The worst injury

Pepe LeFrits · 17-09-2005 04:26PM

I fractured my skull when I was young (well, I didn't fracture it, someone else did by dropping a large metal bucket on my head), which is my only injury of any note. It didn't really hurt, it was only when the blood started streaming down my cheeks that I realised something was wrong and stopped laughing. No other breaks, fractures or rips (unless you count shin splints, which I have at the moment). I've still managed to spend way more time in hospitals than most people though, unfortunately.

JackKelly · 17-09-2005 04:59PM

So far, i've broke my leg in a boring fashion, broke my arm by landing on it in a back garden game of high jump, split my head open after falling on the corner part of a sink left out proped up against a wall, split my head open again about a month or two ago after the crossbar off a set of goals landed on it, broke my front teeth (baby teeth thank god) when i fell face first onto a rock and pulled numerous muscles.

Newaglish · 17-09-2005 06:07PM

My dog inflicted my worst injury. She was asleep on the couch and I sat down beside her, sort of suddenly. She got a surprise and latched onto the first thing she could find. She just missed my eye and got a mouthful of chub. Yum. Had to open her jaw with my hands. She was as shocked after as I was. Only have two tiny scars though, where the top and bottom teeth pierced the flesh.

I'd like to say it was an evil rottweiler but it was a cocker spaniel.

Vikings · 17-09-2005 07:26PM

Broke/cracked my kneecap last april playing football (real football, not soccer or gaa) ... tried to cut sharply to tackle the punt returner (he's the reason i hate skinny people(and people from cork)) but my studs on my left foot stayed in the ground while my leg pivoted. Whatever way I did it I was out for 6 months, rushed back to football and knee still hurts but its too late to go back and fix it now.

Cravez · 17-09-2005 08:20PM

I wouldnt call this an injury really but quite painful none the less - Ingrown toe nails!

You may laugh and find it funny but there is nothing funny about both your toes growing to the size of tennis balls and even the slightest thing causes great pain even such as ( this however is quite funny ) a corn flake dropping from my bowl onto my toe and i actually shouted " AH! " with pain

Had to get both toe nails removed with the root so the nails can't grow back.

Supercell · 17-09-2005 09:29PM

I once saw a person on "grill" in macdonalds have a epilectic fit.
They basically grilled themselves..not nice thing to see and still sticks in my mind about 10 years later.

Squirrel · 17-09-2005 09:59PM

I've had 2 3 inch long fractures going up through my right shin this year, kept me out of running for about 3 months in total, but an extra 2 or 3 trying to get back, I was getting over the first one when I over-trained and did it again, that was a bitch.

In a schools soccer final in 2nd year I got flattened in the third minute, I was off the pitch for 10 minutes with my shoulder hanging by my side, about 2 inches below where it was supposed to be, I played up until half-time until I told my manager to take me off. I was then talking to my principal and english teacher, and they had words of encouragement, Principal: "I thought your neck was badly broken", and english teacher: "I thought your collar bone had snapped and you were lucky that it didn't pierce your skin".

I then proceeded to dislocate it a further 4 times that day, and a couple of times over the next week or so.

I've also had multiple muscle tears, I'm extremely injury prone

mad m · 17-09-2005 10:11PM

Holy crap this thread should be on "Rotten.whatever".Some injuries alright.Only main one I had was when I was doing splits in Tae-Kwon-Do I heard something "POP". It was something to do with hip.Doc said give Tae-Kwon-Do up or Ill be in wheels.

One thing which is weird I can describe how painfull it was but cant acutally remember the pain. :rolleyes:

*MmmPie* · 17-09-2005 10:11PM

I remember, when I was 5, I thought it would be a FUN idea to shove my foot between the spokes of my bike's front wheel of a busy road, which resulted in a broken ankle, yaay!

My friend also broke her collarbone once from doing a somersault on a trampoline.

rainbow kirby · 17-09-2005 11:06PM

I've never actually broken anything... Probably my worst injuries would be a dislocated bone in my foot when I was 15 (which I put back into place myself....:eek:) and a concussion in the taekwon-do intervarsities last year (got kicked right under the chin by a huge 2nd dan and my head snapped back... somehow I still managed to place 4th in my division before pretty much collapsing in a heap).

