What is the worst injury you have ever sustained? (in your personal opinion.)
Mine has to be breaking my wrist in 2 different places when I fell down learning to rollerskate. (now having a devoloped fear of them.) first night, I thought everything was fine, just that my arm was really badly bruised, next day, went to doctor, at the docs place, arm starts swelling HUGE and as it turns out, I broke it in 2 different areas. I was able to choose a colored cast to put on, I did NOT choose the glow in the dark one. (dear goodness, how crappy of a excuse would it be to tell people that I wasn't able to sleep because my cast wouldn't turn off with it's glowing.) so I went with black. it was really tight and bugged the ever loving crap out of me that entire month, it was not a good month.
of course, I am certain many people have had worse then me. but I honestly have to say, that was not the most painful injury I have had. A stomach Ulcer is, basically a hole in your gut. I am just thankful it wasn't serious, but it still hurt beyond belief to the point where I would NEVER wish it upon another. it's that horrible. I would describe it, but I don't want anyone disturbed first post in.
What was your worst injury, and your most painful?
I have also broken my wrist. My Radius to be exact (the big one.) I was snowboarding. My cast went almost to my shoulder. And the pretty ladies at the ER didn't set it right so I had to get it reset...with essentially baby aspirin as a painkiller. I hate that specialist.
Its sort of silly actually, when i was young, i was sort of running, and a kid pushed me into some steel stairs, my head smacked against it. Blood started pouring out, long story short some doctor got a syringe and glued my head together again with a needle and some type of glue (no idea what its called), i still have the scar, its pretty huge.
I broke a little bone in my foot back in elementary school. I had to get a cast. It healed in a couple of weeks, but thirteen years later I suspect there's still a bone splint in my foot somewhere. Occasionally it itches.
Compound fracture to my elbow (fractured in 3 places, piercing the skin), along with a fractured wrist. 1 9" titanium screw, 1 4" titanium screw, 2 plates, 14 pins, 39-45 staples, and chicken wire holding together some parts... I also had my tricep cut.. so rebuilding was a bitch.. and i had to have someone pull and push on my forarm every hour to regain about 80% flexability in my arm by the time it was healed. If they wouldn't have, i would only have had about 10-15% flexability.. pretty much rendering my arm nothing more than a coat hanger.
Gotta love snowboarding :D
@turtle3030: Maybe we should go boarding sometime. The mountain gods have gotta throw us a bone for the rest of our lives now...right?
We where playing on some old tennis court, got tackled onto a sawed-off iron pipe, forehead first, during inline hockey - first time I didn't wear a helmet too. It punched a milimeter into the bone of my skull, the sharp edge leaving half a circle hacked into it, and took a good chunk of meat with it. On the rebound, my damn head bouncing away from it, it ripped open my forehead, pulling open a wound estimating 12cm. Took a couple of good stitches to get me patched up, and seeing the doctor was fucking awesome, I have this tiny (in comparison to the wound) scar on my forehead. Good thing I'm not a bleeder though.
Most painful was getting my lower wristbone broken by some overzealous asshole with a hockey stick. Slashing, this overhead fucking axe-move with both hands, and hit me clean across the wrist where there generally is little protection. The pain wasn't numbed at all, in comparison to my forehead where I barely felt a thing. Worst part though is that the bastard did it when the referee wasn't looking, he got off clean. Broken bones from blunt impact wounds is not something I'd wish upon anyone.
I have a third degree water burn on the top of my feet shaped like my sneaker, I also saw my skin from my knee to my ankle peel off because of the weight of the blanched skin it was very painful.
This happened ~5 years ago. We have a sauna in our cottage, it was winter so the lake was frozen. I heated up the sauna, we have a tub in the sauna so i filled it with water. When i climbed in the tub i noticed that the water was way hotter than normal, but i thought that i could handle it. I was in the tub maybe 15-20 minutes, so i climbed out of the tub and when i took my first step, i could see my vision hazing out, i had no time to do anything as i passed out.
When i came to my senses i noticed that i was leaning right next to the stove. I reacted quickly and hosed myself with cold water, but the damage was already done. I had first and second degree burns starting from halfway through my left hand to the leftside of my back. Again i thought i could handle it and didn't feel the need to go to the hospital. It stang like hell, but i spread out somekind of burn cream to the burn area. A week later my hand had swolen pretty badly so i went to see a doctor. He told me that i had an infection and subscribed me with some antibiotics.
