Silly Accidents that have left you injured

[apirateslifeforme]

I dislocated my shoulder washing my car...

I was crouched down on the side of it, bracing myself with my left hand, scrubbing tar off the bottom with my right. The car was already wet and soapy...my hand slid forward, I couldn't balance and slammed against the car with my head and shoulder. Heard a loud *pop*...went for x-rays...

To this day, when I stretch a certain way, I can pop that shoulder out and back in again.

 

[princess momma]

I opened the freezer door and a huge ham fell out. On top of my foot. And broke 2 toes. I try to keep a tidier freezer now.

 

[Alex&Evan'sMom]

Hubby was trying to teach me how to swing a golf club, I stood too close....an er visit and 8 stitches on my ear later and I no longer had the urge to learn golf. However, it does make for an interesting story to tell, although hubby still cringes at the thought!

 

[Inigo]

I don't feel so stupid about my story now after reading these.

I stepped on a colored pencil that had been left on the floor by DD (4 at the time) and managed to stab the TOP of my foot with the pencil.

I guess when I stepped on it with my right foot, it tilted up and as my left foot came forward, the pencil went into the top of my left foot about 1 1/2 inches. It had to be pulled out because it got stuck in my foot.

I went to the ER for a few stitches and to make sure there was no permanent damage. I expected the doctor to say something about it being a weird accident, but he kept his mouth shut. Probably because I had been to the ER two weeks earlier, and had the same doctor, when I had a blockage in my small intestine. I was vomiting, and he raised my shirt to listen to my gut.

The night before that ER trip, DD and I had been lying on the bed being silly. We ended up giving each other "tattoos" using those cute markers that have design stampers on the end instead of writing tips. I went to bed, woke up in the middle of the night vomiting, and went to the ER.

The doctor looked at the line of ladybug stamps going down my tummy, then looked at me. I had already been given the pherergen and pain killers, so I just laughed hysterically and told him they were my tattoos.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I've got one ..... it's a classic, my sister still laughs at me for it 8 years later.

I was getting ready to go out one night, I had one of those basic Cover Girl pressed powdered compacts and decided I needed to see what the back of my hair looked like ... so I'm checking it out using the compact and then to fix something, I put the compact in my mouth, the powder side was in my mouth and it was open and it sort of "slammed" shut and the hard plastic pointed corner of the "clasp" on the compact hit me in the eye and actually took out a teeny chunk of my eyeball! OMG!!!!!!!!!! It was awful, awful. It hurt so bad and my eye just watered and watered, I went to ER and they numbed my eye, but you can't do that all the time because it can damage the eye, so once the numming stuff wore off, it was back to the pain and watering. I had to tape my eye shut and wear an eye patch for a week. My eye doctor can still see the little nick in my eye to this day.

 

[christineann]

I was vacuuming barefooted (my mama told me never to do that), swung the vacuum around from my left to my right, and looked down to see my little toe perpendicular to my foot. I pushed it back into place and put on an athletic shoe to lessen the swelling. For a long time the top of my foot was black and blue. Now I know I should have gone to get it checked. Some of my shoes don't really fit that foot very well now.

We were renting a duplex while our house was being rebuilt after hurricane Hugo, and I took on priming and painting the interior to save money (we had insurance, but it's never enough!). I called my contractor every day to find out which rooms were ready to paint, and I would go over to the house and paint when my husband got home from work (we had small children). There was no outdoor lighting, and I didn't know there was a trailer next to the dumpster in my front yard and ran into the tongue of the trailer. I let out a word that would curl your hair and thought I had fractured my shin. I sat in the yard and cried for a few minutes and then went inside to paint. I slept in a recliner that night and could barely walk for days.

There are more stories.........I am SUCH a klutz.

 

[Mom21]

Not me, but my 12yo dd. Back in April we were in a hotel for a trampoline/tumbling competition. It was a 1 bedroom, so she was in the bedroom watching TV with the door closed. I was in the living room watching tv. I was getting ready to tell her she needed to get ready for practice that night. I hear a dull thud. Didn't think much of it until I hear a sound like a bleating goat. by the time I could get up she had the door open. Gashed legs and lots of blood pooling at her feet with way more pieces of flesh than I ever wanted to see. She had apparently decided to tumble onto the bed into the window on the 3rd story of a hotel. Window didn't even break (Thank God!!)as the parking lot was below. She hit the marble window sill.

So 911, paramedics, ER, and many hours later it was over. Not only that but she was there for a competition and had to "scratch" the next day. Also we were supposed to go for vacation to Dominican Republic in 3 days but had to cancel. Couldn't risk infection.

Worst part?! When asked by Dr 3 days later if she had learned anything, she replied "Yes! Tumble AWAY from the window."

