List all the stupid injuries you have had?

[reecejackox]

or strange

off the top of my head

cut head after hitting my head on a large road sign

brother tripped me which caused a scar

got stabbed with a pen which caused bleeding

got hit with a cricket ball

fell off the middle of a slide.

 

[Ben E N]

I cut my shin open really badly trying to box jump onto a science counter in front of a class of children. I had to pretend it didn't hurt that badly as I grabbed paper towels to mop up the flowing blood while teaching a class full of children.
I was young enough to be dumb enough to try it, but too old to be able to do it.
This was last year...

 

[BeckyEsq]

I was carrying a bag with a very large butternut squash in it. The bag broke and landed on my sandaled foot. Popped the big toenail right off and broke the toe.

 

[mjkacmom]

Was making gazpacho with my stick blender. Tomatoes got stuck in the blade, I tried to remove them while it was running. Cut off my fingertip, my mom had to drive me to urgent care where they packed it with some stuff that hardened and fell out 6 weeks later when the flesh grew back (nothing left to stitch). Almost 10 years later I have no feeling in it.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I didn't sharpen my knife before using it; lesson re-learned as I bled all over the kitchen sink.

 

[Kellykins1218]

I'm just going to list the ones from this week. Last Thursday, I stepped on a sewing needle that broke in half in my foot. I had surgery on Friday. On Monday I went out to get the mail wearing my boot and a bee flew into it, got stuck in my sock, and proceeded to keep stinging me until I could get the boot and my sock off. The same foot! It felt like the needle all over again. I came into the house and a few minutes later the palms of my hands got really red and started to itch. Then my ears did the same. I decided I better run to the store for Benadryl but started having hives pop out on my arms so went straight to the ER. By the time I got there and was rushed back to a room, I was covered head to toe and my chest felt funny. Epi, steroids, Benadryl, and Toradol because apparently the bee got a nerve and it felt like I was being re-stung every 10 seconds for about 3 hours. This was the 1st time I ever had a reaction to a bee sting. I swear everyone I know has sent me a message saying that I need a bubble wrap suit. I finally left my house yesterday but I did put out a warning on Facebook 1st.

 

[Klayfish]

1. The very first time we were going to have DW father and his long-time GF meet my parents (many years ago, when we were first dating), I was making sliced potatoes on one of those horizontal blade slicing things. Well, I wasn't paying attention and sliced my thumb. 4 stitches later, I ate dinner with my hand fully wrapped and holding it over my head.

2. Two weeks before my high school prom, I was taking a AAA driving school class. We thought it would be fun to play a practical joke on the instructor. We picked up the back of the driving school car and turned it sideways against the fence. We put it down, and it had a bumper that stuck out far (Plymouth Horizon). Dropped the car right on my knee. I went to the prom on crutches.

 

[AustinTink]

Broke my ankle doing Zumba.

 

[kenthanson]

Holy sweet jesus!!!! That's intense.

Was making gazpacho with my stick blender. Tomatoes got stuck in the blade, I tried to remove them while it was running. Cut off my fingertip, my mom had to drive me to urgent care where they packed it with some stuff that hardened and fell out 6 weeks later when the flesh grew back (nothing left to stitch). Almost 10 years later I have no feeling in it.

 

[low-key]

I cant think of any right now, but I am clumsy so there must be some

 

[aristocatz]

When I was in college, my friends and I went rope swinging at a local pond (I'm pretty sure we were also trespassing on someone's property). I had never done it before and I was a little nervous. Held onto the rope and swung out and got my finger caught on the rope when I sent to let go. Broke my finger as a result.

 

[barkley]

slipped on a carrot at a salad bar-cracked a rib

got hit by a luggage cart-whiplash (one of those MASSIVE ones the cruiseships use to collect all the luggage on the last night)

son as an infant sitting on my lap threw his head back while laughing-broke my nose..................same thing happened a second time within 6 months re breaking my nose

 

[mrsheppo]

Sprained my ankle when my big dog thought it would be fun to race me down the stairs while I was carrying a ladder.
While I was riding a bike, I caught the front tire in a storm drain grate and went over the handlebars ending up with a great case of road rash
Missed a step on the stairs and fell the rest of the way down, tearing the meniscus in my knee
Tripped on a rubber mat at a sporting goods store and lost my balance and crashed into the automatic doors while holding my baby. Ended up with bruised ribs, torn ligaments and lots of bruises

 

[lorimay]

I am the queen of klutz:

In 2016 I was cleaning the back door and my foot slipped off the door mat and twisted, spiral 5th metatarsal fracture that required surgery and pins.
Last Sunday, I was in the shower and I grabbed the towel hanging over the shower door and didn't realize I swiped the shaving cream can sitting on the ledge with it and it landed on my pinkie toe, yep its broken.

Stitches while cutting a rotisserie chicken.
Missing a step and sliding down the staircase...... it just continues

 

[AuntieMe3]

Paper cut on my eyeball....

 

[JaxDad]

I burned my forearm with an espresso maker. I told everyone I burned it on the exhaust manifold of a Harley.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I was helping an elderly relative into the car, and I said to her "be careful you don't bump your head getting in." And then I got in behind her and, you guessed it, I bumped my head really badly. I had two black eyes and everything afterwards.

 

[DLgal]

I just got injured in a stupid way last night.

My son decided the dryer's rubber gasket needed to be cleaned, so he pulled it out. I tried to get it back in, but realized I'd need to take apart the door to reseat the gasket. Our dryer is stacked on top of the washer. I removed some screws in the door and expected the inner metal ring to simply come away and allow me to seat the gasket and replace the metal ring. Instead, the glass disc in the door slid out, fell, and shattered into a billion sharp pieces. I was barefoot and got several pieces of glass embedded in my feet. I was dripping blood all over the tile floor while trying to maneuver out without further injury. I had to pull the glass shards out of my feet and now have 4 puncture wounds to deal with.

Ordered a new dryer door to the tune of $200. Sigh...such a stupid accident.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

bumped into a knife rack and had one of the butcher knives slide out and stop its fall in the web of skin between my ring finger and pinky. OWWWWWWWW couldn't stitch it together so I had to superglue and tape my fingers together for a few days....

 

[Summer2018]

40 years ago, some idiotic teenaged boy was showing off, ran up behind me, picked me up from behind then dropped me so that when I landed, I dislocated my kneecap. 5 years ago, an idiotic custodian wasn't thinking, mopped our school elevator during the school day (not overnight like he is supposed to do), left no warning cones up, and I slipped on the wet floor injuring my back and the same knee. A few months after that, we were in Provincetown, Cape Cod at their only chain grocery store. Their ice machine was leaking and had a huge puddle in front of it that, of course, I didn't see because there was no "wet floor" cone up. Once again, I fell hurting the same knee. Last December, arthritis in my bad knee finally got the best of me, and I ended up with a burst Baker's cyst and a torn meniscus from doing absolutely nothing except getting older.

I injured my shoulder at work 30 years ago catching a falling disabled woman and trying to prevent her from hitting the ground. I should have let her fall. Now the arthritis in it bothers me all the time.

Getting old is rough on the accident-prone.