What is your worst injury?

Matt Sayle said:
New one to add:

I have an ingrowing toe nail. Had it for years, never bothered me. The other week I went outside in my sliipers to see if the moon was out. On coming back in I slipped on the decking bangind said toe on edge of decking. I then couldnt walk fo three days and now have to go to the doctors every week.

A lesson learnt.

If you have a problem, get it sorted!!!
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had a slice taken off my big toe two days ago and now in a big bandage. Apparently the trauma of a broken leg caused it and they told me it would sort itself out until i told them i wanted something done. Its a very very painful procedure
 
When I was in the army, we were on night patrol in the bush a million miles from civilisation when we had to set off a few 1000ft flares. The first couple went off fine, when a flare I was holding exploded in my hands. Luckily the flare itself managed to eject, but the resulting fireball nearly blew my fingers off. The resulting 3rd degree burns, with no medic, and no casevac were the worst 8 hours of my life before we got back to base! Never want to experience that again!!
 
I broke a rib or two coughing a few years back whilst suffering a bad dose of Flu.

I've never felt so ill in my life. It took 6 weeks before I could stand upright without holding my side together.

Very painful having broken ribs when you can't stop coughing.
 
Many moons ago was shot when in army on an Op. Round went through the front of the car. Splintered and entered my left trainer, parting my 2nd and 3rd toes, causing a big hole in my foot, entered my calf, exited my calf and entered my thight, exiting my thigh and entering my pelvic region via my groin.

I lost 9 inches of intestine, lost several veins in my left calf, which means I sometimes trip over when running as it doesn't lift as high as my right leg (not funny you know:D)

And best of all as a reminder, I have a HUGE scar like a smiling face running from my left side of groin to the right going under my you know whats. You can only see it as a smiley face when I lift up my gocery sack - not a pretty site! But got me many a free pint when I was still in:thumbs:

Anyway after 8 weeks in hospital and two ops, I was let out and flown home as my wife was a nurse at the time and she used to pack the hole in my foot - oh the good old days:nuts:

And no I don't run in big circles:lol:
 
I walked into a lamp post when I was young in the girls only playground, woke up in the infirmary with concussion. When I was in India, during Diwali celebrations, I had a rocket explode infront of me and literally had shrapnel burn through my clothes, I had burn marks on my chest for a few weeks.

Also during an MMA fight I almost had an arm dislocated at the elbow, but luckily I have an uncanny ability to hyper-extend my limbs.

That's all I can think of really.
 
oh oni slashed my hand on a rubber door seal, and an off duty policemant slashed my wrist with a snapped biro, erm thats all apart from accidents at work.
 
Played rugby & cricket for many a long year with few injuries........



then..................




lost several fingers in a own- fault accident.....................


My wife found my hand in her purse & retirbution was swift as she closed it with some force!!!


Only joking- have had a few broken fingers & a split head, oh & a heart attack at 39 but that wasn't an injury as such!!!

All fixed now :nono::cuckoo::woot:::lol:
 
A middleweight broke two of my ribs. I never knew that broken ribs could be so painful or so annying (example: when breathing) Mid-life crisis is crap. I don't want to do it anymore.
 
As a kid, jumped out a tree and started to chase my mates, but found running was difficult, looked down and there was this length of plank under my foot. It was then I noticed the nail protruding through the top of my foot. The nail went up through the ball of my foot, could not walk properly for a while.

At work at the Download festival, when Iggy Pop decides to invite the audience up onto the stage. All hell breaks loose, I dive for the pit barrier to catch a lass that was about to drop onto the back of her head / neck. I catch her, but when I am laid there some BAR STEWART thinks 'security on the ground, lets stamp on him' got 3 smashed ribs. Could not report it properly as I would have been taken off duty and sent home - Metallica was playing next day. So my boss sorted me out with a position where I sat on the stage all day. Good view:clap::thumbs:

At play, one crimbo do was out with work at the Royal Oak in Headingley, Leeds and a nice doorman there decided to smash me across the face with his hand held radio, instant black eye. It was only next morning when I woke and I could hear the fragments of bone crunching that I realised it was a bit worse. Ended up with a tripodal fracture of the zygomatic arch. (shatered cheekbone and eye socket) 3 operations, screws and metal plates got me sorted. Just a scar on the side of my head above the hairline, where the surgeons sliced me open to get access.
 
Geordi69 said:
At play, one crimbo do was out with work at the Royal Oak in Headingley, Leeds and a nice doorman there decided to smash me across the face with his hand held radio, instant black eye. It was only next morning when I woke and I could hear the fragments of bone crunching that I realised it was a bit worse. Ended up with a tripodal fracture of the zygomatic arch. (shatered cheekbone and eye socket) 3 operations, screws and metal plates got me sorted. Just a scar on the side of my head above the hairline, where the surgeons sliced me open to get access.
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Has this incident influenced your choice of avatar?
 
Came off my motor bike 50 years ago, Went down the road on my kneecap, Still hurts like hell when it rains.
 
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EmZee said:
Has this incident influenced your choice of avatar?
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KayJay said:
Ha ha :thumbs:
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If I looked like that, I don't think I would have had the trouble in the first place.

Mind you one of the door staff that kicked off with my self and my work collegues was David Bieber, who ended up shooting and killing a police officer that years boxing day in Leeds.
 
Doormen have changed since my day. I know like in everything else there's the good and bad. And now it seems they're better organised and some (most?) seem to have a form of training or something. But all the same, I know there are a few who are in it just for the thrill, the opportunity to get their kicks - sometimes literally.
 
Years since I've been to Blackpool.

