what is the worst injury you have ever had and how did it happen??

Question

and don't say a broken heart!

Answer 1

i had a brain hemerage! i got it at the gym from over exerting myself. it was excruciating and i spent 2 weeks in hospital and had to have a lumbar puncure! that was not nice either.

Answer 2

Broke ankle in three places, also dislocating it and tearing just about every ligament and tendon. I stepped off a porch that was five feet off the ground but had no railing. It was dark, so I assumed it was a few inches. The two worst parts of this: explaining it to other people; for several weeks I insisted it was an ice skating injury if anyone asked. And let's not forget seeing your foot facing the wrong direction. And pain. Let's not forget that.

The plus side: some boxwood hedges broke my fall and turned what could have been a crush injury into a mere multiple fracture. Also, I was wearing clogs rather than the boots I originally intended to wear, so they didn't have to cut my foot out of a perfectly good boot. And demerol. I'm not really a drug person, and I won't say that it was worth the injury, but still.

Answer 3

Compared to others mine isn't that bad (heck I've been healthy most of my life, sickly yes but not enough to warrant hospitalisation), I fell down some stairs and fractured my ankle. That wasn't the worst part though, I didn't want to go to the GP so I left it and it healed funny and now my ankle is totally weak. My GP has since checked it and reckons the bone fused together again in a funny position. It's a shame really, I tried skating the other week (first time since the accident) and I couldn't do it for very long cos my ankle couldn't support me. Oh well, my stupid fault.

Either that or when I bit my tongue in half when I was about 6 or 7 (I'm not sure which injury is worse, they both hurt like hell). I was running for lunch at school and I tripped and cracked my chin on my lunchbox (boy was I excited about my cheese and ketchup sandwiches *lol*), I bit my tongue and blood literally went everywhere (you'd be surprised how much blood there is in the tongue). I put so many people off their lunch that day. I still have a scar on my tongue and can feel it if I rub my tongue across my upper teeth (it's like a flap of skin). Totally gross, but a great anecdote.

Answer 4

My 25 yr old daughter wasn't wearing a seatbelt & got thrown from the car when it rolled. She had a severly depressed skull fracture, a broken neck in 2 places, a torn spleen, 2 pelvis breaks, a torn rotator cuff, a knee injury,nerve damage in her arm, torn meniscus in her knee, bruised lungs, separated & broken ribs. Severe road rash.
That was 1 1/2 yrs ago. She was back to work after 8 months & is truly a miracle, according to her many many Dr's.
So to all you people out there that don't wear seatbelts, let this be a lesson.
P.S. 3 other people in the car who were wearing seatbelts had minor injuries, like broken arms.

Answer 5

Severed my left Achilles Tendon but strangely though it was the most severe that wasn't the one that hurt the most since the cut severed all the nerves and I barely felt a thing from shock. The pain finally hit me when the doctor stuck a 5" long needle up into the tendon itself. Yeah, THAT hurt!

How did it happen? I wish I had a better story... I was sitting on a folding table with some friends and the table collapsed. The metal edge of the table came down like a guillotine into the back of my ankle and severed the Achilles clean through. Always remember, tables are for glasses, not asses!!!

Answer 6

The worst thing that has ever happened to me was having TMJ. I have been in a severe automobile accident (totaled the car), broken my arm completely in two, had several febrile seizures as a child, whip lash, strep throat several times, hysterectomy, bore two children naturally, bladder/rectocile repair, and VERY bad hemmrroids but the absolute WORST is the TMJ!!! After my father died, I gritted my teeth while sleeping (and while awake I'm sure alot too) until I developed TMJ so bad that I couldn't even brush my teeth. I couldn't chew any foods, I couldn't do anything that required pressure on my jaw. I couldn't kiss my husband or my children, It hurt to talk, to chew, to do pretty much anything. I had a severe case of it. I tried the splints that they make for you and they didn't work for me. I've heard many success stories from them, but I guess mine was just so severe that it didn't work. Mine required surgery and that was the most well spent money ever! I've been pain free for three years.

Answer 7

The worst I remember is when I was 8 yrs old, standing on a wall about 3 ft high talking to friends in the garden, I fell off the wall, put my hand to my head and saw LOTS of blood! pure panic i ran home and in the back door, where there was a mirror on the wall, my whole face was soaking in blood it looked horrendous! I was scared stiff!

I'm 41 now and still have that scar, but the sheer fright of looking at myself in that mirror will stay with me forever, if you cut your forehead apparently is bleeds alot, they're not kidding when they say that!


I know is not a bad injury and I have been very lucky in my life, but the fear factor was way up there!

Answer 8

I'd say it's a tie between breaking my collarbone on a tree stump wrestling in the playground when I was six or later that year ramming a broomstick into my left eye attempting to pole vault in the backyard. To this day I still get double vision if I stare at something too long. I'm 27 now.

Answer 9

When i was 18 months old i fell down two steps and landed with my eye on the thing you turn the heat up on the radiator with except the cap was broken so it was just like a big metal spike, it went into the top of my eye socket i was lucky i wasnt blinded but its got a big > shaped scar above my right eye lol.

Answer 10

I served in Iraq in 1990/91. Taking an unofficial shortcut by landrover to our next poiint, we stopped to check our position. We decided to take a leak, and we all piled out. The driver stayed behind the wheel. As I got out the back and stood with my back to the rover, Our driver said "fck it" and got out too. There was an almighty flash and a thump and everything went black for a couple of seconds.

He stood on a landmine, and was killed instantly. My guys to the left - one lost his left leg and his right foot, one was killed, and me at the back took the brunt from passing under the rover. I was left with shattered feet, shins and knee caps, along with various points of shrapnel around the mid-riff and top left side of my body.

That was the physical injuries, but the mental side still is with me on a day to day basis. I would certainly state that I would have rather died on the spot, than live with the memory.

Answer 11

Wow some people have had some bad injuries. Mine nothing really. When I was at school I shut the school gates as I did I trapped my thumb. It went so purple I had to have blood drained from it. The nail fell off and a new one grew back, thank god.