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I had to call DH home from work one day because I got my DD's toenail stuck in my eye when it flew out while I was clipping her toenails. When I called, DH thought for sure I was joking and when he got here he could barely stop laughing at me long enough to see to use a q-tip to get it out. It hurt like the dickens and I was sure it was either going to puncture my cornea or I was going to get some weird fungus disease in my eyeball and go blind but neither of those ever happened 🤣

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Picked up a child at the zoo to hold her for a picture. Knee surgery, and knee pain ever since (6.5ish years now).

When I was a kid, I was doing underwater flips in the babysitter's pool and having a contest with another kid to see who could do more in a certain amount of time. I decided I could go faster if I didn't open my eyes when I came up for air. Five stitches on my forehead after I banged my head right into the concrete at the side of the pool.

I regularly run into things like door frames that I swear are out to get me. I've broken toes doing that sort of thing a few times. Just clumsy.

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I sprained my ankle-playing miniature golf. The day before a job interview. Sigh....

I also once slipped a disc during a jazz concert when I reached the wrong way to pick up my saxophone. At least that time the sports medicine specialist at University medicine said he saw music majors second only to athletes....

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8 minutes ago, dmmetler said:

I sprained my ankle-playing miniature golf. The day before a job interview. Sigh....

I also once slipped a disc during a jazz concert when I reached the wrong way to pick up my saxophone. At least that time the sports medicine specialist at University medicine said he saw music majors second only to athletes....

I dislocated my knee practicing for a halftime show. I ended up having to have surgery. The doctors kept saying "oh, you're the band injury!"

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Once I dislocated my shoulder badly while trying to make a snow angel.  ER visit and a month recovery.  Plus I had my dd filming me so I could show my littlest buddies what MaBelle was doing.   You can hear me on the video saying "Um.....turn it off."

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I broke my foot walking upstairs.  Was running up on my toes on the edge and slipped off.  Snapped the 5th metatarsal clean in half.

I was bit by a prairie dog.  That probably got the most attention at the hospital.  That was from picking up a pissed off prairie dog after someone else dropped him during a presentation.

I was bit by a rabbit reaching in to separate two fighting rabbits.  

I broke my toe tripping over the dog.

I burned off the tips of my fingers using a glue gun to make Halloween costumes.  

I dislocated my knee squatting down to hang something on a rack at the 4-H fair.  

I severely sprained my ankle stepping on a wood post and it rolled.

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1. We got a new furnace installed, the pipe was all shiny, without thinking I reached over to touch the bright shiny new pipe, burned my finger.

2. Repeated the above several months later with a new teapot.

3. Frequently close my fingers in doors.

4. Trip over my own pajamas every single day. One of these days I'm gonna break my neck that way.

5. Dislocated my hip or something when sitting down.

6. Sliced my finger when washing a knife. That one was just a couple of days ago.

7. I continually forget to wash my hands thoroughly after cutting chilies, and then my eyes or nose or other body parts end up burning. You'd think I learn, I only do this every single week.

8. As a kid, I slept in a room with a dormer window and banged my head hard at least three times a month, every morning.

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53 minutes ago, Where's Toto? said:

I was bit by a prairie dog.  That probably got the most attention at the hospital.  That was from picking up a pissed off prairie dog after someone else dropped him during a presentation.

Maybe cause prairie dogs carry The Plague. 😵

Thought of another injury: trying to save money, I was using a box cutter to make a shipping box smaller (smaller box=less shipping cost, right?) Had a slipsies and slit my wrist. 12 stitches, $2000 ER bill. So much for trying to save a few bucks. (I also got asked A LOT of mental health questions while in the ER...)

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I broke my pinky finger when trying to bring in firewood. It was very cold outside and my hands were numb. I tossed a piece of wood from one hand to the stack in the other hand, and my finger got smashed between two logs. Luckily, my hands were so cold that it didn’t start hurting for a while.

i broke my big toe when I was in college. My roommate and I were running down the hallway(barefoot) trying not to get caught by the RA for something. As I got to my room, my toe slipped under the open door, and ouch!

i had to take a Creative Movement class in college which was for elementary education majors. One day we were pretending to be butterflies, and I tripped and sprained my ankle very severely. 30 years later and that one still comes back to haunt me sometimes.

