The "OUCH" thread!

[raider5gt]

I was cutting a hedge about 10 years ago,i had one hand rested on the hedge trimmer and the other i was grabbing the cuttings off the top,i somehow squeezed the trigger on the trimmer as i was sweeping cutting towards me and got my finger caught in the trimmer OUCH! i had 7 stiches and was lucky i didnt loose it.

[palitoy]

My parents used to have these large cylinder type glasses and I stepped into one when I was ten or so and the glass went right up the top of my foot. Needless to say I have a large scar.

My grandmother still has one of those glasses and it makes me shudder.

[Donkey Hoatie]

March 13, 1993. My buddies and I were heading back to Illinois from Spring Break in New Orleans in a rented conversion van with big windows on the side. I was asleep in the back seat with my head on the passenger side. The sun was setting in the west and in my eyes, so I flipped around and put my head on the driver side of the back seat and dozed off again. Later, I awoke when I heard someone shout, "Jesus Christ!" as I sat up, the van promptly rolled onto the passenger side and started skidding. I was thrown from the seat as the side window shattered and my foot connected with the pavement while we were skidding at about 50 MPH or so. I was able to grab a seat and hoist my legs up as we skidded to a halt. I knew I was hurt, but I was more concerned with the van blowing up from all the sparks that were flying everywhere. I tried to open the back door to climb out, but I'd lost so much blood that I couldn't figure out the handle. My roommate opened it and I hopped out. I tried to run across the 4-lane highway to get away from the van, but after the first step, I collapsed. There, in the headlights of the stopped traffic, I could see nothing but a mass of blood and exposed bone where my right foot was. So, I lay down and stuck my foot up to try to slow the bleeding. My friends carried me to the embankment to wait for an ambulance, but no one was sure how to contact one in the middle of Arkansas. A guy pulled up in his pickup and said he knew where the hospital was and that it was a couple miles away. They loaded me into the front seat and I stuck my head out the window to keep myself from passing out from the blood loss. He got me there in about 10 minutes or so and I stayed awake the whole time. At the hospital, I could see that about 1/3 of my foot was gone down to the bone and the doctor said he hadn't seen anything like it except for on cadavers at med school. Before I got any meds, they had to take x-rays and clean the wound out with saline. Finally, after determining that nothing was broken, they shot me up with Demerol and set up a plan for getting me home to Chicago for surgery. An airplane was out of the question because I couldn't sit up. A helicopter would have cost my parents about $5,000. So, they paid a couple ambulance drivers $1,500 to make the 10-drive to Chicago while I slept. I got to the hospital on Saturday morning. Sunday morning surgeons took a 6" x 6" square of skin from my upper thigh and stapled it to my foot. I waited in the hospital for a week for them to remove the bandages and got served up a boatload of Vicodin. Spent a week at home recovering and then went back to school to finish up classes before graduation. After 3 weeks, the doctors told me they wouldn't have to amputate. Within 6 weeks, I was walking again (albeit with a pretty exaggerated limp). By the time I graduated in May, I was jogging. The scar is pretty friggin' ugly and I have no nerve endings left there, but I can still walk. All in all, it could have been a whole lot worse.

[Captain]

Double whammy. The kid on the farm down the road and I used to wander down by the irrigation ditch to an old abandoned barn. We had set up a rope to swing from the hay loft across to a rafter beam. Then we had found a long piece of 2 x 6 (about 15 feet long!!) and we ran it from the hayloft down to the framework of what was left of an old wall.

One day while messing about, I was swinging back and forth on the rope while humming the Indiana Jones theme. About mid swing, the rope broke and down I went.. landing in a pile of well rotted manure. Luckily, old manure is more dusty than anything, so I kinda brushed it off and kept going, waiting for Doug to quit laughing.

