Silly Accidents that have left you injured

[dicar123]

I was doing dishes while slightly drunk (ah, college) and dropped a plate, tried to catch it, and cut open my pinky finger. It was a very small cut, but right near the first knuckle and it wouldn't stop bleeding so I had to get it stitched.

Still on my parents insurance and needing to explain the bill, I worked very hard to eliminate the "I was drunk" part of the story. Instead, I let slip that it was still bleeding when "we" got up the next morning and that DBF (now DH) drove me to have it stitched.

A couple of years ago, I managed to step on a golf tee lodged in the crack between the driveway and garage floor. It was about half-way into my heel so I had to go to the ER to get it removed.

I guess it's pretty common for them to ask women about abusive relationships, but it startled me. It would take a special kind of sicko to hammer a golf tee into someone's foot.

 

[CathrynRose]

A bee attacked me at age 16.

I was in my car waiting for my g/f to come out of an interview and I saw a shadow of a bee on the magazine I was reading. I'm terrified of bee's - so I jumped out of the car super quick.

I looked in the car, didn't see the bee and said to myself - forget it, Ill go on one of the benches in the lobby and read my magazine and make Mindy get the bee out of the car.

I leaned back in the car to get my magazine I tossed aside during the initial flight from the bee, and the bee came up in my face, and I know it's little wing turned into a fist and it shook it at me.

I jumped back and *POP* dislocated my knee cap.

I have never had anything hurt so bad in my life (next to child birth) I sat on the ground in the parking lot, until my g/f came out. The bee laughed at me, as he flew away.

It's actually always been okay until recently. It 'acts up' now, with stormy weather.

 

[mamacatnv]

In June I was Houdini'ing myself into a middle seat of a sold out SouthWest flight (I had an A pass, I was late ) as I'm stepping in my knee makes this funny popping noise I get into my seat and promptly take several Advil - I just knew I had done something to it.

Landed, got off the plane, got baggage and called my son's Ortho - I'm having surgery in 2 days to repair my Meniscus and "clean up" my ACL.

 

[dazeddaisy]

Glad to here there are people with much worse injuries from more stupid things! Some of these are painful!!

For those who asked. Yeah I am ok. As good as can be expected. I am dreading going back to work and explaining how this happened. I expect the second question will be if I was drunk. Saldy no, but I wish I had been. I also have a fluro pink cast because that was all the hospital had that day other than fluro orange and green. Could not even have white. Trying to convice DF to paint it black for me.


I did remember another stupid accident I had a few years ago. I was opening a Barbie for a niece one Christmas. Some how I sliced my finger and hand open on one of the twisty ties. I thought nothing of it until 6 hours later I was still bleeding and realised I could see the bone. 6 sutures later and I refuse to open any child's toy box.

 

[DisneyFed]

We were renting a duplex while our house was being rebuilt after hurricane Hugo

Ahhh, Hugo, hard to believe it's been 20 years, isn't it??? I grew up in Mt. Pleasant and we stayed--Mom said "never again"..spooky night! I find Hugo doesn't quite get the love as some other storms do

Anyway, mine was sheer stupidity as well....back in College when I had a CR250 dirtbike, my brohter and I were out jumping some hills my grandfather had built up for us with his bulldozer.

My brother and I started playing "my jump was longer than your jump"

I decided to hit that baby full throttle, just as fast as I could (prior to this we had "maintained" some sort of control)...I went in way too fast and knew I was in trouble as soon as I felt the bike "twist" went I went airborne!!!

I can't tell you exactly what happen because, as you see, I don't remember a darn thing after that. I woke up in the hospital several hours later with no broken bones (had an angel on my shoulder I guess) but a serious concussion....

When my brother came in to see me, he just looked at me and said, "you win" and we both busted out laughing!!! Only thing he says about it, to this day is that it was "Wicked Cool"

Yeah, I kept the bike---but didn't try that again...

Now, with a child of my of my own, my wife and my mom says I'm gonna' get back what I gave---which is really makes me feel better because I know all the stuff I did that my mom STILL doesn't know about (on dirtbikes and in cars)...

