What was the most serious injury you have ever sustained?

Question

Best told story or the worst injury gets the 10 points!

Answer 1

True story.
I got bucked from a horse in 1987, flipped over his head, and landed in the biggest ant bed I've ever seen ! ( which was what made the horse start bucking ). I knew I couldn't get up, but thought it because it had just knocked the breath out of me.
But, the friend I was with had to try to get the horses under control, and get them back to their stalls, and couldn't help me.
Actually, she DID try to help me, but I told her I think I needed to go the hospital, that there was definitely something wrong. But I told her to go ahead and get them put up, and drive the car out to where I was laying.
It didn't take long to feel that I was being eaten alive by the fire ants, so I HAD to get up and walk. Course I couldn't stand up straight, but managed to get away from the ants, and my friend came and helped me with what was left on me.
The doctors said that I would never walk again because I had done so much nerve damage by walking.
Well, guess what? Don't ever believe everything a doctor tells you ! After many months of physical therapy, and having to use a walker for a long time, plus wearing a back brace for what seemed an eternity...........I'm walking !!!!!! Not real fast.......but I'm on my feet anyway !!! I'll always have the steel bars in my back, and my hip hurts constantly from the bone graph they had to do.
Oh, and I broke my foot somehow, ( we never did figure that one out, it all happened so fast. But, I'm just thankful that I'm not in a wheelchair!
So there...there's my story.

Answer 2

When my first girlfriend dumped me, that was the worst injury that I ever sustained. It was emotional instead of physical, but it hurt FAR WORSE than the physical traumas that I have endured such as spraining my ankle, undergoing an operation, or shooting myself with a NAIL GUN. That nail gun was pretty rough as was when I misfired my HUNTING BOW which most people can't even DRAW and gave myself a WELT the size of a fist on the side of my arm. That is what happens when you are drunk and playing with weapons. Please don't follow that model for behavior.

By that time, I was very accustomed to sleeping with another body. So, as a substitute I started sleeping with a teddy bear again. I called it "My Woman Substitute." After a while, I got over it and dated a couple of her cute friends. That WAS NOT in malice, but that girl had some HOTT friends and what happened happened.

Answer 3

Fell and broke my elbow, walked around with it broken for 2 weeks (I was on vacation, emergency room told me it was just chipped, but it hurt like hell) when I got home,I found out it wasn't chipped, a big chunk had actually broken off and twisted around inside my arm and it was at such an angle that it just looked chipped. I had to have surgery, a screw and 4 pins permanently inserted into my elbow. They put the pins in by just puncturing my skin and shoving them straight in there! I have some pretty wicked scarring from that. The worst part is that my family and all the doctors kept telling me that it wasn't broken, so they kept tyring to make me bend it all the way straight. Excrutiating pain.

Answer 4

I had to have lung surgery. The lowest lobe on my right lung got a huge hole in it and it kept filling up with fluid so I'd get pneumonia. 4 hospitalizations later (6 weeks at a time) they finally decided to remove the lowest lobe.. bleah.. not fun. But I haven't had pneumonia since. The reason that I got sick in the first place was that I was a practicing alcoholic and drug addict. I got diagnosed at 21 years old with something that usually 60 year old bums get. It's never to young to become an alcoholic..let me tell ya. Well.. I've been sober 22 years and it's amazing how things change

Answer 5

when i was a teenager i was very athletic -- i joined basketball, volleyball, track and field, and taekwondo. .. but the sport i focused more on was taekwondo because we compete against other chapters (im in the army chapter -- we compete against air force, and navy). the other sports were just the typical after-school sports i joined. anyway, one time i was playing basketball with friends, i sprained my ankle.... in taekwondo, we learned the word "endurance" -- so i just shrugged it off, did not go to the doctor or therapist and limped my way to school. i pretended to walk normally because we were going to compete 2 weeks from the day i sprained my ankle and i didn't want to be disqualified because of my injury. so i was just praying that it will heal by the time i compete. so the week after i sprained my ankle, i went to my training session (saturday and sundays all day -- and sometimes after school for 3 hours). i've been known to do a lot of fancy footwork and i was practicing one of my favorite footworks that involves a lot of jumping and turning. so i jumped, turned, landed on my left foot -- at "sprained" position -- you know how you sprain your ankle when you wear heels? i landed that way... and imagine my weight pressing down plus more force because i jumped really high. it was a pain i could never forget. still, i shrugged it off... but every single day that i left it untreated, the pain got worse. finally i went to a doctor and he sent me to a therapist. the damage is permanent because i waited too long. and now, whenever i move my left ankle -- you can hear tendons popping all the time. and i can't run, because my left ankle is so weak, if i ran -- i will sprain it anytime soon.

that's why it's tough for me to find an exercise program that is best suitable for me... something low impact i guess.

Answer 6

In 1978.
I was in a car wreck, My ex boyfriend fell asleep @ the wheel of his 69 SS sport. We hit a bridge @ 110 miles an hour.
The bumper came into the car and was planted in my scull.
I lost my right knee cap,100 staples to close my scull, 200 stitches in my scalp, and spent 2 months in a coma.This did not stop me from getting on with my life.

Answer 7

I had a cyst on one of my ovaries, it burst, I was bleeding internally and went into hours of emergency surgery. I ended up with 27 staples down my stomach, unable to walk for weeks and work for 3 months. It was so painful. Now I'm unable to have kids so the pain lingers forever in my heart. However I survived and am very lucky that I did. The Dr. told me I flatlined on the table. I lost a lot of blood. Very painful experience!

Answer 8

I've actually been really lucky. However there was a time..i think i was a sophomore, and my sister and i were playing soccer in the house we both went to kick the ball at the same time and i ended up kicking the bottom of her foot and broke my toe. I guess mom was right when she kept screaming at us to not play soccer in the house. At least if we were outside the ball wouldn't have been close enough to either of us for that to happen.

Answer 9

this is not a good story but so true.. and it ended results is not good either.. but my ex-sister in law knocked me down in her house drung me out of the house by my ankles and then my head was hitting the cement all the way out to the steps then she hit my head against the cement walk about 4 or 5 times real hard...it was either that or when my ex husband karake kicked me in the head and one of the ways i have brain damage now...so this is the worst injury i have ever had and i have to live with this the rest of my life.. only parts of the brain is damaged....and you live with headaches the rest of your life and occasional siezures...and not thinking clearly and as fast as others do anymore...

Answer 10

Knee injury, three years ago, used crutches for a few months, hurt lot for awhile, but with physical therapy I'm all better!! =)

Answer 11

Stroke,was in the hospital over Easter.They included an easter egg w/our breakfast tray.I hid mine in the room and got sent to a rehab center before they found it.It`s in the closet,top shelf.