Next, we slide down the 2x6. Again, I went first, stating something about doing a "Spiderman slide". Next thing I remember I'm laying on the ground about 10 feet from the door frame, and the end of our slide. Doug is laughing so hard he nearly puked....When I finally got up, and he quit busting a gut, I asked him what happened? Seems while sliding down the board my boot heel caught on a loose nail, sending me flying through the air head first. I caught the top of the door frame with my head with enough force to spin my body around so that I flew the rest of the way feet first (but still horizontal to the ground) and I flew out about ten feet...and then just dropped to the ground. I was unconscious for about a minute. For all that goof knew I could have been dead! Instead of seeing if I was allright he sat there laughing himself silly the whole time. I was understandably mad and chucked a piece of broken plastic pipe at him. It hit him in the chin, and split it wide open. We must have looked like quite the pair riding our bikes home that day, him bleeding profusely, and me watching all the little stars and birdies circling around my head.
Good times...good times!

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

The crazy thing is the entire story I just told up to the point I came out of it in the hospital and was able to remember again was all told to me by the co-workers I was on the road with. The last thing I remember that day was leaving the house to go to work were I was to meet them for the trip.

I don't believe a word of it. . . .you were quite clearly abducted by aliens. . . .LOST TIME. . . .all other people in the story, including the doctor are mindless automotons put there by the aliens to complete the cover up!

OUCH indeed. . . .glad you are still with us!

[Bizarro Amy]

We had set up a rope to swing from the hay loft across to a rafter beam. Then we had found a long piece of 2 x 6 (about 15 feet long!!) and we ran it from the hayloft down to the framework of what was left of an old wall.

No story that starts like this EVER ends well. Great story though

[steelcouch]

In the 80's did alot of skateboarding. Was skating this half pipe with an older board that I had bought at a swap meet. It was a powell peralta board that had seen better days. Was on my way down one side of the ramp onto the next incline when I felt it give like it was gonna snap. Managed to crouch down before the board snapped. Well in the midst of that was still trying to make it to the top and just jump on to the decking when I put to much weight on it and snap I went of the top side of the ramp. Landed chest first because I put my hands in front of me to keep the board from hitting me in the head. Scraped off the left side of my face. After I was able to walk I went home and told my mom what had happened. The blood was really coming down by then. She was working nights so she didnt pay no attention to me when I told her. Here response was thats nice go to bed well talk about it in the morning. Well woke up the next morning with the pillow stuck to my face from the dried blood. Before going to the hospital I got a whipping that I will never forget. When I stopped crying from the pain of the belt they took me to the hospital. Never could forget that and still to this day ride the skateboard.

[VintageMike]

Years ago I worked in a warehouse where the business was based on seasonal items.
I was on a stock picker stacking some boxes of artifical christmas trees. Mind you we'd get this stuff early so this was still the summer months. This was one of the larger ones and just due to thel ength of the box I should have had help. I remember being very hot and struggling with the tree. As I got progressively angrier I tried to heave the tree, missed the tsack and ending up falling 10-15ft off the picker and onto the hard concrete floor. For the first few secinds I didn't even know if I could move. I got up and although I was in pain, but turned out I had only bruised some bones nothing broken. I actually got very lucky because 1)I landed arm first which broke the fall and 2)just missed hitting my head on the metal railing which kept the machines in the asiles. OUCH!

[60'schild]

Wow, with all of these stories, we're lucky we're all here (more or less) in one piece!!

[vulcan2074]

When I was younger my family had a birthday party for me and invited all my cousins and friends.

Well my parents were BBQ on a little grill that was about knee height. Everyone was sitting around the grill and me and the kids were getting wild and running around.

Well I got yelled at for getting out of hand and was scolded to Sit Down Now.

I wasn't paying attention and yes, I sat on the grill. Ouch! I was wearing some little kid shorts. Damn that burnt. As soon as I realized it I was freaking. I eneded up having to spend time in the tub with my burns. Luckily it was'nt that bad. My family still reminds me of it to this day LOL
Sammy

[D!n0-M@n]

I don't believe a word of it. . . .you were quite clearly abducted by aliens. . . .LOST TIME. . . .all other people in the story, including the doctor are mindless automotons put there by the aliens to complete the cover up!

