The injury thread

[Fitzwilly]

So you are saying that next time you are thinking about trying a clown nose you will try a different approach?

[Calavera]

Originally Posted by Fitzwilly

So you are saying that next time you are thinking about trying a clown nose you will try a different approach?

If I ever get the urge to try on the clown look, I'll definitely try a much different approach. Preferably one that isn't painful and one that I can take off whenever I want. I'm probably going to have to cover this thing up for at least a week!

[Bumbles]

The pain that sticks out most in my mind is falling in one of these punji pits in Nam and finding your hand impaled. The question was to pull it out or not, those tricky little guys liked to attach handgranades to the stakes so when you pulled your impaled part out you blew yourself up.

[saphireSue]

scars

One behind my left ear, I was wet and running from the bath when I was small, I can still hear my brother yelling "Her ears gonna fall off, her ears gonna fall off"

3 c-sec. 2 one way and one the other [can you say anchor]
Oldest girl is now 21, 5'7" wt. 108 lb. but at birth 11.02 22 1/2 " long. OOOOOOO

Knee arthroscopic surgery and it the one that still effects clowning as I Have to watch my movement and I can't squat very low anymore.

[Happy Chappy & Daisy]

When I was just about to graduate from college, a guy in my fraternity snuck up behind me and pinched me on the chest (you all know what it's called... I don't have to spell it out). Anyway, I chased him all the way outside. The doors locked automatically, so I thought I'd get even by locking him out. He realized what was going on, so he turned around really quick and grabbed the door handle. It was a tug-of-war for a minute, and then he realized that he wasn't going to win - sooner or later, I'd pull back a little further than he would, and the door would latch. He decided to be a smart-aleck, and let go. The door suddenly swung back on me, and cut off about a half an inch from my left index finger. I mean, the bone was sticking out. Somebody (probably the guy I was chasing - I don't remember) took me to the hospital, and I was holding a paper towel on my finger, keeping my hand over my head, while some brain surgeon at the hospital is telling me to sign this paper and that paper. Hello - I can't really sign anything right now, can I?

The funny thing is, that's not the most painful thing I ever went through, just the one with the most interesting scar. They couldn't really stretch the skin far enough to cover the end of my finger, so they made some complicated cut so there'd be a flap to fix it. So now, if you look closely, you'd see that the fingerprint on that finger is upside-down.

[Wowza]

Kind of hard to follow punji pits and fingertips ripped off in doorways, but I'm going to add to the carnage.

My most interesting scars and pain are all on the left side of my face. When we lived in Colorado, I was playing on a company sponsored roller hockey league. I went out and bought new skates for the season, and decided to try them out on the streets of our townhome complex. I didn't think I would be out very long, I was just trying them out, so I didn't wear pads or a helmet. I was skating along, loving my new wheels when I hit a rock I never saw. I went down, head first, smacking the pavement with the left side of my face. I never lost consciousness, but I was knocked pretty good. I went home and put ice on my face. After a couple of hours, it still didn't feel right, so I went to the ER. After x-rays, doctors determined that I fractured three bones: the maxilla, beneath my eye; the zygomatic arch; and the mandible where the lower and upper jaws meet. Surgery was scheduled, and three plates were placed to reinforce the area. Amazingly enough, the surgeon only made two incisions. One is in the left lower eyelid, and the other was inside my mouth. They apparently peeled my facial skin back in order to place the plates.

During extreme changes in temperature or barometric pressure, I feel an intense stinging pain roughly two inches left of the tip of my nose, and it feels like I've been stabbed with an icepik. A nerve travels through the maxilla at this point, and it was severely impinged as a result of the fractures. The surgeon was amazed that no permanent damage was done, and that I retain any sensation to my face.