The_Conductor · 17-09-2005 11:17PM

danniemcq wrote:

clears throat!

broke every one of my fingers (including my baby ones 4 or 5 times each),
broken both thumbs,
fractured my right wrist,
fractured my right shoulder twice,
fractured my collorbone,
cracked and bruised ribs,
torn my abdominal muscle twice,
fractured my right ankle,
over a dozen concussions
and knocked out 5 times.

i think thats everything

I think I beat that......

As a child I took a massive jump off a dresser and whacked my chin off the ledge of the dresser on my way down cleanly biting off my tongue. It was stitched back promptly and thankfully recovered mostly.

On another occasion I was messing on a chair after a bath- and had my knees up my vest curled up in a ball on the chair while I was rocking the chair. Inevitably the chair toppled over backwards, and as my legs were immobilised with my knees in my vest, I was unable to break my fall. I whacked a radiator with my mouth on the way down, knocking out 6 teeth, breaking my nose, splitting both lips and making a bloody mess of my face.

Broke my collarbone with a snowball which had a rock in it......

A chemistry experiment went wrong in UCD and I ended up with first degree phosphorus burns to my right hand.

I've lost most of finger nails from getting hands caught in doors, having hammers swung awry or any of a load of other causes. The finger nails all grow back- but they have deep valleys and lots of scarring to the first knuckles.

Did something similar to one of the other posters and effectively crucified one of my feet with a 6 inch rusty nail on a board that was sticking up in a breakers yard. I caught septocemia.

I got wood chippings embedded in my left hand from a chipping machine. It was painful- but I put up with it. Eventually, as the wood chip began to decompose in my hand (after a week or two) the hand became badly infected. I tried to clean it up and lanced the infection. I thought I had it cleaned up fairly well- but about 6 hours later (just after 1AM in the morning, typical.....) it all swole up and hurt like hell. I was taken to James Connolly Memorial and had my arm drained. It hurt like hell.

We used to run a small shop in the summertime- selling softdrinks, icecream etc. A delivery of Coca-Cola went horribly wrong- and a pallet load collapsed ontop of me. I ended up twised around a trolley, a block wall, the back of a lorry and under a couple of thousand cans of cola. For that one- I ended up with multiple spiral fractures of Femur, Tibia and Fibula. In total I was in traction and immobile for over 6 months, and in plaster for 14 months. I also caused massive nerve damage- which while a blessing at the time, now causes me no end of problems. Tibula and Fibula in my right leg now hurt me most (10 years later) and I am constantly dislocating my ankles and am liable for my right leg especially to randomly giveup on me and to land in a heap on the street

I also cannot balance on one leg- I was asked to balance on one leg while an metal detector was done on my shoes in Lisbon airport during the week- I fell over and very almost demolished the security station at Gate 25....... It took two security officers to leap and grab me and the x-ray machine so a massive heap wasn't made on the ground.

What else?
Knocked out several times while in college- usually while minding my own business....... Got a baseball whack on the head at Merville, a golfball smack on the forehead by the Clonskeagh gate, a cricket ball off the running track......

Broke my nose in an economics lecture (it was the weekend after the US open and I walked into the lecture smack into one of those 2 meter pointers which the lecturer was using to demonstrate a golf swing before he started the lecture. I got a first in economics that year

Have had abdominal surgery 4 times- and have a wonderful scar running the length of my chest to my crotch. They keep using the same line when cutting- so its a scar on a scar, on a scar- on a scar......

Nearly did myself serious damage with a chainsaw- thankfully the safety trousers I was wearing bore the brunt of the teeth of the saw, I have only a small scar to show.

Thereafter- the usual range of broken fingers and toes. A broken arm. Crushed vertebrae. Broken ribs etc. etc.

Think I beat you!!!!

Dutchboy · 17-09-2005 11:20PM

My worst injury was whiplash, but not caused by a car accident!
I was 14at the time, was tearing down a lane on the farm with my brother, top speed on the bikes.
We failed to see the wire which crossed the lane to let the cows into the field so we basically rode straight into it!
It took us both by the necks and stopped us in our tracks, and we both ended up with huge wide welts on our necks which took weeks to disappear! And the pain........

