What's the worst injury you've sustained?

[Treaos Serrare]

That's a tossup between the third degree burn i got on my hand from fireworks or, the time i got stabbed

 

[Alon Shechter]

Having a cat brutally scratch my face over 10 times when I was three.
My eye-scar would have been awesome, but sadly cool scars are only in movies, and it just makes me look odd.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I broke my ankle running the hurtles. I landed and my ankle bent and the bone pretty much shattered. I still managed to finish second though.

...Only two people ran the hurtles that day.

 

[xmbts]

Crushed by a car, broke many bones and other fun injuries. Was in a coma for some amount of time and was clinically dead for a moment at one point.

But I bounced right back!

 

[DJ_Bunce]

Broke 3 toes in my right foot dropping a 10kg weight on it. Went to Tae Kwon-Do that evening, and decided not to use that foot. Kicked the kick-pad so hard to take my mind of the pain in my right foot, I broke 2 toes in my left foot.

I would say that that's my worst, and definitely stupidest injury every

 

[DJ_Bunce]

Lost around 1 cm of my right fuck finger on my left hand in a door at 3. grade.

It took me a moment to understand what a "fuck finger" was.

I think they're usually referred to as a middle finger. Just putting it out there.

OT: I dunno, ligament damage in my right ankle. I think it was much worse than any of the (many) bones that I've broken, some of which are set at awkward angles as they broke clean through.

Lmao, yeah, I've never heard of it referred to as that good effort

 

[Magicmad5511]

I've broken both my arms, at different times, in different countries, falling off different climbing frames. I've also had a stone hit just next to my eye (I was lucky). I turned round and just saw a stone heading toward me. Those are my worst.

 

[IxHADOUKENxI]

Not horrific but Incredibly painful none the less, bout a month ago was practician with my Balisong (Butterfly knife or the knife the spy has in Tf2 for those who don't know) before I went to bed (and therefore was just in boxers) and lost concentration dropped the Blade straight down into the gap between the buttons and managed to pin my sack to my chair for a moment,Lets just say it was not my finest moment.

 

[Emilox The Great]

Wow, dude thats some nasty stuff right there! glad you are alright.

OT: mine seems pretty tame compared to you guys :/
I fell UP some stairs and broke my right wrist. (i am such a klutz)
Didnt hurt as much as one would think, it took 3 weeks for it to heal, and an extra week to train it up again.

 

[StBishop]

I sound like a little girl after reading some of these, but my brother dared me to bike on the ice when I was in grade eleven and I broke or fractured every bone in my right hand. I pray to God that's the worst I ever have to have.

I don't want to call you a liar, but I'm guessing that you've been misinformed or are accidentally embellishing the truth.

There's about 8 bones in your wrist[footnote]Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetral, Pisiform, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate[/footnote], and plenty more in your hand[footnote]1[sup]st[/sup] through 4[sup]th[/sup] Metacarpals; Proximal, Medial, and Distal Carpal bones for each of your fingers, including thumb.[/footnote].

 

[krseyffert]

I bit through my tongue in grade 2, wasn't good...

 

[TehChef]

I'm not sure which is worse. I gave my forearm a buckle fracture when a pebble locked up the wheels on my roller blades the summer after 6th grade. Fast forward about ten years. I took my newly sharpened French knife to a large portion of Parmesan cheese. My hand slipped off the blade end and ended up underneath the knife, which is still stuck in the cheese. My reflex reaction was to quickly pull both hands away from the cutting area and out to the side...dragging my left hand along the blade in the process. Now I have a ~2in. scar between my thumb and index finger near my wrist that required 16 stitches (8 in the muscle and 8 in the skin) to close. My dad met me in the ER and did the honours (yes, he's a doctor, we don't let just anyone perform suturing in the U.S.) On the plus side, the knife was crazy sharp, so it didn't hurt. It just spurted blood since I nicked an artery. On the negative side, my grip isn't nearly as good, since I think I also nicked a tendon.

 

[putowtin]

Slipped on ice last january, fell and cracked my knee on a concrete step. Doctors still don't know what I've done to my knee but I'll be walking with a stick for the rest of my life.

 

[Scabadus]

At least that is the worst I remember. If my mom is to be believed, I was born dead due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around my neck. I take whatever she says with a pinch of salt (never understood that saying but the applied meaning fits), however.

You're right to take that salt (I've no idea what it means either): babies are born with their lungs empty of air, there's no gas in them at all. No harm in strangling something that isn't breathing in the first place. That umbilical cord, instead of killing you, was providing you with the oxygen that your lungs wern't. It's where the practice of smacking babies comes from; it's not to make them cry but to make them gasp in pain, filling their lungs for the first time and kick-starting the breathing processes. It's possible that the cord was wrapped so tight that it was cutting off blood circulation to your brain, but that would probably have left you brain damaged.

My own injury, at least the most painful I can remember, was splashing myself in boiling cooking oil. It wasn't exactly deeply damaging, but it did really hurt and made me miss a friend's birthday party. Gave me some cool scars though.

 

[Ghostydash]

when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, I was riding my bike on a BMX course. On my sixth of seventh run, I was going up one of the hills without knowing that my back tire had gone flat. I was getting tired and I guess that I stopped for a second which resulted in me and my bike falling down upon me. the handle bar came down on top of my wrist and broke both bones near where the arm connects to the hand. my dad had to rush me to the hospital where I spent some time there till 11'o clock at night. I guess I'm lucky that the bike frame didn't come down on my chest.

 

[G96 Saber]

When i was 4 i was ran over by a car going at 55 miles an hour. I broke my femur (which is harder than concrete) in two places. I had to wear a pot up to my chest for around 6 months.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

I've had two "major" injuries, nothing like most people here tough. One was when I'd just finished 2nd grade, we were going to Piteå (from Umeå where we lived for a year) and stopped at a gas station to buy ice cream/ soda. I ran to the door, eager to get my ice cream, pulled the door up, and then things went bad, I had sandals and the edge of the door went straight between the 2 straps and dug into my foot, didn't feel much at first, guess it was adrenaline, but when we'd gotten in the pain arrived. Had to wear a bandage on my right foot for a week and now I've got a scar on my right foot, childhood memories, right? =).

The other was in 4th grade, we were playing outside, I tried to jump down from a scaffolding, didn't land right and fell down with my arm behind my back. The funny thing was that I didn't expect anything worse than a bruise, but when I couldn't do anything during the music lesson (because it hurt if I moved it) I called my mom and she came by the school, we went to the hospital and it turned out I'd gotten a fracture in my wrist. Got a warm plaster on the arm (during late autumn = quite nice)

 

[WorldCritic]

Accidentally setting my hand on fire. That really sucked, especially since I had to go to school the next day.

 

[KnifeyMcStaberson]

nothing to serious. There was that Time I died on my 21st birthday party. But then I woke up in the back of this convertible driving through the tunnels of New York. Then I find out that my uncle is trying to kill me, along with my girlfriend.

I don;t think I am going to go back to his house for my 22nd birthday.

 

[DasDestroyer]

A pulled leg muscle. And I'm not one of those people who never moves, I do parkour.