Done it again! Tell us your injury stories!
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reading this thread makes me realizing how lucky i have been so far...
as a kid i ALMOST impaled myself on a fence, once i climbed over a gate and in the last splitsecond before jumping down the other side i realized i got hooked with my finger on a rusty piece of wire, a funny-looking plasticbox i picked up turned out to be an anti-personal-mine :yikes: etc....
two sprained ankles, two times minor scratches turning very nasty, a MINOR injury in my left shin with my parang (BL**** termites!!!) several scars on my left hand from woodworking accidents- just last week i learned: do NOT split kindling when you are tired in the evening! (bled like hell but FORTUNATELy i can quote the black knight!)
as a kid i ALMOST impaled myself on a fence, once i climbed over a gate and in the last splitsecond before jumping down the other side i realized i got hooked with my finger on a rusty piece of wire, a funny-looking plasticbox i picked up turned out to be an anti-personal-mine :yikes: etc....
two sprained ankles, two times minor scratches turning very nasty, a MINOR injury in my left shin with my parang (BL**** termites!!!) several scars on my left hand from woodworking accidents- just last week i learned: do NOT split kindling when you are tired in the evening! (bled like hell but FORTUNATELy i can quote the black knight!)
Some more as I have some typing time free
Left side of face paralysed - Martial Arts
Stab wound to palm of left hand - knife making when too tired
Heel of left hand skinned to a depth that changed my "life-line"'s direction - falling off moving car (don't ask)
Slashed artery in ankle - walking through grass in tennis shoes ... and not seeing hidden glass shards
Slashed finger left hand - opening a bottle of wine .. and pulling the whole neck off... right at the start of a week long canoe trip!
Several repeat dislocations of my injured knee - during footpath clearing for the council, during a canoe rescue on the Ardeche, asleep in bed etc
Left side of face paralysed - Martial Arts
Stab wound to palm of left hand - knife making when too tired
Heel of left hand skinned to a depth that changed my "life-line"'s direction - falling off moving car (don't ask)
Slashed artery in ankle - walking through grass in tennis shoes ... and not seeing hidden glass shards
Slashed finger left hand - opening a bottle of wine .. and pulling the whole neck off... right at the start of a week long canoe trip!
Several repeat dislocations of my injured knee - during footpath clearing for the council, during a canoe rescue on the Ardeche, asleep in bed etc
So you've had a few wounds in your time then John? 
Seriously though, that's a fearsome bunch of injuries!
I managed to slice a bit of my ankle open just as I went to bed last night, though I don't know what on!
Seriously though, that's a fearsome bunch of injuries!
I managed to slice a bit of my ankle open just as I went to bed last night, though I don't know what on!
Nearly 57 years to get hurt in .... the way you are going when you are 57 your list will be longer!
Picture the scene - a bit of moss comes off the barn roof and blocks the downspout into my rainwater system
Mad heavy rainstorm - water everywhere
Red thinks _ I'll just grab a ladder and clear it
Has to lean ladder at silly wide angle over tanks
Primary rainwater IBC with dual feed by British Red, on Flickr
...on a wet concrete floor
And he climbs the ladder with hands wrapped around the ladder uprights
Then the ladder slips out, crushing left hand between ladder and metal IBC cage.
Damned nearly degloved my left middle finger with the crush injury.
Dumb, dumb, dumb
Mad heavy rainstorm - water everywhere
Red thinks _ I'll just grab a ladder and clear it
Has to lean ladder at silly wide angle over tanks
Primary rainwater IBC with dual feed by British Red, on Flickr...on a wet concrete floor
And he climbs the ladder with hands wrapped around the ladder uprights
Then the ladder slips out, crushing left hand between ladder and metal IBC cage.
Damned nearly degloved my left middle finger with the crush injury.
Dumb, dumb, dumb
Picture the scene - a bit of moss comes off the barn roof and blocks the downspout into my rainwater system
Mad heavy rainstorm - water everywhere
Red thinks _ I'll just grab a ladder and clear it
Has to lean ladder at silly wide angle over tanks
...on a wet concrete floor
And he climbs the ladder with hands wrapped around the ladder uprights
Then the ladder slips out, crushing left hand between ladder and metal IBC cage.
Damned nearly degloved my left middle finger with the crush injury.
Dumb, dumb, dumb
Oooowchhh! I always feel uneasy on ladders too. Fingers and toes always hurt!
Bad crack. Nout worse is there. My scars doing nicely now, doctors say I have to moisturise it to stop the scar tissue sticking to the metalwork. Heal well Hugh! 
I need a plaster with a medal on
Oi officially 'ave a sore paw
I'll try and get you a 'I've been brave today!' Sticker on Monday mate
Injuries & Operations
Sorry Cameron, meant to post this up earlier. (In some semblance of order though towards the end I started remembering things that had happened earlier)Hernia operation on right hip area before the age of one. (My first patchy memory is of the nurses face as they were knocking me out. My second memory is of the stitches bursting a couple of days later.)
At secondry school, multiple ribs broken multiple times playing rugby and also not being all that popular with a certain group of blokes. Ribs now sit permenantly off to one side.
Badly gashed right foot and lower leg putting it through the plate mirrors at the end of the dojo wall as I wasn't paying attention while sparring.
Broke the index and middle knuckles on right hand punching through a bus shelter window when the chap I was aiming for ducked after he jumped me one evening.
Knife slashes on both hands after a young gentleman attacked me with one when I was working the door one evening. (Took it off him and had a quiet word with him)
Almost knocked out and a blinking sore skull after getting half a pool cue over the back of head at the cashline machine one night. Got him too.
Broke ribs again against steering wheel, broke nose going through windscreen and damaged ankle as engine came through dash and crushed it (I was wearing a seatbelt) when a car hit me at a junction as I was waiting to turn right. (Luckily all the arrows from my archery kit in the boot stuck into seats and roof lining rather than me. (The traffic cop asked if I'd been attacked by Indians after sticking his head in). Also that the ciggy I was smoking stubbed itself out going through the windsreen as there were two jerry cans of chainsaw fuel in there too.
Broke thumb and had to reset it myself half way up a climbing route. (Never got it fixed and it's still squint.)
Shot myself in the head (luckily small calibre) when a bullet bounced back after going through a rabbit and into the rocks behind it. Pretty spectacular on the blood front that one.
Burn on right upper arm when bed caught fire after a halogen clip on spot light fell on it whilst I was asleep.
Sliced forehead open with butchers knife cuttng cloth. Never fold cloth over a large blade and cut upwards!
Have dislocated both shoulders playing rugby and falling out of bath.
Came close to dying from a tick bite as heart & organs failed.
Infection got into my joints and destroyed my left hip and nearly sterilised me.
Pacemaker fitted to help heart after the lymes disease.
Total left hip replacement with a rather fancy titanium and ceramic job.
Almost forgot there was a ruptured achilies tendon again playing rugby... it's a great game you know!
Bruised my bladder (luckily that was all) falling about twenty-five feet vertically off a climb.
There have been a few other scrapes; like the odd shotgun pellet coming my way when we took Italian shooters out on the estate - luckily I always wore a US Vietnam issue flack vest on those days. Oh and there was the day my head got set on fire.. Oh and I got knocked off my motor bike and through a fence into a field by a speeding car once.
Crickey! You've certainly been through the wars!
I feel unscathed in comparison! Hope the hip gets better and better.
I feel unscathed in comparison! Hope the hip gets better and better
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