First and only time ill ever fly off a bike backwards i would think!

But my vote for most painfull injury has to go to snapping a cruciate ligament....ouch

but compared to some people here i think i go off lightly

oh nearly forgot the time when my brother dropped a sizeable rock 10ft down right onto my chin! i looked up and .....wack!

Dutchboy · 17-09-2005 11:31PM

Smccarrick, WOW

you are possibly the most unlucky person i have ever heard of, by some distance! :eek:

JackKelly · 18-09-2005 01:06AM

smccarrick wrote:

I think I beat that......

As a child I took a massive jump off a dresser and whacked my chin off the ledge of the dresser on my way down cleanly biting off my tongue. It was stitched back promptly and thankfully recovered mostly.

On another occasion I was messing on a chair after a bath- and had my knees up my vest curled up in a ball on the chair while I was rocking the chair. Inevitably the chair toppled over backwards, and as my legs were immobilised with my knees in my vest, I was unable to break my fall. I whacked a radiator with my mouth on the way down, knocking out 6 teeth, breaking my nose, splitting both lips and making a bloody mess of my face.

Broke my collarbone with a snowball which had a rock in it......

A chemistry experiment went wrong in UCD and I ended up with first degree phosphorus burns to my right hand.

I've lost most of finger nails from getting hands caught in doors, having hammers swung awry or any of a load of other causes. The finger nails all grow back- but they have deep valleys and lots of scarring to the first knuckles.

Did something similar to one of the other posters and effectively crucified one of my feet with a 6 inch rusty nail on a board that was sticking up in a breakers yard. I caught septocemia.

I got wood chippings embedded in my left hand from a chipping machine. It was painful- but I put up with it. Eventually, as the wood chip began to decompose in my hand (after a week or two) the hand became badly infected. I tried to clean it up and lanced the infection. I thought I had it cleaned up fairly well- but about 6 hours later (just after 1AM in the morning, typical.....) it all swole up and hurt like hell. I was taken to James Connolly Memorial and had my arm drained. It hurt like hell.

We used to run a small shop in the summertime- selling softdrinks, icecream etc. A delivery of Coca-Cola went horribly wrong- and a pallet load collapsed ontop of me. I ended up twised around a trolley, a block wall, the back of a lorry and under a couple of thousand cans of cola. For that one- I ended up with multiple spiral fractures of Femur, Tibia and Fibula. In total I was in traction and immobile for over 6 months, and in plaster for 14 months. I also caused massive nerve damage- which while a blessing at the time, now causes me no end of problems. Tibula and Fibula in my right leg now hurt me most (10 years later) and I am constantly dislocating my ankles and am liable for my right leg especially to randomly giveup on me and to land in a heap on the street I also cannot balance on one leg- I was asked to balance on one leg while an metal detector was done on my shoes in Lisbon airport during the week- I fell over and very almost demolished the security station at Gate 25....... It took two security officers to leap and grab me and the x-ray machine so a massive heap wasn't made on the ground.

What else?
Knocked out several times while in college- usually while minding my own business....... Got a baseball whack on the head at Merville, a golfball smack on the forehead by the Clonskeagh gate, a cricket ball off the running track......

Broke my nose in an economics lecture (it was the weekend after the US open and I walked into the lecture smack into one of those 2 meter pointers which the lecturer was using to demonstrate a golf swing before he started the lecture. I got a first in economics that year

Have had abdominal surgery 4 times- and have a wonderful scar running the length of my chest to my crotch. They keep using the same line when cutting- so its a scar on a scar, on a scar- on a scar......

Nearly did myself serious damage with a chainsaw- thankfully the safety trousers I was wearing bore the brunt of the teeth of the saw, I have only a small scar to show.

Thereafter- the usual range of broken fingers and toes. A broken arm. Crushed vertebrae. Broken ribs etc. etc.

