Injury's

hacktavist · 02-07-2002 03:41AM #1

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 · 02-07-2002 03:51AM

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 · 02-07-2002 03:55AM

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

Ry

ToxicPaddy · 02-07-2002 10:09AM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:10AM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:10AM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:25AM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:56AM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:59AM

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 · 02-07-2002 12:34PM

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 · 02-07-2002 01:09PM

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 · 02-07-2002 01:21PM

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 · 02-07-2002 05:05PM

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 · 02-07-2002 07:49PM

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

spaczed · 02-07-2002 08:15PM

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 · 02-07-2002 08:34PM

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 · 02-07-2002 08:49PM

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 · 02-07-2002 09:22PM

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 · 02-07-2002 11:01PM

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

Practical · 02-07-2002 11:56PM

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 · 03-07-2002 01:51AM

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 · 03-07-2002 02:44AM

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 · 03-07-2002 03:53PM

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 · 03-07-2002 04:21PM

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 · 03-07-2002 08:35PM

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 · 03-07-2002 10:20PM

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 · 04-07-2002 03:44AM

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 · 04-07-2002 04:30PM

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 · 04-07-2002 04:43PM

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 · 05-07-2002 07:27PM

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 · 05-07-2002 08:42PM

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)

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