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I fell over the other day at work and sprained my wrist (i hadn't been looking where i was going).
Previous injuries:
Broke my leg chasing after boys in the playground (nothing new there then
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Had stitches in my chin (not looking where i was going)
Had stitches in my forehead (girl threw a can at me - she lived to regret it)
Agonising back pain after falling top to bottom down stairs
That's it really, quite boring. Tell me yours.
I'm not very accident prone, but I've had my share.
Fell onto some stuff when I was about four years old, needed stitches under my chin. Ran into a wall the year later, split my forehead open. Things were fairly quiet until I broke my left arm while playing football (soccer) when I was ten.
About three years ago I sprained my ankle very badly during a fire drill at my university residence (stupid shoelaces), and about a year ago I broke a toe.
Of all these, the last two were most aggravating.
Missy Jem wrote: I fell over the other day at work and sprained my wrist (i hadn't been looking where i was going).
Previous injuries:
Broke my leg chasing after boys in the playground (nothing new there then
That's it really, quite boring. Tell me yours.
Lemme see..... Came out of pub one night, there was work being done to the kebab house next door and there were two milk crates being used to prop up a plank leading to a skip. My asociated ( a mr Murphy I may add LOL) took a flying kick at one, sending it a good 30 ft high and clean accross the street. Not being the sort of chap to be outdone, I took aim on the 2nd one and began my beckham-esque run in...as my foot was about 3mm from hitting it, i realised there was something odd about this crate. As my foot connected, I realised it was no a milk crate, but rather one made of thin plate steel, for the storage of co2 canisters.....it moved about 4 inches, and it was a week before I could put the foot on the ground again....I was so bad that I went downstairs the following morning and took an hour to get back up them.
I also screwd my right arm after diving onto some cushions arse-first, but my feet landed before me, and kicked all the cushions away, resulting in my fat bulk landing on said arm.
My fave injury, and a fairly rest-of-life one....was when when I mentioned to some Americans that only the very lowest forms of life drove the sort of car (a Nova Sr) our trombone player was trying to impress them about his command of. He simply placed his the bell of his instrument (the bell end of his bone if you want to make silly sid james giggles) against my ear and blew his guts out....aint never heard right in that ear since...and lemme tell you it fucking hurt.
NObabe wrote: Got bitten by a dog last Friday :(
have you and the dog both had your shots? :D
I know a girl who was down on the floor in the pub looking for her handbag or something, and a mate of mine started being all funny and playing footsie with her head...so she bit him in the knee, and it swole right up and he needed hospital and shots and stuff.
PS...Jemma...if u and I are ever out on the piss...I think we need to bring a "designated thinker" along, a responsible 3rd party who'll stop us from injuring ourselves, each other, or innocent bystanders.
Knocked out my two front teeth playing football on my road when i was about 13, think thats about it. Unless you count my knee, which has some weird sounding thing wrong with it, dosnt hurt unless i play a long game of footy or summat. Or cricket, since i land on that leg when im bowling.
Missy Jem wrote: I've had my own babysitter for years, it's my friend Sara, and i'm not kidding!
Hang on...i've talked to her....she's as mad as you are...blind leading the blind LOL
(can she handle taking care of two of us?)
Steve Campbell wrote:
NObabe wrote: Got bitten by a dog last Friday :(
have you and the dog both had your shots? :D
Cheeky 
Luckily I was wearing trousers
i've had my two top ribs removed because they were blocking the blood flow to my arms when I exercised and the vessels expanded. I have some cool scars to show for it, too.
i broke my nose when I was 11 and in a bike accident (i skidded down a hill on my face). i also have a fake tooth in the front (not noticeable, thank god!) because my tooth died a few years after the face-to-pavement thing.
i turned my ankle outside the tufnell park tube station in london and heard what sounded like a piece of cloth being ripped in two. it was the ligament separating from my right ankle--one of the most painful experiences i've ever had. i had to fly back to glasgow the next day with a huge rucksack and make it via three buses to st. andrews, which made it even worse. you could see where blood had pooled near the bottom of my foot--horrible.
my first time skiing moguls when i was taking skiing lessons as a kid in colorado. i flew off a mogul and landed on my back. i wasn't badly hurt...until a woman came down the run, lost control and hit my leg with the point of her ski. that was not pleasant.
when i was about 10 my cat was having a growling match with the neighbours' cat. i decided to break it up by picking up the other cat, who bit me in the face, missing my eye by a few millimeters. my face swelled up and the cat, who wasn't up on its rabies shots, had to be quarantined. it turned out ok, though. the owners brought me over some cookies and the cat was fine. as it was really my fault for picking the cat up when it was angry, nothing happened to it and we all lived happily ever after.
