Most serious injury you have had in your life?

[usnuzuloose]

The hairline fracture that I mentioned in the other thread is the only broken bone I've ever had (knock on wood). I suspect I broke a bone in my foot years ago in a car accident when I was in college but I never got treatment for it because I didn't have insurance.

I think the worst injury I've ever had would be the third degree perineal tear that I suffered while delivering my son. There were a lot of stitches. I don't know the number offhand but it took them a very long time to stitch me up/repair the damage, and there were 2 doctors working on it, one would take a break and the other would take over, they kept switching out. Internal and external stitches. Then, when I was in excruciating pain even after I was outwardly healed, I was diagnosed with nerve damage resulting from the trauma. Imaging constantly inflamed nerves in that very delicate area. I was offered a nerve block but the kind I would have gotten had unwelcome risk factors, plus I didn't want more doctors poking around there. Still have signs of nerve damage, but thankfully the nerves mostly calmed down after about a year, maybe a year and a half.

I'm not going to go into all the gory details, but I still have issues from the tear, and my son is almost 16 now! And whenever I see a new gynecologist I get to have a fun conversation about all the trauma to my lady bits (I also lost a large chunk of my cervix to cancer when I was 19, I'm really a mess!).

All this to say: childbirth can be really hard on a woman's body! To anyone reading this, don't forget to hug your mother!

I can only imagine the tear, I had them cut me so I would not tear. But even to this day I still have pain from it. I am sorry you still have issues with it. I think most of the women who have problems there would of rather had a c section, at least for me I would have chose that. I do recall though that with my son , I felt them sewing me , not enough numbing med.....I will certainly keep you in my prayers for your issue.... Just know you are not alone with this issue...

 

[usnuzuloose]

For me

I have broken my leg twice , both times in football matches.

The worst I think for a injury was a broken wrist from a car accident. I never got to have the issue fixed. I would have needed a piece of my hip bone to replace it in my wrist.

 

[Lintasare]

The worst was 12.5 years ago. Screen door closed on my foot and sliced me up the back of my heel. 13 stitches to close it and it never quite healed right. The scar is still quite prominent to this day and it hurts terribly when it's cold out.

I have also gotten stiches in my chin twice. 8 when I was 6 and fell on a piece of playground equipment and 7 on my 13th birthday after falling off my bike on the way home from school.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I can only imagine the tear, I had them cut me so I would not tear. But even to this day I still have pain from it. I am sorry you still have issues with it. I think most of the women who have problems there would of rather had a c section, at least for me I would have chose that. I do recall though that with my son , I felt them sewing me , not enough numbing med.....I will certainly keep you in my prayers for your issue.... Just know you are not alone with this issue...

Thanks. I'm sorry about your issues too, I understand about the pain. I still get lingering pain, but it's weird, it's like the ghost of the pain, it's not horrible and crippling like it was at first. i also have problems from the scar tissue. I was cut during delivery too, but then I tore further. My son was big, he was 10 pounds and 22 inches long. And he was sunny side up and they had to turn him, plus I had preeclampsia and they were worried about my blood pressure and his heartbeat kept fading in and out and I'm pretty sure at the end they just kind of pulled him out to get him out quick, I think that's how I tore so badly. The whole thing was a comedy of errors. I do kind of wish they had taken him by c-section because of his size, but I know women who had c-sections that had complications and regret it--like my aunt who needed an emergency c section and then ended up with a raging infection after they left a sponge in her abdomen after her section. I think the physical act of getting a baby born is hard no matter what.

 

[Toolulu22]

I’m a regular in the ER and doctor’s office. I’m pretty active and have fallen off my mountain bike numerous times (broken wrist/stomach contusion), broke my ribs once snow boarding, once during a ninjutsu class. Hit a major blood vessel and had blood gushing out near my pelvis- stitches, actually was given morphine! Broke my leg roller blading, fallen off horses several times, but I think the most painful injury-took about a year to heal and was never the same was a full tear of my Achilles’ tendon. I still remember holding my leg in the car and my foot jiggling around with the motion of the car. When I met my husband, I warned him that we’d be in the ER a lot. Now he jokes about it being about time for our annual visit.

 

[snapppyd]

I reached out to pet a German Shepherd. He bit right through my hand. It immediately got infected, I spent a week in the hospital on intraveneous antibiotics. Lost two fingernails (they grew back) and have a tendon that sticks up in my palm.

 

[scrhsa]

I tore the ligaments in my had when I tripped over the vacuum cord. I fell into the outside corner of a wall and caught myself directly between my ring and middle fingers. I didn't think it would ever heal. Took about a year for it to begin to feel normal again.

 

[RangerPooh]

Broke my ribs twice. Once when I fell down a flight of stairs at work, the other when I fell out of the back door opening at the house we were building.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I bashed my chin into the side of the pool when I was 5. Had a dozen stiches. Still have the scar.

Another pool injury when I was 4: Got poked in the eye by another child. That eye has significantly worse vision every since.

Do an inflamed gall bladder, and then a bile leak after gallbladder surgery, count as injuries?

 

[Simba's Mom]

Fractured my pelvis last year and ended up in a wheelchair for a month. The funny thing was that we had reservations at Disney's Hilton Head in 5 days after it happened, and the look on DH's face was priceless as I lay in the Emergency Ward begging the doctor to let me go.

 

[neverlandsky]

Shattered my nose with 3 flies up. Older kid jumped in front of me to catch the ball after I called it first.