Strange/Random/Silly Injuries

[lorijohnhill]

I think my best story is when I was on a work softball team. A few of us were practicing at a local diamond after our volleyball game and I swung at a high pitch and batted the ball into my own face. My biggest concern as I dropped to the ground? Not getting blood on my volleyball shirt. LOL. I always carried a first aid kit in my car (which everyone made fun of never again), so was able to get an ice pack on it right away. Did it occur to any of us to go to the ER? No. We went and got frozen yogurt. Monday at work (and for about three months after) I had a nice pair of black eyes. The director of our division called one of the girls into his office to find out what happened. He thought I'd been beaten. When he found out it was a softball injury, he joked that I should have caught the ball with my glove instead of my face. His expression was priceless when I told him I had batted it into my own face.

 

[sibesx2]

When I was a kid I was chasing my sister around a tree. For some unknown reason I was carrying a flower pot. I fell, broke the pot, cut my thumb on the joint and had to have stitches. A couple of weeks later a bump formed where the injury was and continued to grow. My parents took me to the doctor and were told it was another thumb growing. They said if I hadn't injured myself in that spot it probably never would have grown. I had to have surgery to have it removed.

 

[elgerber]

I have one more other than my dumb torn up knee. In a hotel room in St. Louis with dd, her friend and friends mom. I get up and walk into friends suitcase, just a small rolling carry on. Hurt a little, but not much, went to the bathroom and laid back down. And in a few minutes the pain got worse and worse and worse. Yep, broke my pinky toe on a little suitcase. The surrounding area turned some lovely colors. We were only there for 24 hours, and lucky for me it was raining, so the mom and I toured St. Louis from the inside of my car LOL. Then I had to drive home 12 hours the next day. Advil was my friend!

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

Neither of these happened to me, but they stuck with me.
1. A neighbor girl was fishing with her family. Her little sister went to cast the line, and when she swung backward she caught my neighbor in the nose with the hook. Went clear through like a nose piercing. The hook had barbs so they couldn't just back it out. They had to find something to cut the end off the hook, so she sat there like that for a while.
2. In the lazy river at typhoon lagoon a kid stepped on a plastic fork. The fork went right through the fleshy part of the ball of his foot. It went in one side of the call and out the other (through the bottom, not through the bone or anything). When we floated by the lifeguard was working on slowly pulling the fork back out.

 

[Disney_traveler]

Not really a funny injury but a funny reactions. Beginning in 7th grade I had this weird think that was like my knee would give out and I'd fall. Didn't my hurt anymore and I didn't immediately stand up and go on. Well in 10th grade it happened at a big community event in front of a lot of my parents friends. It was second nature that somewhere down the line I just leaned to handle this my own way. My kneecap would be off to the side and I'd just grab it and slide it back in place and go one. This was the first time seeing in for my parents and the others. Apparently many of the grown men got sick to their stomach or gagged. My parents made me a dr. Appt.

@WorldWacky well, not an injury but I was talking to my roommate with my head turned sidesways while spraying on perfume. For some unknown reason I turned mid-conversation and sprayed perfume directly in my mouth. No amount of water, mouthwash, dr. Pepper or alcohol (later at the bar) could get rid of that taste.

 

[North of Mouse]

The most stupid and terribly dangerous thing I ever did was on a trip near a river. I was picking up rocks and throwing them in and dh & db were watching and talking (standing about a foot apart). I threw it underhanded once and it went straight up, then came down right between them and hit my dh's little toe and broke it!!! I saw it coming down (they didn't) and suddenly dh starts hollering - had 'no' idea what had happened him! I was terrified - it could have hit one of them in the head and killed him. It was about 2" in diameter. Poor hubby!

Now, it's funny, but still scary too, when I think how easy it could have been a horrible tragedy!
As it was, took a long time to heal and get better - turned a pretty purple color!! We had only been married three years, had a baby girl. 'Now', he might would kill me!!

Actually, Mickeypooh99, maybe it's 'me' that should get the 'award' !!

 

[tigercat]

I dislocated my jaw by eating a piece of lettuce. It was at a restaurant that I had tried to get to many times but it never was timed right. I was so excited to finally be there. First bite and I couldn't eat a thing after that. Have never been able to get back there. Oh well.
I seem to have a lot of weird things happen to me and get hurt doing nothing.
tigercat

 

[lorijohnhill]

When we were kids, my brother and his friend were building a treehouse. Suddenly his friend starts screaming. Turns out they were building the treehouse out of bricks. My brother was up in the tree and dropped a brick, hitting his friend, who was standing at the base of the tree, in the head. I bet my mom had fun explaining that one to the kids parents!

 

[PigletsPal2]

There are 48 posts on this thread! Are we a bunch of klutzes or what?!

Queen Colleen

 

[LilyWDW]

There are 48 posts on this thread! Are we a bunch of klutzes or what?!

Queen Colleen

I am... I will be the first to admit it!

 

[lorimay]

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.

Oh my twin..... Last November I was outside cleaning the glass on my backdoor and rolled my ankle off the doormat like a klutz and I heard the snap. I broke my 5th metatarsal a spiral fracture that needed 4 screws surgically put in....... I was so aggravated with myself for the 8 weeks I could only walk on my heel and sit on my butt, a total nightmare. I have PTSD, I cannot step on doormats anymore, it freaks me out.

 

[jt'smom]

Other than somehow messing my knee up in my sleep, to the point where I could not bear weight on it for a week, when I was in high school, I was standing in our kitchen practicing a cheer with my pom poms, and somehow I brushed them against the giant globe light fixture, which promptly fell out of the ceiling and crashed squarely on my head. It knocked me totally out, and shattered into a million little fragments. I had little shards of glass poking out of my head everywhere. To this day, I laugh when I see the tiny scars that are all over my face. It reminds me how a pom pom and kitchen light almost did me in, lol!

 

[smokeyblue]

When I was in middle school my dad came home with a big box of tacos and burritos from taco bell. I couldn't get the sauce packet open so I put it between my teeth and tried to pull it open. Well it opened . . . and squirted right in my eye! OMG did that hurt! My dad and my brothers were laughing at me hysterically. I was so mad!