The next year or so was pretty frustrating, every other day i had to clean my burns and change my bandages. Everytime i did that the newly formed skin would come off, because it would get stuck to my bandages. If i flexed my hand the skin would be torn, everytime i fell to the ground in gympractice my skin would get torn and so on..
After the year my burnmarks were scarred up and i had regained full mobility in my left hand. I was very shy about my scars, wearing long shirts through the summer. When i was working in tech support fixing computers, i had a very nice boss there, always joking around and helping out. He had some burnmarks in his right hand, but he didn't seem to mind them at all, wearing t-shirts and walking in public with his scars showing, didn't care about people noticing. He doesn't know this, but i broke through my shyness because of his example. Nowadays i can walk around public with my scars showing up. People seem to be polite and not stare and i've learned not to care about it if they do.
It's been 5 years since that accident, i'm 20 years old now and i still have those scars and i'm probably going to wear them through the rest of my life, but i don't mind it. I've learned to live with them and doing so i have gained more confidence and i like to think that i'm stronger person because of it.
My worst one is probably a mountain bike accident, I kinda looked like two-face, the left side was all messy and the right side un-harmed. I still have 3 visible scars on my face from it
I came under a truck while i was driving by a gas station with my bike. Unbelieveable, but I didn't break me a single bone! But I had to stay 2 weeks in hospital and missed a trip with my friends to Florida :(
The worst injury I have ever suffered was my breaking my arm during a football game. Snapped so loud that they other team said they heard it. The most pain I have ever suffered was when one of my wisdom teeth were trying to come in and got caught trying to break through on a nerve in my gums. Would give me the worst headaches I have ever experienced and I couldn't eat or barely drink. Plus, no amount of painkiller would seem to do the trick in relieving the pain. Eventually ended up going to the orthopedic surgeon and getting it cut out. So worth my $1000.
Never broke anything, but I'm sure every man has had something similar happen, once my brother threw a baseball at my testicles (unintentionally directed at my nuts). That didn't feel great, and I think that's the only time I've ever laid on the ground crying while in pain.
Due to practicing Taekwondo for 8 years, I've sustained a shitload of injuries but never a very serious one. The worst is my fractured knuckle that I have at the moment, making typing this alone fulfill your request of "most painful" :P
I had really bad tonsilitis and couldn't talk for a week, I had to carry around a notepad at school. Fucking sucked. Either that, or getting serious speed wobble on my skateboard and landing on my face, shoulder and arm. I had quite a few bad skateboarding ones, tall people shouldn't skateboard. Ruined my NOFX t-shirt too =(
Fractured Skull - Got the crap kicked out of me by two guys who jumped me. Eyelid Torn - An arrest that went sour. Bad guy slipped out of the hand cuffs, used them as a hook and went for my eyes. I came out on top, but I have a scar Stabbed in the back - A case of mistaken identity. Someone thought I was someone else at a club and decided to shank me. A little scar, could have been a lot worse.
Fortunately, I've never had a really serious injury in my life. The worst that happened to me was probably back on my 7th birthday. After my birthday party, I was jumping on my bed before going to sleep (as little kids are prone to doing). Unfortunately, there was a lapse in my expertly calculated bed jumping, and I wound up landing face first on my nightstand. This probably wouldn't have been too bad by itself, but my parents somewhat inexplicably decided it was a good idea to give a 7 year old kid a bunch of furniture made almost entirely out of glass. So of course the top of the nightstand shattered, and I wound up with some pretty gnarly cuts on my face. The worst was that I wound up splitting my mouth open (something like the Heath Ledger joker in the new batman movie but nowhere near as serious) and the wound kept getting worse and gushing blood as I cried. I figure it's pretty hard to get a little kid to stop crying because the crying makes their injury worse, so it must've been a pretty crappy experience for everyone.
I wound up getting a bunch of stitches and I had a really cool scar, but it mostly faded and is barely noticeable today. Although I did develop a lifelong hatred of glass furniture as a result of this combined with a couple of other key glass furniture experiences. Seriously, it's like the worst possible material to make furniture out of. Expensive, exceptionally fragile, shatters into a million pieces that are difficult to see and leave horrible cuts when it inevitably breaks...ugh...
