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Whats the worst injury you ever had

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  • #62
    markc1184
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭markc1184


    Dislocated my kneecap playing rugby, it was popped back in wrong then which made things worse down the line.

    Broke my wrist in a bike accident. Because of the swelling no break was visible on the xray at the hospital. The pain was very bad for the next 6 weeks until it became almost unbearable. The next set of xrays showed an already heeling break which meant I then had to have it broke and reset again.


  • #63
    johndoe99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,902 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    was out walking the dogs in annestown beach, one of the dogs went up a steep cliff-face, i went up after him and lost my footing, felt immense pain in my calf that lasted about 10 seconds, thought nothing more of it. The next morning woke and my leg felt like it was on fire, went to hospital to find i'd torn a ligament, took months to heal fully.


  • #64
    Cork Lass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,364 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    Sykk wrote: »
    Snapped my femur in half.. Literally. Took 6 months Before I could attempt to walk again. Words couldn't explain it...

    This happened to me too as the result of a motorbike accident. My tibia and fibia were also broken and I had a huge open wound on my shin that could not be stitched because there was not enough flesh. It had to be cleaned every day and I will never forget the pain. It took me over a year to be able to walk again and the scars are awful.


  • #65
    Andrew33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Kiera wrote: »
    That sounds like one angry **** :eek:

    Well, they say if it doesn't hurt you're not doing it right!


  • #66
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Hit by a car. I was on my way to play a football match, so my legs didn't end up as mashed potatoes as I had shinguards on. But my left leg was broken above and below the shinguard, in two places. I still limp sometimes :(


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  • #67
    Andrew33
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Cork Lass wrote: »
    This happened to me too as the result of a motorbike accident. My tibia and fibia were also broken and I had a huge open wound on my shin that could not be stitched because there was not enough flesh. It had to be cleaned every day and I will never forget the pain. It took me over a year to be able to walk again and the scars are awful.

    Oh I feel your pain, you've just reopened my memory of having the gashes on my shins cleaned. still have massive scars on both legs.


  • #68
    zinzan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭zinzan


    Broken big toe - block fell on it - Mexican doctor? x-raying it came out and said 'Yes, the finger is broken'.. pointed out that it was my toe and he agreed it was broken too...
    Dislocated jaw thanks to a bouncer
    2 cracked ribs from rugby,
    Eyebrow torn/peeled back thanks to someones studs
    Shot a nail through my finger with a nail gun
    Spanner slipped working on a gearbox and my head smashed into it leaving a nice Harry-potter scar on my forehead..
    Messed lower back up moving a skip around, any sudden movement left me in spasm for months.

    Toe probably was most intense pain, back was longest lasting pain.. very wary of it now.


  • #69
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Sliced a sliver of index finger while preparing a sandwich for a customer in a well-known Dublin sandwich shop back in the day (not O'Briens...you'll be up all night now racking your brains, won't you?).

    Nothing else.

    Edit: sliver was left in sandwich and eaten by said customer. Only realised after handing it out.


  • #70
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    1 crushed ballsack :)
    Stung by a bee or wasp....

    Pain :mad:


  • #71
    Dacelonid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Dacelonid


    Broken leg when I was 7, wasn't that bad from what I can remember
    Torn ligaments in both my ankles (at different times), but the worst is probably when I dislocated my knee, and had my kneecap on the side of my leg, and all the associated ligament damage (sprained not torn thankfully).


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  • #72
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    I arrived in the Old Meath at 12.20pm one New Years Morning with a steak knife through my hand!!! Opening an emergency bottle of wine, without a corkscrew.......needless to say, it was not to be the first wine consumed that evening!!:rolleyes:

    The trouble I had convincing the usual suspects in the waiting roon that hubbie had not stabbed me, the medics were none too convinced either:o


  • #73
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Fractured ankle and a chipped tailbone, I guess the latter was the worst. I was hospitalised after an overdose once but I walked away from that one, no bother to me.


  • #74
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Jaysas Im doing ok. My job entails working at height and with electricity, I have two fairly hazardous hobbys and i rode a motor bike for about 10 years and I've had not a stitch or broken bone.
    :D


  • #75
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Jaysas Im doing ok. My job entails working at height and with electricity, I have two fairly hazardous hobbys and i rode a motor bike for about 10 years and I've had not a stitch or broken bone.
    :D
    shaddup or you'll jinx it:D
    I was working doors in london, lad went to stab me and I caught the blade.:mad: He then pulled it back.:( My thumb was cut almost completly off.I then went on holiday to spain next day with homeymadey bandage on thinking "ah, it'll be grand". Got back week later, raging infections etc, so went to a+e. Doctor shat a brick and admitted me but the tendon had pulled right back up my arm so thumb was fecked. Not to be recommended. Young and dumb.


  • #76
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    So are you missing a thumb now? That kind of makes your hand useless doesn't it?

    Are the fella fingering storminateacup outside Centra?


  • #77
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 13,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Burning sawdust and burnt my face and neck with petrol when I was a kid, was in hospital for a week. I have a healthy respect for fire now....

