Done it again! Tell us your injury stories!

[Clouston98]

Well after this thread:

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117150&highlight=

I finished physio and was discharged on the 2nd of May, it seems me and sports don't mix well! I dislocated my elbow on a bike a few years back, and now it's finger time, thankfully no more snapped shins!

I basically split a large part of the bone on my finger next to my little finger, I have to start a fast as I might need an operation! All came about as it got caught in someone's shirt during football. I do myself loads of bumps an that but tell me I'm not the only one who is truly accident prone?

It would be great to hear some stories as I'm surely not the only one?

 

[Shewie]

You big numpty, what are you like Cam

My wife had a tumble on a hike in February and broke her small finger and still hasn't seen a specialist yet, the NHS are really giving her the run around, she's in pain daily and to knock it brings tears to her eyes.

A new avatar for you ...

 

[Macaroon]

Bad luck, Cameron! Football, rugby.................very dangerous sports, those, you'd best stick to the safe stuff like fire and sharps mate, they don't seem to bite back so much! Heal well, mate

If I posted a list of my injuries over the years I'd probably empty the forum and cause the server to crash from the length of the post! :-(

 

[Clouston98]

You big numpty, what are you like Cam

My wife had a tumble on a hike in February and still hasn't seen a specialist yet, the NHS are really giving her the run around, she's in pain daily and to knock it brings tears to her eyes.

A new avatar for you ...

Haha I'm calamity Cameron for sure!

Hope your wife heals well.

 

[Clouston98]

Double post.

 

[Clouston98]

Bad luck, Cameron! Football, rugby.................very dangerous sports, those, you'd best stick to the safe stuff like fire and sharps mate, they don't seem to bite back so much! Heal well, mate

If I posted a list of my injuries over the years I'd probably empty the forum and cause the server to crash from the length of the post! :-(

I I'll stick to axes! Still the big football stars don't half make a song and dance, at least I dealt with it manly

Aye there bad crack mate, hope your well now though!

 

[Chilliphil]

Not just you, must be a boy thing!! I've dislocated my kneecap a couple of times with the last time caused just by stepping backwards!! Also broke my nose when I was younger and they told me it wasn't broken so I can now squash it against my face... Also recently did my back in playing with a Nerf rocket with my son... Pulled a muscle and it spasmed leaving me in a heap on the floor, my wife could see but left me there to teach me a lesson!! I also have bad reactions to most things the bite or sting but last December managed to get an odd rash just by walking through a wood. Doctors have advised me not to go out so much, but that wont stop me!!

 

[Clouston98]

Not just you, must be a boy thing!! I've dislocated my kneecap a couple of times with the last time caused just by stepping backwards!! Also broke my nose when I was younger and they told me it wasn't broken so I can now squash it against my face... Also recently did my back in playing with a Nerf rocket with my son... Pulled a muscle and it spasmed leaving me in a heap on the floor, my wife could see but left me there to teach me a lesson!! I also have bad reactions to most things the bite or sting but last December managed to get an odd rash just by walking through a wood. Doctors have advised me not to go out so much, but that wont stop me!!

Haha it is, it's funny mind the stuff we get ourselves into, would be nice everyone stayed in one piece

 

[Chilliphil]

Where would be the fun in that ;-)

I use my scars to teach my Scouts how not to do it!! I tell them I make the mistakes so they don't have to... The one on my knuckle caused by a blunt SAK is particularly useful!

 

[petrochemicals]

not really ever been one for broken bones, more superficial and occasionaly deeper flesh wounds, the knees, the hands with sharp things/grindy things. Unfortunate for you again, seems like you need to be more of a coward. He who fights and runs away.......

 

[Harvestman]

Hmm, let's see...

Hit myself in the thumb with a hatchet whilst demonstrating the safe use of an axe to some kids.
Teaching firelighting to some kids, managed to get a fire to explode in my face.
Celebrated finishing a tedious outdoor job by leaping in the air... came down from about 4 feet up on the side of my foot and tore all the ligaments in my ankle.
Got myself in the thumb with my new Laplander saw in the Brecon Beacons, and had to drive to hospital one handed whilst staunching the bleeding.
Managed to embed 2 inches of common reed into my thumb at a nature reserve. Site manager said "That's the commonest injury on this site, but it usually happens to 5 year olds".
Started our gas grill in the kitchen, but forgot to ignite it for about a minute. When I realised, I pressed the ignition and blew myself across the kitchen.

Nah, it must be just you who is accident prone mate.

 

[Shewie]

Got myself in the thumb with my new Laplander saw in the Brecon Beacons, and had to drive to hospital one handed whilst staunching the bleeding.

Laplander cuts are evil, I savaged the end of my thumb on day one of a five day trip a few years back

 

[lathe dog]

As a Youngster I once rode my bike down a manhole...............luckily with no major damage to myself or the bike, but I've had a fractured arm, broken finger which never got fixed...........more recently I managed to drill a hole (tapping drill for a 8BA thread) through my finger whilst setting a machine at work............accident prone me.....never.

