Today's Question: What's the worst injury you've ever sustained?
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A knee injury in '67, deranged, surgery, re-injured it sledding with my son, more surgery... resulted in knee replacement last year.
Yikes - nothing here that compares with some of the painful injuries described above!
I suppose my worst was falling off my bicycle and allowing my face to break the fall. Chin split open, jaw broken right at the joint. I must have knocked myself silly because I don't recall much pain but I do recall the odd sensation of my mouth hanging sort of lopsided and not being able to open/close it.
I suppose my worst was falling off my bicycle and allowing my face to break the fall. Chin split open, jaw broken right at the joint. I must have knocked myself silly because I don't recall much pain but I do recall the odd sensation of my mouth hanging sort of lopsided and not being able to open/close it.
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Wow. There are some here that sound really painful. Mine was only a bullet wound under my right kneecap (Vietnam, 1969). Luckily for me most of it's energy had been spent so it lodged inside my knee without causing any major damage. The doctors were able to remove it and sew up the wound. I was incapacitated for a couple of weeks and then I went back to normal duty.
Then in 1983 I had to have arthroscopic surgery to repair some torn cartilage in that same knee. Now that was painful!
Then in 1983 I had to have arthroscopic surgery to repair some torn cartilage in that same knee. Now that was painful!
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Yeah, that happened to me when I was ten. In my case it was my left wrist, and both bones broke cleanly. Because the breaks were so close to the joint, it took them about three tries to set it--that's three times with the doctor manipulating the bones, applying the cast, then X-raying, then (in the first two cases) cutting the cast off. If the third time hadn't worked, they would have operated on the wrist in the morning.
By the time the dust had settled, the combination of pain, exhaustion, and fear had me pretty much numb.
Same here.. but pills didn't work for me. Also, I dislocated my shoulder when I played junior college baseball. It felt like my shoulder was moved to my butt..
I've been fortunate to never break a bone, but I made up for it in bloodlettings. One particular time ....
When I was in 5th grade (+/-) I was riding my bike home. I had lingered at a friend's house and it was starting to get dark, so I was in a hurry. Going a more direct route than I had come, I was unaware that the hilly road had just be resurfaced with asphalt. As fate would have it, I managed to flip my bike while flying down the first steep hill. I tumbled and slid all the way to the bottom. My handle bars snapped, and I suffered a puncture wound to the chest. My knees and elbows were stripped of skin and replaced with warm asphalt. I was a total bloody mess. And I still had to get home (several miles away) and get yelled at for being late. For days and weeks afterwards I was picking asphalt out of my infected knees and elbows, which only opened up the wounds anew.
When I was in 5th grade (+/-) I was riding my bike home. I had lingered at a friend's house and it was starting to get dark, so I was in a hurry. Going a more direct route than I had come, I was unaware that the hilly road had just be resurfaced with asphalt. As fate would have it, I managed to flip my bike while flying down the first steep hill. I tumbled and slid all the way to the bottom. My handle bars snapped, and I suffered a puncture wound to the chest. My knees and elbows were stripped of skin and replaced with warm asphalt. I was a total bloody mess. And I still had to get home (several miles away) and get yelled at for being late. For days and weeks afterwards I was picking asphalt out of my infected knees and elbows, which only opened up the wounds anew.
I concur. I've had a broken ankle, dislocated fingers and the likes, but none of those compare a scratched cornea.
I have broken my rt arm twice....first in 1974..the second time in 1975, I had a compound fracture and bone pierced the skin and about 2 inches of it were visible. I passed out and woke up hours later in the hospital. This left me with a nice scar and story. This incident also took care of contact sports early for me. The doctor stated he doubted my arm could sustain another break like this and cautioned against playing football...which my parents were in complete agreement with!!
What my Dr. referred to as the "Unhappy Triad" Complete tears of my ACL, MCL, and PCL.
Happened during my Junior year at Bama...2 surgeries over 6 months at DCH in Northport. Followed by 8 months of physical therapy.
Happened during my Junior year at Bama...2 surgeries over 6 months at DCH in Northport. Followed by 8 months of physical therapy.
Had a guy drop a 50 foot pole on my left ankle. If I wasn't wearing 16" boots the doc said it would have destroyed my ankle altogether. Suffered nerve damage..
17 broken bones, all but 4 at different times. never had a scratched cornea, but did get an eye full of Dry mortar once, would have gladly taken 2 or 3 more broken bones. Thankfully none in 25 years, don't think I would fare as well now, but back in the day, I was rough as a cob.
Oh wow! Y'all really have some horror stories! I can't imagine how painful an eye injury would be! Dang!
Before some straight-lines winds wiped out my huge weeping willow tree, I would decorate it at Christmas with these vertical strands of teeny tiny white lights that just swayed with the willow branches. Well, a few yrs back, I was trying to reach an upper branch to free the cord from where it had become stuck, so I quickly popped up on the very top of our 12' ladder. You know...where it says DO NOT sit or stand HERE! Well the next thing I knew, I was on the ground unable to move. My neighbor ran over and tried to help me to my feet, but the pain was so excruciating, I kept passing out! So he called an ambulance, and luckily my husband was on call and so was my favorite sports medicine orthopedic surgeon. I had surgery the following morning because I not only tore my ACL, it was shredded from the bone chips off my tibia, which was broken in 4 different areas. My knee was screwed back together with 5 screws, and my ACL was patched with a mesh fiber where he more or less wove the strands of the ligament into the mesh. Physical therapy was actually worse than natural childbirth for me, and I think my vocabulary even grew, but not in a positive way! I desperately need both knees replaced now since
my good leg became my dominate leg from adding extra stress and abuse to it. I'm just trying to hold off a bit longer because my Dad is gravely ill. But now, when I hear of one of these players tearing their ACL, my heart skips a few beats because I know first hand the agony they are going through! Let's all pray for a healthy season! RTR
Before some straight-lines winds wiped out my huge weeping willow tree, I would decorate it at Christmas with these vertical strands of teeny tiny white lights that just swayed with the willow branches. Well, a few yrs back, I was trying to reach an upper branch to free the cord from where it had become stuck, so I quickly popped up on the very top of our 12' ladder. You know...where it says DO NOT sit or stand HERE! Well the next thing I knew, I was on the ground unable to move. My neighbor ran over and tried to help me to my feet, but the pain was so excruciating, I kept passing out! So he called an ambulance, and luckily my husband was on call and so was my favorite sports medicine orthopedic surgeon. I had surgery the following morning because I not only tore my ACL, it was shredded from the bone chips off my tibia, which was broken in 4 different areas. My knee was screwed back together with 5 screws, and my ACL was patched with a mesh fiber where he more or less wove the strands of the ligament into the mesh. Physical therapy was actually worse than natural childbirth for me, and I think my vocabulary even grew, but not in a positive way! I desperately need both knees replaced now since
my good leg became my dominate leg from adding extra stress and abuse to it. I'm just trying to hold off a bit longer because my Dad is gravely ill. But now, when I hear of one of these players tearing their ACL, my heart skips a few beats because I know first hand the agony they are going through! Let's all pray for a healthy season! RTR
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Shoulder dislocation. Multiple times before submitting to surgury. The really painful part was putting it back in socket. Popped out once when I hit the water diving off high board. Difficult to swim one armed. That was the turning point.
RTR!!!
RTR!!!
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