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1 hour ago, alisoncooks said:

Maybe cause prairie dogs carry The Plague. 😵

 

They actually kept asking me "what breed of dog bit you?"  and I'd have to explain AGAIN what a prairie dog is.  I'm in NJ, no prairie dogs outside of zoos.  Which is where I was when I was bit.  

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Once I bought a bunch of cacti at a nursery and when I was unloading the box from my car, I lost my balance and fell backwards, tipping the whole box forwards onto my face. I had spines from several different types of cactus lodged all over my face, including my eyelids and lips. Pulling thick, barbed cactus spines out of my lips was seriously painful, but the tiny invisible hair-like spines were the worst because I couldn't see them but could feel them for days and days afterwards. And I looked like I had some weird disease between the bruising and all the little red spots all over my face!

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35 minutes ago, BeachGal said:

I took care of one of my kid’s kittens who thought the only way to get up was by climbing up my body whenever he felt like it. Those little claws are like razors!

We had one who did that. fortunately, he got too heavy to scale mountains with just his claws by about 5 months old...

 

I have scars on my arm from when a cat got startled and jumped out of my arms-using me as his springboard. A nice little row of little round puncture marks on my arm, one per claw. DH comments that if I ever end up in the ER unconscious, they're going to think I am an IV drug user who had no clue where my veins are!

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My husband once woke up with a fractured ankle.  We have no idea.  Maybe he plays hockey in his sleep.  He was in a big boot for weeks and everyone was like “how do you get injured?”  No doubt expecting a skiing story or a big fall or whatever.  He was always like “let me tell you!...”

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Here's another (I'm not surprised I got hurt in this, but it was still dumb):  

I took my girls to a freebie, try-it-out martial arts class. Not wanting to be the out-of-shape mom on the bench just watching, I participated (at the instructors prompting).  Well, I was an out-of-shape mom, and I should've stayed on the bench because I ended up tearing my ACL and needing knee surgery and PT. 

(Now I'm seeing a pattern: all my serious injuries are instances where I'm trying to save money or do something for free...)

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22 minutes ago, PeachyDoodle said:

I broke my finger trying to keep a jar of honey from spilling all over the counter. Jammed my pinkie right into my quartz countertop. It's never been the same and I doubt at this point it ever will be.

I didn't have to clean up the honey though. 😉

 

Oh, that reminds me of my grandmother's "dumb injury" story. She dropped a knife... and she caught it. Apparently even as her fingers were closing around it she was thinking "Well, that was stupid."

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52 minutes ago, Æthelthryth the Texan said:

I have been trying to teach my kids the saying " a falling knife has no handle!!" for a long time now, but it is a hard reflex to break. I dropped a  knife earlier this year, while wearing flip flops and it was a hard impulse to resist.....it was one of those slow motion moments. And luckily it deflected off the strap of the flip flop!) 

 

One aspect of my extreme klutziness is that, since I'm so terrible at catching things, I pretty much never TRY to catch things - if something is coming at me, and I realize this fast enough, I step aside. I have no catching reflex.

Every time I drop a sharp knife on the floor and I don't catch it I say aloud "There are benefits to being unable to do things".

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Excellent thread. I needed the levity. 

A few weeks ago I threw my back out opening a dresser drawer. I'm still not right.

A little over a year ago--Aug 2018--I was in a hurry trying to get out the door to take my dd to a dentist appointment. I tripped over a broom that was wedged between 2 bar stools/chairs. I broke my tibia and fibula in 3 places. My daughters called 911. Backstory: my twins had just celebrated their 21st b'day, and my husband bought several different bottles of wine for them to try since they were now legal. So it was all sitting out on the counter in the kitchen when I fell. The paramedics had to put me in some contraption to take me down the stairs. I joked with one of them, "I guess you'll catch me if I fall!" (he was a big, strong guy). He replied, "Only drunks on a Thursday."

I totally didn't get it. Until they put me in my mother's car. Then it hit me...They thought I was a drunk! I'm still pissed about that.

So, yeah, I have 3 screws and a plate--months of physical therapy--never gonna be the same--because I tripped on a broom.

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Back in my teens, and the first time that I rode a horse.  I thought that all horses could naturally jump over fences?
So I galloped the horse towards the fence, and as we reached the fence. The horse suddenly stopped.
But it seemed to realize that I wanted to get over the fence?  So he dropped his head, and I went sailing over the fence.

