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Re: Stupid Injuries
When i used to stay up till all hours talking online to my now husband, back in the long distance days (thank god i'm past all that!) I used to frequently fall asleep on the sofa. One morning, i woke up, cross legged on the sofa with my laptop in my lap. I immediately noticed my leg bloody hurt, so put down the laptop in a hurry and stood up - the battery pack was very hot and had scalded my thigh... but in my haste, somehow, some way, i stood up wrong, collapsed on the floor in pain, and later (at casualty) learnt i had fractured my 5th metatarsal (my little toe!)... they thought it was well funny at the hospital when i said i broke it standing up... :o I didn't tell them i'd burnt myself on my laptop :embarrassed_smile:
Not a winning story, but daft, nonetheless! Oh, my son when he was about 4yrs old was having a piggyback on my ex's back... who let go of him prematurely, poor kid slid down, hooking his front tooth on daddy's belt, and yanking it out, with lots of resulting blood and screaming :huh: It was only the one tooth, because the other front tooth had been knocked out by an overzealous skateboarder at the park :blink: we're a bit accident prone in our family! |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by Madelina
(Post 9272015)
Oh, my son when he was about 4yrs old was having a piggyback on my ex's back... who let go of him prematurely, poor kid slid down, hooking his front tooth on daddy's belt, and yanking it out, with lots of resulting blood and screaming :huh: It was only the one tooth, because the other front tooth had been knocked out by an overzealous skateboarder at the park :blink: we're a bit accident prone in our family!
Bloody hell - please tell me that sounds much worse than it actually was! |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9272040)
:ohmy:
Bloody hell - please tell me that sounds much worse than it actually was! |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by Madelina
(Post 9272047)
what can i say, it ripped his front tooth out and he screamed blue murder...and his adult tooth has discoloration and scarring from the trauma (he's9 now) but its a fairly unusual way to lose a tooth i think! He's quite proud of that story now :)
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by CAdreaming
(Post 9265266)
Put on a pair of boots rushing so no socks - felt what I thought was a stone in my shoe - ignored it until I couldnt walk any more
Took said shoe of and lo and behold i had an earring stuck in my foot ---the stick which goes thro the ear was about half an inch in my foot hobbled about for the rest of the day |
Re: Stupid Injuries
A couple spring to mind,
Fried my arm. working in a bakery making doughnuts as a 16yr old slipped on some oil on the floor, and my right arm went into the doughnut fryer, burned me from elbow to hand, still have the scars today. Broke my nose moving house, trying to get a piece of furniture up the stairs I slipped on the wet tile floor and smashed my face on the furniture breaking my nose, it was pushed way over to one side, so I did the only thing I could at the time, went to the bathroom looked in the mirror and pushed it back in place, stuffed it with bounty and completed the move. I went to the hospital that night where the doc was shocked when I told him. |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by mikehope
(Post 9285354)
A couple spring to mind,
Fried my arm. working in a bakery making doughnuts as a 16yr old slipped on some oil on the floor, and my right arm went into the doughnut fryer, burned me from elbow to hand, still have the scars today. Broke my nose moving house, trying to get a piece of furniture up the stairs I slipped on the wet tile floor and smashed my face on the furniture breaking my nose, it was pushed way over to one side, so I did the only thing I could at the time, went to the bathroom looked in the mirror and pushed it back in place, stuffed it with bounty and completed the move. I went to the hospital that night where the doc was shocked when I told him. |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by Michael
(Post 9271046)
Never cooked french fries at home before but one day had a hankering for home made french fries so went into the kitchen to make some french fries for myself and wife. Put on a pan, put in the oil, cooked the fries, and after taking the fries out, forgot to turn the burner off. While eating the fries noticed that the kitchen was on fire. Wife put a cover on the pan and I got the fire extinguisher and put out the fire. No harm, no foul except for the insurance company which had to repair the kitchen and I now know what to do if there is a kitchen fire.
10 years later and had not made french fries since the fire, same home, now divorced, new girl friend, and got a hankering for french fries. Went to the kitchen, put on a pan of oil, cooked the fries, took them out, and forgot to turn the burner off. While eating the fries we noticed a fire in the kitchen so ran to the kitchen and like an idiot I picked up the pan to put it in the sink burning my hand. This time I went to the hospital and the insurance guys were out again to repair the kitchen. |
Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by avanutria
(Post 9285405)
Lucky you didn't pour water on it, they just did that on Mythbusters the other day (repeat probably) and got fireballs 15+ feet in the air. The myth was 30 feet (which they achieved after tweaking the oil/water ratio). I want to know who has a kitchen with a thirty foot ceiling.
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by Thydney
(Post 9285425)
My eldest boy is a fire cadet they've been shown all the demos that one still makes me jump
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by avanutria
(Post 9285405)
Lucky you didn't pour water on it, they just did that on Mythbusters the other day (repeat probably) and got fireballs 15+ feet in the air. The myth was 30 feet (which they achieved after tweaking the oil/water ratio). I want to know who has a kitchen with a thirty foot ceiling.
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by avanutria
(Post 9285405)
I want to know who has a kitchen with a thirty foot ceiling.
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Couple of years ago a work colleague asked if she could buy my redundant treadmill which was gathering cobwebs in my garage. She wanted to pick it up straight away so I decided, mmm best go and see what shape it's in, it was dusty so I decided to clean it. Knelt down clearly did something I shouldn't which resulted in the treadmill folding up,:ohmy: chopped off the top of my wedding ring finger!! Husband was in Australia, kids left home, dog running around lapping up my pouring blood. Ambulance called, off to A&E, then plastic surgery the next day. As if that wasn't bad enough the worst part was I was supposed to be going to Oz the next day. Needless to say I didn't get to Oz. Oh and bye the way, the so-called work colleague, she didn't even bother coming to collect the treadmill :frown:, which was taken to the local dump by my nephew!!! I did become a teaching case for the plastic surgeons who had never come across such an injury. Fame at last!:thumbsup:
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Re: Stupid Injuries
Originally Posted by margaretmwilson
(Post 9287178)
Couple of years ago a work colleague asked if she could buy my redundant treadmill which was gathering cobwebs in my garage. She wanted to pick it up straight away so I decided, mmm best go and see what shape it's in, it was dusty so I decided to clean it. Knelt down clearly did something I shouldn't which resulted in the treadmill folding up,:ohmy: chopped off the top of my wedding ring finger!! Husband was in Australia, kids left home, dog running around lapping up my pouring blood. Ambulance called, off to A&E, then plastic surgery the next day. As if that wasn't bad enough the worst part was I was supposed to be going to Oz the next day. Needless to say I didn't get to Oz. Oh and bye the way, the so-called work colleague, she didn't even bother coming to collect the treadmill :frown:, which was taken to the local dump by my nephew!!! I did become a teaching case for the plastic surgeons who had never come across such an injury. Fame at last!:thumbsup:
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Alas nope it didn't. I did go and retrieve it from the middle of the treadmill and put it on ice but unfortunately it was too "mangled". They had to take a flap of skin from my middle finger, join it to my mangled finger (so they could grow skin to cover the bone) and take skin from my upper arm to cover the skin they took from the middle finger:blink:. Stupid me who thought I was still going to Oz said "oh yes you can do it under a local anaesthetic", you say anything when full of morphine, so nearly four hours later it was done, then a month later they had to cut the skin graft and make a pretend nail. I have to say though, the NHS stepped up to the plate, did a fabulous job and you'd never really know I'd chopped it off. I guess I got good treatment coz I was working in the NHS at the time. Oh and I forgot to say, I was due to start a new job the day after chopping it off. It just wasn't my day was it.:(
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