[Jawbone54]

The broken toe thread got me thinking about all the injuries that I've had in my life (not a lot, but funny stories, some of them). I was wondering how many broken bones, sprains, etc. that everyone has had in here.

Here's my list.

Broken nose when I was two
Right pinky toe broken twice
Left pinky toe broken once
Separated shoulder (basketball game)
Sprained wrist (actually the second worst pain I've ever had, believe it or not - basketball)
Blood clot in my right quad (basketball tournament)
Two severe sprains (right ankle - basketball)
Minor sprain (left ankle - basketball)
Half of front tooth knocked out (got hit in the face with a metal crutch)
Concussion (not basketball)
Broken right pinky (yep...basketball)...still not fully healed
Hyperextended left knee ("backyard" football)

What about you guys?

[Demonhood]

basketball is a dangerous dangerous sport jaw. one of the most spectacular injuries i've seen was during that game. but that wasn't mine, so i'll save that story for another day.

Too many minor sprains to list
Severely sprained ankle (basketball)
10 stitches total
-3 in right foot in the webbing between toes (hot glass)
-3 in right knee (sharp edged bathroom)
-1 in left hand (knife)
-3 medically related
Separated shoulder (extreme dinner)
Dislocated shoulder (hockey)
Dislocated shoulder (racquetball. twice)
Mild concussion (hockey)
Black eye (baseball)
Black eye (grade school playground)
Black eye (fight)
Bruised tailbone (hockey)
Ocular migraines (not really an injury, but since they hurt more than any of the others on here, i thought i'd include it)

and probably more i'm forgetting.

[Railroader]

I had a vasectomy this summer.

One piece of advice I have for any man thinking of the same thing: Don't take vicodin if it constipates you. you do NOT want to be constipated after a vasectomy.

[ghporter]

The worst pain I've ever had was in the aftermath of minor surgery in my mouth-I had a crushed salivary gland removed from inside my lower lip, and I thought I was going to die from the pain.

Another "great" one is acid reflux combined with cardiac sphincter malfunction. The valve at the top of your stomach, the cardiac sphincter, sometimes loses coordination-similar to when you lose sync when swallowing. Combine that with reflux and you've got a wonderful recipe for BAD pain.

On the other hand, after laser eye surgery, I had "discomfort" on the order of conjunctivitis rather than pain. A lot of people have much worse perceived pain from this procedure.

I have a pretty high pain tolerance-probably from long exposure-but there are some things that I just do not want to even try to tough out.

Now the list:
As Demonhood mentioned, too many minor sprains (mostly ankles) to list
Crushed middle toe, now fused at the middle joint
8 stitches in the base of my thumb from a "laceration" that opened a inch-long gash almost down to the bone
1 stitch on my forehead, one in my right eyebrow, and three on my scalp for accidents I don't remember because I was a little kid at the time
I don't know how many stitches for a 2 inch gash in my lower leg caused by glass falling from a second storey window
a number of other cuts and lacerations that should have been sutured but weren't
Chronic pain from
- over sprained ankles bilaterally
- bilateral knee strains to include both bursitis and tendonitis (at least I have my ACLs and PCLs intact!)
- bilateral hip bursitis
- "chronic lower back strain diagnosed as degenerative disk disease" (per the VA)
-- THIS ONE is the most difficult chronic issue I deal with, because it incapacitates me every now and then
Bursitis/tendonitis in my right shoulder
Carpal tunnel syndrome (currently not an issue) in my right wrist
And I'm probably forgetting a bunch too.

And with all that, I would probably not be up to childbirth. That's what my wife says, anyway.

[Eriamjh]

Originally Posted by Railroader

I had a vasectomy this summer.

One piece of advice I have for any man thinking of the same thing: Don't take vicodin if it constipates you. you do NOT want to be constipated after a vasectomy.

