Injury's

hacktavist

Ok i want people to post injurys they've recived over the corse of there lifetimes..
Ok here's mine:
In about 4th class in primary school I got pushed off a wall by
someone, I fell backward and hit my head the corner of another wall supporting an oil tank
Got 3 stiches in the back of my head..

About two years ago I was collecting wood for a bonfire picked
up a square piece of plywood went to frisbee it into the fire,
little did I know there were nails in the bottom one got caught in
my finger as it left my hand and dug its way firmly into my finger.
The cut was so deep you could see the bone, Got 4 stitches.

I also got knocked off my bike by a car towing one of the things
for carring horses. Hit me from the side so the bike went straight
under the wheels, I went up the bonnet up the windscrean did a
flip before landing on the windscreen, the force of him brakeing
made me slide off the bonnet where I grazed my elbow
The bike was mangled.

That's about it apart from numorous crashes off my stunt bike
the worst one where I did a front flip and landed on the back of
my head when I got up I was so dizzy I couldnt walk..

castie

well ive managed to pull both my hamstrings twice playing soccer
ive strained the groin muscle in my left leg quite a few times combination of soccer and rugby
i had knee ligament damage some idiot decided he didnt like my knee in a game of hurling
i broke my right ankle when a keg fell and i could only cushion the fall
and i was split 9 times in a period of 3 weeks playing hurling for blackrock in cork

Ry

Ehh you some kind of sexual deviant?? Like the weirdos in that film "Crash". I think so! :rolleyes:

Ry

ToxicPaddy

not too many injuries... but not through lack of trying...

3 or 4 stiches in my head when I was two after tripping and banging my head off a radiator..

severe headaches for about 2 weeks after a hurley was broken off the back of my neck by a mate of mine...

Concussion (sp?) after getting a basketball into the face and then falling backwards and slamming the back of my head off a steel girder..

Spent 3 days in hospital with a temp of 103, severe exhaustion and dehydration as a result of a summer of too much work, drink and partying and not enough food and sleep..

Attempts that didnt result in injury...

- fell out of a tree about 10 times
- about a 1000 crashes on my bike as a kid, including sliding under a parked truck, crashing into countless parked cars and lotsa trees...
- Nearly drowned when I was about 7 in a swimming pool in Spain, jumped into the deep end and couldnt swim at the time..
- 2 cars written off

:rolleyes:

Thats about it so far... but I'm sure there will be more..

seamus

When I was eleven I twisted my knee funny and snapped my kneecap in twain. That was *not* cool

My Dad also managed to drive over my foot at some point and break my little toe, which wasn't that sore.

Due to years of mountain biking and bmxing, I have scars pretty much everywhere, the longest one is 6 inches. I've also sprained pretty much every joint in my body (including my fingers ) at one point or another, meaning my ankles and wrists tend to complain when it gets cold. I've never ever hit my head though strangely

Oh yeah, I've also been attacked by bees nests 3 times, bringing my sting total to ~120. I'm still not scared of them in the slightest though

And when I was an ickle babby I had bacterial meningitis (sp?), and hit a temperature high of 107F, and contracted pneumonia while I was in hospital recovering. I can't remember that though so I can't comment on what it was like

Monty - the one and only

Never had any really bad injuries...well none that required serious medical attention anyway..despite nearly being turned into roadkill by a drunkdriver, while cycling home, a couple of years ago...came out of that with nothing more than a few cuts, bruises and a chipped tooth...

Ruaidhri

Originally posted by seamus
I've never ever hit my head though strangely

dont you mean you *dont* remember hitting your head
strangly enough i've only ever broken a bone once in my life..t'was when i was 7 and i broke my foot in 3 places!! i've some scars but only had to get stiches once ever

yeah i got off easy

Rabies

all of my accidents happened within 6 months and all are related to horses. which is weird. maybe some one is trying to tell me something.

they happened 7yrs ago when i was 15

1/
was at the riding school and a friend was opening the arena doors at the back to allow a tractor in. it was a windy day and the door got caught by the wind and hit me straight in the head. had loads of blood running down my face. looked a lot worse than it was. this door is about 20ft high and made of metal. i now have a scar above my eye.