OUCH indeed. . . .glad you are still with us!

Yeah, it was by far the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced being told I did this and said that while in the hospital and don't remember that either. From what I had been told I was quite a pain in the nurses' asses when it came to keeping the bandage over my eye alone. They said I was pretty funny though. Wish I could remember. It all feels very much like a dream or an episode of the Twilight Zone or the X-Files.

Thanks man. I'm glad I'm still here too.

[D!n0-M@n]

Wow, with all of these stories, we're lucky we're all here (more or less) in one piece!!

Very true! I keep cringing at the thought of exposed bones, bouncing heads off door jams, bloody pillows stuck to skinless faces...
Thinking of the childhood accidents it's a small wonder most kids today don't much care for playing outdoors... note I wrote "most". Heck, what's the worst thing that can happen to a modern child? Sprained thumbs from those game controller or texting "accidents"?

[generic]

Nothing major, just your average kid injuries:

1. I thought I heard something in a locker so I opened all of the lockers in the row at once to see if there was an animal in there or something. The lockers were empty and weren't attached to the wall so the shift in weight with all of the doors open caused the whole row of lockers to fall on me and the door of one cut me about 1 mm from my eye. If you're wondering, there wasn't anything interesting in the lockers.

2. Climbed up a 10 foot metal pipe about 6 inches in diameter to see what was inside and chipped a tooth when I lost my grip, oh, and then fell from the top to the ground. What was in the pipe? Nothing.

3. I asked a friend of mine to shoot me in the back with a pellet gun from about a foot away to see what it felt like. He pumped that sucker as many times as he could before he shot me. Just in case anyone is wondering what it feels like, it hurts...more than you might think.

4. Cutting open a tennis ball to see what was inside, the ball rotated and I stabbed myself in the thigh with a knife. Got stitches. Tennis balls are hollow.

5. Curious about what my dog was dreaming about, I leaned over to watch him. Accidentally woke him up and he bit me near the eye. Still don't know what the dog was dreaming about, but it was probably something bad.

[4NDR01D]

When I was about 3 or 4, I was taking a leak at my nanna's house. I was probably just tall enough to rest my little wiener on the edge of the toilet to pee. I had been a good boy and lifted the lid, an old wooden toilet seat. unfortunatly it didn't stay up and, yep, you can guess what happened. I screamed bloody murder and everybody came running. As I recall everybody found it pretty funny. I on the otherhand did not, and didn't bother to start lifting the seat until I was quite a bit older and taller. Sorry if that's too much information.

[D!n0-M@n]

Nothing major, just your average kid injuries:

1. I thought I heard something in a locker so I opened all of the lockers in the row at once to see if there was an animal in there or something. The lockers were empty and weren't attached to the wall so the shift in weight with all of the doors open caused the whole row of lockers to fall on me and the door of one cut me about 1 mm from my eye. If you're wondering, there wasn't anything interesting in the lockers.

2. Climbed up a 10 foot metal pipe about 6 inches in diameter to see what was inside and chipped a tooth when I lost my grip, oh, and then fell from the top to the ground. What was in the pipe? Nothing.

3. I asked a friend of mine to shoot me in the back with a pellet gun from about a foot away to see what it felt like. He pumped that sucker as many times as he could before he shot me. Just in case anyone is wondering what it feels like, it hurts...more than you might think.

4. Cutting open a tennis ball to see what was inside, the ball rotated and I stabbed myself in the thigh with a knife. Got stitches. Tennis balls are hollow.

5. Curious about what my dog was dreaming about, I leaned over to watch him. Accidentally woke him up and he bit me near the eye. Still don't know what the dog was dreaming about, but it was probably something bad.

WOW! Talk about curiosity killing the cat... well almost.