You had to take vicodin after a vasectomy? What a p**sy! I was sore, but I didn't even need to take aspirin. Went to work two days later.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Eriamjh

You had to take vicodin after a vasectomy? What a p**sy! I was sore, but I didn't even need to take aspirin. Went to work two days later.

Whateva!

I took the vicodin because I went to a hack for a urologist. I only took a couple before the solution became worse than the problem. And the vicodin didn't do a thing for the pain. Just made me constipated.

I have a huge level of pain tolerance. One thing you learn working with others on heavy equipment is that you will get hurt by them eventually. I've had 100+ lb. gears dropped on my foot. One crushed the steel toe in my boot and I had to pry it open to release my toes.

I played four year of football, two years of rugby, 6 years of wrestling... sprained, cracked, and twisted nearly everything. No complaints.

The hack urologist put me in my only true pain in life.

Oh, and I had a bad tooth ache once that required a root canal. But my vasectomy was bad. real bad.

[DeathToWindows]

Hit my tailbone on a metal pipe...

[KeriVit]

Pain so bad I can think of nothing else:

The state I was in due a degenerated disc in my back L5-S1 for 6 months before I finally got fused.

So intense at times I would spasm and pass out. Oxcontin didn't even touch it.

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Well one thing I don't think I have ever mentioned on here, is how I am a gimp:

I was born with severe extensive club feet. The short explanation is that your feet are backwards and the TOP of your foot lays flat again the BACK on your ankle.

In my life I've had approx 13 surgies on each foot to correct it (Today most people don't know unless I tell them).

So each one of those was pretty bad. But there are a few that stand out.

One time the hospital accidently gave me too much morphine. This is not as fun as you may think, and when you're 12 it pretty damm scary. This applies as mental/pshycological pain.

then there was the 19 pin surgery. Each pin was only temporary and once my bones has heeled toghether they were removed....while I was awake.

Outside of my foot thing there was:

When I was 18, I had my wisdom teeth removed. Since They were severly impacted and one was caught on an adult molaI have a scarr that never desceneded resulting in it starting to come out in my nasal passage. End result, until it heeled I had a huge hole that ran from the side of my mouth, through my cheek bone into my nose. It bled for weeks.

I have a scar on my from where my mom bit me when she was drunk (You don't want to know the details of this one)

I have a scar from whereI caught my hand in a small boulder I was helping someone move.

Finally there years of mental anquish from my family.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by mac-at-kearsarge

Well one thing I don't think I have ever mentioned on here, is how I am a gimp:

I was born with severe extensive club feet. The short explanation is that your feet are backwards and the TOP of your foot lays flat again the BACK on your ankle.

In my life I've had approx 13 surgies on each foot to correct it (Today most people don't know unless I tell them).

So each one of those was pretty bad. But there are a few that stand out.

One time the hospital accidently gave me too much morphine. This is not as fun as you may think, and when you're 12 it pretty damm scary. This applies as mental/pshycological pain.

then there was the 19 pin surgery. Each pin was only temporary and once my bones has heeled toghether they were removed....while I was awake.

Outside of my foot thing there was:

When I was 18, I had my wisdom teeth removed. Since They were severly impacted and one was caught on an adult molaI have a scarr that never desceneded resulting in it starting to come out in my nasal passage. End result, until it heeled I had a huge hole that ran from the side of my mouth, through my cheek bone into my nose. It bled for weeks.

I have a scar on my from where my mom bit me when she was drunk (You don't want to know the details of this one)

I have a scar from whereI caught my hand in a small boulder I was helping someone move.

Finally there years of mental anquish from my family.

You win.

Makes my testes story lame. And I am talking about my testicles.

[SeSawaya]

severe 2nd degree burn on my right leg when I was 13.

left hand pinky ripped off and reattached. Now it is in the shape of a hook (bizzare drumming accident)

planters wart burned off my foot (that REALLY hurt!!!!)

a back muscle that wakes me up everyday after 6 hours of sleep.

I really think I had 2 fractured arms when I was 12. They hurt SO bad and for so long after a biking wreck. SHould've check that one out I think.... ;^)

[Kevin]

Tonsils out when I was 3.