2/
i was walking my horse home from the riding school one day and some dumb ass of a driver knocked me down. was out of school for a week. couldnt walk on my left leg for a few days. have a bad back now. cant lift heavy objects or strain my back in any way or i'll be out of action for a few days. a muscle was damaged in my back.

3/
went to a horse show at a weekend during my junior cert. my horse decided he didnt want to jump a certain jump so ploughed through it and flip over. i got wasted after falling off and i broke my thumb. so i had to do the other half of my junior cert exam through a tape.

all that happened in 6 months.

rymus

well... only 2 worthy of a mention really.. Broke my wrist after falling on it from a trailer and I scratched by eyeball with a thorny twig... the second one was damn painful I can tell ya...

thats about it really... I wont dramatise my misfortune.


Just thought of another one... must have been repressing it. I slipped on ice whilst driving my motorbike and skidded about 20ft down the road on my ass/back. Thankfully I had a nice expensive bike jacket on so I was able to get right back up and drive off again (to the amazement of the on-lookers) Did no damage to me or my jacket but scratched up my headlight, indicators and silencers pretty good...

Thanx 4 The Fish

Sister hit me on the head with a plastic cup when I was three and had to have 7 stitches. (How sad is that)

Sister dropped a 6"x3" metal sheet (part of some magnetic toy kit, toy safety standards were a little lax those days) off a wardrobe and it cut open my lip - four stitches for that one.

After Ireland beat Romania on penalties, between thirty and forty guys converged on the field next to the house and we played a bit of soccer. I got my knee broken in that game, was probably the worst of the numerous injuries that occurred in that drunken soccer match.

Got my thumb broken playing hurling.

Nose broken playing soccer.

And numerous muscle tears, strains etc...

hacktavist

Originally posted by seamus
I've never ever hit my head though strangely

Yeah my bmx is the cause of most of my injury's most of them
grazes about the size of a bearmat on elbow's knee's and the palms of my hands

Hellrazer

Ive never broke anything,no serious illness,never stayed in hospital-never even been in A&E (Touch wood)so theres probably a massive something waiting to happen.
My wife whos one of the unluckiest people I know broke her neck out on a pi$$ up in UCD. She Fell backwards off a wall and sustained a "hangmans fracture".Came out of it well though.They thought she`d never walk again etc.But shes 100% fine.

Then she had an accident with velux window pole(the one for opening them)It was on a skylight and the pole if you can imagine splits in two.The 2 halves werent secured together properly and the top half got caught in the hook on the window.So then she decides to hit top half of the pole with the bottom half.She eventually knocks it off the hook and the pole embeds itself in her forehead.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Ive never broke anything,no serious illness,never stayed in hospital-never even been in A&E (Touch wood)so theres probably a massive something waiting to happen.

Nothing likely to happen to you. Keep that wife of yours nearby and as long as she keeps sustaining all of the damage you are safe enough. The whole pain pleasure thing...

Hellrazer

So im safe as long as she gets it-Great;)

spaczed

i've been pretty lucky in that regard, i had to get stiches in my face, when, collecting wood for a scouts camp fire i tripped and got a stick i my face. healed fine though.
i think i broke one of those tiny bones in my foot playing hurling/football a few months ago, it gives me intermittent aches, but i was never bothered getting it checked out, i reckon if i culdn't be bothered, its probably not worth checking it out .:)

Makaveli

4th class: got my foot stuck in a drain, lucky not to break my ankle just a bad sprain in the end.

5th class: was climbing on a shelter thing in school, fell off and broke my wrist.

3rd year: broke my finger playing rugby, now it's kinda deformed.

4th year: somebody tripped me up and I fell on my thumb braking it.

5th year: In Germany on a trampoline(sp?), did a sommersault and kneed myself in the face, busted my lip a bit, got a concussion and totally wrecked my knee it was like 4 times bigger than my other knee, couldnt walk for a few days after that.

6th year: playing soccer in p.e. some guy was wearing rugby boots with metal studs, stamped on my foot and nearly broke my toe, in the end really bad sprain and nasty cut.

