Worst physical injury you've ever received.

[Shoe]

And how you received it if you'd like to share.

Mine would have to be where I got a long nail stuck in the underside of my right forearm, near the joint. I was playing tag with my friends, though I can't remember how old I was (somewhere between 6-8), and there were some boards on the side of the pool house in the backyard (I think it was part of an old fence or something). A nail was sticking out, and I was holding my arms out as I was running, then SHUCK, nail to the elbow pit. I'm pretty sure it was painful, but I can't remember it. There was blood though. Lots'a blood. I went to the hospital, and after that, it was like a dream. It wasn't though, and I have the scar to prove it.

[Yoshi]

Oh yeah I tried jumping backwards off of my swings about eleven years ago.

Unfortunately there was a pipe underneath and when I slipped off I fell on it and broke both wrists at once.

It sucked.

[DanteEX]

I jumped down from my neigbor's wall in the backyard, and my eye almost fell directly on a rusty, sawed-off pipe.

[Daft Yoshi³]

I was hit by a high speed dog when I was about 5 or so, and managed to break my elbow. That was painful.

[Toshi]

Fractured skull.

[Rackinac]

The weirdest was a small hammerhead bite, but it wasn't bad.

I would say an angry man pushing me over in Florida, thus going through the ordeals of surgery. A car accident I was in also rivals that.

[Sanjo]

The front wheel of my bike slipped into a 8 inch pot-hole, and it threw me off balance into the road. I ended up stopping my skid with my arm before I could reach oncoming traffic, but in the process, breaking both bones between my elbow and my wrist (ulna and radius). I avoided surgery, so I was happy that I just didn't slide into a car

[PinkFloydYoshi]

I've broken my arm twice and gashed my chin open too, but if there has to be a worst it would be the torn knee ligament. It's been a long time but I still suffer with it every now and then. There's a flap that pops out from where it sits most of the time and gets jammed between the bone joints and when I lift my leg it feels disgusting and aches and I have to rub it to get it back out of the joint. It's absolutely nasty.

[Moot]

Worst injury I ever had was where I managed to remove the majority of the skin on my elbows, through the magic of friction. Brilliantly, I only noticed this after I saw the blood trickling down both of my arms.

Whats even better is that both of them got infected so I was stuck spraying what felt like battery acid - more likely antiseptic - into the wound every day, and I got to wear a pair of really cumbersome dressings for a few weeks. They were great, because if you didn't put them on properly, or forgot to put a bandage over them to hold them down correctly, when I moved my arms in the right way I'd squeeze pus out of them.

That wasn't the best summer I've ever had.

[Twi]

Cracked my skull open by diving into a radiator when I was like 2. Still have the scar. Right on my forehead.

[Sanjo]

Aug 20, 2008 18:27:50 GMT -5 PinkFloydYoshi said:

There's a flap that pops out from where it sits most of the time and gets jammed between the bone joints and when I lift my leg it feels disgusting and aches and I have to rub it to get it back out of the joint. It's absolutely nasty.

Jeeze, that is insane! I mean, my shoulder pops out every now and then and I'll have to place it back in (happens maybe once a day average), but that's just intense!

[Shoe]

Holy Moses...you guys are incredibly gross. Those are some pretty amazing injuries, some more than others...I'll let you guess how I mean by that. I suppose it depends how you look at it.

[Moot]

Aug 21, 2008 16:24:29 GMT -5 Shoe said:

I suppose it depends how you look at it.

I can tell you for free you wouldn't want to look directly at the aftermath of my elbows :V

[PinkFloydYoshi]

Yeah, torn ligaments are nasty. They are essentially what hold your knee together and if I remember the lecture I was given there are seven of them and if you tear one of them it releases all the cartileage and your knee inflates to the size of a football. They don't easily heal either and the thought of future problems is a concern as the guy who helped me a great deal with getting in to work again after a long period of unemployment suffered greatly with his knees. I owe the guy a great debt, I wouldn't be where I am right now without his help.

But anyway: I did it running through the hall when my left knee just bent sideways without warning or anything and I just fell right to the ground in agony before quickly picking myself back up again. Putting any sort of weight on that knee was instant pain.

...yes, I hopped around hoping it would get better eventually for a week before finally taking my grandparents advice and going to the hospital, which my leg was splinted to stop me bending it and I was given crutches which I wasn't used to in the slightest.

I still remember when I originally arrived at the hospital I was given a wheelchair to sit in. I have to admit I feel sorry for anyone who has to put up with a wheelchair for longer than the three hours I stuck it. At least you'd win every single arm wrestling competition after two years of wheeling yourself around. It's horrible, you lose pretty much all your true freedom and independance.

[Electrometer Prime]

Butcher knife into hand, because I was using it to try and open a Vacume sealed package. Those things really are dangerous(Or I'm just stupid).

[Masakuni]

Cut myself with a saw during ag class one time in 8th grade.

[Enrique]

I had 4 stitches in my forehead for running into a doorknob when I was 6 years old.

Other than that, a sprained ankle I had at the beginning of May. It sucked because it knocked out the majority of my golf season.

[Marik]

Ran into a pole when I was playing tag with my friends. I was about six. Cracked my head right open. Strangely enough, I didn't even feel it, and didn't even notice it until two girls started shreiking their heads off. THEN I noticed it. I mean, it hurt at first, when I ran into the pole, and then I didn't even feel it anymore, even though my head was split open. I had to get staples to seal my wound shut. Hurt like the devil when the doctor pulled them out though. Also, I fell from the top of the slide and bashed my tooth once. That also hurt like hell.

[Garr]

Hit a pothole on my bike.

Thrown forward, caught my full weight on my thumb.

It was the size of a cherry tomato at one point.

[Digi]

Elbowed a glass window in a door. It didn't hurt, but I did get sliced a few times. Had to get stitches. >.>