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To ask for your weirdest injury?

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Confrontayshunme · 17/10/2019 15:02

Sitting in A&E with a fish bone stuck in my throat (thanks high protein lunch) and wondering if anyone else has had such a dumb reason for A&E visit.

The last time I was in A&E, I smashed my finger in one of those pedal tractors at a petting farm.

My MIL broke her knee because a random dog chased a ball into her.

I know you guys will be able to entertain me during the 2hr43min wait (approximately).

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Camenbertsmuggler · 18/10/2019 11:58

I once yawned and stretched next to the working surface that my mum had just put a searing hot baking tray on, my belly touched the tray and I instinctively curled forward, hitting my head on the top cupboard knocking myself out.

Thetruth02 · 18/10/2019 12:04

I have a scar on my head from an egg related accident...

Was at work making my new favourite thing at the time - a “poached egg” made in the microwave. Anyways half way through cooking it a colleague pointed out the I should have poked my fork in it to make holes to let air in so it wouldn’t explode.

So I stop the microwave- bring out the egg and start frantically digging a fork into it...

Boiling hot egg explodes - sticks to my forehead... you can still see the burn mark all these years later... a real case of egg on my face Grin

MatildaTheCat · 18/10/2019 12:12

When I was a toddler I was in leg plasters for a hop condition. I became quite poorly and miserable so eventually Dad took me to A&E . They removed the casts and found three Lego bricks embedded in my thigh.

I have three triangular scars that nobody has ever come close to guessing how they came to be.

That poor doctor. I think he was scarred for life, too!🤣

RockinHippy · 18/10/2019 13:05

I broke a rib coughing once

I cracked 3 having a combined sneezing & giggling fit under a Xmas tree. Alcohol was involved & all weekend as we were away with friends for gigs. I didn't realise until passing out in a venue loo 2 days later & had to have the door broken down to get me out & cart me off to the hospital. Not my finest moment 😂

1disneyfanatic · 18/10/2019 13:15

Another accident prone one here.

I dislocated my shoulder by sneezing.

I ripped the tendon in my ankle walking along a path and just went over on my ankle. I couldn’t drive for 3 months.

I tried to pull a hair bobble out the tumble dryer that was stuck and the metal part pinged into my finger and broke it.

Worst was falling down 2 stairs and breaking a bone in my back and I was in hospital for 6 weeks.

Unfortunately my daughter has inherited my clumsiness and I’m still surprised that social services haven’t been called. The A&e receptionist knows us very well.

Bloke23 · 18/10/2019 13:16

I had a ingrown hair get infected at the top on my bum crack, turned into an abscess, had to be cut out, left a massive hole that had to be packed out everyday, was masssive pain for 2 weeks

AliceLittle · 18/10/2019 13:25

Last December I was pulling up old roots of an old grapevine and one was a bit stubborn. As I was tugging on it my thought process was to go and get the secateurs and cut it otherwise it'll snap and I'll hurt myself. So I didn't bother getting the secateurs and it snapped and I pulled a muscle in my shoulder. It still hurts today.

Sallyseagull · 18/10/2019 13:26

I broke a rib coughing once

I thought this was a common injury as I've also done this.

Testarossa44 · 18/10/2019 13:28

I once cut and bruised my nose by closing the boot on my car. I reached up above my head to the boot door, gave it a good tug to swing it down to close it, and walloped it straight on to my nose... no clue as to why I didn't step back before closing it. But wow, it hurt......

SleepyKat · 18/10/2019 18:15

I didn’t realise that ribs were so prone to breaking via coughing and sneezing. Not known anyone else it’s happened to. Don’t feel quite so special now! Grin

bettycat81 · 18/10/2019 18:25

I was stepping over the back of a high backed dining chair and lost my footing sending my lady bits crashing onto the back - its never been so black and blue!!

Three days later, once the pain had subsided, I also realised I had broken my finger in the same accident!

