing shorts too! More screaming from me.

Age 12ish, one and only time dry slope skiing. Fell over and punched myself in the mouth. Cue sore mouth and sore hand!

I'm dyspraxic, so constantly tripping over, walking into things, dropping things, so sure there's more!

saturdaynightgin · 29/07/2018 22:28

Aged 2/3, I had to have my head glued back together after smacking it against a pebble dashed wall when rocking on one of those plastic rocking toys.

Similar age, stepped through a pane of glass and cut my leg open.

Aged 3/4, playing on the toy cars/bikes at play time in nursery, I sat on a rusty screw which went inside my vagina. Tried to stop the bleeding myself with a wet paper towel, until a friend told the teacher.

Aged 10/11, twisted my knee in a fight in karate, tore the ligaments and spent 6 weeks on crutches.

Working in McDonalds whilst in uni, someone hit me on the arm with a fry basket that they’d just taken out of the vat of hot oil.. left a lovely criss cross scar!

Few years ago, smacked my face on the side of the car when my handbag got caught on the gearstick.. and to make matters worse, it happened in front of my year 9 class!

GreenMeerkat · 29/07/2018 22:37

I turned to walk out of a room and misjudged where I was and went smack into the doorframe. Bruised cheek and broken toe.

GreenMeerkat · 29/07/2018 22:39

Oh and I lost a tooth when I was 3 because I was trying to hide one of my baby brother's toys behind a curtain. Slipped and fell face first onto a table and knocked my tooth right up into my gum.

GrumpyGoose · 29/07/2018 22:42

I walked up a skate ramp and broke my foot.

ToffeePennie · 29/07/2018 22:50

January 2013. It hadn’t snowed. It wasn’t particularly cold.
We had been to an adventure play place for kids and adults.
I was wearing trainers with extra grip on the soles because of my perchant for falling over.
I slipped and fell down an entire flight of stairs, even though they were off the path we were walking on.
I smashed my ankle which took 6 weeks to repair and another 5 weeks to heal fully...

Eemamc · 29/07/2018 22:56

Failed to do a seat drop on a trampoline when I was in sixth form. Managed to knee myself in the face with some force, and gave myself a black eye. It’s quite hard to knee yourself in the face that hard, yet I managed it.

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Binkybix · 30/07/2018 14:50

It’s quite hard to knee yourself in the face that hard, yet I managed it

Quite the achievement!

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theWarOnPeace · 30/07/2018 15:32

Went out onto the patio, saw a poor dead baby bird that had fallen from its nest and was splattered on the floor. I went back inside feeling sad, looked for something to scoop it up with and then came back out but somehow forgot what I’d come out for. Walked further out into the garden and slipped on the dead bird, fell awkwardly, almost straight downwards, and broke my wrist. The initial agony was so bad I couldn’t support myself so I flopped down flat onto the floor..., onto the smooshed bird. Every single person I had to see in A&E asked me what I had all over me, blood/feathers/slime... errr, a squashed baby bird?

yawning801 · 30/07/2018 17:19

I am wincing in sympathy for you War! And also bumping for more!

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