Loads of scars from various insignificant injuries.
I twisted my knee back in 2nd year somehow, and well I have trouble with both knees every know and then since then.
Bruised ribs a few times.
Had the top of my thumb slit open by a hurley.
Last saturday, playing football, tried to do one of those tricks from the nike ad, slipped on the wet grass and landed pretty hard on my back. I pulled a muscle, and I'm in agony, at one stage if I stood up I got spasams and had to sit down again. It stretches around from about my heart to under my left shoulder blade. Not very comfortable at all.

Well that's about all I can think of.

Cake Fiend

Broke my leg when I was two - I was on the back of my father's bike and as he started to cycle off, I decided I wanted to see what would happen if I stuck my leg in between the spokes... (I've always been experimentally-minded). I still remember that moment, although I don't remember it hurting much. My parents apparently didn't realize it was broken till the next morning when it was all swollen. That's my earliest childhood memory, the next earliest being when I was in hospital getting the cast (which I still have somewhere) off. I presume this was before those electric circular saw things for cutting casts off were commonplace, so I remember lying on a hospital bed and seeing a doctor take out a BIG HUGE FU<K-OFF SCISSORS thing like a dirty great pair of shears, then put it back (to my temporary relief) only to take out an even BIGGER HUGE FU<K-OFF SCISSORS thing! I might have fainted or something, because I don't remember anything after that for a few years.

I stuck a garden fork through my toe a few years ago, clearing up the grass after mowing it. I went to stick the fork into the ground, kind of... er... missed, felt a sharp pain in my foot, looked down to see one of the prongs of the fork right through the toe part of my shoe. It didn't seem to hurt enough to be serious, so I just assumed I'd only scraped a toe. I carried on raking up the grass with the fork, noticing a few minutes later that my shoe felt quite wet... I went inside, took my shoe off, poured the blood out of it, took off the blood-soaked sock and saw a hole a few mm in diameter through my middle toe. Not only could I see the bone inside, I could see all the way through my toe after wiping the blood away. Toe healed fine, had small scars from the entry and exit wounds for a couple of years which seem to have faded now, and I still have the shoe with the hole in the toe (and the dried blood in the sole).

Mossy Monk

about 2yrs: almost drowned in a lake
between then and about 11: had about 20 stitches, most on my head
between 11 and 18yrs: various things such as torn tendons etc.
18yrs: cracked my ribs playing soccer (that was the most painful thing ever)
20yrs: broke my finger (can't remember how, i was drunk)
today: on crutches after an accident with a fence

yellum

/me awaits famous neck brace pic of a certain boards member.

Practical

Age 3 : Was playing beside river with my mate and I lost my balance and fell it , luckily there was a lad coming home from school (across the river).
He jumped in and dragged me out , I was out cold for a good 5 mins

Age 5: Just got a bmx and i was trying to jump a bottle on the ground , I ended up splitting my head open

Age 8: Went fishing with my dad , ended up getting a hook through my finger

sceptre

Up to when I was 15 I had a habit of jumping down stairs.

Stopped when I junped down the stairs at home from about twelve stairs up and hit my head off the first floor landing.

Didn't notice for about five minutes until blood started running down my face while eating my dinner.

Only a few stitches - right at the hairline on my forehead. Will act as a useful indicator when my hair starts receding.

Do I win the "stupid" prize?:D

KdjaCL

Hmm 1st injury i can remember is linked to anothers
Squished finger in "rocket" incident those things like big metal rocking horses the corpo use to have in playgrounds .
PLaying on my own using a stick and then get get on, kick the stick and the rocket would rock .
I was pushing the rocket and then was about to place the stick under it when others who were playing Swing ball nearby one was hit in the head from a flying racket i looked up when i heard the screams forgot to remove finger out of way of impending 500 kilo rocket it smashed my finger but trapped it also i had to kick the stick to release what was left of my finger.

Then once in primary school i was playing chasing aournd those really old Coat hangers the ones on wheels which had the whole classes coats on it .
the guy who chasing me pushed the coat hanger at me and one of the hangars for the coats stuck in my cheekbone 10mm away from eye it had to wrenched form my face (it was caught in the bone)

Splitting frozen burgers with the biggest knife in the kitchen is a bad idea,went straight tru my hand (i was holding them arsewayz)

Stabbed in hand catching junkies knife whilst he was trying to mug me also he got me in the stomach with the knife.

Only a few ppl will know what a Rocket is and would have seen those coat hangers.