Missy Jem wrote: Are you a cat Christy?
i dunno about that, but I'm not sitting beside the bugger on a plane :D
The worst ones - 2 broken ribs whilst 7 months pregnant; a lovely bloody gorey gash over one eye; fractured skull; fractured collar bone; then it goes downhill really to cuts and burns......... not all at the same time obviously.
BEFORE ANYONE DARE TO EVEN THINK IT OR WORSE, SAY IT - NO I HAD NOT BEEN DRINKING ON ANY OF THE ABOVE OCCASIONS OK?
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Ha, i had! When i fell down the stairs last summer. My Doctor said it was a good job i had been drinking or i would have been badly injured or dead! My relaxed state meant i did a stunt roll. To be fair i had a drink in one hand, my handbag in another and was wearing killer heels (literally). It bloody hurt though.
Teaching the rudiments of fencing to someone, I almost lost an eye with a foil. It slipped on my glasses and hurted me just between the eyelid and the eyebrow. Nice little scar mostly hidden by the glasses by now.
An almost broken tibia and a hugly scar thanks to stupid drills in the alpine troops.
A broken arm thanks to four "what can I do to enlighten my life" who wanted to bash the first person they met. Happy to have been first in a while in my life.
Missy Jem wrote: Ha, i had! When i fell down the stairs last summer. My Doctor said it was a good job i had been drinking or i would have been badly injured or dead! My relaxed state meant i did a stunt roll. To be fair i had a drink in one hand, my handbag in another and was wearing killer heels (literally). It bloody hurt though.
LOL...I was gonna say more or less the same thing....if yer gonna get yerself fucked up...do it pissed, you roll with it better.
Remember reading a story in a P J o'rourke book (the chapter was I believe.."how to drive fast on drugs whilst having your wingwang squeezed and not spill your drink") about a guy who got really hammered, went out in his car, lost it half way over a bridge, got sideswiped by a bus and fell 500 ft into a river...it killed him and everything but he made a great corspe :D
The moral of the story is if you're gonna do anything really fucking stupidly dangerous...get shitfaced first (who said "james hunt"?)
So when you hear "ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, we're going to be arriving on the ground soon, vertically downwards at around 700mph!"[1] forget all the bombo wavey arm crap they gave you at the start, that's just a placatory measure to stop you realising no one lives through a decent plane crash,....just hit the bar and get yourself outside as much of it as possible as quickly as possible. Course if it doesn't work, your last words will be "I fuckin loves you ya know that" to the back of seat 34F, but everyone who heard you will be a greasy spot anyway so who cares.
[1]how'dya know you're flying RyanAir? If a window blows out at 10KM a bag drops down with a slot sayinf "please insert 4euros for oxygen"
Breakdancing injury - attempted moonwalk + jump to the ground head first to be caught by hands resulting in a shattered bone on left foot and a dent in my kneecap. I was with my mom on a nature trail, she believed nothing to be wrong with the foot and we had another 2 miles to walk before we were home again. Swollen beyond belief. Blood everywhere. Had the pleasure of saying she was a bad mother for 3 years before....
Got angry, kicked a wall. Foot met and handshook with the wall stud. Cracked the second toe on my right foot, left a wonderful bone protruding out. Went to the hospital and had the entire staff howling at me in laughter because of stupid reaction. Then someone remembered me from the breakdancing incident. More laughter. Cue doctor choosing that moment of embarassment to realign the bones by snapping back into place.
At a party when I was 19. I was magically sober and babysitting the 30 odd other punks who were really into demolition. Wound up being pushed progressively closer and closer to a low yet full glass window. Someone had the brilliant idea to bumrush the window. I tried stopping them, and we both fell through. Magically, I got away with a ton of scratches, and the other guy had to get a piece the size of his hand excised from his right leg.