 

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I tried to climb over a concrete wall in our backyard. Instead of using a nice solid chair, I stood on a wet tree branch. Instead of going over hands and upper body first, I put one leg up on the wall with the other foot on said tree branch. I did the splits in the air, fell to the ground, and hit my head. Somehow, no huge injuries resulted. I'm an idiot. 😉

My dad chopped his foot with his ax. That seemed pretty dumb to me, but I can see it being a potentially common accident.

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Once I sneezed the wrong way and had a stiff neck for days.

I sliced off my fingertip trying to prove that I did not need help peeling the potatoes.

My butt still hurts because I once tried to walk down the stairs balancing 3 cups of liquid and an open computer.  Dumb part was that I tried to save the liquid and the computer instead of my butt.  It didn't work anyway - I had to wash tea and coffee off the walls.  I couldn't sit at all for 3 days.  Years later it came back to haunt me and here I am ... not sitting.

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Oh, once when I was like 22 I was on a cheap cross-country trip with my friend.  My friend was not a light packer, so we had two heavy international suitcases.  I was the only one strong enough to carry those bags, so I had them both.  (Probably about 140 lbs all together.  More than I weighed.) 

We were at Grand Central Station and the subway was stopping.  Not knowing how often they came, my friend urged me to hurry down the concrete stairs to catch the train.  To provide clearance for the stairs, I swung both bags out in front of me.  Well ... it doesn't take a physics degree to imagine what happened next.  I fell all the way down the stairs, face first.  (Well, bags first, then arms, then face.)  What saved me from injury was the very thick coat I was wearing.  However, I was quite the public spectacle.  And I had a very dirty face to explain once I reached the home of the friends we were staying with that day.  😛

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Story of my life.

Here are just a few...

1.  Picking up a baby blanket-- I blew a disk in my back (ended up with spinal fusion) and tore the fascia in my left foot (non-surgical and required a non-weight bearing cast for 11 months!).

2.  Jogging on a walking trail-- running late for a class and decided to jog on our walking trail-- I"m the one who had informed the family that under no circumstances were they allowed to run or jog on it until the mulch came in to level the ground near some tree roots... I did not listen to myself.  I had significant tendon damage in my left wrist and almost lost the use of my thumb-- surgery required to fix.

3.  Falling ONTO  moving treadmill-- I got off just fine!  Way to early in the morning and I was not wearing the idiot emergency cable... got off to bump machine a bit to the right and my right big toe caught the treads on the way back on... my left arm got caught around the treadmill brace and was nearly torn off.  I ruptured my bicep and shredded my rotator cuff (plus lots of little things).  5 months of physical therapy and my bicep went back together-- rotator cuff needed surgery.  I lost mobility of left arm after surgery and 6 months later I'm about 70% back.  Incredibly PAINFUL injury especially after surgery!!!  I've been in measurable pain constantly for over a year now-- but it is finally starting to subside!

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15 hours ago, Corraleno said:

Once I bought a bunch of cacti at a nursery and when I was unloading the box from my car, I lost my balance and fell backwards, tipping the whole box forwards onto my face. I had spines from several different types of cactus lodged all over my face, including my eyelids and lips. Pulling thick, barbed cactus spines out of my lips was seriously painful, but the tiny invisible hair-like spines were the worst because I couldn't see them but could feel them for days and days afterwards. And I looked like I had some weird disease between the bruising and all the little red spots all over my face!

So far, this takes the cake!!! Ouch!

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Great thread! 

I sat down on my sofa and a wasp stung me in the ass. I'm allergic, so I couldn't just keep it quiet, lol, I had to call someone to come over and make sure I didn't pass out or anything. It was tempting to skip that and hope for the best, but I had a baby at the time.

I reached forward to get toilet paper and threw out my back. In my defense, I had carried some heavy stuff the day before, but I literally felt nothing up to this point. So I'm on the toilet and really needing that toilet paper, but it was the kind of back pain where you can't move so I'm just hovering there for an inordinate amount of time. I finally managed to take care of the most urgent matters but then I had to literally crawl out of the bathroom. The fam ran over to help but also laughed like the heartless goons they are. 

8 hours ago, Jann in TX said:

 3.  Falling ONTO  moving treadmill-- I got off just fine!  Way to early in the morning and I was not wearing the idiot emergency cable... got off to bump machine a bit to the right and my right big toe caught the treads on the way back on... my left arm got caught around the treadmill brace and was nearly torn off.   