I have scars from them but ironicaly never broke a bone (squished finger didnt actually break ,got smaller more like)

Kdja

hacktavist

Originally posted by sceptre
Up to when I was 15 I had a habit of jumping down stairs.

Stopped when I junped down the stairs at home from about twelve stairs up and hit my head off the first floor landing.

Didn't notice for about five minutes until blood started running down my face while eating my dinner.

Only a few stitches - right at the hairline on my forehead. Will act as a useful indicator when my hair starts receding.

Do I win the "stupid" prize?:D

Oh ****..
Actually I stoped doing this recently because we got wooden floors.

bombidol

I fell off an extension roof once it was abut 12-14 foot, landed head first on the concrete, stood up and i was fine not a scratch on me, i remember falling in slow motion though:eek:

Stephen

When I was about 10 I stuck a scissors into an electrical socket (being an experimentally minded kid, similar to sico ) and er... electrocuted myself. I can't remember much besides feeling really weak afterwards.

I used to have a moped when I was 16. About a month after getting it, the throttle got stuck and I clattered into the side of some big 4x4 yoke at about 20mph. Only scratched and bruised myself, but caused 700 punts worth of damage to the 4x4

Acidflash

broke both my index fingers when i was about 6-7.
broke my left leg when i was 10.
Got a two inch nail stuck in my kneecap when i was about 12.
I had back surgury last january.

Other than that i've been fairly lucky.

Bard

Sprained my knee when I was knocked down (by a Ford Fiesta... oh the shame!!!) when I was going to College in Limerick, about 5 years ago. Was on crutches and going to physiotherapy for 3 months.

Also ripped my knee open when playing football once - slid to get a ball, didn't notice the shore-hole cover with the bolt on it... didn't notice the pain 'til someone pointed out the blood all over my trouser-leg.

Apart from that, I collapsed with anaemia once, nearly died of hypothermia another time, stuck staples through my thumb as a kid, had a paint-can thrown at me- splitting my forehead- by my brother - requiring stitches, had a rock dropped on my head by a cousin (more stitches!), have nearly drowned, been beaten up badly by thugs in the streets, and received various cuts, grazes, bruises and bumps at work as a barman.

@boy

Both from skydiving at The Irish Parachute Club !

Sept 97, Jump no. 360 : Displaced fracture of left ankle
Broken Ankle pic

May 2000, Jump no. 750 : Torn cruciate ligament
Cruciate reconstruction pic

Blue Skies !

<snip>

p.s. Had my skull x-rayed for possible fractures after concussions/wounds sustained from going over the handlebars of abike when I was 7, a bad dive into the shallow end of a pool when 19, and from getting lobbed into an overhead light fitting while going a bit loony at a nite club when I was 26.

chernobyl

An evil witch broke my heart....sob
Collar (sp?) bone broken in a car crash and pierced through some muscle. (i wish i still had the pictures.)

Cake Fiend

Stephen's post reminded me of the time I (experimental as ever) jammed coat hangers into the electric socket when I was 6 or so. Luckily enough I had stuck the Earth and Neutral hangers in first, and had connected the Earth hanger to the one going into the Live socket with a metal key. Big blue flash, I got thrown back a few inches, the fuseboard blew. If I hadn't connected the Earth to the Live hanger before I jammed it into the socket, I doubt I'd still be around to type this.

ykt0di9url7bc3

Broke my left arm falling off a bed,
Had four extra Teeth removed,
Broke my nose...(i dont remember that one!),
boke and fractured a few fingers...(not certain how many!),
Dropped something large and heavy on my toes and got 2 ingrown toenails out of it
Numerous sprains and split foreheads,
electrocuted...(240 volts, gravity saved me)

Lump

Where to start? Well, when I was 12, I was giving a carry to a mate on my bike, we were going down a hill about 30 odd miles an hour when his foot "Slipped" into the front whell. I went flying over the handle bars, smacked the ground, knocking out one one my front teeth, then I slid along the ground on my face with all my body weight on the left hand side of my face, had a huge scar on it (made me look like scarface). I also went into a coma for 6 hours. It got me off school for 5 weeks, which was good.

I also cracked a rib while sailing, and I also have crushed cartilage in both my knees from playing rugby. THats about all I can think of atm....... Oh I also stood on an open plug and electrocuted my right leg.