There's other stuff, but they lack great stories ot go with.
To change tack slightly..... I had the front left (the fact it was the front is important owing to the presence of the engine block) wheel of a VW estate go right up over my foot, with no injury and precious little pain
The Girls of NOOL - a rough and tumble bunch of lasses - good for a drink, a hug and possibly even 
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no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
Just a couple to report:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
Awesome! Hopefully it wasn't a scary operation that meant life or death but just some annoyance that had to be dealt with! I would have had a large scar from my gallbladder removal, but they opted for a laser-based approach, and I got three fingernail sized scars dotting my stomach.
melly wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
it wasn't scary for me. i woke up a week later. i almost died from blood poisoning and they went in to have a look. in those days they didn't think of things like that first. that only came after that flesh eating bacteria scare. i spent a whole month in hospital.
i once got smacked over the head with a baseball bat outside a nightclub for no reason,all i remember was Shugzv saying you need to go to the hospital,i was very drunk at the time..
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
melly wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
it wasn't scary for me. i woke up a week later. i almost died from blood poisoning and they went in to have a look. in those days they didn't think of things like that first. that only came after that flesh eating bacteria scare. i spent a whole month in hospital.
I'm very glad they got it all sorted out. :) My dad had to go in for blood poisoning after a business trip to Mexico - he'd had this psorisis-like rash on his foot and he kept scratching at it until the wound became infected and whatever was causing the skin rash began attacking his arteries. Scary stuff.
Speaking of cool injuries - the old man is also one tough nail. Working out in the manufacturing area, he frequently slams his thumb or finger into a component of some big rig at some point - so he developed the technique of drilling his own holes into his fingernails to relieve the pressure and heal the wound quicker.
It's great hearing him tell people who enquire about his weird holed nails that he's been attacked by an army of midgets or triton-weilding sea monkeys and the like.
melly wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
i haven't seen that sort of scar yet.
Let me see.
Seven broken fingers (not all different ones), most recent being when I caught my hand in the studio door when we were recording a demo in October 2003, dislocated elbow, broken nose, eye socket and cheekbone (at the same time when the keeper came out feet first as I dived in), torn medial ligament and ruptured cruciate ligament in same knee (separate occasions), broken right tibia, broken toe. I also have a scar with 33 stitches on my right hip, and one with 15 stitches on my stomach. 13 knee operations over the years as well. Who said life isn't a battleground?
melly wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote:
melly wrote:
Ronald Kirsch wrote: no real injuries to reports, for some reason. i guess i learned to fall well at a early age. i had a broken wrist, a couple of black eyes from fights.
i do have a nice big operation scar on my lower chest. 30 stitches.
it wasn't scary for me. i woke up a week later. i almost died from blood poisoning and they went in to have a look. in those days they didn't think of things like that first. that only came after that flesh eating bacteria scare. i spent a whole month in hospital.
I'm very glad they got it all sorted out. :)
well i think it was only luck that i'm still here.
Missy Jem wrote: We could compare forehead and chin scars then!
Show me yours, I'll show you mine! ;)
That PJ O'Rourke story about driving fast while getting your wing-wang squeezed was the first story I ever read of his in National Lampoon, I didn't know it wound up in one of his books.
Tip of right little finger permanently broken, it's at about a 40 degree angle.
Tip of left little finger sliced open by a knife, needed five stitches, mark still visible.
Plantar fasciitis, both feet, from walking miles and miles on concrete without the proper support.
Let's see..
I had my right hand reconstructed because it went into the chain of a training bike when I was 4.. it was 1977, so it had spike and everything... I still have scars on my little finger and in the palm of my hand.
I broke my leg when I was 6 while playing with a friend...
I think I broke my arm somewhere as well.. memory is unsure, but I think I did... before I was 10 or something.
