Your Worst Injuries. Ever.
Many of us, particularly athletes, have that one grisly injury story. Some have more. There was one time period (August 07 - Feb 08) where the injuries did not stop pouring in. Let's share some stories.
- Pulled my left quad in August 07. Sprinting in soccer tryouts.
- Severe concussion in September 07. Collision in a soccer game. Unconcious for 15 minutes at least and totally whiped my memory of that 30 minutes.
- Strained and internally bruised my deltoid, rhomboid, trapezius, and rotator cuff 4 days after my concussion. Refused to sit out of the game (I should've because of my recent concussion), got into a collision, flipped over the girl and landed on my shoulder. I didn't keep off it for 2 months and it didn't heal for about 3-4 months and it still hurts sometimes.
- Severe contusion on my knee in Novermber 07. Yet another collision in soccer.
- Severe arch pain in December 07. Running too much.
- Pulled my right quad in January 08. Sprinting in my lax game.
And the curse ended in February =)
How about everyone else?
Rhomboid? Most of those muscles, or whatever they are, sound like shapes. Really. Haha injuries!
All of mine have just been minor falling down the stairs, slipping on ice, wiping out...stuff that heals after a week or two. One time I fell and I THINK I broke my wrist. It took about six months to stop clicking.
Okay. Here we go.
7th grade: Tripped over my foot and broke my wrist. Had it x-rayed months later, what a shock for me.
8th grade: Sprained a finger during football season, went on to sprain 6 fingers during basketball season. But I'm an idiot athlete and didn't stop working out.
9th grade: Two sprained knees in cross country season. Yeah. X country. Fell down a frickin' mountain. Finished the race (3 miles) in 30:53 seconds.
11th grade: Cervical strain during basketball tryouts. Finished the whole season on anti-inflammatory pills.
12th grade: Broken middle finger during basketball season. My hand was all black and bruised for about a week and a half. Being the smartie that I am, I taped it up and kept playing.
I had been heavily involved with karate for a good four or five years.
Well, In my juniour year of high school I was in my first 'adult' testing for my brown belt in karate. One of the things I had to do was break a plank of wood with my elbow and I could finish my testing. My stance was too narrow and when I twisted to make the blow, my left knee twisted out of place and dislocated, INFRONT OF EVERYONE. It was so embarassing because I cried and yelled.
Needless to say, I've had a jacked up knee ever since. I haven't been able to participate in a lot of sports and my chances of joining the air force are also dashed.
I have to say, out of the many, many, many injuries I've had through sports/hobbies, that was my worst one. :(
Broken left arm (freak falling off chair accident)
Dislocated nose (actually made it look better, rugby accident)
Nerve ending inflammation, left arm
Rotator cuff left arm
Shoulder dislocation left arm
(my pooor left arm)
Over-extended right Achilles Heel (current, result of running too much, hurts A LOT).
Before I quit skating:
Hit my head on the boards after falling while doing a jump. Needed four stitches on my eyebrow. Then I fell loads of times, got many bruises, and this one time I couldn't even walk because I injured my knee really badly. Nothing was broken, but it felt horrible. Also, once, I almost fractured both of my wrists when I fell. They landed at odd angles, but since I have super flexible wrists, the bones didn't break or fracture. They just had bruising inside.
Before I quite ballet (but I'm going back): Nearly tore a muscle in my knee. Pulled muscles a lot.
Other: Almost broke my nose...IN SWIMMING. I wasn't wearing goggles, so I couldn't see where I was going, and I ended up crashing into the cement wall. There's still a faint bruise on my nose, even though it happened nearly five years ago.
And although this is not an injury, it's still pretty bad. It's a deformity. I had a growth spurt, and my spine curved severly to the side. I needed a brace, but that didn't work at all, since the curve kept getting worse and worse. So I got a surgery a few months back (about the end of March). They opened my back up, moved out all the ribs and whatnot, put my spine straight, set it between two metal rods, put everything back in place, and closed me up. I had to spend my fourteenth birthday in the hospital, which was horrible. But now I'm all better, and still pretty flexible (I can touch my toes easily, but I can't put my nose on my knee yet).