Think I beat you!!!!

lmao. you win.

tribulus · 18-09-2005 01:16AM

getting hit square in the forehead with a 5 iron. My cousin was taking a few swings of a golf club in his garden. His then 3year old sister had stumbled up behind his legs just as he was swinging, so i pulled her back just as he swings down...WHACK :mad: f*cking ridiculous looking stitches bang in the middle of my forehead for a couple of weeks :mad:

jsr · 18-09-2005 03:04AM

my head and hands have recived a bad beating as have my knees(sport) but the worst was 15 stiches in my left hand which means I cant use one of my fingers, Im left handed which makes it worse :mad: . I also have marks which I cant explain but no story with them as I dont know where they came from!

Aisling(",) · 18-09-2005 03:22PM

Smccarik you are one unlucky dude

CathyMoran · 18-09-2005 04:20PM

Smccarrick - the list is very impressive and I can testify that all of these injuries did occur to him (he actually missed out a few I think), however I would hardly call him unlucky.

danniemcq · 18-09-2005 04:22PM

smccarrick...

how the fcek are you still alive?

Sparky · 18-09-2005 04:35PM

mad m wrote:

One thing which is weird I can describe how painfull it was but cant acutally remember the pain. :rolleyes:

Yes thats an amazing thing, the human mind cannot remember pain at all, you can describe it but i cannot remember the actual feeling of pain.

The_Conductor · 18-09-2005 04:54PM

danniemcq wrote:

smccarrick...

how the fcek are you still alive?

Still alive and kicking, though it hurts to kick!

I still need physio on my right leg- I find the sports whirlpool works best, and I keep dislocating my ankle- which is more annoying than painful.

I have a load more that I could put up there- including 5 major car accidents over the last 15 years (in which the car in which I was driving or a passenger were wholly written off) along with a load of minor road accidents.

A lot of it is bad luck, but I wouldn't necessarily consider myself unlucky. I am a first-aider and while normally that means doling out bandages or dressing minor injuries- I've come across some very serious accidents just in every day life. My father cut off two fingers with a scythe (the instrument that Death carries around with him). In work a guy laying a carpet sliced through his arm ligaments with a cutting tool. On the back road to Clonee I helped tend a 3 car pile-up, which involved fatalities, until ambulances arrived. Being a forester- I've seen quite a few serious injuries involving chainsaws and other equipment- or crush injuries. Then again I've also come across shiploads of manual handling injuries. Growing up on a farm we had loads of accidents many of which included people being run-over, electricity shocks, being bitten/kicked/stomped/ by horses etc. Maybe I've been unlucky with some things- but then again, I've been extremely lucky with other things- and I am still alive to tell the tale. I don't believe in luck per-se, life is what we make it. If you take a lot of chances, some will pay-off, some will not. If you can look back on it and have a good laugh at your own stupidity, and live and learn not to do the same thing again- then even if you got hurt, it was a worthwhile learning experience.

Broken bones hurt, sure, but living in a cocoon where you never take chances isn't living. Ps- no, I'm not a racer or into extreme sports. Then again if the opportunity presented itself, I just might try it. If it didn't bite back or hurt, hell I might try it a second time.

Squirrel · 18-09-2005 05:30PM

smccarrick, that is just impressive.

and I keep dislocating my ankle- which is more annoying than painful.

I do that with both my shoulders, all my injuries kinda pale into insignificance now.

Oh and bubblewrap could help

dceire · 18-09-2005 09:59PM

Just played a match today & came out of it with two slipped discs in my back, a twisted ankle, badly bruised knee, slightly concussed & a strained thigh muscle. Not making these up now but am going to be visiting the physio and doctor allot this week

danniemcq · 18-09-2005 11:54PM

well smccarric i've another 11 years to catch up with you!

who wants to go extreme bungee jumping without the bungee cord!

The Free Man · 18-09-2005 11:59PM

i broke my neck 2 weeks ago, from diving into shallow water. now i look like a complete fool in this cast, which has to be worn for 3 months!

Squirrel · 19-09-2005 08:28AM

danniemcq wrote:

well smccarric i've another 11 years to catch up with you!

who wants to go extreme bungee jumping without the bungee cord!

I have 15

Sign me up!

The worst injury

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