Most freak injury you've had

Shot through my hand with a pressure washer while cleaning my boat.

Flipped over my bike handlebars in 8th grade and got a bad concussion. Thinking back I was in spinal shock for about 90 seconds and couldn't move my arms or legs. Finally regained movement in my limbs and rode my bike home which I do not remember doing. Was probably just a fraction away from a spinal cord injury. Gives me chills to think about it now.

I was standing still on a wooden deck and blew out a flip flop sandal.

Broke my hand by hitting a door frame while playing a virtual reality boxing game.

Snapped my arm in half the next to last day of 8th grade playing kickball. We were playing on the practice football fields and just using little rubber mats as the bases. Kicked a pop fly to the kid in LF. He was camped under it. I got to 1B as soon as the ball got to him and he dropped it. I tried to turn on a dime, base slid out from under me, I went down and instinctively put my arm out to catch myself. Snap.

New refrigerator. The top is slightly convex and slick. We used to keep wine bottles on top of the fridge. Every little opening or closing of the door would have them slide closer to the edge one half millimeter at a time. I didn't know this at the time, figured it out later after eliminating the poltergeist theory. One quiet morning I close the refrigerator, and a wine bottle fell onto the counter right next to me and I jumped so high I gave myself turf toe that still lingers to this day, about 5 years later. Simply walking was incredibly painful for about 6 months.

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Woman broke my heart once. It never really healed.

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Mary Ellen Moffat?

I was lifting weights - doing EZ bar curls - while getting ready to go to work at Big Star bagging groceries

This was in 1988. Something popped in my neck and I was stuck with my head turned sideways. Couldn't move it.

Ambulance came and was heading from Many to Shreveport, and whatever it was....went away. I got to go back home.

Bathing my infant, kneeling next to tub, pulled the towel off the hook above my head. The set screw on the hook had worked loose, the hook connected to this decorative sconce type thing come loose from the mounting plate come down with the towel. This thing all together weighs like half a lb.

It lands with the very tip of the hook down directly on the nail of my second toe. Swelled up like a grape, turned purple/black all over, and the nail fell off three days later.