Silly Accidents that have left you injured

[dazeddaisy]

Tell me about those silly accidents you have had that have left you injured.

A week ago I tripped down stairs and broke my radius and ulna resulting in me needing 2 plates in my lower arm, 8 weeks in a cast and a 4 day hospital stay.

I am still feeling incredibly stupid about the whole thing. It has been years since I fell down stairs. Now falling up stairs is another story! (albeit one where I have probably bruised a leg rather than broken a bone).

Tell me I am not the only person to do something stupid that has a lasting effect.

 

[pat fan]

I slipped on the stairs in the spring and cracked my tail bone. I felt VERY stupid as well, but what can you do? I guess stairs are a pretty dangerous thing. Maybe we should all install those little seats that go up and down the stairs

 

[Pikester]

Not me! I never do anything silly.

My poor grandmother closed the top of her ear in the car door.

 

[m&m's mom]

The week before Thanksgiving last week I was in the attic and swung my legs over to the ladder and missed then fell and smashed on the concrete garage floor below.
I landed on my bottom (Thank goodness for the padding ) and then slammed my forehead on the concrete floor.
I had the hugest goose egg on my head for weeks and the blood all pooled around my eyes. I have never seen such a black eye for sooooo long!
And dang it! I broke 4 nails too (worst insult of all)

 

[freckles and boo]

A few Christmases ago I got my mother a grooming tool for her matted cat. It looked something like this with a split handle.

http://www.groomersmall.com/images/PawPrintSheddingBlades.jpg

I ended up in the emergency room that Christmas night. I was showing my mom how to open up the shedding tool when it sprung apart and the handle smacked me in the eye, shattering my contact lens into pieces and driving them into my cornea. I couldn't begin to get the pieces out by myself. The people in the ER didn't believe me. They sent my husband into a different room and asked if I needed any assistance or if he was abusing me. It would be funny if there weren't real abuse victims out there. My poor husband is the nicest guy and only started laughing at me AFTER they said my eye would be fine.

ETA - that wasn't the ONLY thing I got my mother.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

When I was 16 I was getting ready for work, was closing the door from outside to go into the house and smashed my finger in the door. It hurt. I took a moment, called my mom and looked at it. I was missing a chunk. It made me nauseous..... I sat down. My mom went to the bathroom, and while she was in there, I felt I was going to throw up, so I got up to go to the bathroom. My mom heard a thud and found me unconcious under the stool in the kitchen, moaning with my eyes back in my head....
Ambulance came, took me to hospital. Came out with a neckbrace. Turns out I passed out from the sight of my own blood, and ended up 'snapping' my neck on the fall to the floor hitting the stool.
When I went to work the following Monday, I had a neckbrace on. When people asked what happened, I told them I smashed my finger in the door.

 

[Serena]

I tripped over my dog, hit my foot on a wood cabinet, landed 4 feet away and I don't know how I got there. I still have nerve damage in the foot that hit the cabinet and my back still won't let me do some things.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

The week before Thanksgiving last week I was in the attic and swung my legs over to the ladder and missed then fell and smashed on the concrete garage floor below.
I landed on my bottom (Thank goodness for the padding ) and then slammed my forehead on the concrete floor.
I had the hugest goose egg on my head for weeks and the blood all pooled around my eyes. I have never seen such a black eye for sooooo long!
And dang it! I broke 4 nails too (worst insult of all)

reminds me of one other.... my own stupidity.

Drank too much one night on an empty stomach... and fell in my yard getting out of the backseat of the car. I tripped over the roots of our huge tree, landing on other roots. Gashed my head, and for those that know, heads bleed bad. My friends freaked out and took me to the hospital because it knocked me out!!
I had a huge gooseegg and 2 big black eyes (half swollen shut) for Christmas (and New Years)

 

[flying_babyb]

Theres been so many... I cut my finger opening a pocket knife. I was cleaning my bedroom and there was this old wooden chair that had metal springs and so such. Well, I leaned down to pick something up and smashed my head on it comming up... No biggie. About a half hour latter, im dizzy and theres a red spot on the floor. Thats when I relized I cut my head open. 4 staples later the chair found a new home.

 

[imabrat]

- Tripped over my foot, flipped a few times, and broke my collarbone.
- Broke my right big toe when I dropped my laptop on it. It slipped out of my hand.
- Busted the whole right side of my face skiing. I slipped on an ice patch and flipped a few times all over this giant ice patch. The whole right side of my face was purple/blue/green and sagging. I had multiple burns from my goggles all around my eyes.

 

[SkyGirl]

Fun thread!

When I was sixteen I worked in a donut shop. I was hurrying to leave one Saturday afternoon and slipped on some jelly. I slid across a floor, still on my feet, as if in slow motion, and slammed into a door, falling. I tore my Achilles tendon and ended up on crutches for six months!! The surgeon said he usually only saw this injury on football players!!

 

[MinnieFlute]

I once broke my ankle playing laser tag in flip-flops. Oops!

 

[raysnkaysmom]

- Tripped over my foot, flipped a few times, and broke my collarbone.
- Broke my right big toe when I dropped my laptop on it. It slipped out of my hand.
- Busted the whole right side of my face skiing. I slipped on an ice patch and flipped a few times all over this giant ice patch. The whole right side of my face was purple/blue/green and sagging. I had multiple burns from my goggles all around my eyes.

