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re: Most freak injury you've had
Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:37 am to LanierSpots
Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:37 am to LanierSpots
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Trained 24 weeks for my first 70.3. From where I started, it was a major accomplishment. Over a year I went from 300 pounds to 210 and in great shape. Had someone training me and was on my way to Orlando to do the 70.3 in two days. Stepped off a curb in the Longhorns parking lot and snapped my ankle. Spent 5 months in a cast Just stepped wrong, twisted the ankle. Started to fall and stuck my leg out to catch myself and snapped the ankle a second time Tears were shed
Dang. Did a similar thing training for Eagleman 70.3 on 6/9. On Memorial Day, was doing a hard interval set on the bike. Roads were slightly wet from an overnight rain. Went through a round about at full gas, and the bike slid out. Broken ribs and broken wrist. The craziest thing was I slid a long ways yet did not get ANY road rash nor tore any clothing.
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Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:41 am to 32footsteps
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When my kid was 2 she slammed a Speak ‘n’ Spell into my balls and took out the one on the right,
Sounds like she didn’t want any more siblings and took matters into her own hands.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:48 am to Jim Rockford
I've got two stupid ones;
When I was 12-13, a friend and me thought it would be cool to put a lightning rod on top of my younger brother's wooden swingset. I hopped up there, probably about 15 feet off of the ground and was about to mount our tennis racquet lightning rod when lightning struck close to us. I about shite my pants, fell off and landed on my arm splitting the bone. Hurt like hell and my mom didn't believe it was broken, so she gave me a frozen capri sun to put on it. Finally talked her into taking me to the ER when she saw that my forearm was drooping.
When I was 11, I was trying to dunk on a little small 5 foot goal in our backyard. I went up for the dunk and my shin hit the side of the goal. Just thought that I bruised my shin, but when I put my hand down there it was full of blood. I had somehow hit a rusty screw on the side of the goal and cut my leg down to the bone.
When I was 12-13, a friend and me thought it would be cool to put a lightning rod on top of my younger brother's wooden swingset. I hopped up there, probably about 15 feet off of the ground and was about to mount our tennis racquet lightning rod when lightning struck close to us. I about shite my pants, fell off and landed on my arm splitting the bone. Hurt like hell and my mom didn't believe it was broken, so she gave me a frozen capri sun to put on it. Finally talked her into taking me to the ER when she saw that my forearm was drooping.
When I was 11, I was trying to dunk on a little small 5 foot goal in our backyard. I went up for the dunk and my shin hit the side of the goal. Just thought that I bruised my shin, but when I put my hand down there it was full of blood. I had somehow hit a rusty screw on the side of the goal and cut my leg down to the bone.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:01 am to Jim Rockford
Stepped on a cultivator (3 prongs sticking straight up..it was home plate...we were stupid kids) playing baseball in the backyard 2 days before we went on vacation.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:04 am to Jim Rockford
Not me but non-contact a guy landed from an uncontested rebound and tore his quad and who knows what else bc his patella also dislocated
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:17 am to Tempratt
Hell yea I did. My hand swelled up like a balloon. We went to Slidell Memorial ER first, then they made me take an ambulance to University hospital. They were concerned about the amount of air bubbles traveling up my arm, and told me they’d have to do surgery. Stayed the night and in the morning the swelling went down enough to go home.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:23 am to Jim Rockford
So when I was 4 I wanted to make soup for my mom, I was wearing a sweet 1970s rugby long sleeve shirt. Polyester blend, it was nice.
Somehow I got the tomato soup out of the can, she was in the back of the house doing something, I just hit some buttons on the microwave and pressed start. Then I went back to playing.
Sometime later, the microwave went off. You know because that's what happens. I went to grab the bowl, it was above my head....
And of course it's nuclear hot. The soup spills all over my arm..... but that's not the injury.
Polyester shirt. Boiling soup. Skin.
My mom runs in when she hears my yell and start crying. She thought I was bleeding because of the tomato soup and proceeds to rip my shirt off...
And the skin on my arm with it.
The soup had melted the polyester blend right into my arm.
My dad had to debride my arm for like 12 weeks. I barely have a scar today but my arm did look like Freddy Krueger for 20 years at least.
Somehow I got the tomato soup out of the can, she was in the back of the house doing something, I just hit some buttons on the microwave and pressed start. Then I went back to playing.
Sometime later, the microwave went off. You know because that's what happens. I went to grab the bowl, it was above my head....
And of course it's nuclear hot. The soup spills all over my arm..... but that's not the injury.
Polyester shirt. Boiling soup. Skin.
My mom runs in when she hears my yell and start crying. She thought I was bleeding because of the tomato soup and proceeds to rip my shirt off...
And the skin on my arm with it.
The soup had melted the polyester blend right into my arm.
