Post by fangoriagurkel on Jan 21, 2024 22:02:32 GMT -5
gretchenindisguise You mean the injuries are from the packaging and not the actual contents, right? Because if it’s from the products, that’s a TLDR I could get incredibly invested in!
I was watching a friend’s kid and they ran over my foot with the hot wheels jeep. Definitely cracked something but I ignored it. I couldn’t wear most shoes for months—but didn’t figure that out because I could wear my favorites.
Gave myself tendonitis from knitting.
Fell on top of my kid helping him skate and sprained most things in my hand.
Cut off the tip of my finger slicing bread. Ignored it and just bandaged it. Like the foot, what was I thinking?
Injured my wrist swimming. My stoke was causing a lot of pressure on my palm and wrist. My mother kept telling me to go swim to make it better. Ha ha no.
Sprained my big toe sleeping under a weighted blanket. I thought I had gout.
I tried to pull up the vertical swim ladder on the back of the boat. It’s always awkward as hell to kneel and bend over and pull it into place. This one time, it was totally stuck when I pulled it, so I actually pulled myself into the water and scraped my thighs all the way down the back of the boat.
I dropped a 25 lb frozen turkey on my toe while rummaging through turkeys to see which one I wanted. It just kind of slid out of my hands and onto my foot. I really had try super hard to not cry in the grocery store. It took a year for my purple toenail to grow out.
gretchenindisguise You mean the injuries are from the packaging and not the actual contents, right? Because if it’s from the products, that’s a TLDR I could get incredibly invested in!
Tuna pouch was from the actual pouch.
Frozen pot sticker was the actual frozen pot sticker. They were frozen together and I was trying to separate them and those buggers are sharp when frozen apparently.
It's a running joke in my family of what I cut myself on that week.
The OP does seem to have quite a few injuries, seizures, mishaps, etc.
My seizures are nearly completely controlled by meds but unfortunately my peripheral neuropathy doesn’t go hand and hand with dexterity. I’m only slightly clumsy, I promise!
Post by chickadee77 on Jan 22, 2024 0:05:31 GMT -5
I have many.
Some asshole cherry bumped me on a teeter totter after we had agreed "no cherry bumps." I was purple/blue/black from knees to crotch for weeks and had a black eye because he did it so hard my head went forward and smacked the teeter totter pipe thing.
I fell down the steps in front of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio on NYE and sprained my ankle. Got carried back to the party and tried to keep dancing. Ankle was the size of a tennis ball the next morning.
A horse named Kevin stepped on my foot and broke my pinky toe. I now call it my "Kevin toe".
Tried to chase after the guys who stole my purse in Havana and stepped in a hole and sprained the same ankle again. There was exactly nothing of value in my purse so this was probably the dumbest.
I drank too much in L'Aquila Italy, which is really hilly. Tripped and fell on the cobblestones and gave myself whiplash.
Once, I burned the shit out of my finger making hot homemade caramel on the stove.
I KNEW it was scalding because I had a candy thermometer, but my brain, I don’t know, was seduced or something by the candy and convinced me to dip my finger in it for a taste. (😬🤦🏻♀️🤣)
Oh god No! Sugar gets HOT! I love caramel too though so I don’t blame you. I will stick my fingers in boiling water to retrieve something. Did it tonight in fact. It’s never hurt me thankfully
I was playing hide and seek with my dog. I was running downstairs into our guest room to hide and he was coming quickly behind me. I turned the corner and ran into the door frame with my little toe. I never had it looked at but think I may have fractured it. It was painful for months.
I wasn’t doing anything other than walking, but I did something similar and hit my little toe on a leg of the couch. I definitely think I broke it. It hurt so fucking bad in the moment and was painful for months after. So dumb.
I have broken one pinky toe so much it won’t sit flat and is a little twisted. A Dr I saw asked why I had never treated the breaks. I asked what they could have done for it. He had no answer.
I was trying to get out the pit from an avocado and the knife slid off of it right into the V between my ring and middle fingers on my left hand. I did not get stitches but I did sever a nerve or two and still don't have full feeling in my middle finger (which sometimes means my typing isn't great and if I hit the area wrong, I get what feels like a shock through my fingers).