 

[Clouston98]

Hmm, let's see...

Hit myself in the thumb with a hatchet whilst demonstrating the safe use of an axe to some kids.
Teaching firelighting to some kids, managed to get a fire to explode in my face.
Celebrated finishing a tedious outdoor job by leaping in the air... came down from about 4 feet up on the side of my foot and tore all the ligaments in my ankle.
Got myself in the thumb with my new Laplander saw in the Brecon Beacons, and had to drive to hospital one handed whilst staunching the bleeding.
Managed to embed 2 inches of common reed into my thumb at a nature reserve. Site manager said "That's the commonest injury on this site, but it usually happens to 5 year olds".
Started our gas grill in the kitchen, but forgot to ignite it for about a minute. When I realised, I pressed the ignition and blew myself across the kitchen.

Nah, it must be just you who is accident prone mate.

I tell you what, that's a list anyone would fear!

 

[Clouston98]

As a Youngster I once rode my bike down a manhole...............luckily with no major damage to myself or the bike, but I've had a fractured arm, broken finger which never got fixed...........more recently I managed to drill a hole (tapping drill for a 8BA thread) through my finger whilst setting a machine at work............accident prone me.....never.

Phoar, the manhole one sounds terrible I bet that came as a shock

 

[Clouston98]

Where would be the fun in that ;-)

I use my scars to teach my Scouts how not to do it!! I tell them I make the mistakes so they don't have to... The one on my knuckle caused by a blunt SAK is particularly useful!

My hands a re littered with scars from when I was young, I've got some strangely leathery hands for my age, but bleeding fingers are always a bad thing

 

[Clouston98]

not really ever been one for broken bones, more superficial and occasionaly deeper flesh wounds, the knees, the hands with sharp things/grindy things. Unfortunate for you again, seems like you need to be more of a coward. He who fights and runs away.......

Haha, it might do me some good to not get quite as stuck in as I do....

 

[lathe dog]

Phoar, the manhole one sounds terrible I bet that came as a shock

Yeah, just a bit.......................as a kid we used to take our bikes onto a trading estate behind the street where we lived, well one of the companies on the estate was a promotion/advertising company so there was always large flattened cardboard boxes, packing materials spilling out of the skip and laying around on the pavement outside so we used to think nothing of riding over them as you do, but on this particular day someone had removed the manhole cover and covered it with the cardboard....

Luckily it was on the old Raleigh Tomahawk ( the Choppers little brother) with the high handlebars which kind of got wedged some way down the hole and stopped me from going to the bottom............

 

[Clouston98]

Yeah, just a bit.......................as a kid we used to take our bikes onto a trading estate behind the street where we lived, well one of the companies on the estate was a promotion/advertising company so there was always large flattened cardboard boxes, packing materials spilling out of the skip and laying around on the pavement outside so we used to think nothing of riding over them as you do, but on this particular day someone had removed the manhole cover and covered it with the cardboard....

Luckily it was on the old Raleigh Tomahawk ( the Choppers little brother) with the high handlebars which kind of got wedged some way down the hole and stopped me from going to the bottom............

That's a lucky escape, I'd of pooped myself, there was an exposed one near a building site for a while bloody horrible things to leave open!

 

[Harvestman]

True story. Mate of mine had the following happen just before Christmas:

Bought new dog, little Yorkshire terrier. On day one, dog jumped off sofa and broke its leg. £400 vet bill. On day three, my mate nips outside for a fag at about 3am (he keeps odd hours), and dog shoots out on three legs. fearing that the dog will chew its leg cas, he runs after it, but can't see where he is going in the dark. Seeing a big tuft of grass, he jumps over it, landing on a rusty old manhole cover, which snaps. He goes in feet first, trying to break his fall with he right arm, and breaking his arm in the process. He hits bottom, gets up very confused, and somehow (he doesn't know how) pulls himself out one armed, having been in over his head. As he is coming out the dog runs to him to see what the fuss is, and falls down the manhole. My mate reaches the surface, and collapses exhausted on the ground, lying on his one good arm. His cigarette is still in his mouth, his hair is over his eyes, and starts to catch fire from the cigarette. He manages to spit it out, rolls over, gets out his mobile and rings his wife who calls the fire brigade and an ambulance. Fireman doesn't fit into the hole with all his gear so ends up holding the ambulanceman by his ankles into the hole to rescue the dog from the bottom. Local reporter sees the whole thing (the rescue that is).

Dog makes it into the local news. My mate doesn't.

My mate gets broken lower arm, broken knee, broken wrist, broken ankle, compound spiral fractures of the upper arm, and a shoulder joint that consists of a loose collection of bone fragments. The local surgeons took one look and refused to touch it, and called for a specialist from London. The specialist's comment was "Well I have seen worse fractures than yours, but only on dead mototcyclists".

Now THAT's doing it properly!