Okay, this one got to me, I'm over here gagging, lol. I have a horror of escalator injuries and this sounds very similar. 

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12 hours ago, bethben said:

I broke my foot after misstepping and twisting it on my welcome mat.  

The irony!

I was a kid when my event happened, but still... We were traveling and there was a metal tube bike rack that I thought would be fun to somersault around (the bar). All would have been fine, except I had a plastic straw in my mouth. My knee hit the straw when I tucked and scraped a long line along the roof of my mouth. Ow. (Yet another reason to outlaw plastic straws. 😁)

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Another thread where I am torn between laughing (at y'all's humorous writing styles), and wincing (at all of the pain). 😂 😫

My contribution: When I was about 12 I almost dislocated my pinkie finger while playing ping pong. I somehow caught it on the edge of the ping pong table while trying to make a slam. It's never been quite right ever since. A few years later, I nearly cut off the same pinkie at my first job, working in the kitchen of a restaurant. Slicing carrots with the big electric saw-blade-like cutter, and decided they would bounce around less if I held them down with my hand rather than with the metal holder, which is cleverly designed for that very purpose. I neatly took a chunk of skin and flesh off the side of my pinkie finger right at the side of the knuckle. I knew it was bad when I pulled my hand up to look, and the spot was blue, then a second later it was covered with all these pinpricks of red, and then another second later it was gushing blood. 😱 Kids, don't try that one at home... Or anywhere else.

 

Other notable dumb injuries include stepping off a curb into the street and spraining my ankle, and getting a black eye while sleeping. Although, that last one, we can blame DH. We had only been married a few weeks and were still figuring out how to share a bed; DH rolled over in the middle of the night and elbowed me right in the eye. Everyone at work was convinced I had married an abusive man... and my "lame story" just further convinced them I was being abused -- a couple of my male coworkers wanted to come over and "have a talk" with DH. :laugh:

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1 hour ago, iamonlyone said:

The irony!

I was a kid when my event happened, but still... We were traveling and there was a metal tube bike rack that I thought would be fun to somersault around (the bar). All would have been fine, except I had a plastic straw in my mouth. My knee hit the straw when I tucked and scraped a long line along the roof of my mouth. Ow. (Yet another reason to outlaw plastic straws. 😁)

At least it wasn't a metal straw!

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I was eating a soft pretzel in the movie theatre when a piece of kosher salt popped off and landed in my eye! Can you even believe my aim? And I wear glasses!

One time, my son was in a streak of interest in knives, swords, etc. He ordered a tomahawk online. When it arrived, he opened the package, admired how sharp it appeared to be and then sliced his thumb right open! I mean, it kind of wasn’t funny...oh, who am I kidding, it was freakin hilarious! He’s like, “Wow, look how sharp this blade is....OWWWW!” 

 

 

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22 hours ago, Dotwithaperiod said:

I sliced my finger recently while ripping a piece of parchment paper across the serrated edge of the box. Then a few days later I was peeling a potato and ended up peeling half my fingernail off of that same finger.

Is parchment paper baking paper?

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On 10/3/2019 at 6:54 AM, matrips said:

Unknowingly sucking on your lip and biting it after the dentist has applied anesthesia.  My poor ds has a nasty swollen and infected mouth and lip now.  😞

 

OK really? Because my son chewed on his lip so much because it felt weird, that we are dealing with the EXACT same thing. It was healing fine until 3 days after and now it's infected. I am hoping the antibiotics will work quickly!!

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When I was six, my aunt and uncle had a metal swing set where there was a swing on one side and directly across from the swing was a pair of rings.  The rings were connected to the chain with an s hook and my cousin and I decided we would try to kick the rings off the s hook while swinging on the swing.  Except when I went to kick the ring off, the edge of the s hook embedded itself in my ankle and I swung upside down by my ankle on the hook until my uncle came out and lifted me up enough that they could pull the hook out. 

I also managed to give myself a hernia that required surgery by moving the couch to retrieve the kids toys but that wasn't nearly as dramatic as the swing incident.

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This accident is waiting to happen.  I grew up riding unicycles, but have not been on one in 40 years.  Every year, I look at the one out  in the garage,  and think I am going to let the kid see me ride before I finally get rid of it.  I probably only  have a year or two left to give it a go.

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