I don’t think you will get feeling back if you didn’t have it repaired ☹️. I tripped over a poorly placed bench with a pint glass of beer in both hands and landed on my right side, shattering my elbow and shoulder and slicing my palm right between my forefinger and thumb. Severed the nerve to my index finger. It had to be surgically repaired, and even then I was told there was a 90% chance I’d never get full functionality back. I did, thank god, but it took more than a year for the nerve to regrow and my finger had to be immobilized so I didn’t rip the nerve again (imagine your dominate index finger immobilized for a year!! Yes, wiping was a challenge 😳☹️). Ten years later it’s still kinda numb.
Yeah, it's been over 10 years so I know I won't get back full functioning/feeling. It's not awful but I do get zaps if the area is touched and it's just weirdly numb and painful above it at times. Not too dissimilar an area of my thigh that is numbish to the touch due to having ACL reconstruction.
Draining pasta- we had a sink full of dirty dishes and instead of doing them or stacking them neatly I just kind of had the colander teetering on top of the stack, except that it was fully out of the sink, so when I poured boiling water in it it poured right out of the holes and all over my stomach.
I have sliced off the very tip of one finger using a mandolin more times than I care to admit. There's no feeling in that fingertip now. Have I learned to use a guard? Lol no 😅
I burned my hand badly twice because I grabbed a pan that had just come out of the oven without a potholder.
And twice I've used a potholder to pull something from the oven, but my hands were wet. FYI, potholders do the opposite of protecting your hands from heat when they're wet.
I've also dislocated a rib during a sneeze/cough combo. And I always have mystery bruises on my legs and arms.
Post by midwestmama on Jan 22, 2024 7:39:04 GMT -5
I got turf toe after trying to kick the snow from behind one of my tires one winter (this was probably around 2016?). Turns out, it was more ice than snow. One of our friends is an athletic trainer, so before I made a doctor appt, he took a look at it, and then taped it up for me.
I tried to pull up the vertical swim ladder on the back of the boat. It’s always awkward as hell to kneel and bend over and pull it into place. This one time, it was totally stuck when I pulled it, so I actually pulled myself into the water and scraped my thighs all the way down the back of the boat.
The bruises on my legs were spectacular.
2 summers ago my husband had a similar experience except when he fell in, he BROKE part of his shoulder. It was terrible.
Some asshole cherry bumped me on a teeter totter after we had agreed "no cherry bumps." I was purple/blue/black from knees to crotch for weeks and had a black eye because he did it so hard my head went forward and smacked the teeter totter pipe thing.
I was trying to remove the pit of an avocado, holding it in the palm of my hand, when the knife slipped and sliced the skin between my thumb and index finger. I didn't go to urgent care and instead just made a "C" with my hand (to close the gaping slice from the knife) and bandaged it. Four years later I still cannot fully extend my index finger because the slice closed up and made my skin very tight, plus I have a 2" deep scar there. Definitely should have gotten stitches.
I've burned myself more times than I can count by thinking my skin is resistant to heat (spoiler, it's not). I've also ran into an alarming number of door knobs and/or corners of tables/desks. At any given time, I have at least 3 bruises on my body that I cannot explain.
One morning I was trying to separate two frozen Morning Star burgers so I could take one for lunch. Instead of using a butter knife for this task or even just microwaving them for a few seconds, I used a regular sharp kitchen knife with my right hand to pry those 2 patties apart. Of course the knife slipped and I stabbed my left palm right above the fleshy part of the thumb (thenar muscle). I was in residency at the time so I lived on the campus of a busy medical center. I wrapped my hand with some paper towels and walked across the street to the oral surgery clinic. I sheepishly told the one friendly attending that I knew what I had done. First he laughed at me and then he put in some stiches to fix my gash. I made it to my 9 am morning meeting on time.
That's the dumbest thing I've done that required medical attention.
Post by texasharleygirl on Jan 22, 2024 10:50:23 GMT -5
During Solo and Ensemble competition in High School, I knocked myself out! It was an all day affair and I was sitting on the bus, but needed to get off to use the restroom. The guy I had a crush on was blocking the front door, so I decided to go out the open back door. I had my head down and walked my way right into the overhang. Knocked me backwards and I ended up with a huge knot on my head!
I took the bar exam in NYC in 2004. I shared a hotel room with two of my closest friends from law school. Obviously we went out after the bar, and got stupidly drunk. I get into the wrong bed and instead of walking like a human being from the one bed to the other bed, I decided to jump. I didn't make it and landed wrong on my foot. I was getting married at the end of November and my foot almost didn't heal in time. Moron.