Embarrassing injuries that require a trip to ER

[cybrkitn]

I don't think he was going for that kind of weenie roast on his camping trip.

Oooooh. Bu dum bum! It was hysterical watching it. Every guy that came in to help separate him from the camping stove either passed out from seeing it or wouldn't touch it. Btw, the guy was high at the time when he did it.

 

[phorsenuf]

Oooooh. Bu dum bum! It was hysterical watching it. Every guy that came in to help separate him from the camping stove either passed out from seeing it or wouldn't touch it. Btw, the guy was high at the time when he did it.

na-uh. Hard to believe that!

 

[worm761]

I am notorious for harming myself and either not knowing how it happened or doing it in the dumbest possible way. My sister cut my toes almost completely off when I was 4 and she was 2. Glad they don't have sliding doors on razors anymore. Last year I had to go to the doctor because I could not unbend my leg. I walked into the kitchen and went to take a step but my leg wouldn't unbend. I had sprained a few days prior and didn't realize it.

I also broke my hand at work once. Turned around and my hand hit a wall. It hurt. A lot. I broke my hand in four places.

DS used to take yearly trips to the emergency room for one thing or another. One year a swan attacked him. He was lucky to make it out alive from that one. And hard to explain to the ER staff since I was at work when it happened.

Another time he hit his chin and needed stitches. He fell into the bucket he kept his "guys" in. You know, the ER staff asks the kid what happened. This usually works. Only DS is autistic and had a horrible speech impediment. I had to translate and then explain what it was. He needed 4 stitches.

 

[Nyteacherbelle]

Didn't have to go to ER, fortunately, but I suffered an embarrassingly dumb injury when I stuck my thumbnail in a baked potato to seeing it was done today. Burnt myself just underneath the nail, ouch.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

Long before he met me, my dh had to go to the ER to get a qtip he had stuck up his nose removed......he said he heard a lot of giggling outside his room that night....serves him right, who sticks a quip up thier nose .

 

[snapppyd]

I don't want to get points, so I'll leave it like this: anaphylactic latex allergy + husband buying the wrong condoms = a really, really awful night in the ER. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I wanted to die a thousand deaths!

When I was about 20 my boss (about 28, IIRC) grabbed my arm in a death grip and told me to call 911. She thought she was having a heart attack. And not in an "oh, oh my, I think I might be having a heart attack" way, in a "I"M DYING! I'm going to DIE RIGHT NOW!!!" way. It was very scary for everyone involved.

It turned out she was being stabbed by the underwire in her bra.

 

[krcit]

When DH and I were dating, we were taking a shower. The shower is 5' x 4', so plenty of room. He was scrubbing my feet (and no, that is not code for anything, it is truly what he was doing). His feet go out from under him, he's sitting on his butt, but his feet took my legs out from under me. I fell on top of him, my cheek hitting him square on the forehead. Yep. Broken cheekbone in 3 places. The maxillofacial surgeon (who was a bit younger and very cute), turned bright red when I shared the story.

Had surgery 3 days later and left for WDW 3 days after that. My friends, who we met up with at WDW, have never let me live that one down. Thankfully, my stepson refused to share this story when he gave the toast at our wedding.

I had to read this twice. I thought your butt cheek hit him on the head

 

[Shagley]

These are all hilarious. These make me feel better about my cat scratch to the eye! I'm sure most of the things we think are highly embarrassing are probably nothing compared to some of the other things they have seen in the ER.

 

[tigercat]

The latex allergy reminded me of something else. I had an yeast infection. I called the Dr. and told them and also told them that I was allergic to some things so that before the ordered me something for it they should check. Well the Dr. at the time didn't feel the need to do that (he wasn't my regular Dr. and he knew better) so he ordered me medication. I used it..inside...if you know what I mean. I was allergic to it. I thought I was on fire and there was nothing I could do. At the ER I was told that the only thing I could do was sit on bags of ice. It was a very long night. I now eat a lot of yogurt and stay away from certain things.
tigercat

 

[MAW137]

I was lucky enough to crush part of my leg and run my own foot over with my car. I was backing out of my garage, stopped to check something, and forgot to put it in park. Our driveway is sloped down so the car rolled, caught my leg. crushed part of it, knocked me down, and while lying on the ground I watched my front tire roll over my foot. Car went across our very busy street with my daughter strapped in and ended up in the neighbors yard. By the time the paramedics got there there was about 20 people staring at me at the cute firemen picked me up. Three stitches and a year of wound care clinic appointments later I still have issues with my leg.

 

[pls5286]

I am a Scout leader. When DS was in 3rd grade, I was preparing to teach the pocket knife safety course know as "Whittling Chip". I had just purchased brand new knives, for both of us. As we begin to work (we were at home and I was practicing my carving skills), my son decided to jump ahead and we ended up going to the ER for 7 stitches in the webbing of his hand between the thumb and 1st finger. Now mind you, I live in the same county where I worked EMS so I knew all the drs and nurses. The look I got when I told them he got cut doing a pocket knife safety class practice was priceless.

