Ew.... Thanks for the advice and the rather disturbing story XDVern said:Probably the worst injury I've ever had was taking a machete to the face. I practice with throwing knives, and I was practicing with a machete. It hit the target wrong, bounced back, and I got the tip of the blade to my jaw. Stupid mistake? Yes. Anyway, it didn't really hurt. At first all I felt was just shock that it happened, then my jaw felt numb. After that I started feeling a stinging sensation, went to the bathroom to get a band aid, iodine, bacitracin, what have you, and saw that I had cut about a 7/8 inch long slice into my jaw. I sat there nursing it with a towel for a good 3 hours getting the blood to stop pouring out of my face. What was neat, was that once it wasn't oozing blood, I could open the cut slightly, and see my gums. I ended up dousing it with iodine and hydrogen peroxide for a bit, cleaning it off, putting bacitracin zinc on it, and then sealed the cut with super glue. Worked really well actually, it's been a good three years since it happened, I never got an infection, and you can barely see the scar. I had some reservations about how I handled it until I found out later that my uncle, who has a butcher, nearly cut off his finger while cutting up a cow. He used superglue to seal the wound as well.
So just let me tell you this, always keep super glue handy. For lacerations, it works extremely well. Just make sure you can pull the skin together so it only connects the dermal tissue, it's not really something you want to get in the subdermal tissue.
Okay, this interests me, how did this happen?Xifel said:Getting trapped in a gas chamber with 50% teargas in it. Normally you use 2% so someone messed up.
Think of it like someone grilling you over open fire. And when you breath you cough until you puke, endlessly. And your eyes and nose hurts, of course.
ouch, that happened to a woman I knew. That same damn thing. She actually re-broke it and said it was the most impossibly excruciating thing she'd ever experienced. She ended up developing an alcohol problem because of the whole ordeal.hulksmashley said:I fell down half a flight of stairs, and broke my ankle in two places. The ankle bent to where I ended up sitting on the outside of my foot. They used eight screws, two bolts, and a metal plate to put it back together.
The initial breaking, however, wasn't the worst pain. The ER gave me serious pain meds and crutches, which I had never used before. Then, after the pain meds had worn off, they told me to go home, using crutches. Because of this I ended up falling and landing with my full weight on the broken ankle. OH MY GOD. It hurt so much worse than the initial breaking. It was horrible. Bad enough that I didn't use crutches once during my entire recovery. I used a wheelchair for the first few weeks while my pain meds were to strong for me to really function, and then I used a walker. I will never use crutches, ever.
That sucks.Coeco said:Smashed my coccyx against one of these fancy office chairs, effectively scarring me for life. It didn't feel very nice at the time either, nor did the three following weeks of me being unable to sit down.
Made a nice, deep scar that's incapable of healing itself, making me bleed all the time from my back as I lose feeling in my waist when I sit down on something too long/hard but that Isn't even the fun part.
It also offset two kinds of scoliosis, making my spine too straight (which is clinically dangerous) and slightly bent to the left, crippling my ability to move every time I stay still for a couple of hours say like, trying to sleep do physical activities along with excruciating pain every time I try to breath thanks to the muscles in my back stiffening up for dear life which they've been doing for the past 10 years or so now.
They put a pin inSean Hollyman said:Like literally snapped in half? How the hell do you fix that?Blobpie said:When i broke my arm (i fell off my bike), both of the bones in my left arm were snapped right in half. I never cried.... it hurt too much to cry.![]()