What was the worst injury that you had?

injury - injured man
@heatspine (1141)
Philippines
March 7, 2007 1:49am CST
I can still remember ... It was my seventh birthday. I woke up early and excited. I went to the kitchen to see what my mom was preparing for breakfast. The meal was fried chicken and I anxiously waited for it ... I was so excited that in checking if it was cooked already and I bumped the frying pan and the oil splattered all over my body. It was a horrifying experience and one that I remember until now. How 'bout you? What was the worst injury that you had?
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@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
7 Mar 07
the worst injury i have had was when i fainted and my head hit the floor. the hard floor. here we do not have rugs on the floor. i opened my head and lost 4 teeth. and the dentist could not treat me for 4 months because all of the blood veins in my mouth were turn up..well you can imagine how i looked..but thanks to god that was many years ago and i am fine now:)
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
12 Apr 07
Hi liranlgo ... you know what ... I can only imagine what you said - and I'm already cringing ...
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
7 Mar 07
Oh my. I guess at one point I could say I was a mother's nightmare and an orthopedist dream. I have broken my elbow when I ws 7, my femur when I was 14 and my ankle at 21. By far the worst was my broken leg. I was kicked by a horse while riding in the woods around Aiken SC. I had a compound fracture which meant the bone broke and came through the skin. What should have been a 6 week recovery turned into 2 1/2 months in the hospital and six months in a cast, in bed. For some reason my bone did not heal the way it was supposed to which made the downtime so much longer.Not fun at 14.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
28 Mar 07
That's a lot of broken bones. Nice to know that you are still in "one" piece.
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@lols189 (4742)
7 Mar 07
it was when i was about 4 years old. i was in the play park with my mum and sister and my sister was on the swing and i wanted a go and she wouldnt let me. i pushed my pram into the swing and the swing came forward and hit me in the face. OUCH it did hurt, i still remember. i had a bruise around my eye and a bump on my forehead. thats the worst injury i have had. Ouch your injury with the oil must of been very painful.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
a swing can be a dangerous set for kids when unsupervised. good thing you only had a bump ... but it still hurts. and to answer your question .. yes it was very painful.
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• United States
7 Mar 07
The worst injury I ever had happened the day after Halloween in 1998. My friends and I were cleaning up after our Halloween bash. We had all agreed that we did not want to get rid of the pumpkins we had used for jack-o-lanterns. We decided to put them to good use in several recipes. Of course, this would mean that we would have to cut up the pumpkins. Well, someone else was in charge of that and I was responsible for washing dishes. Well, the person designated to cutting was having trouble. Since I was a little stronger than her I went to help. I pulled down on the knife and my hand which was wet slid down the knife and down the blade, cutting open my pinky. It took two operations to repair the damage done to my finger. There was even thought of amputating it. Needless to say, they got it back on but told me that I would probably never regain feeling in it. A little acupuncture disproved that. I have 90% feeling back in my finger. That by far was the worst for me.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
Ouch! Knives are really dangerous. Good for you, the acupunture did it.
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@tinam13 (839)
• United States
7 Mar 07
on my 9th birthday... that was the worst. i had a party at nickelworld and my mom and dad started fighting in the parking lot. i walked out there and was crying and he was strangling her, i was so upset and i had to see that. plus later on i had a few cards with money and in one of them i remember there was money in it and it stolen. WORST i ever had.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
i think i'm kinda lost with what injury you had. did your dad also strangled you or done any other physical injury? I hope not.
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@Glaeken (109)
• United States
7 Mar 07
Fried chicken for breakfast? Strange. Ah, my worst injury... I've never had a really bad injury. I would guess a few scrapes I've had on my legs that make good 4-5 inch scars.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
10 Mar 07
hi glaeken. well it isn't uncommon to a country like ours where rice is a staple food. 4-5 inches scars... that's long. ouch.
