gettin too old for this kind of crap

[AClark]

@Southern by choice - Nobody wants to admit broken bones done in goofy ways. DH broke his pinky toe a few weeks back, he stubbed it on the corner of the wall.
I think my favorite "stupid" break was my right arm. I was 8 years old, grandma called me in from playing for dinner, I ran across the yard and tripped over a dog food bowl, landed with my arm bent under me.

I have plenty of "hold my beer and watch this" injuries. Extra cool points if I didn't spill my beer.

 

[Sourland]

Extra cool points indeed.

 

[lcertuche]

Our little old neighbor lady fell in her yard and when everyone ran over to check on her I was running with the phone in case we needed to call an ambulance when I felt a small rock and felt a bone in my left foot break. I then tried to keep from falling and somehow broke my right ankle in three place, broke my fibula. My foot was turned around backwards with the bone pointing out. The neighbor lady was fine but we called an ambulance for me. A whole year of wheelchair, crutches, walking boots, doctor visits, three surgeries later and then I was walking again. My son complains about having to spend 6 more weeks in his cast and crutches.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Holy Cow! That hadta hurt!

 

[Sheepshape]

I largely have the animals to blame.

A couple of years ago, angry billy goat (small, huge horns, VERY temperamental), decided I hadn't fed him quickly enough for which I deserved to be head butted. I saw him in the nick of time and ran.......oh God.....somebody has shot me in the calf !.....NO....sudden severe pain was a torn gastrocnemius muscle in the calf. Huge swelling....off to the hospital....torn muscle and calf/ankle bleeding. HUGE lump over Achilles tendon due to the bleeding. Arm crutches, 'walking boot'......pain got worse, swelling huge.

4 weeks later, physio not happy, ice packs not taking sweeping down, still barely able to put foot to the ground. Review appointment arranged. In the meantime...."try to walk to reduce the swelling over the Achilles tendon". Walked after a fashion down 200yard drive walking boot and arm crutches in place. At the end of the drive ...."Aaaargh....shot in the heel....NO Achilles tendon had ruptured. Sort of crawled back to the house. Hospital, 3 months non-weight bearing plaster and arm crutches. Developed a DVT, found to be warfarin resistant. Painful heel neuropathy.....eventually improved.

So......Mr Billy Goat's late breakfast meant I was off my feet for 6 months. And the billy goat....he is no more....enough was enough.

So to all of you who hurt yourselves out there.....my deepest sympathies, particularly if, like Icertuche you were being a Good Samaritan!

 

[greybeard]

Our little old neighbor lady fell in her yard and when everyone ran over to check on her I was running with the phone in case we needed to call an ambulance when I felt a small rock and felt a bone in my left foot break. I then tried to keep from falling and somehow broke my right ankle in three place, broke my fibula. My foot was turned around backwards with the bone pointing out. The neighbor lady was fine but we called an ambulance for me. A whole year of wheelchair, crutches, walking boots, doctor visits, three surgeries later and then I was walking again. My son complains about having to spend 6 more weeks in his cast and crutches.

Proving once again, that old adage of: No good deed ever goes unpunished.

 

[Southern by choice]

... also no horns on goats- unless they are kikos

 

[Devonviolet]

runaway barbed wire?
Mauled by a mountain lion?
Chased up a tree by a bear?
Drug thru mesquite by a rank old cow?
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No, bicycle wreck at 20mph.

I wuz goin down the hill doin 20 miles an hour when my foot on the left pedal slipped...
and they found me in the wreck with my hand still on the gearshift and a new pair of Wranglers ripped..

this too shall pass.......

OUCH!!!! That had to hurt!

When my son was in high school, he loved to mountain bike. One evening, he was on a hill, outside of town, where the mountain biking youth spent time honing their skills. As he came down the hill at a pretty good clip, he went airborne (whaaHoooo!) but when he came down, his front tire hit a rock, which had the effect of a sudden, unplanned stop! Only he had so much momentum he started sumersaulting down the hill. He managed to limp home. No broken bones, but he was a bloody mess and his bike was unrideable.

At that time, I was in Nursing school, unemployed with no insurance. So, I headed for a local drugstore & bought $25 worth of bandages & patched him up the best I could. He has quite a few scars to show for it. Ah, the infallibility of youth!!!