Stupid injuries!

[funkychunkymonkey]

So who has a stupid injury story to share. Tell me about the dumbest thing you've gotten injuried while doing.

 

[tinkerbell198530]

I ran into a sliding glass door when I was 8 and lost my 2 front teeth

 

[cheermom1]

I shut a door on my eye and gave myself a black eye. You should have seen the looks I got when I say what I did and I could tell I was NOT believed!

 

[Inigo]

I managed to step on a red colored pencil that had been left on the floor by my then 4 year old DD, and it went into the TOP of my foot. When I stepped on it with my right foot, it canted it up so that it pointed upward toward the rear. As my left foot came forward, it embedded itself into the top of my left foot about an inch. Ouch! That was a fun trip to the ER because the doctor thought I was nuts when I tried to tell him how it happened..

Two weeks later, I had to go to the same ER with a small bowel obstruction due to my Crohn's Disease. Same ER doctor. The night before, DD and I had been silly, giving each other "tattoos" using her stamping-top Crayola markers. She gave me a line of lady bugs dancing across my tummy. The next morning, I wake up very sick and have to go to the ER. The look on the doctors face when he lifted up the hospital gown to examine my abdomen was priceless. They had already given me the phenergan and pain killing meds, so I was completely silly. I just kept giggling, telling him they were my tattoos.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I am the queen of stupid ankle injuries! I'm always twisting one or the other and own every kind of ice pack and ankle brace on the market.

My dumbest and worst was 4 years ago. I had just taken my kids to their classrooms at school and was walking back to my car through the teacher's parking lot. I hopped off a curb and my left foot landed on one of those hard, green pinecones that was lying in the gutter. Needless to say, I didn't see it before hopping. My ankle twisted sideways and I fell forward onto my hands and knees. I banged up one knee and crushed a pair of expensive Ray-Bans I was holding in my hand. But that wasn't the worst of it!

My left ankle hurt so badly that I was sure I had broken it. A few parents came over and helped me sit on the curb. One man came up in a walking cast and said, "Looks like you'll be getting one of these!" I pointed out my car and asked him if he'd get my cell phone from the front seat. I called my husband who was just getting on the freeway and he turned around to come and rescue me.

Turned out I had torn 2 1/2 ligaments and bruised the bone so badly that the bone marrow was swelling up. I had to spend 6 weeks on crutches and couldn't work at my teaching assistant job for the rest of the year (this happened in March). It was really, really stupid and really, really painful! When people asked me how I did it, I didn't even have an exotic story to tell! I went to my uncle's funeral on crutches and all these family members said, "Wow! What happened to you?" I couldn't say, "I was skydiving," or "I was chasing down a bank robber." Nope. "I stepped on a pinecone." What a dope!

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Thanks, you make me feel alot less dumb. Tonnight I was cleaning the closet and went to toss some sandpaper behind the bin of big tools. Well I stupidly reached accrossed the bin and didnt relize the saw was facing up. Ive got a nice saw cut pattern on my arm. It didnt bleed much thank goodness!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I broke my hand on an elliptical trainer. You know how they have that little shelf so you can read? I went to turn the page of my Reader's Digest. I guess I stuck out my elbow to far because the moving handlebars caught my elbow and pushed my hand into the stationary handlebars, resulting in a hair line fracture.

I went, 'wow, that hurt' (hence the tag), and kept working out. It was only when I went to lift weights that I realized it was more than momentary pain. I drove myself to the hospital where my mom works and asked her if I should get it checked out (I couldn't even tell if it was swollen.) She took one look at it, told me I broke it, and I needed to to the ER. Since I was 17, she called my dad to come meet because I couldn't sign for myself. His response? "But I have to mow the lawn!" God bless my dad. He is slightly OCD and once he is on a mission, come hell or high water, he will complete it. Of course, he did meet me, that was just his knee jerk response. But he has never lived it down!

 

[madcoco]

Tried to jump out of the way of an errant golf shot on a Miniature Golf Course across from Swan and Dolphin Tripped and hit leg on the rocks. Didn't know I was bleeding thought it was sweat until the wife started freaking out. It was minor Hate to even admit it but it still gets a good laugh from the family members. Don't tell anyone.It will be denied.

 

[kellyg403]

See my tag. I went into my ds's room to get one of them up. He just had gotten a cast. I didn't turn on the light hoping to NOT wake the other ds. Dumb Dumb. DS was startled, swung at me with the cast, I stepped back, stepped on the dog, got twisted up in I don't know what, tried to break my fall and not land on other ds and fell into the bedpost. A cracked rib and two hours of not being able to breathe taught me an invaluable lesson!


Kelly

 

[CDoobee]

1. Broke a rib while lying on my stomach vacuuming under DD's bed.

2. Broke a rib while sitting in lawn chair and reaching down to pick up tootsie rolls thrown at a parade.

3. Broke a rib while bending over to wash feet in the shower.

4. There was another dumb rib break that I have conveniently forgotten the cause!

5. AND the only non-dumb time I broke a rib was tripping over a sidewalk crack.

Yes, I have osteoporosis!

 

[kimblebee]

I electrocuted myself putting together a BBQ.

I am a button pusher. Always have been, always will be. I was putting my BBQ together 2 years ago and got to the step where I was supposed to install the starter. I had the starter in one hand and pushed the button with the other. WOW I felt a huge buzzing in my arm and dropped the starter as fast as I could. For the next 2 day the arm holding the starter was a little weak and just didn't feel normal.