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 18/10/2019 18:32

I think I'm going to break a rib laughing at all these!

sueelleker · 18/10/2019 18:45

Cut my thumb opening a corned beef tin with the silly little key they give you. 40 years later you can still see the scar across my thumbprint. And I always use a can-opener now.

labazsisgoingmad · 18/10/2019 19:15

had exactly same accident and scar from a corned beef tin! things should be banned

Blahdyblahblahblah · 18/10/2019 19:26

It’s very original. I was once in a campsite shower when I noticed a snail was in the wall. Being the saviour of all snail kind I went to rescue it but it fell as I touched it, I instinctively made a grab to catch it and slipped and fell in the shower, dislocating my shoulder. Snail did not survive the shower/floor/human encounter.

Laiste · 18/10/2019 19:35

I repeatedly stabbed myself in the side of my leg below the knee with a new scalpel blade till my shoe was full of blood. The blade was poking through a canvas bag i was carrying on a long strap and it was swinging merrily and gouging at me with each swing!

I felt nothing, but did notice people looking at my leg.
Then i felt warmth in my shoe.
Then i looked down and saw the damage and nearly fainted! ShockGrin

dexterslockedintheshedagain · 18/10/2019 19:46

Why were you carrying an unsheathed scalpel blade?! That sounds painful! How many stitches did you need?!!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 18/10/2019 19:52

Ds had a bad marshmallow burn on his nose earlier this year.
Toasting marshmallows, looked too closely at one.

Dottysmum18 · 18/10/2019 20:02

A paper cut sustained by a bagel Hmm
Also falling over a basket ball and getting the clip of a safety pin embedded in my knee. Which was worse to pull out then it being in there

Beesh · 18/10/2019 20:08

Broke my middle toe running to the kitchen. I didn't need to run, nothing was burning or flooding, I just felt like running. Aged 31.

CrowleysBentley · 18/10/2019 20:14

I broke three toes stepping off of the kerb to cross the road.

Trapped a nerve in my neck bending to load the washing machine.

Dropped a chopping board on my face when stacking on a shelf and cut above my top lip so I have a scar that goes from lip to nose now.

Many more. I'm a clumsy twat.

Laiste · 18/10/2019 20:18

@dexterslockedintheshedagain

I was an art student and i always carried my basic kit around - graded drawing pencils, scalpel (for sharpening) and a sketch pad. The scalpel had slipped out of the little wooden pencil box and got to the edge of the bag.

This incident was at a festival and i had to spend the rest of the day with big plasters from the first aid tent stuck all over the cuts. I was too embarrassed to go to A&E and years on i still have a couple of scars.

Newearringsplease · 18/10/2019 20:21

A vicar knocked me over and broke my arm

Laiste · 18/10/2019 20:25

Beesh's post has reminded me of the day i broke my toe!

I had spent the summer really working on getting my feet lovely and smooth and was buffing the skin and moisturising them daily. They were soft as a baby's but little did i know this basically removed 90% of the traction.

Went out with BF (now DH) for a picnic in Windsor Park. Blanket on a bit of a slope. I sat there and got very quite pissed. Tried to stand up laughing at something DH was doing (rolling about in some nettles) promptly slipped and sat down very hard on my own foot and my sun glasses. I broke the glasses and one of my toes.

Booboostwo · 18/10/2019 20:26

I sneezed 12times and gave myself Cauda a Equina, a rare complication of a herniated disc that leaves you with no feeling in the saddle area, incontinence and nerve damage down one leg. I needed emergency decompression surgery.

Last week I was cleaning sweet peppers and a hot pepper had sneaked in among them. I burned my finger so badly, it hurt for 18 hours despite codeine, anti-inflammatories, antihistamines and cortisone. I also touched my eye and mouth.

And for horse riders amongst you...I was so nervous before a cross country ride that I mounted, took my foot out of the stirrup for some bizarre reason and went to do my girth...at which point the loose stirrup flipped up and knocked me on the head. Nearly knocked myself out in the car park at a halt!