Had tubes put in my ears multiple times.

Nothing broken. Stitches a few times.

I did hurt my lower back pretty bad when I was 14 racing BMX

[JoshuaZ]

Nothing broken. 4 Wisdom Teeth removed (one dry socket). Sinus surgery when I was 13.

[IceEnclosure]

40 stitches right on my brow above my eyes, centered. Deviated septum/broken nose. (car accident) (SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES)

18 stitches in lip (12 inside, 6 outside) (wake-boarding accident)

Popped open my chin one time skateboarding (I could see bone or something, should've gotten stitches)

Got a 3 inch splinter in my ass from a half-pipe, had to go to the hospital to get it removed. I went to the hospital in my baseball uniform because I had to pitch that night. I hit the first batter I think.

Tons of knee, ankle, elbow blood has been shed from this body of mine. Skateboarding.

Got bit on the hand by a prarie dog. Shoulda, but no stitches.

No real broken bones though. : )

[Cody Dawg]

The worst pain I've ever had was this summer. I have had THE WORST morning sickness from pregnancy that resulted in acid sores in my throat, vomiting blood, and finally, a perforated gall bladder from vomiting so much (about 20 times a day - sometimes I couldn't catch my breath because of non-stop wretching). One night I had to go to the hospital and get morphine to breathe because just taking a breath meant excruciating pain. I remember laying there and thinking, "Now I understand why people in severe pain want to die...just to get away from the pain." Turns out that my gall bladder had perforated from vomiting.

[Kr0nos]

Severe burns on my leg and foot knocking over a pot of boiling water when I was 3.
Broke my wrist swinging on a cross-bar and falling directly onto my arm when I was 8.
Sprained my ankle more often than I can remember playing team-handball.
Twisted/broke my ankle 180° (bones sticking out and all) skateboarding at 21.
Seriously sprained or broke a shoulder blade snowboarding (severed some nerves).
Cracked a rib playing hockey 3 years ago.

The worst pain ever though is toothache in general. Nothing really compares.
I had my wisdom-teeth removed a couple of years ago. Everything was fine until the painkillers wore off. NO FUN!

[IceEnclosure]

On that note, my worst pain ever I guess was weeks before having my wisdom teeth removed.

Infection apparently was spreading beyond my jaw from a tooth that needed yanking. Incredible pain that came in waves and was retarded. I went to get antibiotics and that helped almost immediately, and until I got surgery.

[Gossamer]

Hm...I'm quite a pansy when it comes to this.
-No stitches
-Broke my left ankle when the wimpiest friend I have tackled me for fun, ended up missing the rest of my senior cross country season, and we didn't make it to state
-Sprained/broke that ankle playing basketball again last summer. Severe pain, still hurts even now, months later, so I don't know what to think...I just remember the loud pop when I landed.
-Severe jaw pain, happening right now. Probably wisdom teeth, probably should get those checked out...haven't been to the dentist in a couple years.

[Madison]

I've never broken anything, but being an industrial equipment mechanic, I've twisted, sprained, strained, stretched, ripped, and hurt virtually every part of my anatomy. HOWEVER, none of it compares to the pain I went through when I passed a kidney stone about 6 years ago. Woke me up from a sound sleep and had me on the floor curled up in a ball in 10 minutes. That was the worst agony I've ever encountered.

Tom

[alligator]

Had my appendix removed.

42 stitches in my ear from a dog bite when I was 6.

6 stitches in my forehead from a fall playing games.

Crashed my bike coming home from driver's ed when I was 15. Scraped almost all the skin off my face and back. You couldn't tell now though, the body does a great job at healing. I couldn't see out of one swollen eye for a week.

Broke a finger doing a backflip.

I guess it's lucky we are all still alive! My kids better not do what I've done.

[tboparis]

Am I the only one who never had injuries that go beyond a broken pinky?