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• Philippines
7 Mar 07
It was February of 1986. My daughter and I were returning home from school. She was in first grade while I was teaching in the college of engineering in the nearby universtiy. We took a ride home, but from where we get down, we will have to walk some four hundred meters to reach home. The night was cool and there was a very light rain, so we used the umbrella I was carrying. We were happily treading the road for home when all of a sudden a motorbike ran straight towards us. We had met a road accident. It was about 6 in the evening. I heard my daughter screamed for help. I didn't feel anything wrong with my body. I got up and help my child up. I confronted the driver, I told him to bring us to the nearest hospital immediately because there was blood oozing from my daughter's head. We were feeling so cold because we got drenched in the rain. A friend gave us from fresh clothes. In the hospital, the doctors treated my daughter's head wounds. She got something like 7 stitches. Then the doctors turned to me. I said that I was alright, that there was no need. They must see to my daughter. It was then that the doctor told me about numbing pain taking place among victims of road mishaps. He said, 'After an hour or two you will feel how painful it can get.' I didn't believe him then but, I got treated alright and took some medicines, too. After some hours of lying in bed, the pain suddenly enveloped my entirety. I could not cope with it. It was too much. I had to cry for help. Half of my body, the right side, felt numb and yet, from head to toe I can feel this throbbing pain which is too much to bear. Many came to help me, gave me some massages and more medicines to ease the pain. I can never forget that experience. My daughter suffered severely. She had to stop attending school because she will shiver so much just at the sight of any motorized vehicle. After a few months, when she can already tackle walking the streets, I had to enroll her in a nearby school which is within walking distance from home. It is an experience which shall leave a mark in our lives forever.
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• Philippines
9 Mar 07
Yes, you are perfectly right.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
i think seeing your daughter in pain is a horrifying experience. the adrenaline rush already makes your pain bearable for you at that moment. you are so fortunate that was the only thing that happened to you and your daughter. more reason to thank God for it.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
15 Apr 07
It's a tie lol. I've two. One, the most recent was in a fight. My brother, who now insists he was only joking, was having another go at trying to murder me (he's made other attempts on my life in the past, so obviously niether I nor anyone else believes him). I fell. My hand smacked this really sharp piece of metal from under the sink in the bathroom, but I didn't notice it had taken a chunk out of my hand, nor did I feel it til I'd scrambled to my feet and slammed the door shut. The second one was when I was younger, I can't remember what age anymore. But my family had wood burning stoves, it was winter, and as you can imagine those things have to be kept very hot to heat a house. I was dancing..I got dizzy and fell over. My arm hitting the side of the stove. It stuck to the stove lol. And after a few moments I was free..I must've been pretty young, because I was crying -- I do not have a tendency to do that when I get hurt now-a-days. Not physically anyways. That's not 'cause I'm super-tough or anything. It's just..subconciously I still have my mother calling me a baby for crying after an argument we had in my head I guess. I don't cry much anymore, unless it's not in front of someone. I have a scar on my hand now, and there's a somewhat fainter one on my arm still after all these years. No broken bones yet, thankfully.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
8 Mar 07
When I ruptured my archilles tendon playing outdoor netball two or three years ago. Had surgery, had a cast on for 6 weeks, two-three months of physical therapy and then I was up and running around again after my son. I haven't played the sport ever since LOL.
@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
17 Apr 07
ACL ... that's a career ending injury ... good thing you have it treated and now its completely healed.
@teison2 (5921)
• Norway
7 Mar 07
I have not had many injuries growing up. I never broke anything, and never had stitches. my worst accident was falling into a pond when riding my bike. I bruised myself pretty badly. I also knocked my teeth through my lowerlip, and split my chin + had some gravel get stuck in the chin. It was horrible. i remember everyone else were outside the midsummernight festivities. I lay in my room crying for my grandmother to come. I still have pretty cool scars under my lip and on my chin.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
I had a scar in my chin myself ... as a result of a basketball contact.
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@Caila611 (992)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I was five and was at a friend of my parents house. They had just built a two story deck and it did not have railings. I fell off and landed on the concrete on my head. My mom was told there was nothing wrong but she knew there was.For six weeks I couldn't walk or see. I do not remember anything about my life before that time. I don't even remember how I fell. T
@Caila611 (992)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I actually ended up with a skull fracture
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• Romania
7 Mar 07
i had a car accident, and i have smashed my had on the windshield, because i didn't have my safety-belt put on.It was a nasty experience, but i have got trough.