I once ate a freshly boiled dish of hot potatoe salad (east coast canada thing I think, mom made it) without knowing it just finished boiling. It was too fucking hot, and there was a great looking girl nearby, so I didn't want to spit it out. Instead I chose the wise thing to do and swallowed this insanely hot goop figuring my stomach could handle it. It burned my entire esophagus and I passed out. Woke up in the ambulance. I bet that impressed the shit out of that girl! lol what a stupid fuck I was. Now I have a slight rasp when I talk.
" Fractured Skull - Got the crap kicked out of me by two guys who jumped me. Eyelid Torn - An arrest that went sour. Bad guy slipped out of the hand cuffs, used them as a hook and went for my eyes. I came out on top, but I have a scar Stabbed in the back - A case of mistaken identity. Someone thought I was someone else at a club and decided to shank me. A little scar, could have been a lot worse. Good times. "
You shall now be known as 'Mr Popular'.
The worst injury I have ever had isn't even worth mentioning....but hell, it'll be good for comparing and contrasting with the rest of you eh?
When I was 6 years old, I lived next to the longest, steepest street hill I think I have ever seen in Scotland (ok, nowhere near as steep as San Francisco's cardiac hills but in Scotland anyway) but yeah, in my eternal wisdom - I thought it'd be awesome to have a 'Road Rash' race whilst sitting down on skateboards and riding all the way down it to the 'finishing line' at the bottom of the hill....whilst trying to kick the crap out of my friend beside me lol
Needless to say...he got me an absolute cracker just as we had hit our peak speed and were heading for the first corner...I went to lean early going into the turn, only to be completely knocked off by my mate's foot at high speed. I tried to save my face as much as I could but ended up tearing up the skin on my hand and getting it in the cheek anyway...I could literally smell my skateboard burning from the friction beside me lol
But yeah - I still have a scar the full length of my middle finger and hand but thankfully the one on my cheek ain't visable anymore.
Morale of the story - don't play an 18+ rated game when you're 6 years old....this is what happens.
Worst injury, minivan hit my leg, nearly took the whole thing off, it was literally hanging from a thread of skin. Took 4 operations and 3 years to recover.
Most painful is unsuprisingly, dentist related. Hell it was just a filling but the the bastard sadist of a dentist said that he had to remove the nerve on my tooth. I swear the guy was drilling through my jaw directly into my soul, like he was looking for oil or Narnia.
The worst for me was dislocating my left shoulder blade in a fight. Wasn't really all that painful though so I went to a party that I was supposed to go to. The alcohol helped in that regard. The most painful however, was dislocating my jaw only to get it relocated in the same fight. Now my jaw makes a loud clicking noise whenever I eat anything tough. Backyard wrestling. Glad I don't do that anymore.
My right kneecap was dislocated and It went back into place on two separate occasions. Once at school when I was gonna take a piss and another after school when I was cleaning my room. That was before I graduated high school, though. Hasn't happened since then.
Crushed my leg right below the knee when doing the trial for the police academy and landed quite badly. Still limping a bit and it's been over a year since I broke it. Pro tip: Find out that you have weak bone structure BEFORE you try to join the police academy. :P
Would have posted the x-ray shot of my knee but apparently 8 screws in your bone makes people queasy.
I also broke my wrist. I blocked a kick wrong in Uechi-Ryu and the ligament pulled so hard it cracked the bone. It swelled up a little bit, but I didn't think to much of it. A week later I was in Australia where I went surfing, scuba diving and white water rafting. A month after I broke it, it was still hurting so I figured maybe I should get it checked out. Sure enough my wrist was fractured, but I got a green cast to match my karate belt so it was all good. It's been a few years now and it still hurts from time to time, probably because I waited so long to take care of it. I'm just lucky the ligament didn't snap, as that would've been a real mess.
UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH I had really bad tonsilitis and couldn't talk for a week, I had to carry around a notepad at school. Fucking sucked. Either that, or getting serious speed wobble on my skateboard and landing on my face, shoulder and arm. I had quite a few bad skateboarding ones, tall people shouldn't skateboard. Ruined my NOFX t-shirt too =( "
I downed a bottle of Whisky and then got my GF a call an ambulance, lol. I was high on Nytox before I knew anything...
