Injuries

[Rip Rufus]

After reading the gout thread, I was wondering what people's most painful injuries were. Not necessarily the most horrific, just the most painful. Just like a papercut hurts more than a real open wound. They don't have to be booze induced injuries, but please do tell if they are.

My top 3 most painful injuries:
1. Broken foot. I've broken most of my toes at some time or another, but when I broke 3 toes and several of the bones behind them (metatarsals?), that really hurt - even through the boozey haze.
2. Severely Pulled groin. I thought my leg had fallen off.
3. Torn miniscous (spelling?), right knee.


This reminds me of Road House for some reason...

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

Worst drunken injury? A couple of weeks ago I pulled my hamstring while shitfaced.

[Two Martini Breakfast]

I have been plagued recently by a number of drunk injuries, most bizarre of which is an apparent ligament injury in my left hand that prevents me from doing pushups. Bruises, mild scrapes, all have been popping up and only in the last week or two.

[Mother Goose]

two broken fingers, not drunken injuries. Slipped off a rope while trying to jump into a lake. My hand smacked against the huge rope knot. When I came up for air, I looked at my hand and my middle & ring fingers were bent perpendicular at the middle knuckle. I popped them back into place and they immediately swelled like sausages.

Also, not an injury but definitely a battle scar - when I was pregnant I had to have a colonoscopy (I chose to have it UNMEDICATED) to diagnose my ulcerative colitis. I don't recommend it to anyone, at any time.

[Sigh Co.]

Biking home, drunk, from a bar (the bike was not mine--I feel bad, but it should have been chained up). I fell onto a.... nother drunk. Bruised some ribs; couldn't breathe right for a couple weeks.

Everything worked itself out, though.

[Two Martini Breakfast]

Biking home, drunk, from a bar (the bike was not mine--I feel bad, but it should have been chained up).

I once took a bike and rode it downhill to my house off-campus. It should have been chained, it's true, but it was unchained and stuffed behind a chained bike in the most notorious part of campus.

I returned it to the center of campus the next day. Who knows its fate?

All I know is, I got a great drunk out of my mind ride down a big fuckoff mountain.

[el pulpo]

Falling out a 5th story window when i was 18.

Broke:

1 collar bone
3 ribs
1 femur (in 13 places)
1 Radius
2 vertebrate in neck (c6-c7)
2 vertbrate in back (L4-L5)

Collapsed

1 lung.


Bruised

1 heart


11 weeks in a body cast.......halo on head for neck fractures for 5 weeks....not fun when they put screws in your cranium sans anaesthetic.

[Sigh Co.]

Biking home, drunk, from a bar (the bike was not mine--I feel bad, but it should have been chained up).

I once took a bike and rode it downhill to my house off-campus. It should have been chained, it's true, but it was unchained and stuffed behind a chained bike in the most notorious part of campus.

I returned it to the center of campus the next day. Who knows its fate?

All I know is, I got a great drunk out of my mind ride down a big fuckoff mountain.

I truly believe in karma, because the week after I took this bike, my bike was stolen... for 2 weeks. Yes, after 2 weeks my bike was returned to its exact location (sans chain). So, I believe the drunk gods knew I wouldn't have stolen the bike unless I really needed a ride home, and decided to take mine for 2 weeks to teach me a lesson.

[Two Martini Breakfast]

Your prize for winning from me is a pitcher of martinis.

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

I seem to be the only one with photographic proof so I think the rest of you are dirty liars.

[Rip Rufus]

Now I'm going to have to find the x-ray from my broken foot. Wait...I don't have it. I do have an x-ray from when I broke my nose playing roller hockey. Actually, someone else broke it for me, but I do have the x-ray around here somewhere. And the broken nose didn't hurt much compared to the other injuries I've had. I did get a lot of sympathy from the ladies while my entire face was discolored from the bruising.

That is the most coherent thing I've ever typed upon returning from the bar.

[GSG]

Everyone's heard about my many accidents over the years, so while this isn't the most spectacular it was certainly the most painful. I worked in Burger King during my sixth form and I slipped on a wet floor and a bit of my hand went in the deep fat fryer. It was only a small bit of skin really, about a three inches long on the side of my hand and the scar is largely unnoticeable unless I point it out but nothing - not broken bones, head injuries, ripping out my own stitches or accidentally stabbing myself in the stomach with scissors - has ever hurt more.

[ivan]

Well, the most painful part of my injury was the application of the tourniquet.

Bullet wound to the upper arm, humerus in three pieces, arterial bleeding, a severed radial nerve... and a friggin Combat Action Tourniquet on top of all that.

One of these.



Fuckin' hurt like a bitch.

[Omar The Tentmaker]

2 avulsions(deep cuts with a skin flap) on left leg on separate occasions look like one injury. no good stories for those, undrunk too.

pinched nerve in feet (not injury but hurts like hell)

fractured skull (childhood dont remember)

several asskickings.

[Oggar]

Broken ribs. Fell down the wooden stairs leaving a bar as I turned to waive to the stranger who bought me several drinks. Three broken ribs and I had to move the next day.