John

Mercury

Meh... wusses...

From the top down:

Fractured skull,
burst artery in head,
fractured eye socket,
blinded in right eye (1 week),
blinded in left eye (6 weeks),
broken nose (twice),
chipped both front teeth,
dislocated left shoulder,
broken left arm,
broken left wrist (three times),
broken right wrist (twice),
broken three fingers in right hand, from phlanges to metas,
broken all ribs on left side, all but three on right,
dislocated right hip, torn ligamnets and pulled cartillage from the bone,
pins in right hip, knee and ankle,
broken right leg,
burst artery in right leg, ended up with haematoma,
couple of toes broken.


Yep, that about covers it

Puck

Three words:
Broke my arse!:D

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Waay Too many to mention. Mostly due to misadventure, rugby and cricket.

Prolly the sorest things were a dislocated shoulder and broken ribs. You wouldn't believe how disabilitating they are!

Kalina

I was ice-skating in Dublin when I was 14 in that Silver-skate dump in Phibsboro- anybody know it? Anyway, it was really dark and I was changing into my thick socks and ice-skates on the benches in the walkway around the rink and somebody walked on my bare foot with their skate. I have only a size 4 foot (still have 7 years later) and it was fairly sliced up after that incident.
That's the worst I've had apart from a few horse-riding falls.

Kalina

Mercury, I'm surprised you're still alive!!:D

phobos

I was really big in to skateboarding when I was younger, had all the most expensive gear (and used to make trips from Galway to Skate City in Templebar, just to get things like bolts). Anyway living in Salthill during the summer they had these peddle car things that tourists used to rent out while going up and down the promenade. Myself and my mates used to grab on the back of them, and sometimes busses (but would let go when they got fast enough). Anyway one day one of the lads in front of me pushed his board under him, and ended up kicking the front of my board knocking it out from under me. I fell, got up with a few scratches and proceeded to go after them. I caught up and the same thing happened again. This time the front of my jeans were covered in blood. Anyway I decided to call it a day, and while I was walking away to have a sit down, I just collapsed to the ground in pain, where my knee just gave up. I ended up tearing this and that, and I can't remember did I need a cast coz we're talking about 8 years ago, but I do remember I was on crutches and couldn't walk for a while. Twas sore

Mental note: Falling down hurts

;-phobos-)

po0k

tore up my knees pretty badlynumerous times during my childhood.
Got a sting from ajellyfish - big mad watery pussy blister.
got a burn off a hot water bottle on the exact smae spot about 3 weeks later.
have a brown spot now.
I've torn up my hands numerous times doing stuff.
hav various scrapes and scars and stuff all over my arms.

haven't broken anything yet, though came damn close to it last year working on a site.
had to pick up some 12' lintels, as I was picking one up , the pipes under my foot kind of rolled away from under me and I fell, nearly landing the lintel on my head.
It only hit my chest, so I wasn't too bad.

phobos

One of my earliest memories (I was very young, pre-school and all that), and I had an incident with the family VCR. My mother says that this is the earliest evidence that I'm the curious type when it comes to techology.

It was the very early 80s and front loading VCRs had pretty much become mainstream in Ireland. Before that we had a top loading VCR (not beta, but VHS). I knew how to use that, and I knew how the TV worked. I was about 3 at the time. Mom used to always say that I would sit for hours on my ass (as quiet as a mouse) in front of the TV in a total trance. I was hooked.

Then the folks got one of those new front loading VCRs, and I just had to get in there, and get it sussed. I distinctly remember this, and what I was thinking, and my reasoning for the following. As my mother was cleaning the kitchen, I sat as usual on my ass in front of the TV/Video. This time I was getting used to the, what appeared to be a kind of suction as the tape would be loaded in to the VCR, and kinda grabbed off me as I nearly had it completely inserted. The mechanics behind this intrigued me, and I had to know more. In the old video when you pressed eject, the top panel would raise making the tape accessable to the user. But on this model you would press eject, and the flap would open and you could see the tape being raised and pushed forward. At this point I wondered would it be posible to remove the tape without pressing eject. So in went my hand, and I had a good rummage about, and I couldn't move the tape. So then I tried to release my hand and it wouldn't budge. I panicked and at the age of 3 thought that pressing the eject button would do the trick in order to get my hand out (can you see my logic). No Joy there. The eject sequence began, and the tape moved up and squashed my hand further. I freaked and pressed every button, except record, Oh for you see record would have tried to take my hand and put the stuff that was on TV, on it!, and that would probably be sore. Again the mind of a 3 year old (I assure you ).

