The reason I ask this is because last night, I was working under my car to change out a bad inner Tie Rod, and I was using one of those big Mag Light flashlights. I had the flashlight hanging with the support of the power steering fluid lines and the radiator lip. Well, I hit the hose and the MagLight dropped right on my forehead, so now I have this bump 1 inch above the bridge of my nose. I also sliced my finger open on theback of the oven when I was installing the oven cord, and I musn't forget all the bruises associated with moving heavy furniture and boxes... Damn, my forehead hurts...
When was the last time you hurt yourself? I read the GARM forum for the past half hour, now I have a headache...does that count?
a few months ago i was constructing something in my garage and along the way my staple gun jammed. i did the basic tap to the ground to see if it would un-jam the staple, but it did not work. so i turned the staple gun towards me to see..... bad move... i got a huge staple right in the belly. i wasnt really sure what had happened until i looked down and saw that my shirt was stapled to my stomach. had to pull the staple out of myself. didnt hurt too bad, but it made me feel like an idiot. too bad i couldnt have injured myself with a cooler object like a miter saw or something. Brian
As Falcon Talons has demonstrated, working on cars is a pretty good way to hurt yourself. A few months ago, I was at a salvage auction looking at a car that was totaled. I was walking around it, doing my inspection and didn't notice a sheared piece of the fender sticking out at the bottom. RIIIIPPPP! Right through my pants and into my ankle. Cost me 15 stitches and a brand new pair of Dockers.
One time I was working on this stand-alone fan and I was trying to take it apart so I could grease it up because the fan blade wouldn't move. I usually just grease it up and it works again. It's just an old fan. Anyway, I'm trying to pull the fan blade off and it's kind of stuck. So, I yank real hard and the blade hits me in the head. It creates this weird looking gash right on my forehead and it looked like I had been indoctrinated into the Charles Manson clan. I swear to God it looked just like the Nazi symbol. It was very bad timing because I had to go to UT @ Austin orientation as I was a new student there. So, I walk in looking like a Charlie Manson freakazoid with this symbol on my forehead. I was just like...I can't freaking deal with this. It's supposed to be one of these things where you watch an orientation film and meet people. I was just like...to hell with this...and I bailed. That sucked. Oh...and you've probably herd the story of my Bowflex flying apart during an incline bench press. It created this huge gash right in the same spot on my forehead. So, I'm walking around work for weeks with this huge stitched up gash on my forehead drawing all these strange looks like I'm in a pyscho cult or something. That was fun. Countless other little things which compare with Falcons Talon. Good times.
My last real injury happened in October of last year. I stupidly tried to chip away ice from the deep freeze with a knife. The blade snapped and I cut a 3 inch gash in my left thumb. It was freaking deep, too. A really nasty wound. After I got it stitched up at the hospital, they had to bring the janitor in to mop the blood off the floor. It's healed now, but is still a bit numb/tingly if I push directly onto the scar. Five months prior to that, I subluxated my shoulder playing softball. That was probably my worst injury of all time. Took 8 weeks to recover, and I still get an ache every now and then.
I was running yesterday morning and I ran into a steal cable that was supporting a telephone pole. I was running on the sidewalk and I moved over to the right because someone was approaching and I was making room. I simultaneously tried to wipe the sweat from my brow using my sleeve and then I hit the cable. My face was pretty much protected since I had my arm in front of my face. I do have a bruise on my chest though. The pride was hurt more than anything else.
a week ago today I was working at a house my company manages and did possibly one of the stupidest things I wish I had seen. I have been an office Jockey for the last few years, but the holiday weekend is insane in the construction/estate care industry. So, I was out washing some teak deck furniture. I was using a bleach based product that really makes these chairs look great. I had a pump sprayer and it had gotten kind of clogged with some kind of debris in the spray nosle. I removed the nosle and cleared most of the junk, but some was out of my reach so I naturally pulled the trigger for a nec to squirt out the junk. But of course it sprayed directly into my eye. very unplesent so I ran to the pool and rinsed for a sec, then went to a hose bib and finished rinsing It is very funny to me because one half of the brain clearly was not communicating with the other oh and the pool was being shocked, so it was not much of a help God I amuse myself. good thing am back in the office
Today I tweaked my ankle playing basketball, I stepped too hard on it I guess. This injury stems from rolling my left ankle about 3 weeks ago, never fully recovered but I'm hopeful that I'll be good for this Thursday.
Last summer I got hit in the head by a huge stick when I was camping (technically it was a small tree). This small tree was about 3 inches in diameter and about 5 feet long, and my best friend was whittling away the top to make a narrower handle part so he could use it as a walking stick. He decided to give it a few homerun swings when he was done, and on the third swing the handle flew off and the stick impacted me principally between my left eye and ear. It broke into almost perfect halves, and one piece struck a tree directly to my right about 10 feet, and we found the other piece 40 or so feet behind me. I had been sitting in a fold-up chair, and I was of course knocked backwards. Some people I didn't know brought me a bag of ice like a minute later, because they said they heard the impact clearly from their campsite, which was probably about 300 feet away. The scary thing about it was that since it was a tree, there were big knots all over it. And as I've said, the knot I encountered landed between my ear and eye. So 1 inch to the left and I have a hole punched in my ear, 1 inch right and I'm blind in one eye, and 1 inch up and it would have hit me in the temple. As it is, all I've got is a huge scar you never see because my hair mostly covers it up. My more annoying injury is my jammed ring finger from five months ago. Had to have my class ring increased by 1.5 sizes, because my knuckle is apparently permanently enlarged. Looks kinda freaky.
Yep, time to revive this thread!!! The night before last, I was changing out the first of two hinge pins on my car door. If you've ever done this, it involves drilling/grinding the cap off of the pin and then hammering away using a bar to pop out the pin. Well, as I was hammering out the first pin, I missed the hammer and struch the knuckle of my left hand pointer finger. After I did that, I just finished the job and went inside. Last night, I decided to finish the job and did the second hinge pin and guess what I did this time. I missed the bar and smashed my thumb right above the thumb knuckle. Needless to say, my hand is in pain, but hey, my car door is fixed...sort of.
My last three injuries were all the same. Tripping while jogging on a sidewalk. Usually blood on my hands and knees, and a sore hip. I trip about once a year and slam into pavement. It's not too bad tho'.
Last spring, I burned my wrist while making a big old vat of Seafood Gumbo. The scar finally disappeared about a month ago.
Kinda funny this thread got brought up.... Yesterday at football practice, I fell on my knee. It's kinda unstable, and swollen right now, but anyways, I was taking a shower earlier and fell. My knee gave out, and when it did, I slipped because of the water. My hip and my knee( the bum one) caught the side of the tub as I feel. I thought I was going completely out of the tub though.
twisted my knee moshing during Limp Bizkit @ Summer Sanitarium, but i look at that injury as a badge of honor
Since I sit most of my day I sometimes end up crossing my legs for a change of postion... Well, the door bell rings and I rush to get up realizing that my leg had fallen asleep. But I thought I could get to the steps and grab the rails... True, I got to the steps...and should've stopped there. Down I go....after my first step down. Fedex girl thought it was funny...hearing my tumble and my "sh!!!!t. I wasn't hurt that much, but my pride was. RR