I guess this qualifies as "stupid"...does in my book

 

[honugirl]

In 2006 I was working in Missouri after some tornadoes. My work partner and I had to go to a lady's house to see if she needed anything. Earlier in the day some dust got in my contact lens and ripped it in half, so I couldn't see anything out of my right eye. Luckily my partner was driving. So we go up to her house and as we're walking up the path, I go to duck under a tree and fall off the path because I couldn't tell it was a raised walkway! I fell in the grass and ended up spraining my ankle so badly I had to have surgery 8 months later.

I've done other stupid things too, but that's the only one I can remember right now.

 

[disneymarie]

I spent a night in the ER and overnight in the hospital a month ago after a tango with the new fangle batter operated Jar opener for my carpal tunnel.

All of a sudden it went off for no reason and I looked over at it and went OH!, As I did it made contact with a baking dish and crushed it sending flying pieces of glass across the room

YEP, one piece went into my open mouth and lodged in my throat. I gaged, choked and could not talk or swallow.

Ended up throwing up so much they think I dislodged or swallowed the piece.
I finally felt up to a light breakfast and was released in the morning when I could swallow and start to whisper at least.
Family is still scratching heads over that one!

 

[monkey68]

i just thought of another one, although being that I have no recollection of what happened, and was a mere toddler, I should be excused. We lived on the second floor of a 2 family house, so there was a set of stairs you had to climb up to get to our apartment. My parents put a baby gate by the stairs so I wouldn't accidentally fall down them. Well one day, I'm playing in the living room, my mom goes to the bathroom, which is right off the living room. Next thing she knows, there's this loud banging. She runs out of the bathroom, and I"m at the bottom of the stairs. Somehow, I managed to climb over the baby gate and fall down the stairs. Go to the ER, and they're all ready to call child protective services, until I climb out of the crib in the ER, and the nurse had to catch me on my way down. Then they believed my mom when she said I was a climber.

 

[WDWBarb]

OP, I feel your pain.

Several years ago, I was at a party at my bosses' bosses house (I have no idea if that is grammatically correct, but I'm going with it). It was a huge shin-dig and TONS of people were there. There was a live band and dancing and I was having a good time.

Out on the dance floor, my bosses' bosses (LOL - that sure doesn't look right!) were belly-bumping with beers in their hands. Beer flies everywhere, my feet slide on it on the wooden dance floor and DOWN I GO.

Embarrassing, yes - but it was much worse when I went to stand up and yell "TA-DA!" and realized that my radius and ulna were not only broken, they were ... um.... (hold your stomachs!) ... hanging. About mid-way between my elbow and wrist, my arm was pointing the wrong way.

I had surgery and an external fixation device for almost 2 months. I was miserable, to say the least.

But I had to find humor in the whole thing - we laughingly refer to that incident as my "DRI" (Disco Related Injury). And no, I haven't danced since.

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Mine would be breaking my arm two summers ago. We were headed into a favorite restaurant during a major lightening storm. Well the lightening hit a pole in the street behind us, I thought it hit one of the poles in the parking lot with us, and tried to run! Yeah, I know who outruns lightening? lol Hey, instinct took over!

Well trying to run in slides isn't the best idea in the world. I found out I could launch real well, just not fly real well. I came down on my arms trying to protect my face and broke my left arm-both bones just above the wrist and broke a bone in my right hand under my pinky. And, of course I still got the face and looked like I had been in a BAD fight.

There is nothing like trying to work a retail window in a cast either.
Kim

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I cut my leg really badly when I was about 7. My dad had a big sheet of glass (I think it was for a mirror he was making) sitting in the basement and the cat went behind it. I wanted the cat and tried to go after it, knocking the glass over. The cat was fine, but I wasn't.
I burst my bursa sac in my left knee tripping over the dog I had when I was growing up. I told her not to move when I stepped over her and she must have just heard "move" because she stood up when I was directly over her.
Last Sunday, I sprained one ankle and hurt my other knee. I slipped in water that one of the dogs had splashed out of his water bowl.
OH, and one time I broke my ankle on Christmas day. My foot was asleep but I decided I could walk on it anyway. For those that don't know, it's not smart to walk on your foot if it's asleep.

I am extremely injury prone.