After about 20mins of me sitting in there with my hand in the VCR, my mom had to open it and move the cassette, and a few other things just to get my hand out. In machine had to get repaired after that if I recall, but I came out with only a few scratches.

Mental Note: RTFM!

;-phobos-)

po0k

Yeah, I've seen my younger cousins do similar things, one time involving a toaster. Thank christ it was unplugged.

Mercury

Originally posted by Kalina
Mercury, I'm surprised you're still alive!!:D

Yep - hangin' in there, just about

madds

List of various injuries - mainly from soccer -

- when I was 6, I was "helping" my Dad build an extension on the side of our house. Was using a pickaxe, which was too heavy for me, managed to put it through the side of my leg

- medial ligament damage which put me out for a whole soccer season when I was 19. Was never the same player when I came back (was pretty useful before the injury).

- lightsabre duel with a mate of mine when I was 12 only we were using golf clubs instead of lightsabres (they were hard to find at the time!). I stepped out from behind a tree, lowered my guard and he whacked me on the top of my head. Dizzy spells for the rest of the day and 9 stiches.

- met a mate of mine in a nightclub at Xmas who I hadn't seen in ages. 2 of us were p*ssed, he jumps up and wraps his legs round my waist (we're drunk ok?!), I can't hold him, two of us fall to the ground. I break my fall by extending my arms but my left arm takes the brunt of my weight and bends the WRONG way! Sobered up immediately - was the sorest thing I've ever felt. I nearly passed out with the pain.

- tore both hamstrings when lifting weights at home. Had to use crutches for a week during college exams.

- torn right ankle ligaments. Still trouble me - my ankle constantly cracks when I rotate it.

- dislocated my thumbs playing b/ball on numerous occasions

BTW, mate of mine when he was 8 or 9 decided to climb a flagpole one Saturday morning after GAA training. Flagpole was wet, but up he went anyway. Got to the top, but lost his balance. Slid all the way down and imapled his family jewels on the little pulley thing at the bottom of the pole. He had to be lifted off the pulley and carried home. He pissed through a pipe for the next 9 months....

thegills

5 broken arms - 2 left, 3 right. Mainly from soccer, falling of bike, slipping on wet floor - 3 Xmas's in a row spent in plaster
Tore ankle ligaments 4 times, 2 left 2 right, one injury was really bad - right ankle, football tackle, foot pushed upwards, ligaments on both sides of the ankle broke away taking a piece of bone
Got Osgood Schlaters disease as a teenager.
8 stictches in head - tree fell on me, cutting it down one Halloween
Tore left medial ligament in right knee twice - still recovering from second one
Tore muscle in my neck - this was a real pain as it happened the week b4 my Debs. A few DVRB's sorted it out for the night though
Tore hamstrings a few times
Fractured my Coccxy - don't ask.

Thats my lot

richindub2

Broke two fingers on my right hand playing rugby when i was 11.
Did something to my wrist (dont remember, was prolly sprained) a year later also playing rugby.

apart from those ive been lucky and have had nothing really bad happen to me

BEAT

wow, sounds like I am pretty lucky
in 25 yrs I havnt broken anything or had any surgery (knock on wood) my only serious injury was when I was 9, tripped and fell, my head landing on a radiator...4 stitches in forehead, cant even really tell now. I have a piece of pncil lead in my left hand pinky finger from a pencil fight in the 2nd grade

hmm...let's see...nothing else really, I should have gotten stitches 3 yrs ago in my leg from a small incident...cutting grass when I am walking along and all of a sudden I drop a foot into the ground and plunge forward, my leg fell into a hole and I sliced a small part of my shin, it healed on its own but I have a bad scar, and strange as this may sound...all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago, that same wound re-opened! thats why I thought of it...
dont know what's up really, its healed back up again now..but it's still a little sore to the touch, right on the bone. Perhaps I should have had it looked at. oh well.