Silly Accidents that have left you injured

[rie'smom]

I remembered a few more:

I was riding my brother's mini bike when I hit a bump. The bike kept going but I landed on my pride.

Washing a glass and it broke and cut the area abround the base of my little finger. It required 5 stitches.

Dropped a Corning Ware caserole and cut the artery near my ankle. Wrapped it in paper towelling and duct tape. I had to drive myself to the clinic because my husband was out of town. Good thing the office was not far from my house because I was getting weak from blood loss.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

The ones that diznygirl told about her hand reminded me of one. I was walking quickly on a cobblestone sidewalk to try to catch up with someone and I fell on an uneven part of the sidewalk. I landed on my hand and when I got up, I thought it just hurt a little. Then I tried to make a fist and couldn't do it. When I went to the hospital to have it checked out, my blood pressure was 145/90 (it usually runs 90/60 so that should give some idea of how much pain I was in.) It was diagnosed as just a bruise but it turned out the bruise was on the back of my hand where a lot of nerves come together. I couldn't spread my fingers apart for about a week and I had a hard time even picking up a glass with that hand for two months.

 

[kafitty]

ahhh, my klutzy, careless bretheren, it's nice to see you're all here. my brother and i were actually discussing some of my idiot incidents recently. His girlfriend got quite a kick out of it.

Some highlights:

my stepmother still holds her breath every time i descend a flight of stairs...i don't always win that battle. Case in point: just last summer i managed to sprain my ankle REALLY bad because somehow, when i took that last step to the ground, my ankle rolled and i came crashing down. i ended up having to wear a brace all summer - people kept asking me, "Rugby injury?" No...just stairs.

i also sprained my elbow trying to do a drunken cartwheel on wet grass - my feet slipped and it slammed my straight arm into the ground. That one hurt for MONTHS.

oo this one is a good one: while working in a restaurant, i was using a heavy duty glass dishwasher, and the door swings up to shut (like an oven). When i shut the door, i didn't notice there was a fork sitting just so on the top of the dishwasher, so when the door shut it caught the fork...and it flew, end over end, DIRECTLY INTO MY FOREHEAD. i had fork spine shaped indents/red marks on my head. The coworker who witnessed the whole thing couldn't talk for about 5 minutes, he was laughing so hard.
(i maintain that that dishwasher was trying to kill me, that was not the only injury i'd sustained from it before that incident or after...that's just the most amusing one, haha)

and this one was recent: i went to bend down in order to do sit on the ground so i could do some stuff at a coffee table, and somehow i pulled my quad muscle. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW. i was hobbling around for the rest of the night, at a party. That made me feel really cool, hahahhaha.


i generally have random bumps and bruises nearly all the time. i've realized that i have very little grasp of spatial relationships...kinda makes it tough to avoid all those walls and other darned obstacles.

 

[TinkerbEllnor]

I injure myself on things that are deemed safe for children, but should come with some kind of warning label for adults.

At the age of 21, broke my ankle falling off a teeter totter.

At 30, tore ligaments in my knee in a bouncy house.

I now stay far away from pogo sticks, trampolines, balance beams, etc just in case.

My DH's claim to 'fame' is that he has accidentally set his hair on fire on 3 separate occasions since I have known him.

 

[DISNEY1975]

When I was a teen, in the 80's, I tried to "breakdance". I was trying the caterpillar and ended up with the biggest most painful rug burn on my chin.

Then one time, I though I was a teen in the 80's, but I was really in my 30's and was showing my kids I could do a cartwheel off of a balance beam in a school playground (the beam was about 4 inches off the ground, and it was the weekend, we were walking the dog, so nobody was around except me and the kids THANK GOD..) As soon as my body was being supported completely by my hands, my elbows completely buckled out from underneath me, my face smashed on the metal beam and I broke my wrist.

Now a days, I just sit safely in front of the computer!!!

 

[C.Ann]

I could probably think of at least a dozen things, but the two that really stick out in my mind happened up here at the lake..

One day I was out cutting some tree branches with a hand saw near where I park my car.. I was standing on a rock wall, holding on to the branch with my left hand and sawing with my right hand (right hand being closest to the tree).. See where I'm going with this? Sawed through the branch just fine and then went flying because I was holding on to the part I had sawed off.. Landed on my elbow on the rock wall and I thought for sure I had broken it.. Luckily I didn't - but it was very, very sore for a good month after that..

The second incident involved a "runaway stove".. My neighbors decided to get rid of their apartment size electric stove to get something bigger and put the old one outside on a Sunday night after they left for the week with a "free" sign on it.. I see "free" and what little sense I do have goes flying right out the window.. I'd been wanting to get an apartment size electric stove for here, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet..

I knew that if it stayed out there until the morning it would be gone, so I pulled the small dolly I had out from under my place figuring I could at least get it over here - if not all the way inside.. Took a little pushing and tugging and huffing and puffing, but I finally got it on the dolly and proceeded to come over here.. The only problem was that it was "downhill" from their place and I was walking backwards - with the dolly in front of me (so it was tipped back in my direction).. The first 30 seconds or so was fine - then the dolly started going faster and faster and faster - and the next thing I knew, I was in the ditch - with the stove on top of me! I was banged up a little and pretty gosh darned scared - then suddenly, I started laughing hysterically - thinking how this would look in our little town newsletter here: "Seasonal Resident Mowed Down By Runaway Stove"..