Original Post by ewwxroflzz:
i have never had very severe injuries, but i'm a ballet dancer and my joints are EXTREMELY loose (it's also hereditary). i've popped my knee out of socket twice, my collarbone about four times, and i can pop my shoulders out at will. none of that really hurts except the knee--that one hurt like a b*tch.
im having this problem i dislocated my knee 23 times in 4 months. all of them hurting so bad and meaning i cant walk for 3days untill the swelling goes down, I did this once while running that was the worst, and has to be my worst sports injury
I got pushed backwards off a (moving) swing when I was 8. I smacked my coccyx on the kerb of the astroturf stuff under it and couldn't feel my legs for two days. But didn't break anything!
I've also been clipped by a car (just got a nasty shock and a bruise that covered my whole left leg), kicked by a Shire horse in the chest, which was not a lot of fun and made breathing excruciatingly painful for about a month, and fallen out of my Mum's attic, straight down the stairs to land on my face. D'oh! I've got used to being covered in bruises all the time now!!
Original Post by felis_dormeus:
Somehow (God knows how!) I've never broken a bone. It's got to be a miracle though because I'm about the most accident prone person on the planet.
I got pushed backwards off a (moving) swing when I was 8. I smacked my coccyx on the kerb of the astroturf stuff under it and couldn't feel my legs for two days. But didn't break anything!
I've also been clipped by a car (just got a nasty shock and a bruise that covered my whole left leg), kicked by a Shire horse in the chest, which was not a lot of fun and made breathing excruciatingly painful for about a month, and fallen out of my Mum's attic, straight down the stairs to land on my face. D'oh! I've got used to being covered in bruises all the time now!!
WOW! thats alot of bad luck, if it were me i'd just stay in bed. But then the roof would probably fall in on top of me
Original Post by katydid_007:
we were at the driving range (golf, for those who don't know), and i was sharing a bucket of balls with my sister. i went over to get more balls, and i don't even know what happened, but somehow she hit me right next to my eye, between my temple and my eyeball, with her golf club, on her swing. after passing out, i got dragged to the hospital and required 12 stitches. but i was lucky she didn't hit my eye.... or my temple.... she could have blinded me.
My younger brother did the same thing except he hit me in the left eyebrow with a driver. Required 5 stitches, A shot in each corner of my eye to prevent pain and infection so (4) total and my eye was swollen over and unusable for a few days. Really it didn't freak me out but I had blood streaming like a waterfall from my face and he was freaked out and I remained calm which helped a lot since I could tell him what to do. I got hit and I couldn't see for about 7-8 seconds but I knew what happened so that's why I wasn't suprised.
Other injuries included being cut by a knife while working right in the middle of my pointer finger where it bends and it was from one side to the other. It was all the way down to the bone and it was easy to remain calm when it happened because it was worse than I thought because it didn't hurt because of nerve damage. It required 4 stitches and I have perfect motor function in it still.
I have been run over by a 4 wheeler ( long story) and it craked my bottom 2 left ribs and a bad gash to the elbow.
I took a small piece of bullet that richocet at a gun range and hit a metal nail causing a piece to break off and come back and it lodged in the skin in my forearm but was dug out with tweezers.
Many other stories that I could take up board space with.
I broke my nose in the my schools first grade production of Little red riding hood. I ran smack dab into the wolf. My lose is a little crooked now but the true tragedy is that I know at least ten people who have it on tape and could blackmail me in the future seeing as there was blood everywhere and i was running around screaming bloody murder for about ten minutes. Oh...and I fell of the stage too...it was like a five foot drop
The worst I have had is achilles tendinitis not that bad only took three weeks to get better
playing hockey, i got smacked in the head with a stick, passed out and woke up in A and E later with stitches in my head (apparently alot of blood) and was concussed for 2 weeks
skiing, not my fault, but some IDIOT was completely out of control and decided to use little old me to stop himself which ended up with me being incredibly bruised all over my body and in agony trying to ski for the rest of the week :Z
i have many scars form my childish immaturity haha (as well as some from dunken stupidness)
I've had two really big injuries in my life time.
