Bizarre injuries you've suffered

DrewDevil · #1 09-26-2007, 05:35 PM

I had a bad cough last week (and lingering into this week), and I think I have pulled a rib muscle from coughing so hard. Bizarre--every time I sneeze, or cough, or move a certain way, there's a stabbing pain in my side.

I also notice that this week a MLB player blew out his knee while arguing with an umpire.

Anyone else experienced this, or something similarly bizarre?

PhilBeans · #2 09-26-2007, 05:37 PM

Just skinned my knuckle punching your avatar.....

Los Feliz Slim · #3 09-26-2007, 05:38 PM

When I was in grade school I went to a daytime computer camp at Framingham State College. A pencil rolled off my desk and I snapped my legs together to catch it in my lap, except I was too slow so I just drove the pencil about 2" into my inner thigh.

Xaston · #4 09-27-2007, 01:31 AM

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When I was in grade school I went to a daytime computer camp at Framingham State College. A pencil rolled off my desk and I snapped my legs together to catch it in my lap, except I was too slow so I just drove the pencil about 2" into my inner thigh.

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I dropped a pencil in the third grade while taking the CATs. I instinctively tried to grab it, it hit the chair eraser side down, and I ended up slamming the "webbing" between my thumb and pointer finger into the tip. The pencil stuck in and I yelled and ran to the nurse. You can still clearly see the color of the graphite under my skin.

I shot myself in the face with my potato gun, luckily the potato missed and I just got pressurized air; resulted in a black eye.

Colombo · #5 09-26-2007, 05:38 PM

A few nights ago I woke up screaming in pain and started punching my wall. I had a charlie horse in my calf and it was easily the most painful one I've ever experienced. 2 Days later I'm still struggling to walk comfortably.

Tigerpiper · #6 09-26-2007, 05:39 PM

A few years ago around Valentine's Day I had a whole mouthful of redhot candies in my mouth. I dropped my pen and reached down under the desk to get it and all the red hot spit went into my sinus cavity. That did not feel good.

gimmetheloot · #7 09-26-2007, 05:45 PM

my brother tried to punch me in the face and in trying to catch the punch in my palm i had my hand tipped too forward and his fist caught the top of my middle finger and broke the 2nd knuckle

miajag · #8 09-26-2007, 05:46 PM

Was trying to cut an orange with a butter knife when I was 6 or so and put the knife through my hand.

kongo_totte · #9 09-26-2007, 05:53 PM

I woke up in my hotel bed a saturday morning a couple of years back with five stitches in the back of my head and all my clothes missing. I still today have no idea what happened to me. I have a weak memory of me being in an ambulance and a bunch of nurses pointing and laughing at me, but that's it. And I may have dreamt that.

EDIT: So infact, I have no idea if the way I suffered the injury was bizarre or not. I'd like to think it was though.

Kimbell175113 · #10 09-26-2007, 06:11 PM

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Was trying to cut an orange with a butter knife when I was 6 or so and put the knife through my hand.

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Same-ish age, uncle getting married, I was the ring-bearer or something, and along with the groomsmen received my own initial-engraved pocketknife as a gift. Immediately I opened it and destroyed my thumb. Still have the scar today.