And to try and put the thread back on topic, I remember many years ago (about 109, I think) I used to gig anywhere and everywhere. In the course of that I've seen people get a right kicking from the door staff - and by that I mean beaten. I'm sure that in some cases they (the punters) started it, but more than once I've seen some poor guy who's had a few drinks getting thrown about for the hell of it. So if as you say Blackpool's above the law, it must be even more hellish now.

Anyway, about five minutes ago I walked into the corner of the coffee table and now my knee's hurting like hell. It's rivalling the broken ribs I had. If I whine loud enough I might get tea/sympathy/a sneer.
 
Okay here it goes
1. frontal sinusitus infection that led to an abcess in my skull the size of a tennis ball pressing on my brain. the worst....
2. dislocated shoulder..that i put back in place before going to the hospital.
3. my morphine pump not working when the nerve block wore off after shoulder surgury .
4. bi-lateral knee replacement. I'm only 44.......
that should do for now.
 
Well if you disregard the Heart Attack that is not really an accident then breaking my wrist aged 14 trying to go over a vaulting horse without touching it.

I failed
 
When I was five years old I was mucking around on a friends parents exercise bike. I was peddling like mad, then took my feet off the pedals, which continued to spin. My little ankle got caught between the pedal and the machine, between two bolts sticking out. The pedal kept going and tore the skin from my foot like a sock and continued going until my foot was just muscle and bone.

Not nice. I was on crutches for 6 months. Luckily they managed to pull the skin back on - again like a sock.
 
only a couple of injuries from me

I dislocated my elbow when playing football when i was around 12-13, still dont have full movement in my arm so 10+ years on

I also broke my arm (around an inch from my shoulder) playing football around 6/7 years ago

i broke a toe whilst swimming on holiday years back to, it got caught between tiles where there should have been grouting, two weeks i couldnt walk for on that holiday and couldnt wear trainers
 
I have never broken any bones, I have only ever had two stitches from a fall when I was about 10 and the only other scars are from ear operations and a C/Section

I feel quite lucky having read some of the horror stories on here !
 
Years ago I got a bit of red hot metal from a grinder land in my eye. It was there for 3 day before I went to the hospital. While at the hospital they picked the metal out of my eye with a needle and then decided to clean up the edges of the wound with a dremmel multi tool type device.

I have never gripped my knees with my hand so tight in my life !!!!!!
 
Jan Solo said:
When I was five years old I was mucking around on a friends parents exercise bike. I was peddling like mad, then took my feet off the pedals, which continued to spin. My little ankle got caught between the pedal and the machine, between two bolts sticking out. The pedal kept going and tore the skin from my foot like a sock and continued going until my foot was just muscle and bone.

Not nice. I was on crutches for 6 months. Luckily they managed to pull the skin back on - again like a sock.
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Yikes - that one made be cringe.

Worst injury came as a result of screaming down a steep road on my bike only to have a truck turn across the road in front of me on the way up. I must have been doing about 40mph, tried to brake, but it was useless and ended ploughing head first into the side of the moving truck (I was not wearing a helmet...)

Result - scalp split open and bone fractured - apparently I was unconscious for 2-3 minutes lying in the road. Eighteen stitches later in the hospital I was packed off by the doctor with my bike - frame split in two! Managed to get it welded back together at a friend's art studio and rode in a 60-mile race the next morning :cuckoo:

Oh the joys of being 19 and completely insane :lol:
 
I broke a nail today ...

However when I was 9 I ripped my thigh muscle real nice like. Caught my leg on the rain hook on a buggy and went over. It went into my leg and came out with muscle attached. Nice looking thing muscles - grey and white. 3 stitches to the muscle and 5 on the skin. The day the stitches were due to come out, mum was driving me to the doctors and the car broke down. 1 1/2 mile walk to the nearest phone box when I wasn't meant to be walking more than a few paces. Result - stitches split leaving a 2 inch long, 1cm wide hole in my leg again - now an ugly scar and permenant muscle wastage unless I keep doing exercises.

Also dislocated my shoulder playing water polo at 17 and tore the rotational cuff 11 months later pulling myself out of the pool.

I've also had 3 knee arthroscopies due to torn medial ligament, torn cartilage and chipped bone. Last one was 4 1/2 years ago. Don't want to tempt fate!

Basically for my birthday I'd like a whole new right side of my body please!
 
Redecorating my kitchen a few years back, I had dust sheets all over the place while we were still using the kitchen. I boiled the kettle and went to pour the water. However, my foot caught the dust sheet, pulled the boiled kettle towards me and I instinctively put my hands out to catch it but in the process, 2 litres of liquid magma spilled over my right arm, turning it to waxy mush more akin to that guy who gets toxic waste on him in Robocop!!

Screaming like a banshee I ran around baling my eyes out hystericlaly, ran upstairs and sat in a bath or cold water. The wife wrapped it in clingfilm after an hour of extreme pain and I ended up in A&E all day.

Man, it was the worst thing that's ever happened to me – worse than pluracy or snapping the ligaments in my ankle – and it's made me soooo wary of anything hot or boilied.
 
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oh pluracy is terrible, when i had it i thought i was gonna die
 
Ashers, I know what you mean. The doc reckoned that a fall I took when playing volleyball brought it on – I proper smacked down and winded myself for about an hour – and when it (the pluracy) really kicked in days later, driving home from work was horrific. Just couldn't focus and concentrate, and every time I breathed in it just felt like someone was ripping my body to shreds.
 
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i walkd to the docs it took me about 30 minutes... even though i live 10 mins away i had to call my mum to pick me up i couldnt face walking back is was so painful short sharp breaths were all i could do. and once uve had it once it means u can get it back
 
I am supprised any of us lot can actually go outside and take photos from what I have read. Either the injuries themselves or fear stopping us. So that must mean we are all barking mad???
 
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