Stupid injuries!

[aduck126]

my husband tried to hand feed one of the disney world geese wandering around. The goose got a little over zealous and ended up biting him really hard, he walked around the rest of the trip with a bruise on his hand... I found it hilarious!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Well, I have a couple that come to mind.

When I was a kid the house we lived in had a long hallway from the back of the house to the living/dining area. We used to slide down the hall in our stockinged feet. I slid right over a needle that was (for some reason) on the floor and broke it off in my foot. It didn't really hurt and they only sign that something was wrong was a small pinpoint of blood on the bottom of my foot between my last two toes and I couldn't wiggle my little toe. My parents thought I had a cramp in my foot (we weren't aware at this time there was a needle). Three days later, still no movement in my toe, so we went to the doctor. X-ray showed the front part of the needle poking into the joint at the base of little toe. Overnight in the hospital, surgery to remove needle, 2 weeks on crutches (got to stay home from school!)

Many years later, I was in a darkened nursery after putting baby to bed. Trying to walk gingerly around all the "stuff" on the floor without the lights, as I started to step down with my right foot (with left foot leaving the floor) I felt a toy under my foot, so I picked up my right foot (or attempted to) so all my weight was on the top of big toe on left foot. Guess what? I fell and broke my big toe.

 

[cristit14]

I had a deep knee bruise from answering the phone at work.

I walked off of a pier in St. Thomas and fell into the harbor, scraping my shin on something on the way down. You should have seen me hobbling back to the ship soaking wet and bleeding. See my tag about watching where I am walking.

 

[cristit14]

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!

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.

These both cracked me up.

 

[rszdtrvl]

Two years ago, while staying in our "pre-airport Park N Ride" hotel, I had a suitcase lying in the middle of the walkway to the bathroom.

Before I went to bed, I thought about moving it, but decided not to, as what are the chances of someone needing to get up to use the facilities.

Well, I had to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. I didn't have a light on (even a dim one) and walked right into the suitcase. A big, heavy, almost filled to maximum weight suitcase.

I fell to the ground, said a few choice words, and turned a light on to look at my toe.

It looked okay, so I used the bathroom, and went to bed.

Got up, got dressed, boarded the plane and landed in Anaheim.

My toe was throbbing, so I took off my shoe in the Supershuttle van.

My toe was bright purple and swollen.

I came to the conclusion that I had probably broken it. Not much you can do about that.

We got to the hotel, checked in, and I wrapped up with another toe to keep it from moving by using 2 bandaids.

I am quite the trooper, and we never did have any other issues while on vacation. That souvenier lasted a good 6 months, as my nail was cracked for quite some time after the incident.

DH and DS (and even I) cracked up laughing about my clumsiness. It didn't surprise anyone. I am the kind of person who could get a paper cut from Kleenex.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I was at work one day and just sharpened my pencil using the electric sharpener behind me. I had the pencil in my hand and swung my chair around and managed to trap the sharp pencil between the desk edge and my palm.

The force of my body swinging in the chair rammed the pencil into my palm. The top broke off INSIDE of my palm and everyone at work was all, "Oooh and ahhhh"-ing and the VP sent me to the emergency room insisting I call it workers comp.

I had five needles stuck in my palm and after they peeled me off of the ceiling, my palm finally numbed up and they fixed me all up.

When it came time for the stitches to come out, my VP wanted to remove them as he was a medic in Viet Nam and that's what he did in the Army.

 

[Jeninindy]

see tag....

 

[Pikester]

When I was in my preteens I was talking to a friend on the phone and for some reason I was standing on the toilet seat. Not sure what I was doing but I ended up slipping and falling off which caused me to smash my head into the bathtub. My Mom had to come in and tell my friend that I had to go, she hung up the phone and then came back to see if I was OK. (No cordless phone so she couldn't just hang up right then. We had a phone with an extra long cord.)

My Nana shut her ear in the car door. Not quite sure how that one happened.

 

[tchrrx]

My DH broke his foot while hopscotching at EPCOT.


I slit open my wrist while trying to use the fancy 'V' shaped watermelon knife. It slipped right across the melon and into me.

 

[Callie]

I took a dance class last semester. I was doing a little leep and landed wrong. It didn't really hurt much, but I wanted to make it seem worse so I could get a day off from class. The care center wrapped my ankle and I did everything to it. Only a minor sprain. Now over 6 months later, I still have the most painful tendinitis EVER. I'm doing everything and it won't get better. I feel like an idiot.

 

[scottishduffy]

Well, My tag also comes from another thread on stupid Injuries. (The purple tag)

You know how your mother always tells you not to stick your arms out of the car window? I really shoulda listened to that woman. Genius advice I tell you.

I was a passenger in a friends car and decided to stick my arm out of the window to wave to her little brother (who we were taking the car from). When I put my arm out I ended up hitting their mailbox with my fist. I broke my hand in this endeavor.

When I got to the ER, the nurse asked me if i was punching off mailboxes with my fist on purpose. She had a very accusing look on her face. That purple tag was my retort to that question.

Ask a stupid question of a 16 yr old, and expect a smart-*** answer from a 16 yr old.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

Well this is a really stupid story but since no one knows who I really am I feel safe telling it

Last yr Dh and I were just sitting around watching tv and I looked over and saw my exercise ball. I thought to myself wouldn't it be funny to pick up said ball and run into DH with it (as seen on America's Funniest videos a gazillion times). Well I that's what we did, the first couple times it went fine, was super funny and we laughed our behinds off. The last time I must have run into him a little harder, I went flying back, knocked into our coffee table and ended up in a heap on the floor holding my wrist which I thought I had just broken. Luckily I just had a bad sprain, the next day I threw the ball away. When I make a goofy suggestion to DH now he just reminds me of the "ball incident".

 

[PaulaSue]

Pushing my bike to the house. It was windy and I fell over and the kickstand when in my knee.

 

[Mandychelle79]

Another one that i did... tripped over a shoe in my grandmas kitchen and impaled my wrist on a steak knife. I held it up and the knife was dangling. My grandma is screaming get the methylate ( her cure for everything) and mom is saying take her to the hospital. Looked worse then it was.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

This didn't happen to me, but I know someone who had to go the ER because they got a qtip stuck up their nose and really irritated it badly and had to have it taken out....I am sure that the ER staff had a good laugh after that one. Heck, when I was told the story, I did too....luckily, they don't stick qtips in their nose anymore (and yes, this was a 35 year old adult at the time...who shall remain nameless, I can't give you anymore details than that or my husband will kill me).