He did learn rather quickly to not bring a blade towards you, go away from you.

 

[cybrkitn]

I am a Scout leader. When DS was in 3rd grade, I was preparing to teach the pocket knife safety course know as "Whittling Chip". I had just purchased brand new knives, for both of us. As we begin to work (we were at home and I was practicing my carving skills), my son decided to jump ahead and we ended up going to the ER for 7 stitches in the webbing of his hand between the thumb and 1st finger. Now mind you, I live in the same county where I worked EMS so I knew all the drs and nurses. The look I got when I told them he got cut doing a pocket knife safety class practice was priceless.

He did learn rather quickly to not bring a blade towards you, go away from you.

DS11 just earned that last month. Thankfully no injuries.

When he was a bit younger, he wanted to help me peel potatoes. DS, being strong willed, didn't want to listen to my instructions about being careful. He tried to peel the potato and wound up slicing off his fingernail instead Thankfully it didn't warrant a trip to the ER. We bandaged it up and it healed up just fine. It did teach him a lesson though.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Oh, come on ER nurses! Can't you euphemist* up your stories so that we can enjoy them?


*I just invented this word.

 

[laurie31]

I'm not sure!! LOL!!!


There are so many that I just can't come up with any way to make them family-friendly! Let's just say people can be...adventurous. And then come up with some crazy stories to explain how things get stuck where they do. And you'd better believe we laugh! (and most of the things I'd read on here would not even raise an eyebrow, much less make us laugh at you, so don't be embarrassed!!)

In the spirit of the knife story, I have this one (and this was on the news, so not sharing anything private). A cop, teaching his son about gun safety, accidentally shot the boy while showing him how to clean the supposedly unloaded weapon. He shot off one of his son's...um...family jewels. I know, NOT funny, NOT FUNNY! but dang, can you IMAGINE the ribbing this guy got at work after that? (and yeah, I think he had to go to some classes or something...I can't remember and I can't find a link)

And this one is my own. Oh the shame!!! My kids were playing nurse. Somehow they decided to take a rectal temp. They couldn't reach the actual thermometer (first aid stuff is on a high shelf) so they used the stylus from her Nintendo DS. Do you see where this is going? I was MORTIFIED! I tried so hard to remove it myself, but it was just too far gone. I had to take her to the ER *where I work* and they had to call SURGERY! Fortunately, he was able to remove it in the ER. That was my morning. That afternoon I was working and guess who I got to work a trauma with? Yep. *THAT* surgeon. I spent the whole code trying not to make eye contact with the guy. It is the Incident of Which We Do Not Speak at my work now...

 

[packofjedis]

I was carrying a large load of dirty laundry down the stairs and missed the bottom stair. I stepped rather largely into thin air and fell right into the pile of dirty laundry, spraining my foot in the process. Had to call my DH to leave work and take me to the ER since we didn't know if it was broken....right foot...can't drive.

While in the ER with my then 3 and 5 year olds, my oldest tells the doctor that I "fall down a lot." The dr makes some hmmm noises and starts writing in my chart. Probably noting in case of spousal abuse. The problem is that I'm just honestly clumsy. I lose my balance or walk sideways into walls all the time. But never really injured. Told my DH when we left we couldn't go back to the ER again....

 

[wrestlingchick26]

This is more a funny before the ER story:
I fell off my horse when I was younger but got caught up in the stirrup and tore all my tendons and ligaments in my foot.
Of course not realising this my mum made me get back on my horse and continue riding. Wasn't until I tried to dismount again that we realised I couldn't put any weight on my foot.
My mum then had to push me in the wheelbarrow to the car to take me to the hospital

 

[Cavy]

I've been for a couple of things but the most embarrassing happened just a year ago. I was carving pumpkins with my sister and DH and ended up carving my index finger instead. We rushed to urgent care before it closed (they very nicely stayed open a couple of minutes extra for us). We had wrapped it in a towel and it bled all the way through.

The nurses laughed a little but they each said they'd done something similar (cat food cans, etc.) And reminded me that pumpkin probably wouldn't cause my wound to get infected. I think it hurt my sister more to watch me get the stitches than it hurt to get them!

 

[MrsDuck]

I broke my elbow when my boyfriend & I went ice skating. We were holding hands, I lost my balance, and took us both down. Then crawled to the box off to the side. I knew it was broke immediately but boyfriend (now DH) was training for hockey & I didn't want to make a scene. He kept skating until he realized I was ghost white & crying.. a lot.

He drove me to the ER & I told them. Not TOO embarassing - I just don't like falling; I'm so clumsy.

We DID, however, have a friend in college who was drunk & got really angry that a girl at the bar had a boyfriend already. He punched a wall & broke his hand. He told the ER his hand got "stuck in a door" but obviously they knew better...

 

[Pugsly]

I had to read this twice. I thought your butt cheek hit him on the head

:rofl2: that would've added a whole 'mother level of embarrassing!

 

[Pugsly]

:rofl2: that would've added a whole 'mother level of embarrassing!

Oops. 'Nother.