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Kaliko -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 7:51:38 PM)

FR~

I dropped a hammer on my forehead when it fell off the ladder when I was hanging Christmas lights. Fuckin' holidays.



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 8:39:01 PM)

I have quite a few..... but then I'm the klutziest person in the family, without a doubt.

Once dislocated my shoulder when I coughed after swallowing friend rice and having it go down the wrong hole.

Dislocated the other shoulder when I was on my bike trying to avoid having rocks thrown at me.  Not knowing my sister was coming the other way.  I turned the corner on the wrong side of the street, hit the front breaks, flew over the handlebars and slammed my shoulder into the curb.  My sister got the black eye from slamming into the handlebars.

Used to fall off platform shoes I owned on a regular basis.  Once did this while in high school going down a long set of wide stairs and took about 10 people with me.

Same shoes, main aisle of Sears, flat on my face after falling off the heels.

Concussion when the stopper on one of my roller skates fell off and the screw drove into the hardwood floor, didn't stop myself with my hands, was heard hitting my head over the sound of the music by about 20 ft, ambulance called and off to ER.

Regular bouts of vertigo send me into walls, tripping over my feet, slamming into things, bumping my forehead on the corner of the trunk of my car, banging my head once again when I get into the car or out.  I think I have permanent dents in my forehead.

Fell down in gravel 5 minutes before a wedding, tore my right knee all to shreds, had to hold off on the wedding as the gravel had to be picked out by the maid of honor (my best friend) and stop the bleeding.  Still have gravel bumps in that knee.

Following week, went to my parents,about 10pm, went out on the deck in the backyard, started to go down the stairs, missed the top one, fell and shredded the other knee on cement patio stones. 

Falling up stairs, down stairs, run into things, slip and slide during the winter, carpal tunnel in both wrists.

Believe me, the list goes on.  [>:]  [:D]

Forgot one, tried to close the door by holding the door frame from the inside, dad grabbed the door at the same time and slammed it shut.  My fingers were still there.  Took a nurse 30 minutes at the hospital to convince me to look at my fingers, I though they were falling off.  [8|]



RexDarcy -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 9:20:34 PM)

Wow tigger. Be careful with knives. [:D]



xxblushesxx -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 9:40:16 PM)

Have you met Holly?  [:D][;)][:)]



tazzygirl -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 9:40:45 PM)

OHHHHHHH thats just wrong!!!!

True!!!

But wrong!!!

[8D]



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 9:47:57 PM)

I've been told by another poster that I'm the Canadian equivalent of Holly.  [:D][:D][:D]

And I'm very careful with knives.  Although I have a habit of dropping them, I've learned to most really really fast when that happens.  Haven't stabbed myself yet, but I've cut myself numerous times!



LookieNoNookie -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/26/2011 9:59:44 PM)

I got married.



gungadin09 -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/26/2011 11:01:31 PM)

Regret.

pam



AdorkableAiley -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/26/2011 11:28:57 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: tiggerspoohbear

I've been told by another poster that I'm the Canadian equivalent of Holly.  [:D][:D][:D]

And I'm very careful with knives.  Although I have a habit of dropping them, I've learned to most really really fast when that happens.  Haven't stabbed myself yet, but I've cut myself numerous times!



Does it scare any one else how clumsy some of us are given what it is we do? LOL



Ailey the rather concerned sub



zephyroftheNorth -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 3:15:20 AM)

FR

Further accidents;

Dropped heavy glass measuring cup on my foot; broken toe which is still crooked.

Years ago, I was working in the caf at college. I was slicing open bagels and my boss told me if I kept doing it that way I would cut myself. She showed me another way to do it; I started doing it her way and yep cut my finger open.

When I was still living at home, I was going down the curved stairs to the basement with a laundry basket held in front of me. I miscalculated the curves and walked straight instead of around and walked right off the stairs, cutting both knees open.

Another time, I was making my way down the outside stairs carefully because they were covered in ice. I made it down the stairs okay but when I took one step on the walkway, I wiped out and landed on my back.

Countless times I slammed various toes against my solid wood step-stool. Toes broken. My poor "pinky" toes have been the most frequent victims. The stool has been banished to a corner of my apartment where it can't do so much damage.