 

[AshleyW]

My dumbest injury happened when I was trying to play a prank on my dad. My family went to Memphis for a family reunion when I was in 3rd or 4th grade or so, and stayed there for about a week. The first day we checked into the hotel, and my mom and little brother and I were relaxing in the hotel room while my dad hauled all our luggage from the car back to the hotel room. After his first trip to the car and back, I thought it would be funny if I locked him out of the hotel room. Well, the lock on our hotel room was the kind that you swing over, and it gets caught on the little ball, right? Like this:

Well, somehow, as I'm swinging the lock shut, my ring finger goes into the "swing" part of the lock... right as my dad tries to open the door. My finger got smashed between the ball part of the lock and the swing part of the lock as the door opened, and I shattered my top 2 bones in that finger. Definitely a lesson learned, though.. whenever I stay in a hotel with that kind of lock, I make my fiance lock the door.

 

[laurie31]

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

Hope you're feeling ok!!

The radius and the ulna are the two bones that connect the elbow and the wrist.

Speaking of which, I broke mine by simply stepping up onto a curb with slick-soled shoes. I wasn't running or in a hurry or anything. The sole was worn slick only over the ball of my foot, so it didn't bother me walking normally (I didn't even realize it was like that) but when I stepped onto the curb, only the slick part made contact and it was like I stepped on ice. It was June 10th. I've been off work 11 weeks; I finally go back on Tuesday.

 

[minkydog]

Oh, my...stupid...let me count the ways:

Had my carpets cleaned, walked across the still damp carpet to go to the bathroom, hit the vinyl floor and my feet flew out from under me. The last thing I remember is being suspended in mid-air. Got a concussion from that one.

On Thanksgiving Day, running through the woods to catch DS as he was headed for a cliff, stepped in a 6" hole and snapped both the bones in my ankle. Thought it was sprained and continued to walk on it for 6 days, by which time the ankle was black and the size of a paint can. Yeah, I know. Nurses make the worst patients.

Recently was using a big honkin' power drill to put down the stabilizers on my RV. Bent over to see what I was doing, the drill bit caught and the drill kicked back so hard it almost broke my hand, which was between the drill and my jaw. I had wicked bruises on my whole hand and under the jaw. I looked like someone had beat the heck outta me.

Oh, here's one about DH: He got a concussion when he swung out of a hammock and slammed the side of his head into a tree. Fractured his skull. He had the worst headache EVER.

 

[christineann]

Yikes

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I don't feel so stupid about my story now after reading these.

I stepped on a colored pencil that had been left on the floor by DD (4 at the time) and managed to stab the TOP of my foot with the pencil.

I guess when I stepped on it with my right foot, it tilted up and as my left foot came forward, the pencil went into the top of my left foot about 1 1/2 inches. It had to be pulled out because it got stuck in my foot.

I went to the ER for a few stitches and to make sure there was no permanent damage. I expected the doctor to say something about it being a weird accident, but he kept his mouth shut. Probably because I had been to the ER two weeks earlier, and had the same doctor, when I had a blockage in my small intestine. I was vomiting, and he raised my shirt to listen to my gut.

The night before that ER trip, DD and I had been lying on the bed being silly. We ended up giving each other "tattoos" using those cute markers that have design stampers on the end instead of writing tips. I went to bed, woke up in the middle of the night vomiting, and went to the ER.

The doctor looked at the line of ladybug stamps going down my tummy, then looked at me. I had already been given the pherergen and pain killers, so I just laughed hysterically and told him they were my tattoos.

That is hysterical!!!

Oh, here's one about DH: He got a concussion when he swung out of a hammock and slammed the side of his head into a tree. Fractured his skull. He had the worst headache EVER.

I'm so sorry....but I am laughing at everyones pain!!

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Went sledding on an old ski slope in VT. It was a family trip to see my brother who lives there.

Well, I was going so fast and was laughing so hard, practically peeing my pants, that I could not get up and out of the way of my BIL who could not see me and thought I got up...He slammed right into my foot.

Couldn't walk so they called the ambulance and had to carry me out of the snow on a stretcher...yes, everyone was snapping pics. Ambulance ride into NH and my sister who accompanied me, was chit chatting with all the EMTs while I was laying there.

I had a very bad sprained ankle that turned my entire foot black. I now have terrible arthritis in that foot.

Funny thing. My DH had a sledding accident a couple years after.

 

[PirateChef3300]

When I was 13 I shut my nose in a door and broke it!!!! I was looking for something in the closet and stuck my head in. While I was pulling my head out I was shutting the door at the same time and CRACK!!!!!

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

This thread is making me cringe and laugh at the same time!

Let's see...I once broke my baby toe while looking at a partial eclipse of the moon - I was 'dancing' back into the house (I was like 12 or so at the time) and caught my baby toe on the concrete garden separator...OUCH!

I've torn my ACL three times...yes three times! Twice in my left knee and once in my right...not fun! All three times I was either in the middle of a dance class or dancing at home (Did I mention I like to dance?!). At least I did it doing something I love...too bad I can't say the same for my sister.