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #78
    sparks24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭sparks24


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Jaysas Im doing ok. My job entails working at height and with electricity, I have two fairly hazardous hobbys and i rode a motor bike for about 10 years and I've had not a stitch or broken bone.
    :D

    Never got a wrap in 10 years? That's good going! I've lost count how many times I got electrocuted I can take 230 volts like a boss now :-D


  • #79
    Gunslinger92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Gunslinger92


    Split my chin open trying to cycle through a set of them gates that close themselves when you press a button.. The gap wasn't big enough..

    I went home thinking "Oh I've just cut it badly, I'm grand"

    Cleaned it up and found a hole in my chin, went crying to my brother, and was brought to SouthDoc, stitches the next day, not the worst I guess :o


  • #80
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Cut half way through my left index finger with a hack-saw back in secondary school.

    Other than that, never had broken bones etc.


  • #81
    Kya1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭Kya1976


    I haven't had any major injuries.
    I once broke my wrist putting together some flat pack furniture(literally blood sweat and tears went into putting it together). :p
    My GP at the time didn't realise it was broken and sent me off home with a wrist support.
    A couple of years later I couldn't bend my hand properly and I finally had to have an operation to sort my wrist out.


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  • #82
    fatherted1969
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭fatherted1969


    Pulled a teapot of tea down on top of me when i was 13 months. Luckily i was tall enough that it didn't get my face but got badly scalded from my neck down. Spent 6 months in hospital and had operations nearly every year until i stopped growing to loosen the scarring. Lucky to survive i suppose as it was 1970 and i had to endure a rickety drive to a crumlin.

    Broke my back in 07 now that was painful. Made a reasonable recovery but still suffer a good bit


  • #83
    El_Drago
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭El_Drago


    Despite being some what of a wild child and having done rugby,wrestling,MMA and now weight training,thankfully I've never had any major injuries.The worst was probably a dislocated elbow a few years back when I was doing brazilian jiu jitsu.I foolishy didn't tap to an armbar and suddenly the elbow popped out....ouch!

    Edit:I nearly forgot about the time when I was 4 years old and smacked the corner of my eye socket on the low railings in Stephens Green park.Thankfully the children's hospital at the time was only up the road on Harcourt street and after several stitches I was fine.Had it been a centimetre over I most likely would have done damage to my eye.


  • #84
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    I've broken all my fingers on different occasions, mostly from when I was a kid, but the most recent was a few years ago when I had a drunken fall and snapped 2 of my fingers. They were bent totally sideways and I snapped them back into place a min later. It was cool looking but my gf nearly got sick. If I wasnt so drunk it would've hurt like hell.

    Other than that a pole fell on me 2 weeks before my communion and shattered my nose. I had 2 black eyes in my communion photos!!


  • #85
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    I've broken bones, scalds, zipper accidents, cycling and motorcycle accidents, but worst pain ever was a cat bite on my little finger.


  • #86
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Ive never broken a bone or even spent a night in hospital,touch wood!

    Careful, you could end up like this guy.


  • #87
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Broke my collarbone.


    Wasn't too sore, but the "POP!" when it happened was sickening.

    Its kinda funny though, because when I am under loads of stress, nervous or in pain I always come out in a stream of jokes, so I had the doctor laughing when he was examining me, he grabbed my shoulder and I told a joke, he shook with laughter, was so sore :(


  • #88
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Broke the big toe back in the summer of 85. It was the day of Live Aid and a young Pighead was cycling like the hounds of hell to catch Paul Young sing "Every Time You Go Away".

    Unfortunately the rain had caused havoc with Pighead's backpedal brake system and he cycled straight in front of a red hiace van. Went arse over elbow through the air and can remember thinking "Fcuk, hope Mammy tapes Paul Young for me" when it all went black.

    Woke up in hospital surrounded by 43 weeping hysterical friends and family.

    "Is he going to live?"
    "Hang in there Pighead."
    "You can't leave us buddy. You just can't. Without you we are nothing"

    Doctor strolls in and says "Toes broken. Apart from that he's fine"

    Tears stopped and all 43 looked at Pighead like he was some kind of fraud. Room emptied quicker than you can say "Wherever I Lay my Hat (That's my Home)"
    Definitely not the best of injuries for anybody looking for a bit of sympathy.


  • #89
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I was about 8/9 and had top of finger chopped off in the inside jam of door as it slammed shut with a draft. I can remember seeing the white bone underneath


  • #90
    Longines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭Longines


    I hurted my knee hitting it off a rock knocking it down my shin whilst scalping the previously attached ligaments. It do be sore 20 years later.


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  • #91
    buzsywuzsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭buzsywuzsy


    When my OH was 9 he was climbing a tree, slipped and landed on a branch but didn't feel any pain
    Until a few minutes later he was walking along and felt something trickling down the inside of his leg... He pulled off his trousers and looked- blood was pouring out from his torn sack with his balls hanging out

    There's a nice scar there now :D


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