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@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
a lot of car related deaths is due to non-seat belt use. good for you that you got out of it with just injuries.
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• India
7 Mar 07
It was during my school days when I fell from first floor my forhead directly hitting the stair . There was such a profuse bleeding that everybody was scared.But God saved me . I forgot the number of stitches I recieved. later infection developed it took a month or so to cure. My face had swollen badly. All praise to God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@heatspine (1141)
• Philippines
13 Mar 07
injuries to the face and delicate parts are dangerous. specially if profuse bleeding occurs. scary...
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
12 Apr 07
When I was 19 I was working in a factory. I was taking items off of a conveyer belt when some how my hand slipped underneath. I had third and fourth degree burns covering my left hand. That is difintely something that I won't forget I still have a scar.
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• United States
27 Mar 07
I still remember mine clearly as if it happened yesterday.... I was 15 playing junior varsity football for my high school. I was a linebacker. The offense ran a sweep to the right side when I broke through the first line of blockers and into the backfield. I dove to try and take the running back out before he made it to the line of scrimmage when I threw my shoulder right into his knee. His knee went right into my shoulder and I ended up with a separated shoulder. My coach actually popped my shoulder back into place for the paramedics and they took me to the hospital with the ambulance. It was fun... hahaha
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
9 Mar 07
mine was just this oast year on July 19 2006. I was leaving my house to go to work and when I was going down our steps in frount of our door I missed a step and fell on to our pourch and dislocated my elbow or I should say the Dr said that I ripped it out of the socket and tore the nerves from the bones and now 6 months later I still only have half of the use of my right arm and I have no filling in half of my right hand. they say that it could take up to another year to get full use of it back. it sucks!
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@graham31 (487)
10 Mar 07
ouch! I've got to i can remember one young and one present.When i was at school we were all asked to move our desks.So i grabbed mine front and back but stumbled and the top opened up chopping the top of my middle finger off.Keep in mind i was only about 12 so i got rushed to the hospital for the docs to stitch it back on.Its ok now just looks a bit different rom the other finger. The more recent 1 was i was playing football and took a dive landed on my shoulder and pushed a bone out of place.The docs said i needed a operation to put it back in place but on refletion they said it should heal it's self i would just be left mith a lump on top of my shoulder.Dosn't sound serious but when you thing in I WAS GETTING MARRIED ON THE SATURDAY AND THIS HAPPENED ON THE TUESDAY. YOU CAN SEE HOW SERIOUS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD MY WIFE TO BE GOT A HOLD OF ME
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• India
12 Apr 07
Firstly, let me congratulate on the number of responses for this query. And sorry to hear about your injury. Luckily, I have not had any such injury, but many injuries have taken place like falling from the bike, bumping into a moving bus (poor bus... must have got hurt), etc. about bumping a moving bus, after having completed my mroning french classes, i darted out of the institution to take a bus to my college. now out of the gate it was a three road junction with a road passing by the gate too. unmindful of the fact about that adjacent road, i ran out to take the bus on the other side of the road, only to find a bus coming by. It was just a second away from hitting me, when something (may be the angels of mercy) suddenly pulled me backwards and the bus went kissing my skin. too gory to even look at my feet, on which the tyres went by, which i found later when i found that my shoes was filled with blood. was taken to the hospital and was laid to rest for nearly a month. all wounds healed, i was back to college after a month. thanks for allowing me to relive my nostalgia. mike the lil smiley devil http://www.indiatomorrow.net
• United States
9 Mar 07
I was in 7th grade gym class we had to do these running excerises running from one end of the gym to the other. well we also had peeps playing other games while this was going on and someone stuck there foot out I smashed head first into a wall. 10 stitches still have the scar on my forhead.
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• Philippines
11 Apr 07
The worst injury i can remember as far as I am concern was when i was riding my bicycle during my young years. I was excited too and was strolling for awhile.When suddenly a dog ran after me and i pedalled the bike as fast as i can. Luckily, the dog dodn't cathed up on me, but when i was about to break my bike while driving it fast, i pressed the fornt break and wallah... it flip over with me and next thing i know the bike was over me and i was bleeding with full of bruises all over me.
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