[Oisín]

Wow. I’ve always known I’m quite a pansy in these sorts of things—but never just how much!

I’ve never broken anything. I’ve also never sprained anything.

I’ve had an appendicectomy. Had two molars pulled when I was about 10 or so—under full anaesthesia, so I didn’t feel a thing. That’s about it, surgery-wise.

I’ve also managed to crack (split? What’s the proper word here?) both my eyebrows: one when I was one year old, and one when I was about 13 or so.

First one happened because I was apparently very eager and over-excited about the fact that I was walking so freely and unrestrainedly that I somehow managed to miss the fact that I was walking freely and unrestrainedly smack into a table. Dumb.

Second one was after a week of project-making and very little sleep. We’d just finished presenting our project, and I was biking home (again, freely and unrestrainedly) when, due to being half asleep on my bike, I once again failed to realise that, once again, I was freely and unrestrainedly moving directly towards a rather large obstacle in my way, this time a car with a trailer full of soda bottles. Took a nice little flying trip over the handle bar of my bike, and thwacked my head on one of the boxes with bottles. Climbed back down on to the road hoping desperately that no one had seen that (how embarassing). Of course, not only had someone seen it, someone in the car had seen it, and came running out, looking very worried about it. I told her I was fine, but she didn’t seem to believe me. When I tried blinking and subsequently looked down my jacket, I sort of realised why: I was covered in blood. Okay, maybe not so fine, then. A few stitches later, and I was right as rain, though rain with a rainbow-coloured left eye.

[Zeeb]

Originally Posted by Railroader

Whateva!

I took the vicodin because I went to a hack for a urologist. I only took a couple before the solution became worse than the problem. And the vicodin didn't do a thing for the pain. Just made me constipated.

I have a huge level of pain tolerance. One thing you learn working with others on heavy equipment is that you will get hurt by them eventually. I've had 100+ lb. gears dropped on my foot. One crushed the steel toe in my boot and I had to pry it open to release my toes.

I played four year of football, two years of rugby, 6 years of wrestling... sprained, cracked, and twisted nearly everything. No complaints.

The hack urologist put me in my only true pain in life.

Oh, and I had a bad tooth ache once that required a root canal. But my vasectomy was bad. real bad.

Your story will give me nightmares about evil doctors--are you ok and is everything working correctly now?

[ghporter]

Wow, I really did forget stuff. Like burns. Flame on, Johnnie!!

I learned the hard way that propane is NOT the same as natural gas. Lighting a water heater should be approached with caution. I burned my left hand up past my wrist and lost my eyebrows (which came back funny-if I don't trim them I can pass as an old-school Russian diplomat or a Mentat). While I now know that codiene and I don't get along, I found out that it also didn't touch the pain from that burn. So I didn't get any real sleep that night AND I had a nasty hangover from the pills.

[Oisín]

That reminds me (I’m bored, with too much time to kill):

One of the doctors at work told a story a couple of weeks ago about his latest travel home on a plane. While he was reading his newspaper, a flight attendant came running down the aisle asking if there was “a doctor in the house” (well, on the plane). He said he was a doctor and followed her up to the front of the plane.

Here’s what had happened: a flight attendant had accidentally dropped a cup of coffee she was handing to a woman passenger. The hot coffee had spilt into the woman’s lap and had, obviously, given her a nasty burn.

Now, what do you think the genius flight attendants did to minimise the burning and alleviate the pain? Yup, you guessed it (or rather, you probably didn’t): they went to the food cabinets in the back of the plane, where the meals served on board are kept cold, took out some of the dry ice element thingies, and put dry ice on the burn. Yes, they put solid carbon dioxide on a burn wound—on the outside of the woman’s jeans!

Result: when ‘our’ doctor got there, the woman was writhing in pain, because the dry ice had both worsened the original burn and made sure her jeans were now firmly burned into her skin.

You’d think being a flight attendant would require at least basic first-aid skills!

[ghporter]

Aaarrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!!