Knocked out both my front teeth when I was a kid. I rolled along on a skateboard, didn't notice the speed bump with a 45 degree incline, rolled halfway up and rolled straight down, landing teeth first on the edge of the speed bump. My 2 front teeth were only hanging on by the flesh. Luckily, the roots of both teeth actually managed to grow back together, but I've never really felt comfortable using those teeth for anything. So I may have to look at getting implants.
I blew out the acl and mcl in my left knee playing football in high school, but that didn't hurt nearly as much as shattering my right knee cap last winter, snowboarding. The turn was very icy and bumpy, which caused the board to just slide out while toe-side and I whacked it pretty good. I got up and went the rest of the way down the mountain, then rolled up my pants and my knee was the size of a basketball.
I once broke ever bone in my left foot after only falling about 8 inches to the ground. However! The pain of that was nothing compared to getting shingles... twice. By far the worst fucking thing that's ever happened to me in terms of sickness or pain. Impossibly bad, I've been told by several people their experience with shingles was more painful than childbirth. As a man, I have no idea but that shit is awful.
About... five years ago I managed to get dead drunk, passed out on a porch and fell off it. The rocky surface 6-7 meters down caught me well enough, but it also broke my back. The vertebra L2 was badly damaged, so they had to fix that up. Spent about two months in hospital, training up my back and my leg. Yeah, my left leg was totally paralysed for two weeks. It got better. Now the only paralysed part is the outer layer of skin on my thigh. And I walk and function more or less perfectly. Just cannot carry heavy stuff, and I get really tired really fast. Which means I can only work a 50% position. Which means less money for fun stuff like games. Stupid food, apartment and other essential things.
I'm actually a pretty lucky guy, compared to you people here. Never broke a bone or anything. The only injuries I've had were pretty minor.
I don't remember the story personally, but when I was little, I fell out of my baby carrier on my head. Luckily it only ended with a couple of stitches.
I also had an 'injury' in elementary school, was propably 10 or something. I was doing 'my thing' using a bidet. I then saw my classmate with some water in his hands, trying to pour it on me (in a joke manner, nothing serious). I then bend down in order to dodge it, but did it a little too fast and hit the edge of the bidet with my eybrow. Luckily, it only ended with a minor cut and a little scar above my eye.
Broke both my bones in my ankle (femur and tibia), I had to wait for like 2 hours to get painkillers and then it took another hour to get the cast ready, and then another two for who the hell knows what. I was at the Hospital for about 6 hours total. And they say baseball Isnt a dangerous sport :|
Got into a car accident 6 weeks ago and shattered my leg. Spent a few days in the hospital while they rebuilt it with plates, rods and screws. Didn't know it was broken right away and tried to walk it off. That hurt a lot. Hurts less than multiple ligament injuries I"ve had though.
Spraining my ankle was the most painful acute injury that I've experienced. However, now that I'm in my 30s I have two chronic pains that will be with me for the rest of my life. I basically have no cartilage left in my right knee, so it hurts like a bastard. Plus, I can't run or do any kind of weight training that requires the use of my knees anymore (squats, leg extensions, lunges, etc.). My left shoulder developed improperly, so the bones rub together when I perform certain actions. That means that I can't do any weight training where my arm is above shoulder-level.
I broke my wrist while riding down a hill on a bike as a kid, sprained my ankle when I slipped on some mud, and cut a huge gash in my right hand just below the thumb while riding my bike through a ditch trying to hit a kick ass jump on the other side. I think the cut on my hand scared me the most because it was so deep that I could see the bone in my hand. The wrist just hurt, but it wasn't too scary from what little of the event I can remember.
The most painful one was probably when I sprained my ankle. The doctors couldn't tell what exactly happened because the injury was apparently in a weird spot where the x-ray couldn't get a clear image so they didn't know if it was a sprain or a break. I had to wear a cast ether way.
When I went to the red cross to get crutches they only had adult sized ones that I couldn't use because they were too tall and they hurt my arms to try and walk with them. I ended up having to use an old lady crutch to lean on instead.
Broken ankle during a Rocky Point, Mexico vacation. Crutches are lame. I'm pretty sure I extended the time I needed to be in the soft cast by a few months because I refused to use the boot and/or crutches.
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