Da major one, I screwed up my left knee completly when I was practicing basketball at school, I was doing lay-ups when the tendon of my knee broke, they had to put my 2 giant metal screwed to fix it back to the tibia... I don't know if the bone was broken... major surgery, readaptation and everything... in 2004 they removed the 2 screws because my knee was inflating for an unknown reason, apparently they should have been removed a long time ago 
I was 14 when that happened... so I went to 2 New Order shows in 2005 with that knee still recovering.. I can say today I'm pretty fully recovered because I have no pain, but I've never really be able to "get down on my knees" since then, because I feel pain when I do so...
I broke my right foot when playing Volleyball in what we call college here (between high school and university).. while doing a smash, I landed badly on my foot.
I broke my right ankle while slipping in the damned stairs of my house.. took me 1 month to recover... that was 3 years ago... thank god for that one, I missed one wedding preparation course (stupid catholic church has that!) :p
I'm not giving others.. but let's say I've been unlucky in sports...
[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: That PJ O'Rourke story about driving fast while getting your wing-wang squeezed was the first story I ever read of his in National Lampoon, I didn't know it wound up in one of his books.
republican Party Reptile i think...which I bought based on wilson's reccomendation on OSM!
Funniest bit is probably "high speed performance characteristics of pick up trucks"
AgentWood wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: Are you a cat Christy?
--damn! you gave it away!
--all cats here. agent W- got a scare that looks like it's from staple-gun- beneath my left eye from when I was four, over at family friends and thought that their cat was perfect western-horse size.it bite me and have since been told that the cat was sick, old and cranky.
Melly- sht. my dad has drilled his finger nails too. he flipped an old TR- Triuumph open convertable and has a back etched by the bridge.
Daver- is that you in your Avatar. by X-Ray think that they've said all of my fingers have been broken. wrist a couple of times. volleyball, biking that sort of thing. have a couple scars that may tattooed to look like an anchor. not sure. a fun one is that by an MRI- they've said that a disc in my back is wrong from ( think) jumping out trees and whatnot when younger. 
Spotnick wrote: Let's see..
- I had my right hand reconstructed because it went into the chain of a training bike when I was 4.. it was 1977, so it had spike and everything... I still have scars on my little finger and in the palm of my hand.
That reminds me of one that I'm surprised I forgot.
When I was seven, I tore up the middle finger of my right hand quite badly while fixing my bike chain. It was all my friend's fault, since he gave the pedal a crank while my fingers were still tinkering with the gears. The results were pretty nasty -- I remember wearing a big honking bandage over my finger to school for the next week or so.
Seventeen years later, he plays for the NHL and I'm an undergrad bum. No justice!
Let's see...
Knocked a tooth out when I was in 5th grade; stepped over a kid on the field at the same time that he stood up.
Scar on my chin; I was pulling a nail with a crowbar when the nail head broke, and the crowbar jammed up into my chin. Then, a couple years later, I had a car accident and split my scar open on the steering wheel. :)
Knee used to hurt in cold weather because I was swinging a hammer once, missed the nail, and hit my knee HARD instead.
Scar on my thumb from when I was cutting wood with a power saw, and the saw grabbed the wood, pulling my hand into the saw. I was wearing gloves, and all I could see was blood. Did NOT want to see trhe results underneath, but when i pulled the glove off, thankfully I still had my thumb. This was years ago, and I've finally got most of the feeling back in my thumb. :)
Years before I cut that thumb, I jammed a sliver under that thumbnail. The sliver ran from the tip of the nail all the way to the first knuckle. :)
Years ago, I had both wrists badly sprained. I fell on one wrist while sparring, and about a week or so later, went over the handlebars on my bike when I took a curb at the wrong angle, and sprained the other wrist. Took months before they healed.
Broke a knuckle when I broke a board in Tae Kwon Do.
Whiplash injury remaining from when my car was rear-ended.
Then there's the time I fell while playing footie in the snow on a mountaintop in Serbia. Landed on my back, and when I tried to get up, I couldn't; I had dislocated my shoulder. I popped it back in, but it dislocated seven times in two days. The last time, I finally had to go to the hospital. Traveled home through Europe with one arm and four bags. :)
Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head...
Comrade Shampanyov wrote: jammed a sliver under that thumbnail. The sliver ran from the tip of the nail all the way to the first knuckle. ..
edit- fck- just read old Monkey's smashed eye socket and cheek bone.
uugh. :baloon: and Daver your fingers in the gears. ouch. the time between- accident and any medical attention.--adds a whole new angle.
