You dont know true pain until....

[frustratedearthmother]

GG's story reminded me of another one... I was showing some goats to a prospective customer when I tried to squeeze myself between two posts. Only problem was that there was a bent over nail on one of the posts and I kinda, sorta impaled myself on that bent over nail...right in the a$..I mean the top of my hip. Thankfully, my customer was a guy I know pretty well - and he's a nurse.

I literally had to slide myself off of the nail...bleeding to beat the band. Nurse/customer wants to jump into action and I had to tell him no matter how well I knew him he wasn't gonna look at my....hip! Geeze...thankfully it was within a month or so of me stepping on a nail so I didn't have to get ANOTHER tetanus booster.

Accident prone? Who - me?

 

[babsbag]

I have so many of them that I just have to block the memory of most of them or I would be afraid to leave the house. Mia gave me a black eye last summer, she raised her head quickly to see me the same time a bent over to hug her and I got her canine tooth on the bone under my eye, it was black for over a week. That girl always has her mouth open

I was at TSC and volunteered to help load some stock panels on my trailer. As I went to step over my hitch I caught my foot on the electrical harness and literally did a face/elbow plant on the concrete; couldn't catch myself at all. I was so embarrassed since I had just told the guy "I can help load...I'm a country girl". That one took months to get full movement back in my elbow.

And then the simple step up onto a bale of hay and tore the meniscus in my knee. That one sent me to the emergency room. I was supposed to have surgery but changed my mind when the consulting surgeon was looking at the x-ray of the wrong knee...not kidding. I decided then and there that he wasn't touching me and I would take my chances. That has been about 3 years and I baby it quite a bit, had to stop agility with my dogs, and probably the reason that I trip over things like rocks.

Farm life is dangerous.

 

[Alexz7272]

Whelp, I'm new to this farming life, I guess I have a lot to look forward to

 

[goats&moregoats]

Nails get me a lot, fencing certainly did it's number on me when I was installing it. Tripped several times last year. Seems every time I fell one knee cap or another found a small rock. Damn, that hurts again just thinking about it. Nasty little jolts 5 times this year from the 7000 volt fence. Hope my memory improves soon. Keep forgetting when it's on while doing farm chores..lol. One of the roughest for me (seems like nothing compared to several I have read) is when Grub & Jethro the 100 lb puppies decide that they indeed need to jump on me as I am trying to enter the gate, I turn my back to them and both their nails rake right down my back. My daughter said it looked like someone raked a bed of nails a crossed me...burn!

 

[Horse1029]

Having a draft horse step on my entire foot with its HUGE hoof -_- still loved the horse, even though I almost broke my toes!

 

[Mike CHS]

I cannot imagine that with the size of those horses.

 

[TAH]

Babs, these are not the normal yellow jackets that build the grey paper nests under eaves and such. Killing the yellow jackets that build the paper nests is super easy with the spray that HD or Lowes sell.

The yellow jackets that live in the ground are called Yellow Jacket Subterranean Wasps. And they are incredibly mean if you step on their nests, go near their nests, or plow their nests as I did. It is a good idea to diligently walk and scan the area you plan to plow. The only effective way I have seen these nests killed is with a special dust insecticide.


It hurt, but the good news is, now the bee stings don't seem to hurt at all compared to the yellow jacket stings!

How did you get stung by 7 at one time?

We had woods behind our house. One time we went hiking out there and some how crossed a nest and paid for it.

 

[Southern by choice]

This is for all of you that have found that hitch

 

[micah wotring]

Wow
I am happy to say that I've lived a pretty good life so far.

Once I hit a jump wrong on our honda 250ex and me and the four wheeler went flying into the air. It slammed me into a tree. My head didn't get hurt and within a few minutes I was fine.

That's really the worst I've gotten hurt aside from the occasional bruise(yes, from hitches).

Oh, I forgot, when I was like 5 or 6 I fell off a bunk bed and slammed my face into concrete. My face was entirely black and I couldn't see for several days because of the swelling. I was unconscious for a few minutes and scared mom half to death. I don't remember any of that second one but I've seen pix and heard stories.

Had several bucks hook me but I've been fine. Nothing big.

 

[Alexz7272]

@micah wotring I have a cousin that is no agriculturally inclined or at all a 'tomboy' as I was/am. I reluctantly let her drive the 4-Wheeler after her begging me and my bot cousins to let her. BAD CHOICE! She forgot there was an irrigation canal/ditch around the front of my uncle property and drove into it. Full speed. I was on the back, she went flying forward and I jumped off and pushed the 4Wheeler back as it was trying to fall backwards on me
We stupidly let her try once again and she ran into a tree. That was the last time