OK...well she tore her ACL one time in dance class too but last summer she was on a Royal Carribean Cruise and they were doing the Quest game. They asked for 6 woman to do the Can-Can so my sister thought "I can do that!" so she goes and gets in line. She steps back to prep for the kick and hears a horrible tearing sound. She limped off the stage and almost passed out before making to the bar to ask for a glass of water. I get a text message - mind you the next day was a sea day- from my sister telling me that she thinks she tore her ACL doing the Can-Can and to call the doctor and make an appointment for her! It was indeed torn and she had the surgery a few weeks later.

Fast forward to October (she had her surgery in August) - she was walking out of the front door of our house with her cup of coffee and HUGE jug of water. She tripped out the front door and re-tore her ACL (the one she had just repaired)!!!!! Good news was that she didn't spill her coffee or her water!


My family is very accident prone!

 

[englishteacha]

I opened a door over my foot and broke my toe.
I'm generally a klutz and have a constant barrage of bumps, bruises, and cuts. I taught 3 years in a classroom where I kept running into the corner of a desk. I even moved the desk and still ran into the darn thing! I think it had some amazing gravitational pull or something!

My husband broke his foot while dancing at a summer camp dance as a counselor.

 

[SleepyMom]

I know exactly how you feel, I started this thread http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2189197 in May for the same reason. I fell and got hurt and felt totally stupid about it and came here to hear other stories to hopefully feel better and know I wasn't alone.


Hope you are feeling better soon!

 

[fraggle551]

I was walking in my basement one day and was about 5 feet from the stairs when my brother turned the lights off on me by accident. Thinking I could make the 5 feet in the dark I kept walking. I went down and started hysterically crying. I thought I just bumped my knee, and I remember thinking to myself "why are you crying you big baby! You just bumped your knee get up" I yelled and screamed for the lights to go back on and my mom heard me.

Turns out that she had cleaned out our fishtank the night before and left it on the floor. my foot went through one side of the fish tank and out the other. They think I passed out because I do not remember hearing the glass break or feeling any pain. I cut an artery and my foot was pumping blood across the room. My mom has been a nurse for 30 years. She came down the stairs, saw me, and almost passed out from the blood.

The best part? Our car was in the shop and we didn't have another one, so we had to call the ambulence to get to the ER. All of my best guy friends are in the volunteer fire dept. So they were the ones who came to get me out of the fish tank and take me to the hospital. And here's the good part - I had just showered so I was only in my towel. They had to get the fish tank off of my leg, carry me up the stairs, and then put me in the ambulence.

The ER doc said he had never seen anyone walk through a fish tank before. I had a lot of stiches in the bottom of my foot and was on crutches for awhile. I still haven't lived that one down. All the guys at the fire dept now call me Tank. And this was almost 7 years ago!

 

[nephthys43]

I have two. The first, I fell up the stairs and broke my foot. It wasn't set properly and it still hurts when it's cold out.

The second is kinda hard to explain. You know that weird painful feeling you get when you turn your head too fast? My friend calls it "popping a cerebral fingernail". I was applauding some friends during their curtain call and yelled too much and did that. I get sooo much pain from that. Right now I'm at a concert and I can't dance cause I overdid it earlier today and I keep getting headrushes.

 

[CDoobee]

I have broken (or sprained?) my ribs 6 times in the last 7 1/2 years. I quit getting xrays after about the 2nd or 3rd time, since they don't do anything for fractured ribs anyway. I tried wearing a rib belt, but that just made it hurt worse.
2002-lying on my stomach vacuuming under my DD's bed. As I stretched my arm out to reach further, I felt and heard a pop.
2003-was watching a parade and leaned over while sitting in a lawn chair to pick up tootsie rolls that were being thrown from floats!
2004-tripped over a crack in the sidewalk. At least this one didn't seem so stupid, but unfortunately got both sides of my ribs and a foot with this one.
2005-in the shower, and bent over to wash my feet and pop!
2007-turned on my side while lying in a recliner, and felt the pop.
2009-just this past Tuesday was at my doctor's office. He wanted to do an echo. As I was lying on my side on the table, the tech tells me to scootch over a little closer to her and pop!
And yes, I do have osteoporosis!

Stupid thing I did as a child-my sisters and I, along with neighbor kids, were in my front yard pretending to be animals. My sisters each took a turn putting a notebook ring in their noses to be a bull. Then it was my turn. Unfortunately, they hadn't told me NOT to snap the ring closed! It hurt so much that I instinctively just reached up and yanked it out, causing more injury. I had to get the inside of my nose cauterized to stop the bleeding. Worse than that, I was embarassed in front of the neighbor boy I had a crush on!

I also am not allowed to handle sharp knives in my home (kidding....sort of), due to the many times I have cut myself.