 

[Minnie_me]

I was eating breakfast in the living room of my apartment, and put the juice glass on the floor when I was finished with it. About a half hour later, the phone rang. As I jumped up to get it, I stepped on that juice glass and broke it with my foot. Blood starting spurting everywhere - all over the walls! I was freaking out as I answered the phone -- it was a TELEMARKETER!

I had taken a CHUNK out of the bottom of my foot. They couldn't even stitch it. And the worst part was that it never healed correctly, so it still bothers me. All because I put my juice glass on the floor instead of the table.

 

[Kath2003]

This weekend, I was about to clean the shower so I was removing everything from it. I slipped, dropped my razor and then stood on it

What a mess. I had more to clean!!

 

[liamsaunt]

I have so many stories! Here is a sampling:

One time I broke my wrist by playing a video game. It was a movement game sort of like Dance Dance Revolution, except for this game you stepped on spiders as they lit up. Well, I fell backwards off the game platform, and broke my wrist. This was actually the third time I had broken that wrist so I just went home, taped it up, and waiting until the next day to have it casted.

Then there was the time that I slipped in the hallway at Portofino Bay hotel over at Universal. I was wearing heels, which I am not used to, and somehow slipped, twisted my ankle, and pitched forward right into a corner of the wall. I had the WORST black eye from that--I had to go to the emergency clinic to be sure I didn't fracture my eye socket!

Then there was the time I set myself on fire. I was making a big pot of pasta, and the strings from my sweatshirt must have dropped into the stove flame when I removed the pot from the heat. I was pouring the pasta into a colander when I smelled something burning. Then I started feeling warm. I looked down and my shirt was on fire! I put it out by smashing the (HOT) pasta pot into my chest.

Finaly, I once gave myself a concussion from reading a book. It was Gerald's Game, by Stephen King. I was standing in the kitchen reading when I came to a particularly gross part. I passed out, fell backwards, and smashed my head on the floor. Hello ER again!

 

[pat fan]

Finaly, I once gave myself a concussion from reading a book. It was Gerald's Game, by Stephen King. I was standing in the kitchen reading when I came to a particularly gross part. I passed out, fell backwards, and smashed my head on the floor.

You win! That has to be the craziest/funniest thing I have ever heard of....you should really not read Stephen King!
(glad you're ok now though )

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I have a few (one of which made it into a tag):

-While working out at the Y I broke my hand on an elliptical trainer. You know how many exercise machines have a shelf to put a book or magazine on? You would think this means it is safe to read while working out. I am here to tell you: it's not. I went to turn the page of my Reader's Digest when the moving handlebar caught my elbow and pushed my left hand into the stationary handlebar. I went, "ow, that hurt" and kept working out. I then went to do the weights with my friend and realized I couldn't even touch it. I drove to my mom's hospital and walked into the lab to have her look at it. She took one look and told me it was broken. Had to go to the ER. Best part? My mom was working and I was only 17 so she called my dad since I couldn't sign for myself. She told him my hand was broken and he needed to meet me in the ER. His response? "But I have to mow the lawn!" He has never lived that down.

-I damaged my achilles tendon when an ECV ran over it in Fantasyland.

-I managed to pinch a nerve while performing in the Disney Dreams Come True Parade. I'm still not sure how I managed that.

-Saturday was my first day as lead at my new ride. I reached down to check a lap bar and the panel person was not paying attention. I literally had my hands on the seat belt and lap bar when the car was sent. Our ride jerks hard when it's sent (everybody complains about it) and I was darn near yanked into the track. I'm still sore.

 

[rie'smom]

We have a child's gate in the opening from the foyer to the family room to keep the dogs out of the formal rooms. When I stepped over it, my shoe caught and I fell directly on to my elbow (ulna) breaking it.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

This thread is making me shudder!

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I've got a small scar on my thumb from cutting it on a mirror during a physics lab.
It felt weird running to the nurse and saying, "I need a band-aid because I messed up a physics lab.

I also got burning agarose gel on my hand during a bio lab, but I don't have any scars.

Also, I shot the palm of my hand with a paintball gun. (It was my first time holding it, I didn't know how to shut it off, and accidentally pressed the trigger while my hand was around the barrel.) I lost most of the feeling in my left palm, but I still have the nerves in my fingers.

 

[bettyann29]

one time I was walking around the corner and my pinky toe caught on the corner of the wall and I broke my toe.. ouch!!