Strange/Random/Silly Injuries

[Adelle Dazeem]

Yesterday at work, I was eating a sandwich which some especially hard and chewy bread. Somehow I managed to strain my jaw. I feel like my lower jaw is now out of alignment with the upper and I have pain all the way through my ear. It hurts to put my teeth together or open my mouth more than an inch.

I took some Tylenol PM and went to bed last night. DH is traveling for work and I have been having problems sleeping. I grabbed my trusted Henry Dog (stuffed animal I have had for 44ish years) to wrap my arm around while I slept. I apparently laid wrong on my arm all night and now my right elbow is all tweaked and sore. I feel like I'm in a comic or something...clearly I cannot manage to eat or sleep without injuring myself.

 

[kimj88]

I have injured my neck in my sleep so severely that I had to go to the ER because it was shooting horrid pain all the way down my shoulder and my arm and things were also numb. It was lovely for months after having to answer the question of how did you hurt yourself with I don't really know it was in my sleep!
Also, last summer, my 7 year old fractured his wrist while playing on and popping bubble wrap, go figure.

I hope you feel better soon!!!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

My wife slipped on a squished grape at a baby shower buffet line and broke her kneecap into 5 pieces. And she swears she didn't actually hit her knee on anything when she fell.

I keep waiting for the day I injure myself on the toilet or something equally stupid. You young people heed these words: don't get old. You won't like it.

 

[Taylor F.]

I kept getting clogged ducts in the early days of breastfeeding. I couldn't find figure out why as I'd never had this problem with my first kid.

Turns out the way I was holding myself so baby could latch was giving me clogged ducts. I was squeezing too much and clogging my own duct.

I felt stupid once I figured out what I was doing. I'm sure other breastfeeding moms can understand to a degree. Lord have mercy.

 

[godders]

I yawned about 7 years ago and dislocated my jaw.

Now it pops out when I sleep really well or bite into a whole apple (so pretty regularly). Its made it hard to get checked out by the dentist and even how I kiss

 

[Praying Colonel]

Stood up one night to go to bed and stretched really big. Felt something pop in my neck and a burning sensation down my arm and numbness in 3 of my fingers. Thankfully it was "only" a bulging disc that improved after 2 months of physical therapy. From then on I've been very careful about stretching.

 

[elgerber]

My wife slipped on a squished grape at a baby shower buffet line and broke her kneecap into 5 pieces. And she swears she didn't actually hit her knee on anything when she fell.

I keep waiting for the day I injure myself on the toilet or something equally stupid. You young people heed these words: don't get old. You won't like it.

Ha, I believe her. I stepped of a curb, and my heel went off the side of my sandal. I landed sitting on the curb on my butt. 20 minutes later I couldn't move my leg without using my arms to lift it. Turns out I tore the heck out of my knee.

 

[NFLDERS]

WOW! everyone. Wishing you all better times ahead... WOW!!

 

[Praying Colonel]

Oh, and there's the time I got off a jet ski at the dock the wrong way. Did the splits and tore the MCL in my right knee. Good times....

 

[Mickeypooh99]

My son the Boy Scout was stabbing his knife into a piece of cardboard. He somehow forgot the box was sitting on top of a blanket that was over his leg. For some reason he stabbed it into the cardboard really hard so it went through the cardboard and through the blanket and an inch into his leg. At least this is the story he told us when he came limping into our bedroom at 10:30 at night. That was fun explaining to the emergency room staff. It also was right by his knee on the inside of his leg. So he had to sit out leg work in PE, and miss out on several weeks of ski club. It cost us $330 in copays. Thank goodness we have insurance because the total bill was outrageous!

 

[J'aime Paris]

I tore four ligaments in my wrist (and have ulnar/radius instability) while pushing the garbage cart down our driveway. The cart hit a snow drift and really did a number on my wrist.
I'm in an above the elbow cast, trying to treat it conservatively. If that doesn't work, I'll need to have surgery. Doctor said the surgery is pretty major, with a 10 month recovery time

 

[Mokat76]

I tore four ligaments in my wrist (and have ulnar/radius instability) while pushing the garbage cart down our driveway. The cart hit a snow drift and really did a number on my wrist.
I'm in an above the elbow cast, trying to treat it conservatively. If that doesn't work, I'll need to have surgery. Doctor said the surgery is pretty major, with a 10 month recovery time

Yikes!!!! Here's hoping "conservatively" works.

 

[North of Mouse]

My son the Boy Scout was stabbing his knife into a piece of cardboard. He somehow forgot the box was sitting on top of a blanket that was over his leg. For some reason he stabbed it into the cardboard really hard so it went through the cardboard and through the blanket and an inch into his leg. At least this is the story he told us when he came limping into our bedroom at 10:30 at night. That was fun explaining to the emergency room staff. It also was right by his knee on the inside of his leg. So he had to sit out leg work in PE, and miss out on several weeks of ski club. It cost us $330 in copays. Thank goodness we have insurance because the total bill was outrageous!

Know this was/is not funny, but somehow it hit my funny bone and I can't quit laughing!

So sorry it happened, and know it hurt so bad, plus the scare to you, but I think your ds has to win the 'most unusual way to injure self' award!!

Sure hope he didn't have any lasting problems!

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

Not once, not twice, but three times in the last decade I have walked out the front door, stepped on the edge of the doormat and rolled my ankle. Twice I've heard lots of popping sounds and have made ER trips to make sure I haven't broken anything. After the second time I did a couple of months of physical therapy to strengthen my ankles and I went over 5 years without injuring it again. Until 4 days before Christmas this past year. I try to be careful, but I get complacent.

My younger son was holding the inside of a French door and a neighbor closed the door on his finger. We had to go to the ER for them to burn holes in his nail for the blood to be released. Holding down your 5-yr-old while they use a hot poker on him is not a good time. The tip of the bone was broken, but it only required a couple of weeks in a finger splint.

 

[LilyWDW]

I was walking quickly down the drive and tore my calf muscle. I didn't step funny or fall or anything like that. The muscle just suddenly got tight and then "POP!".

This was in November and I am still on restrictions at work and still have quite a bit of pain.

 

[MomofKatie]

I broke my wrist while trying to wash my windows. I decided not to get out the nice stepladder in the closet, and instead stood on my oval coffee table. Because the base was rectangular and the top extended further than the base, the table tipped, spilling me onto the floor. I "caught" my fall with my right arm and heard a definite loud crack. Both bones, broken. I was in a cast from fingers to shoulder with my elbow bent at a 90 degree angle for 2 months.

 

[Marchand63]

I broke my wrist falling on my couch. Not off it onto it, tripped over a toy went hand first into it. Broke wrist in 3 places, thankfully clean break.

 

[scrhsa]

I tripped over my sister's GIANT, deaf pitbull/boxer mix and threw my shoulder out by flailing my arms about trying to get my balance. I was helping a friend carry in her brand new padded headboard into the house and kicked the cement step...and tearing a small hole in the back of the headboard. I felt SO, SO bad. I still had a 3 hr drive home. I could barely walk for several days. Wasn't broken though.

 

[Micca]

I actually escaped injury just last night. Even though it was cold & rainy I didn't feel like changing out of my flip flops into real shoes to go pick up a carry out order at the pizza joint down the street. Walking out of the restaurant with my bags of food I slipped and fell on the pavement. I figure I'd be all kinds of sore and maybe have a nasty scrape on my foot this morning but all is well. Everybody stay safe!

 

[J'aime Paris]

Yikes!!!! Here's hoping "conservatively" works.

Thanks, me too!!!