I suggest finding out what airline that was and AVOIDING IT FOREVER AND EVER!

[Oisín]

That’s just the thing: it was SAS, which is (or used to be, at least, before their financial difficulties) known as one of the very best airline companies in this part of the world!

[dcmacdaddy]

When I was 8 or 9 I had an allergic reaction to mold where the white of my eye swelled out and around the cornea; Apparently I looked like a mutant and when my Mom saw me I got driven to the emergency room at 80-mph in an old Chrysler station wagon that couldn't go 80-mph

Dislocated left shoulder--I am left-handed--when I slipped on the stairs and "caught" myself by grabbing the banister; I was 12 or 13 and I "throw like a girl" as a result

Gushing head-wound from getting hit in the head by a thrown stick at age 13
(It took only two stitches to close up the opening but my head was covered in blood; The school nurse who first saw me almost fainted)

Broken left wrist at 14

Around 21 going through alcohol detox (the pain was mostly mental)

Broke left wrist again at 28 when I got side-swipped by a car on my bicycle

At 33 banged up my right knee playing soccer (The WORST physical pain I have ever felt; It would make me nauseous and faint-headed the pain was so bad)

At 35 banged up the same knee again--even though I was wearing a knee brace--while on a backpacking trip in Shenandoah National Park

There have been plenty of cuts, scrapes, and scratches, which resulted in small scars but no major scars or wounds

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Zeeb

Your story will give me nightmares about evil doctors--are you ok and is everything working correctly now?

The plumbing works perfectly I am happy to report. Just the tiniest of scars on my scrotum.

[freudling]

My list:

Two Hernias on each side of my scrotum
Removal of Adnoids
Broken Clavicle from open ice hit (ice hockey)
Sprained right thumb twice
Two concussions
Whip lash
Pinched sciatic nerve
Hair-line fracture (Tibia) where the skin was deeply cut open close to the bone
Smashed chin from diving backwards into a pool and hitting my chin on the poolside
Damaged eardrum from plane travel

[medicineman]

I remember the girl who broke my heart in highschool.

[Jawbone54]

Forgot to add...

Bruised elbow (skateboarding)
Tonsils removed at 6 years old
4 wisdom teeth removed

I also had my appendix removed. One morning I woke up and doubled over with pain. My mom said, "Oh, Ryan, it's just gas. Go sit on the toilet!"

I knew it wasn't gas. I went, got online while grabbing my midsection, and googled appendicitis. It said that the pain is usually at the halfway point between the navel and the right hip bone. It said to press and then release. If you feel any pain at the release, then you might have appendicitis. I reached down, pressed, and released. I fell on the floor in pain. When I finally got up, I walked to my dad and said, "Dad, we have to go to the hospital. I have appendicitis."

Two hours later I was in surgery.

Demonhood, what are ocular migraines?

[drmbb2]

Worst pain I ever had was a pulmonary embolism. Like someone driving a pick-ax into your chest.

Almost as bad was the pain of my heart attack about the time I got to the emergency department - 5 shots of morphine did nothing to that. The pain only left when they finally got my blocked artery recanalized.

A few months later, I had an emergency bypass surgery when a followup catheterization/STENT procedure went flooey. Waking up with the breathing tube in place and a some steel wires holding your sternum together hurts - almost on a par with the PE.

The only bones I've ever broken were my collar bone as a kid, and cracked a couple of ribs once - those were mellow in comparison though.

Never any major burns either - the thought of a really bad burn really sets me teeth on edge.

[yakkiebah]

When i was a kid i lost the last part of my middle finger, the "distal phalanx". It got crushed while my brother was trying to destroy a rock while i was attempting to get something(a toy) behind it. After a month it turned black and died and they had to remove it. On the plus side it saves me time when cutting my nails.

And both of my lungs collapsed, each a year apart.

[Mithras]

Well, mac-at-kearsarge "wins" this thread for sure.
So would Cody or any other moms, I guess.