My dad had to debride my arm for like 12 weeks. I barely have a scar today but my arm did look like Freddy Krueger for 20 years at least.
This post was edited on 6/18/24 at 8:27 am
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:33 am to LookSquirrel
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5 years old got my my big toe caught in the front spokes of my big brother's bicycle, while riding on the front handlebars. Cut it almost all the way off.
When I was 3 I used to get out of the fence around our yard. One time my mom sent a neighborhood kid on a bike down the street to get me and bring me back home.
He put me on the back of his bike but as we started to go the bike became unstable and we wrecked into the curb. My right heel became stuck in the spinning rear wheel spokes and they cut through my heel and took a chunk out of my Achilles tendon.
All I remember is blood everywhere and being rushed to the emergency room for stitches. Left almost a full crescent scar on the back of my right foot and I still have pain flare ups sometimes in that foot, especially after long drives.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:17 am to Jim Rockford
I had my shoulder socket broken playing DE in 10th grade. I had been manhandling the TE the whole game so I started getting double teamed with a FB.
One one play, I fought off the TE and was reaching out to grab the HB and the FB ran through my arm and bent it around to my back.
My right arm hung a good 4 or 5 inches lower than my left. Our trainer was able to make a harness out of athletic tape to keep my arm in the socket and partially immobilized.
I played 2 seasons like that before school insurance forced me to have shoulder surgery. Now my shoulder is still held together with 30 year old titanium screws, pins, and plates.
Hope they keep lasting because I
don't really want to go through that again.
One one play, I fought off the TE and was reaching out to grab the HB and the FB ran through my arm and bent it around to my back.
My right arm hung a good 4 or 5 inches lower than my left. Our trainer was able to make a harness out of athletic tape to keep my arm in the socket and partially immobilized.
I played 2 seasons like that before school insurance forced me to have shoulder surgery. Now my shoulder is still held together with 30 year old titanium screws, pins, and plates.
Hope they keep lasting because I
don't really want to go through that again.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:45 am to Jim Rockford
3 weeks ago, I get out of the shower, dry off and go to put on my underwear.
Somehow when putting my 2nd foot through my pinky toe gets wrapped up in my underwear, I lose balance and fall breaking my toe.
My whole foot bruised and still hurts.
So dumb.
Somehow when putting my 2nd foot through my pinky toe gets wrapped up in my underwear, I lose balance and fall breaking my toe.
My whole foot bruised and still hurts.
So dumb.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:57 am to Czechessential
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blew out a flip flop step on a pop top?
He broke his leg twice, had to head on back home
Posted on 6/18/24 at 10:03 am to Jim Rockford
Not me, but my son found a shopping cart on side of road walking home in rain from LSU/Bama game. Thought it would be fun to bring to his house and even more fun if he could get it upstairs. Slid up stairs with his hands wrapped around handle and ended up with open fractures in both thumbs. Had to have pins put in. Same kid who asked one of the football players to tackle him at a party so he could feel what it was like. So there was a period of time when his arm was in a splint from collar bone reconstruction AND both hands were fixed in a thumbs up position with pins sticking out the end.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:24 pm to Jim Rockford
While trimming trees, took a fall off top of the ladder. Refused to let go of the chainsaw, I felt my catcher instincts kick in and knew I could just hold the chainsaw away from me like a catcher’s mask. Chainsaw was never an issue, but I landed in a seated position, impaled by something growing out of the ground. A couple inches in any direction could have spelled trouble.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:33 pm to BhamBlazeDog
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When I was 12-13, a friend and me thought it would be cool to put a lightning rod on top of my younger brother's wooden swingset. I hopped up there, probably about 15 feet off of the ground and was about to mount our tennis racquet lightning rod when lightning struck close to us. I about shite my pants, fell off and landed on my arm splitting the bone. Hurt like hell and my mom didn't believe it was broken, so she gave me a frozen capri sun to put on it. Finally talked her into taking me to the ER when she saw that my forearm was drooping.
You made me remember something I haven't thought about in years. We had a chain link fence around the backyard with a pretty big hole in one spot about knee high. Our stupid 70 pound heinz 57 mutt of dog would try to squeeze through it to get out of the yard.
When I was about 16 and during a ferocious thunderstorm, I looked outside and saw that dumb bastard had his head stuck in the fence yowling, and it was pouring down, and thunder was exploding. I told my Mom I was going out to get his head loose because I felt so bad for him. She said hell no, but I went anyway.
I was trying to work him loose while getting drenched and hearing some of the loudest thunderclaps I ever heard. Then, there was a huge crash and blinding flash--- lightning struck really close. I don't know where it hit, but it found myself on the ground. I wasn't hurt, but the sound and flash made that stupid dog yank his own head loose and he ran into his dog house. I wanted to shoot that fricking dog.
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