Oh...also, when I was working at an ice cream shop, I went to reach up to get one of those big 10gallon cans of pineapple syrup. Dropped it and broke my pinky toe. OUCH..


I just realized, I'm kinda accident prone...lol

 

[okeydokey]

Tripped over a curb outside of It's a Small World in MK, broke my wrist and spent the entire night in the hospital. Man I hate that ride.

 

[okeydokey]

Tell me about those silly accidents you have had that have left you injured.

A week ago I tripped down stairs and broke my radius and ulna resulting in me needing 2 plates in my lower arm, 8 weeks in a cast and a 4 day hospital stay.

I am still feeling incredibly stupid about the whole thing. It has been years since I fell down stairs. Now falling up stairs is another story! (albeit one where I have probably bruised a leg rather than broken a bone).

Tell me I am not the only person to do something stupid that has a lasting effect.

You poor thing. How are you doing now?

 

[raysnkaysmom]

Tell me about those silly accidents you have had that have left you injured.

A week ago I tripped down stairs and broke my radius and ulna resulting in me needing 2 plates in my lower arm, 8 weeks in a cast and a 4 day hospital stay.

I am still feeling incredibly stupid about the whole thing. It has been years since I fell down stairs. Now falling up stairs is another story! (albeit one where I have probably bruised a leg rather than broken a bone).

Tell me I am not the only person to do something stupid that has a lasting effect.

btw...I dont even know what an ulna is!!

Hope you're feeling ok!!

 

[imabrat]

Oh...also, when I was working at an ice cream shop, I went to reach up to get one of those big 10gallon cans of pineapple syrup. Dropped it and broke my pinky toe. OUCH..


I just realized, I'm kinda accident prone...lol

So am I, don't feel bad. The broken toe was a few weeks ago actually. I was trying to carry my laptop from one room to the next, and my grip loosened on the laptop. It slipped and my STUPID first instinct was to catch it with my foot. Clipped my left big toe pretty good, but I couldn't walk for a week because my right big toe was broken. It hurt so bad, even the wind blowing on it was excruciating.

When I hurt myself, I do it good. But I always do it in the stupidest ways. The x-ray tech in the ER was laughing at me.

 

[monkey68]

Silly accidents, I have plenty. Going down the stairs one night, I tripped over the air, tore up my ankle. The next day, I went to the student health center, they said they thought it might be broken, so they sent me to the ER. In the ER, they completely screwed up, they wanted to x-ray the wrong ankle, the person who saw me examined my left ankle, and completely ignored the swollen, purple right one. At first, I thought she was just examining it to get a basis for comparison. My discharge papers said "mild left ankle sprain". That weekend, I went to an orthopedist, who laughed at the ER papers, and said I managed to have a grade 3 ankle sprain. My ankle is still not all that great.

Another time, I was ice skating, and I've been skating since I was around 5. I wasn't doing anything fancy, just stroking around. Not sure what happened, but I ended up falling straight down onto my knee. Turns out I tore my PCL. My doctor told me I fell in pretty much the only way possible to tear only my PCL and not injure anything else. Apparently, it's a hard one to injure. I've decided to not get surgery for it, so it's still not as stable as my other knee, but I don't want to deal with the surgery.

Most recently, I was walking up the stairs, when I somehow fell up the stairs. Again, not sure how it happened, just one of those things. At first, I thought I just sprained my wrist. But it wasn't getting any better, and in fact, it was actually getting worse. Turns out, my tendons got swollen, and had no room within the sheath to move, basically, I ended up getting De Quervain tenosynovitis, which is usually an overuse injury. But I got mine from a fall up the stairs. Had surgery to fix it, and now it's fine, so I guess I have no lasting deficits from that except for the scar.

 

[dakcp2001]

I am super clumsy, I fall all the time. Here are a few of the weirder ones:


1.Carrying a large stack of books from old bookcase to new bookcase when my kitty decided to walk between my feet (it was his dinner time) I fell OVER the cat, twisted my ankle and all the books fell on me. I had a swollen and bruised foot, a huge scratch on my foot from my cat's quick get-away, and bruises all over me from the books. The cat hid under the bed for hours, and I was terrified he was hurt.

2. Running across the wet grass in flip flops, bad idea!!!! lol

3. My front steps had a little mold growing on them, and the morning dew made it slippery, I took one step and slid to the bottom. I had the worst bruise from my lower back all the way to my knee and a huge lump on my backside that got smaller, but never totally went away. When I went to the Dr to see if anything was broken, she CALLED IN other nurse's to ooh and ahhh at my bruise and to poke at the lump, which BTW NEVER went totally away.

I don't need snow or ice to fall. Sad. lol.

OP hope your feeling better!

 

[mpls_mm]

Not me, but a co-worker. She had come in early and was in the office alone. Her desk was in front of a wall, she got up and sat back down but somehow her chair slid back so she just sat on the edge of it. The whole thing went forward and dumped her head on the desk and her knees on the floor while she was still seated in the chair, but now the back wheels are all on the wall, there is not enough room for her to move, but she is trapped on the desk and that is how we found her when we came in. Face sideways and all squished by the high backed chair and trapped there, laughing so hard she could barely stand it. She did get hurt slightly but had a good sense of humor.