Three stitches above my right eye when I was 5. Running around a freshly planted tree and tripped on a wire holding it up and landing on a rail road spike that anchored the wire.
Fratured three bones in my left foot while climbing on billboards at the age of 6. My friends were able to jump to the other one but I was scared and decided to jump off instead. During my descent I reasoned that I should land on my left foot because I was right handed and thus my right side was superior. God that was stupid. Had to walk 3 miles on it to my friends house. Spent the summer in a cast.
Several stitches on a finger (too dark to see scar) after slicing it while cutting fish.
Nice scar on right side of head (hair covers it but visible if hair is cut short). Friend decides to roll his father's 4x4 Chevy truck. Probably should have had stitches but begged for butterfly tape instead.
Sliced right hand index finger in the above incident. Probably should have had stitches but begged for butterfly tape instead. Still very visible after 25 years.
Another one I forgot about is the time a rooster attacked me, leaving some very visible scars on the inside of my right wrist.
Looks a bit like I tried to kill myself.
We ate the rooster.
Only two that are notable:
broke out my front tooth, drunk and racing shopping carts down a really steep hill. . .not too smart (10 years ago)
Crooked nose from a fight I had when a guy sweerved his car purposefully at my wife, because he "thought it was funny". Guy got a lucky swing, but I sent him to the hospital for 6 stiches and a busted nose (his blood was everywhere).
JHC
Broken hand (fight) Broken nose (fight) Broken nose (carrying my mate on my shoulders, legs went, own knee in face) Scar above left eye (fight) Nasty scar on thumb (Finding out that you can't open beer bottles by knocking them against a brick wall)
Nothing really exciting. Probably much worse internal damage that won't be seen until the post-mortem!
BIGINOIL wrote: Broken hand (fight) Broken nose (fight) Broken nose (carrying my mate on my shoulders, legs went, own knee in face) Scar above left eye (fight) Nasty scar on thumb (Finding out that you can't open beer bottles by knocking them against a brick wall)
Nothing really exciting. Probably much worse internal damage that won't be seen until the post-mortem!
People please note that Colin (a) lives in Aberdeen, (b) used to live in Manchester. Context is everything.
Talking of Aberdeen, we've just been offered a gig up there. Would have to be either a great payer or part of a small Scottish tour though - Glasgow and Embra promoters get in touch pronto!
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
BIGINOIL wrote: Broken hand (fight) Broken nose (fight) Broken nose (carrying my mate on my shoulders, legs went, own knee in face) Scar above left eye (fight) Nasty scar on thumb (Finding out that you can't open beer bottles by knocking them against a brick wall)
Nothing really exciting. Probably much worse internal damage that won't be seen until the post-mortem!
People please note that Colin (a) lives in Aberdeen, (b) used to live in Manchester. Context is everything.
out of the fire into the frying pan!!!!
I break my injuries down into 2 categories-
oldmonkey wrote: Talking of Aberdeen, we've just been offered a gig up there. Would have to be either a great payer or part of a small Scottish tour though - Glasgow and Embra promoters get in touch pronto!
thats weird. I was thinking about whether you would ever play in aberdeen only yesterday. If I knew any promoters anywhere else in scotland I'd give them a shout. Alas I don't.
Not many injuries with a story except..travelling down middle of the main street in Newark at about 3am being pushed in a supermarket trolley. The driver (of the trolley) didn't see the pavement ahead and when the trolley hit it I went up in the air and landed on my back. Very painful and bruised. Couldn't sit down for a bloody long time.
Plantation wrote:
oldmonkey wrote: Talking of Aberdeen, we've just been offered a gig up there. Would have to be either a great payer or part of a small Scottish tour though - Glasgow and Embra promoters get in touch pronto!
thats weird. I was thinking about whether you would ever play in aberdeen only yesterday. If I knew any promoters anywhere else in scotland I'd give them a shout. Alas I don't.
I shall have to ask GlasVegas if he's got any contacts! As for Embra, it'll be over to Ally to source something.....
