The worst injury

yeah, thats a painful one alright.
Although I hope I never suffer anything like this poor bloke.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13437430,00.html

I've had a good few injuries in my time, nothing too serious thankfully.
I remember diving in for a ball and the goalie kicking my head instead of the ball.
Well, I dont really remember as I was out for a while, but thats what happened.
Some say I have been the same since

playing football (the last time I ever really played competively), dodgy and dirty tackle from behind, everyone who saw it said he'd no intention or chance of getting the ball. Anyway, he kicked me full force in the back of the ankle, felt a white hot pain and hit the deck. Got up after a couple of minutes, tried to walk off the pain I felt, but knew straight away something was very wrong when I couldn't straighten my foot, it was just hanging down at an angle. So had to walk home, looked very strange as I had to bend my whole leg from the knee to accomodate the new angle my foot was at. Went to the doctor that evening who took one look at my calf which was totally swollen, ankle and foot actually looked fine apart from not being able to move my foot, and told me my achilles tendon was fooked! So went into hospital, turned out that kick had snapped the whole tendon and the reason my calf was so swollen was all the blood that should have been passing through my tendon was now pooling in it!
Anyway, longshot of it was I couldn't walk without a limp for over the next year, wasn't able to run properly for about the next 3 years, and even now 10 years on it still gets sore occasionaly when I'm cycling or jogging!
Still, I did get the guy back 2 years ago in my comeback kickabout, wasn't a dirty challenge, just slightly mistimed and caught his foot as he was flying past me, unfortunately for him my foot was going one way with the intention of kicking the ball out, he was going the other, end result was him doing a somersault which admitedly looked spectacular, apart from the fact he landed on his head . Funny thing about it is I didn't even realise it was the same guy until after the game when someone told me, apparently they spoofed him up after that telling him I was gunning for him. I wondered why anytime I came near him after the first tackle I got the ball so easy!

Sparky_S wrote:

accidently snipped off the top skin of my forefinger

Eek!
Thought that said something else there.

drunken incident of jumping into shallow seawater, and not being able to stand up afterwards. wheelchairs arent fun.

i wasnt the only drunken idiot. i was just the only one that got hurt

When I was about 8 I broke my arm just above my wrist. The bones were sort of like "^" that and I had to go to surgery to get it put back into place. The didnt have to cut me though, but when I got out I could see the hand marks where where they pulled and pushed it to get back into place.

Oh, and then the nurse woke me up at 3 in the morning to see if I could "wiggle my fingers".

Usual Rugby injuries that still bother me.

right ankle(collapses if I try to run), groin,elbow(locks), 2 broken ribs(still hurt after 15 yrs!!) and my shoulder is permenantly half dislocated. (all on right side which is what I get for being a loose head prop)

May 2005, got taken off my quad(polaris Predator google it, its sweet), did my superman impression into a clay bank at 45mph approx, compression fracture of my 7th vertebrae! wore my back brace faithfully for 3 months. A week before it came off........

I was selling my dirt bike and took it out for a spin to make sure it worked.......

Throttle stuck open and I had to dump it, 2 more broken ribs and a chip off a bone in my right arm,(oh and the wrath of mein spousen)


Apart from that Im in pretty good shape