Sprained my ankle lying in bed. On my own.
Lol but…how???
Was staying in a hotel on a work trip. We arrived late, tired, busy day ahead. The bed was made up with the sheets all stupidly tight and I didn’t yank them off as normal but got in and fell asleep. I never sleep well the first night in a new place, I obviously turned over in the night and my foot was pinned by the sheet.
Was a fun few days trying to coordinate a conference while unable to walk.
I was rushing to complete a wizard’s staff for my son’s Halloween costume and trying to chisel out a compartment in the staff (a branch from a tree) for the electronics to trigger a flash from a strobe light.
The chisel needed sharpening, and I was tired, but I thought it was almost done.
Luckily, when the chisel slipped, the bevel side was down, and it rode along the tendon in my left wrist, so it just unzipped the skin without doing any serious damage to anything but my pride.
After we got back from the hospital, I went back down to the basement where I had been working to try to figure out how I did it, but I couldn’t remember exactly what I was doing or how I managed to be pushing the chisel to wards my left wrist.
Eventually I finished the staff and it was awesome!
I broke my toe by dropping a medical kit tin on it.
Hey, at least you had some supplies handy to handle it!
I mean, at least you were prepared.
Woke in the middle of the night to a case of travelers diarrhea so bad I legitimately considered calling an ambulance. As I was sprinting to the bathroom my bare foot impacted my luggage. The wheel part. The wheel part spun around and carved a half circle in my little toe.
I sat on the toilet losing a noticable part of my body weight, flushing every 60 seconds, while cradling my bleeding small toe on my right foot.
3 stiches and two courses of antibiotics for the infection since who knew that the little wheel on luggage isn’t exactly clean nor is the hotel bathroom.
Almost impaled myself with a ruler in 4th grade. Another student was pulling me down the hall and I was wearing socks. So I was ‘skiing’ down the hall. Except I had a ruler in my mouth for some reason. Anyway, my sock caught a rough spot and my skiing came to a halt flinging my upper body forward. My hands caught my fall, and that ruler in my mouth just gently stabbed the back of my throat. Big brain moment. I didn’t realize until later how close I came to dying.
Once spilt a drink on a polished wooden floor so I cleaned it up then thought hey furniture polish would definitely get rid of any stickyness.
Worked way too well I slipped on it about a minute later and somehow broke a toe.
Haha. Pledge on the wood floor, classic. We did that on accident and spent the next week slipping on it until we scrubbed it with wood floor cleaner. It took scrubbing it three or four times before it was no longer a hazard.
This is how I got caught for throwing a house party in high school. Cleaned the kitchen floor with pledge, left a slippy spot and my dad slipped and fell on it the moment they got home.
Shit, that’s hilarious.
Hurt my knee cuz I sat down wrong. Had to add “can’t tuck my leg behind me when I sit” to the old man list.
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Shit, that’s pretty funny.
As a young teen, I microwaved Kraft singles in an air tight magic bullet container trying to make nacho cheese (I was inspired by the infomercial). Lid got stuck, so I had to use a lot of force to get it loose. Molten cheese exploded all over the kitchen and on my left arm. I had second degree burns and a scar for a few years.
A friend of mine tore their ACL flushing a toilet.
Werfen makes toilets now
Explanation
Werfen is a company that has Coagulation Machine with the family name ACL
Coincidentally just punched myself in the face by accident… I’m on a crowded train replacement bus and my hand slipped while pulling up my backpack…
I was reaching above the stove and put my hand on a red burner. For a month I had cool circle scars.
I was playing with my cat, chasing him and all that. He took a quick 90° turn around the couch. My hand took a quick 90° turn against the couch. Broke my finger :)
I stepped out into the street and broke my foot off
did they re attach it?
Yes, it took a titanium rod and like 9 screws to reattach. They didn’t believe me at first and thought I was being dramatic until they took my boot off.
Edited cause it didn’t make sense. And to add pic https://imgur.com/a/Bk0fdIZ , also it was 11 screws and I can’t count. I thought the really long screw was a rod.
Ouch!
It sucked, but everything went as well as it could have and I got all my metal out and both my legs are the same size again, with no lingering pain so I got super lucky there. It’s just an ugly scar and some gruesome pictures now.
Oooh titanium fibula plate gang!
I got mine out only 18 months after having it put in cause my screws were popping out and my plate was grinding against my bone and very painfully pressing in. Got a shiny secondary scar where my wound popped open when they removed the stitches . Apparently I wasn’t done cooking yet.
Nothing but ugly scars left behind now.
Youch! Mine is still in there like
a decade17 years later, it’s only sensitive when it gets bumped. I haven’t even asked about getting it removed but apparently it’s “elective” which even in a country with socialised medicare means you can pay through the nose.Edit: am old
Yeah, had mine not been popping it would still be in there cause it would be considered elective, but they had to do something before it broke skin.
Broke a rib by stretching too hard. :(
Sounds to me like getting older lol
That’s the crazy part, I wasn’t THAT old when I did it. Like 26-27…
I’m pushing 40 and recently got back into playing baseball with my friends, like an idiot. Currently I am nursing a pulled left quad muscle, 3 or 4 bruised ribs, and a sprained right index finger.
Stabbing my hand while trying to remove an avocado pit … (Not so badly). Always using a spoon now 😅
The way I learned to deal with avocado pits (while working at a Tex-Mex restaurant) is to chop straight into it with your chef’s knife, then twist. It seems dangerous since you’d be holding the avocado half in your other hand while you do this, but it works pretty well.
I think it was almost what I tried to do, but without the skill I guess 😅 coincidentally, I remember that the day after I did it, I saw an article in the media explaining how many people are doing the same mistake and stab themselves. Avocados are deadly weapons xD
The key is to chop it with the middle of the blade, not try to stab it with the point of the blade.
Aaaaaah thanks for the tip!!