I felt like such an idiot - it was like something you would see on a slapstick comedy show - but luckily no one was around to see it..

Like I said, "Free" will get me every time..

 

[autumnpalm]

Oh gosh, lots of things!

Once when I was a kid at camp, I was helping to bring the benches down off the dining tables in the mess hall. I dropped a bench on my foot (I was wearing sandals) and when I looked down my toenail was perpendicular to the nail bed, sticking straight up right at the "hinge" where it connects to the toe. Had to get driven to the nearest hospital to have it removed. The doctor told me it might never grow and back and I was horrified... luckily it did!!

I have scars on my right hand from putting it through a glass door. I was walking quickly and it was as "push" door. The upper pane was broken but being held in place by duct tape on the other side. I didn't notice and since I was distracted, I missed the push bar and put my hand right through the glass. Lots of blood there!

And the most embarrassing... I broke my tailbone once, re-enacting a fall! I had fallen earlier on our hardwood floor and it was quite a fantastic fall. I had girlfriends over in the evening and explained that I was hobbling around because I had fallen earlier. I walked over to where I fell and imitated what I had done the first time because it was pretty dramatic! Of course, I ended up falling for real and hurting myself terribly! My friends thought I was just adding the cries of pain for dramatic effect and then the rest of the "girls night" was spent in the ER.

 

[Inigo]

My husband is an Earth Science teacher, so we have tons of rocks and minerals. I have my own rock collection that he has put together for me. It's made up of rocks I've fallen and hurt myself on.

yeah, the jerk goes and picks up the rocks to save them for me.

As an example, we were on vacation one year in SD. There was a giant herd of buffalo in Custer State Park. It had been raining, but stopped shortly before we saw the buffalo, and there was an amazing double rainbow behind the herd. I wanted the perfect shot, so I climbed up a small rise to get the right angle to have the herd and the double rainbow in just the right place. On my way up, I slid and landed on a rock. I stood up, finished walking up the rise, took my picture, went back down to the car, and told DH I probably needed stitches in my hand. I had a 3 inch cut where I landed on the rock.

That rock is part of my collection, but there's about a dozen other rocks too.

*Note: We were over 1/2 mile from the buffalo, so there was no danger being out of the vehicle

 

[jfoofj]

I was at my stepson's 3rd birthday party, before he was my stepson, and I was meeting a LOT of DH's extended family for the very first time.... I had a plate of food and no where to sit since the house was full of people. I figured I would sit on the arm of the couch... it was the kind of couch with padded arms but a wooden piece at the end of the arm (ie a very ugly couch... his ex didn't want it and I don't blame her!!!). Well as I turned to plant myself on the arm of the couch I stepped on a Power Ranger toy DSS got for his birthday and it went "HIYA-HUH" and I lost my balance, tossed the plate of food, and landed square on my tailbone on that wooden piece on the end of the couch. GREAT first impression I made to DH's family. I couldn't sit and after a couple days of suffering I went to the Dr and an Xray confirmed I had broken my tailbone. That was 5 years ago and it STILL bothers me from time to time. My father in law always asks me if I plan on throwing a plate of food at him whenver we get together at family parties. Funny guy. That couch DID NOT come with DH when we bought our house together, but the Power Ranger is still around here somewhere.... lurking..... waiting.....

 

[cjb71870]

Having a fear of water, went to Washington DC early w/ my brother and future sis-in-law a week before their wedding to be included in all the before wedding "fun". The day after we arrived we went straight to a "wedding shower/day party" at a friends house who lived on the water and had every toy you could imagine. Went on the jet-ski w/ my SIL's dad. Ended up flying off it at 60 mph. Felt like concrete. Broke 2 toes.. never cussed so much in my life! Hurt more than you could imagine!!! Walked down the isle in flip-flops! I still have 2 toes going the wrong way. It's a great memory though!

 

[KinPA]

OH you poor things!! Some of those are really horrible!
When I was in high school I dislocatd my knee at aerobics class...never did that again...
A few years later went to a local block party where there is an "over 21" section and I decided on the way home that I should play leap frog with my tall friend. I took a running leap and flew right over the top of him and came down on my wrist and broke it. Woke up the next day and for a sec couldn't understand why my hand wouldn't move! Felt like a jerk at the hospital.

 

[TinkerBell22]

When I was 4 my aunt burnt my eyeball with her cigarette, it was right after the funeral for her teenage daughter, she was upset,didn't notice & kept it in my eye, I was in a chair against a wall so I couldn't move. Then when I was 8 I cut the same eye open when I slept walked to the top bunk of my sisters bed & rolled off (this was before safety rails) I hit the corner of the dresser on the way down & they had to fly a pediatric plastic surgeon in to put my face back together. They told my parents I would be blind in that eye but luckily I can see just fine.