what is the worst injury you have ever had?

Question

i have just fallen off my chair and am now sat here with a f**ked up shoulder, elbow and wrist, oh and my big toe.( i was trying to reach my cat marley but was too lazy to get up off the chair). however clumsy i am i have managed to get to the age of 26 without a broken bone. have you been as lucky?

Answer 1

I've got a permanent scar on my left hand, 2nd fingertip where the neighbour's rabbit bit me at age 5.

I broke my left radius (the smaller one in the forearm) at age11, messing about in the garden.

I slipped on some sap on a freshly cut treestump and impaled myself, between the ribs on the right side of my body with a torn off branch root at 13(ish). Left a permanent scar, but very luckily pierced no organs.

I once ran into a load of twigs on a tree branch on a night exercise and sliced my eyelid open, age16/17. No permanent marks.

I've got a "nike tick" shaped permanent scar on my right hand from an injury I gained working on aircraft (not sure exactly how, but it looks pretty cool) at age 21/22

Also at around the same time, I pulled my achilles tendon in my left foot while covering the fire strikes, not too major it seems, but it was when I had to limp all the way from Hull to Kent on the railway network with 2 huge bags and a very painful ankle! the foot tunnels take a long time to walk along in those conditions!

I've got a permanent scar on my right kneecap from a friction burn that happened while on a water flume in Akrotiri, Cyprus at age 23.

Answer 2

I broke my ankle a the grand old age of 36! It is the only bone I have broken. So that was quite lucky I guess. It was at a Mylo concert so i guess it was good fun, but it was a pain in the butt! Have u tried making a cup of tea and getting it into the living room with a broken ankle and two crutches? How annoying is it when you kick the damn thing over whilst 'walking' it across the floor????

Answer 3

Complety smashed my elbow up at the age of five. Was in hospital for 6 weeks had my 6th birthday in there. Everything i do is always on my right side. Broken rist twice, my elbow. dislacated my shoulder and cracked a knuckle on my left hand. Touch wood it was all when i was a child and been lucky as an adult.

Answer 4

I wish! I broke my ankle at age 11, playing rugby, and it has never been the same since (sorry, I shouldn't tell this to someone who has just injured themselves!)

But by far and away the most painful thing I've ever done was when I fell off my skateboard, and managed to quite literally scalp off the top of my big toe. Ah, that was agony. I can still feel the pain. There it was, the top of my big toe, lying on the concrete in front of me, in a pool of blood. Ugh.

Answer 5

No ,, I've had all sorts of broken bones and injuries from bmx riding in my youth, my worst was falling about 15ft from a wall I was trying to jump off, Broke my left leg in 3 places ,2 ribs cracked ,my left wrist,3 fingers snapped back and a lovely stretch of road rash on my face.(all in the one day,, sux huh ?)

Answer 6

I'm now 42, but when i was 5 i climbed on top of a garage and fell off (12 feet )striking my head on the corner of a step below, i was rushed to hospital where the doctor said he was about to lose me and didn't have time to take me to theatre, so he pushed his hand into my skull and pulled back the broken skull plate that was pushing into my brain, he saved my life.
Still have an indentation on my head today.

Answer 7

Yes, nothing broken or sprained (knock on wood.) But I'd say the worst was falling into a kerosene heater and getting burned on my right elbow at 4 years old.

Answer 8

I had an almost fatal auto accident 5 years ago. Fracture of femur, compount fracture of ulna, fractured thumb, all toes fractured, hip fracture and internal injuries (bleeding). I've had 16 surgeries just to put me back together again. I'm bionic...total hip replacement, total knee replacement, plates and donor bone in my arm. I'm grateful for each day I'm still alive! But I can't pass through a metal detector...!!!

Answer 9

Multiple motorcycle wrecks at low or near to low speed - I cracked some metatarsals in my left foot - knocked a lot of skin off here and there - bone bruises - Pain wise the road rash - was unbearable - when changing the dressings you could hear me scream two blocks away. That was with pain killers.

Ouch. - but ya gotta love them bikes.

Answer 10

Nothing too serious but when I was eleven I managed to collide with another boy in the school playground. I fall face first onto the concrete base of the railings and woke up with one lost tooth, one broken tooth, two swollen lips, one swollen nose, one bruised forehead and one hurt leg.