The lesson in all of this is to realize that it is an electrical charge that starts your BBQ when you push that nice little button.

 

[cassiez76]

i'm a really big klutz! i'm called graceful a lot. lol

i've sprained my ankles to many times to count. i hurt my left one so bad i have nerve damage. what did i do?? stepped off the curb in the parking garage.

then about a month later, i got out of the car, stepped in the grass and found the hole. left ankle didn't stand a chance! i also fell in front of about 100 people and had blood down my knee.

hubby and i took a cruise for our honeymoon. we were walking the 1st night on the pool deck. i had on linen pants and he was holding my hand. next thing i know, i'm down on my left knee and in pain. hubby just continues to walk and i was like help! i can still see the look of puzzlement on his face when he turned around to see me on the ground.

got back to the room to check out my knee...my entire knee was red, bloody, peeling skin AND bits of linen. carnival cruise did not have peroxide...they gave me alcohol swaps...i think everybody on board heard my scream! now i carry a bottle with me.

i trip all the time on flat surfaces. and i always jinx myself when i say to my hubby and mom i haven't done any good tricks lately and BAM i'll trip and fall.

oooh...and i got poison ivy when i was 7 months preggo...in 1 spot on my thigh. only i could do that...in 1 spot...about the size of a half dollar.

dunno how i did that!!

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

i'm a really big klutz! i'm called graceful a lot. lol

i've sprained my ankles to many times to count. i hurt my left one so bad i have nerve damage. what did i do?? stepped off the curb in the parking garage.

then about a month later, i got out of the car, stepped in the grass and found the hole. left ankle didn't stand a chance! i also fell in front of about 100 people and had blood down my knee.

hubby and i took a cruise for our honeymoon. we were walking the 1st night on the pool deck. i had on linen pants and he was holding my hand. next thing i know, i'm down on my left knee and in pain. hubby just continues to walk and i was like help! i can still see the look of puzzlement on his face when he turned around to see me on the ground.

got back to the room to check out my knee...my entire knee was red, bloody, peeling skin AND bits of linen. carnival cruise did not have peroxide...they gave me alcohol swaps...i think everybody on board heard my scream! now i carry a bottle with me.

i trip all the time on flat surfaces. and i always jinx myself when i say to my hubby and mom i haven't done any good tricks lately and BAM i'll trip and fall.

oooh...and i got poison ivy when i was 7 months preggo...in 1 spot on my thigh. only i could do that...in 1 spot...about the size of a half dollar.

dunno how i did that!!

Poision ivy is a odd one, I got it right on left side of my neck, only the left side last summer.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Oh, wow - and I thought I was bad! I've only broken two ribs. One, I leaned over the arm of a chair in the airport to get my suitcase - and 'crack'. And the airline didn't even sympathize, I still had to take my flight home AND I had a suite back at the hotel

The other time? NO idea! It showed up on the xray for this one! Um, but I did break my hip by tripping on a cardboard box... and then the bathroom tile... and finally the carpeting in the MRI center where my doctor sent me to find out why I was having this pain and why I kept falling....

 

[MzDiz]

I used to do a lot of embroidery, beading, etc. Apparently a needle had fallen on the floor and stuck point-first into the carpet. My foot later found it when I stepped on it and it went into my heel, blunt side first, string and all.

I've also dislocated both of my kneecaps, once while on a trampoline and another time while dancing at club. There's nothing like reaching down to your knee and not feeling a kneecap. Ouch.

 

[amyjo920]

Um...I forgot that I had closed the toilet lid and set my curling iron down there for some ODD reason.... Had an interesting and very painful burn!

 

[fraggle551]

I walked through a fishtank. Foot & leg through one side and out the other. Cut open an artery and had an 8 inch piece of glass sticking out my foot. Best part? The fire dept had to come, I live in a very small town so all my best friends are firemen. I was only in a towel cause I had just gotten out of the shower, so I was begging to call someone else cause I didn't want them to see me naked.

A hospital trip, minor surgery to remove all the glass and gravel, almost a month of crutches and a lot of stitches later and I was good as new. I have a funky scar on the bottom of my foot though. And to this day, almost 10 years later I still get called tank by a lot of the guys at the fire dept.

 

[DVC-Don]

Back when I was about 5 or 6 we found a mattress inner spring in the woods. I threw a large stone at it, the stone bounced back and landed on my head. Ran to a neighbors house almost blinded by the blood. Lots of stitches.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Oh, well, if you want to go back to childhood... there was the time I leaned over a lit candle and burned off my bangs. No permanent effects, not even a fear of fire. Well, let me take that back. I have a permanent fear of too-short hair. I was four or five.

There was the time I went ice 'skating' without skates, a combination of lack of money and lack of coordination. I tripped on nothing much and broke my wrist. I was twelve. While my wrist was still in a cast, I was sledding with the kid next door. He pushed the sled down a very small hill, and I headed right for a tree. Did I think quickly enough to roll off the sled? Don't be silly - and I couldn't steer one-handed. No, instead, I blocked my chin with the cast. The sled hit the tree, and the vibration from the 'crash' broke one of my upper front teeth. Go figure.

 

[jen0610]

DS was 10/11 when he broke his big toe by tripping over the sweeper cord. DH had been using the sweeper and before he could get the cord wrapped back up and the sweeper away, DS came strolling thru the family room and JUST tripped over the cord.

According to the Dr, he popped the tendon, which pulled a nice chunk of bone. Knocked him outta baseball and bowling for several weeks while he had to wear that valcro black boot on his foot.