Today's Question: What's the worst injury you've ever sustained?
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fortunate so far in life.....in my 39 years, I've only had stress fractures in shins, broken knuckle, broken toe, broken nose, countless stitches. I'm going today for an MRI on my shoulder, and at tomorrow's follow up I'll know if the worst injury I've ever sustained is rotator cuff or labrum tear. But so far, I'd say the stress fractures. Kept me from running cross country in college like I planned, and kept from basically ever running for distance again.
Fell from a tree stand while deer hunting. 90 percent compression fracture of L1. Have rods that run almost the enitre length of my spine. Why I dont know, but my back rarely hurts.
Fell while roller skating at age 9. Broke the hell out of my right arm. Cracked the radius in two, tore the ulna from its connection to the wrist and cracked two carpals. Had to spend several hours under general anesthesia in order for the doctor to get it set correctly, which he managed to do without putting any pins in me. The only problem it gives me now, at age 43, is that my right wrist is weak and, if it gets grabbed, very sensitive to pressure.
SLAP (labrum) tear in my shoulder. easily the most painful rehab i have ever done. i think it hurt constantly for about a month.
grossest: burst a vein in my knee. when the dr went to drain it, only blood came out. he got all excited and called all the other dr's over to watch cause he thought it would just be fluid.
grossest: burst a vein in my knee. when the dr went to drain it, only blood came out. he got all excited and called all the other dr's over to watch cause he thought it would just be fluid.
So far, only a broken tooth. But Mrs. TiO is accident prone so it's only a matter of time before I end up getting a serious injury that is her fault. :wink:
Moderate Concussion playing football. We were playing a "game" after practice not wearing our helmets and me and another guy collided full speed without looking at each other. We both ended up with concussions. I had migraines for about a year after that. This is why I am so skeptical about players getting a concussion and playing a week later. They are some serious stuff. But everything seems to be back to normal now.
Been very lucky injury wise...
The worst I can think is having a chow take a plug out of my leg when I was in 6th grade, or a couple of sprained ankles when working at a Boy Scout camp. Granted, I didn't take care of it properly so my ankle was swollen to the size of a small boulder.
The worst I can think is having a chow take a plug out of my leg when I was in 6th grade, or a couple of sprained ankles when working at a Boy Scout camp. Granted, I didn't take care of it properly so my ankle was swollen to the size of a small boulder.
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When I was in first grade, my mother, brother, and I was involved in a bad wreck. It was late at night and raining. I remember just laying down to try to sleep some, and then we hydroplaned across the median, crossed the other lanes of traffic on the interstate and hit a tree. My foot got stuck in the door handle I guess on impact and broke it. I had a cut on my forehead. I remember they had to use the Jaws of Life to cut us out. It was really scary. If my other brother had been in the other seat up front, he would probably be dead. The tree went right through the windshield on that side. Thank God we all survived and are alive and well today.
I've also had some stitches here and there, but my foot was the only bone I have ever broken so far.
I've also had some stitches here and there, but my foot was the only bone I have ever broken so far.
A severed achilles tendon. Wheelchair bound for about six months because I could not master crutches! I fell so many times trying to walk with crutches I was deemed a danger to myself and others. Some of the area is forever numb, and it rarely gives me problems, but some sling back pumps aggravate it.
Hmm, some of your posts make that "back to normal" claim somewhat questionable. :biggrin:
A scratched cornea….I've broken bones, gotten stitches, and been sliced open and nothing compares. Worst pain I have ever experienced .
A blood clot between spinal cord and vertabrae which ended organized sport for me. Later, torn ACL and meniscus which is the cause of me getting a plastic and metal knee. Funniest is when sliding in home head first, catcher stepped on my hand and broke it. When I went to the ER (military doctor), the doctor was a frapping Optomologist and told me I had a blood clot and to hold it up. You do know that becomes a high five for all my other drunken team mates. Dang that hurt. The X-ray technicians at the base I was at found it when reviewing the x-rays. Sent a nasty letter telling the other hospital to have that doctors eyes checked.
forgot about that....I got spray foam insulation in my eye. They couldn't wash it out, couldn't pull out with tweezers, so they had to scrape it with a scalpel. Wasn't the 'worst', I don't guess, but I found out quick that I don't like folks playing with my eyeballs.
Heh. Reminds me of an incident when I was 11 years old. I had only been wearing contact lenses for a few weeks. My vision was so poor that I had to use the hard contacts and I was still on a schedule where I had to leave them in for a few hours, pop them out for a couple of hours, then put them in for a few hours and finally take them out for the day before bed. I was young, obviously, and was still learning how to manipulate my eyelids in order to pop the lenses out. For times I couldn't get them to pop out, I had a tiny rubber plunger of sorts that I used to pull the lenses out.
Well, my mom and I had to take a quick trip out of town and I went off without my plunger. When the time came to take out my lenses, I couldn't get them to pop out, no matter how hard I tried. Finally, after about an hour of trying and my eyes getting more and more irritated, my mom drives into the nearest ER. Now this ER was in the middle of nowhere. They were supposed to keep one of those little plunger things in house for accident victims who come in with hard lenses in place, but they didn't have one. How did they get the lenses out of my eyes? Well, the doctor sterilized his drivers license with alcohol, blew it dry, then had his nurse hold open my eyelids while he slowly scraped my lenses off my corneas and out of my eyes.
Yeah. I was eleven. It was awful.
When I was in the 7th grade, I fell from a tree swing, about 20 feet, and my right arm broke my fall. I broke both bones just behind my wrist, but not all the way through. It was what the doctor called a "greenstick" break. It looked pretty gruesome, but I didn't feel any pain until the next day. The worst part was that the doctor had to break the bones completely in order to set it. So, not only do I get to hear my arm crack twice, but I get to see my arm turn all squishy in the nurses hands. It was rough for a 12 year old.
I destroyed an ankle playing high school basketball. One of those injuries where you land the wrong way. The noise the joint made when I hit the ground was sickening. It was a lateral malleolus fracture, which is actually part of the fibula. I made a full recovery without any real lasting symptoms, besides it being a little creaky on cold mornings.
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