The first was when I was 5 (and it was Christmas day when I did it). My uncle had a broken leg so I was trying to step over it and ended up catching my foot on his cast. I hit just the right way and fractured my right arm. The worst part was that the break was so far up my arm they couldn't put a cast on it. But I still managed to open all of my presents that morning before I let my parents know that I needed to go to the hospital ^_^
The second was in 10th grade when I was running in track. The track was indoors so the floors were slick when they were wet. Needless to say I ended up slipping and twisting my ankle. I had ripped all of the ligaments in my ankle had to have surgery to repair them. Til this day that ankle is very weak, tends to hurt unexpectedly, and will sometimes give out on me when I'm walking.
fractured my trapezium in football practice it requires surgery witch is this upcomming wendsday. sprained my knee which it didnt really heall for at least 2 months playing football.. sprained wrist in a game i didnt sit out... but didnt go to practice for the rest of the week because of how swollen it was... and broke my toe playing duck duck goose lol
fractured my trapezium in football practice it requires surgery witch is this upcomming wendsday. sprained my knee which it didnt really heall for at least 2 months playing football.. sprained wrist in a game i didnt sit out... but didnt go to practice for the rest of the week because of how swollen it was... and broke my toe playing duck duck goose lol
I was born with a very rare condition that prevents calcium, vitamin D and phosphate (etc.) from getting absorbed by my body. So this means my bones are very weak. My worst injury was after a huge surgery to straighten my bowed legs. They were supported by these things called ilizarov frames, but when they were taken off, I was hit by a sleigh when I was sledding with my kindergarten... Yeah, my other leg went into pieces. :/ Half a year in wheelchair after that, my bones heal that slowly because of my condition...
Original Post by lil_misfit:
My "worst injury(ies)" ever were fortunately so long ago, that it's difficult to remember how they felt. When I was about... 8 or 11, I stepped on a fish hook and got it stuck in the sole of my foot for a while until my mom got it out. Even worse was a couple years earlier when I touched the back of a furnace with my bare hands, which obviously resulted in second-degree burns.
My worst was when a bass rig went through my toe.
I have a story from when I was little; my mom was teaching me to roller skate. She forgot the pads inside and told me to hold on and not go anywhere while she went and got them. Well, I already had my skates on and our driveway was slanted. I didn't know what to do when I started rolling down it, and I ended up falling onto my knees and sliding the rest of the way down, padless, on the concrete. Blargghh.
massive hematoma (sp?) in left calf from being slide tackled in soccer.
torn right minicus repaired after getting it stuck in between the bed and the wall.
stopped a table saw with my left pointer finger, got some nice scars from that.
staph that turned into cellulitus on left foot from blister from flip flop.
WORST EVER: ruptured achilles tendon, right leg, snapped when i took off for a sprint in indoor soccer.
because of the achilles developed plantar faciitis in right foot.
now have lateral tear in left miniscus from having to support my body for the past year that my right leg has been out of commission.
good thing my company has good insurance!
Slide tackle, soccer - dents in shins, bruising for 4 months.
Fell, snowboarding - slid out on jump landing, slammed elbows, bruised and swelled for 2 months, fell the same way when they were healing, wrecked them for 4 months. Couldn't bend arm or rest on it.
Minor concussion, snowboarding - slipped backward off a rail, smacked head on ice. Lost a good 30-50 minutes, but rode down the mountain somehow and got on the bus to the school. Drove home (remember that).
Whiplash, snowboarding - caught an edge landing a jump in crappy, icy conditions. Tore ligament in neck. Caused permanent stretching and damage to neck and back muscles. Chiropractor patient for life now. Hurts to sit for long periods of time still after 6 years.
Steel rail to shins, snowboarding - slipped out on a 20ft rail, worsened shin splint, massive bruising on both shins, got carried up to the bar, and then to the car.
Knee damage, head injury, and wind-knocked out of me, snowboarding again - half-pipe fall, toe-edge caught, slammed me forward. Head bounced off the ground twice, shoulder slammed in icy ground and massive bruising/swelling on the knee. Swelling inhibited walking and caused permanent tissue damage.
I'm only 23, what the hell. Now I wear a helmet and hit bigger jumps and rails :)
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