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 6:24:26 AM)

HA!  You're just as clumsy as I am Zeph, admit it!! [;)]

Lived with a friend, we had to move, I was relegated to the basement.  Attempting to go down the wooden stairs to the cement floor below, I tripped over a moving blanket I was carrying (top landing of course).  I went ass over tea kettle down the stairs.  Luckily, the dirty pile of close at the bottom sorta broke my fall.  O yeah, protected my legs and my hip.  My head and upper body slammed onto the cement floor.  As I lay there yelling for her, afraid to move since I was bleeding from inside my ear and had passed out for a few, she came down to try to move me.  I wouldn't let her, told her to call 911 and she refused.  [>:]  Kept telling me I was fine, she finally agreed, I had to be carried out on a backboard and rushed, once again, to ER.  Its' a good thing I was conscious because they had the wrong ID bracelet on me.  Then we had to take a pregnancy test.  They don't believe you when you tell them it's been years since you've had sex.  [8|]  X-rays, MRI, and of course a concussion.
To beat all, I called "home" to be picked up and they refused to answer the call so I had to take a cab home walking like a 120 yr old since I'd hurt every muscle in my body. 
I have thick hospital files in 5 Ottawa Hospitals, one in Port Perry, one in Cambridge and I'm sure the ER in Cornwall is going to get to know me soon enough. 



Phoenixpower -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 6:43:18 AM)

Sheeesh...I can't decide which one was the stupidest....[8|]

Well...when I was about 2 or 3 my grandmother (from dads side, my good granny would have never been that stupid) had the belief that everyone should have the same knife...no matter what age [8|]

Well...it didn't take long that I had to be brought to the ER as I had cut off my top part of left middle finger [8|]

Then, when I was about 5 I drove with my brothers bike into our cellar window....now...I barely remember it (apart from that fact when I told granny that I can drive that bike and that it is not too big for me...)...well...on that day there was no cover on the footpath around the house above that window, which would have protected me to do that stunt in the first place...as the window got changed successfully already and that cover was still being done at whoever does such stuff...well...as that day was a rare find it had to be used and woooooooooosh there I was in the cellar with my brothers bike...despite that the door to the cellar was closed...according to mum my head was full of tiny pieces of glass but I did not catch one single cut....

Then with 8 and...another time some years later..I was hit by a car...on both occassions being sure I will be faster than that car which is on its way...ok...I wasn't....

Then with 11 I broke 2 of my bones in my arm during school sports....it was my favourite activity, the teacher knew I was good at it...but exactly when it was my turn (we did that jump in one are of that gym and the weaker pupils at another part of that room with the teacher) the door opened and the year 9 pupils came in to do their carnival fun stuff and presumably due to that distraction my jump went wrong and I ended up on the floor with my arm being disfigured...some pupils screaming due to the way how it looked...and of course the guy who took of that plaster thing the first time after 6 weeks, bevor giving me another one for another 2 weeks also cut me pretty good into my flesh with his electric saw...me not being brave enough at that age to tell'im that this fucking hurts...

Also at some point in that year I did a race with my neighbour on a local bicycle ride area...and I was determined to win...and well...using the wrong break when there a lots of pebbles....wasn't a good idea [&:][:o] At the end we never clarified then, who won [:o]

Since then I got a bit more quiet...and kept it often at a near miss instead of doing a proper accident (such as "almost" ending up a hill with my motorbike during driving lessons...giving my driving teacher almost a heart attack...) but 2004 my lucky streak came back again where I felt a bit down the stairs in a house where I rented a room...the landlady was just fallen down the stairs from groundfloor to basement 2-3 days before than and broke her middle hand bones, so my body decided it has to do something similar and lead me to almost falling down from the 1st floor to the ground floor....but luckily I could still hold myself onto the rail and so "only" dislocated my toe....but jeeeeesh did that hurt when I finally went to the doc and I only accepted to get that done via a full knocking out medication procedure....cause that doc did a good job in putting me off a local anasthetic in the back of my knee....

Since then "fingers crossed" I remained safe apart from falling over my own feet every now and then again...[8|]



IrishMist -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/27/2011 8:51:03 AM)

I was about 14, running from the cops; looked back over my shoulder and ran head long into a stone wall. Knocked me out cold. Or the time my friends and I decided to go highway surfing and the driver thought it was funny to slam on the brakes. Or the time I jumped off this bridge into the river ( something we had done thousands of times before ), misjudged where I jumped and landed on rocks. Broke my leg in two places.
Everyone already knows about the time my late husband stabbed me.
There was another time that I walked through a glass door because I was so angry at him I forgot it was there.
Or the many times that I have had stitches in my hands because I got lost in the pain while pounding on a punching bag.

I have so many stupid incidents in my past [&:]



myotherself -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/27/2011 8:57:35 AM)

When I had my housebunnies...once they got to a month or two (and had been litter-trained) they had free run of the living room when I was home.

One day I 'lost' a bunny. One was sleeping on the fireplace, the other was gone. So I got down on my hands and knees and looked under the sofa.

Interesting thing about 'teenage' bunnies - they like to pee on things to mark them as property. They also like to do this mad running/jumping/twisting in the air thing.

Interesting thing about MY teenage bunny - she could do all of that at the same time. I turned my head from looking under the sofa and...BAM!!...flying rabbit squirts my eye full of rabbit piss.

I tried to wash it out, but that stuff is like neat acid. My eye swelled and closed and I was in agony, so it was a trip to the ER.

Try explaining THAT to the ER doc! [:D]



DesFIP -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/27/2011 9:08:12 AM)

I decided to argue with a 1200 pound horse over who was going to keep my new straw hat. Me to wear or him to snack on.(He stomped on my foot and wouldn't move his leg) Dislocated toe that requires regular shots of cortisone into the foot, neuromas from the bones being out of place. Ten years later and I'm still in constant pain from it. And he tore a hole in it anyway.



Hillwilliam -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 10:53:49 AM)

Let me guess. Now, every time you fart, Fox News comes on.



GreedyTop -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 11:34:16 AM)

when I was a kid (7ish?) I wanted to help mom make dinner...

she put me in charge of the boil-in-bag rice. Simple, easy, nothing to worry about, right?
Wrong. I was standing on a chair to watch the pot it was in...and I felt that the bag needed to be turned over in the boiling water (yanno, to be sure all the rice got cooked....). So I grabbed a fork, and flipped it... right OFF the fork, into the pot which of course caused the water to splash out.. I had second degree burns on my chest and left foot (I still have faint scars... )

as an adult, the three that really stand out to me are:

1: taking horseback riding lessons (while at the same time, becoming a certified motorcycle riding instructor). My horseback instructor did rescues, and the ones least skittish she used for riding lesson (in order to socialize them better). Dakota had, it seems) been smacked around the head quite a bit, so longe lines were anathema to him, as were fast hand/arm movements.
Judy had me doing a hands-free/no-stirrup excersise, and all was going well, until she told me to use my legs to have Dakota cross the ring instead of circle it..
All was well, until the motorcycle instructing mantra for making turns took over: Slow (check), look (check), Lean..... BAM!! on the ground I was, with poor Dakota across the arena from me, sides heaving... I had scared that poor boy silly!! We went back to the barn (yes, I did mount up again once Dakota calmed), and I discovered when I dismounted that I had OUCHED myself somewhat badly.. I BARELY made it to my truck, and when I got home I literally almost blacked out in the 10 feet from my truck to rthe front door.. ER next day, and LOTS of follow up visits to my chiro..

2: Bagel cutting. I prefer bagels that are not precut. One day I was using a long, serrated edged knife to cut a bagel.. just as I thought to myself "I really should move my ..."... the blade bit into my thumb. Lemme tell ya.. .running, cold water on a deep slash HURTS LIKE FUCKING HELL!!! Then, I discovered there were no real first aid supplies in the house. SO, paper towels, electrical, and duct tape served as my bandages until I went to (an already scheduled) Dr. appt... 5 stitches.

3: the Fax/head meets wall incident. at the hotel where I last worked, the main part of the front desk was separated from the nook where we kept the fax machine by a wall. A guest was expecting a fax, and I was standing right at the wall while talking to the guest. the fax started to arrive and as I turned to check on it, I smacked my head on the corner of the wall. no biggie, right? wrong~!! I didnt QUITE see stars, butI ended up with a lump SO big that (until I put ice on it) it looked like I had a rather pudgy fingertip on my forehead..


I cant remember how many times I have sprained wrists/ankles..

oh yeah, and then there was the time I faceplanted while skateboarding... or the time I was riding my bike home from school and my purse got caught in the spokes (causing the frnt wheel to STOP) and I completely flipped over...





gungadin09 -> RE: The Stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (9/27/2011 1:44:41 PM)

When i was little, there was a girl in my class that got third degree burns down her arm when she tried to warm up a piece of bubble gum in the microwave. No, it wasn't me.

pam



Hippiekinkster -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 2:09:17 PM)

I was 9 or 10, playing tag with a couple of neighbor kids. I'd just tagged my buddy Laird, and was running away from him, looking back over my shoulder taunting him, when I ran smack into a tree. Knocked myself on my ass.

I'm sure I'll remember others.



GreedyTop -> RE: The Stupidest way you have hurt yourself (9/27/2011 2:11:36 PM)

HK!! *tacklehugs*



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