Really annoying injury

ouch...

well i do have an annoying injury from this morning, but nothing quite that bad... i just shredded a bit of skin off my knuckles trying to put something back in the cupboard... i also knocked out a packet of dried noodles in the process which spilt all over the fridge/floor.
so yeah, not as bad, but it it still annoyingly stingy...

on the bright side, crutches can be kinda fun.... though perhaps only for races when you're not actually the injured one...

i recommend lots of chocolate/nice food/sympathy to cheer you up :smile:

Reply 2

mademoiselle84

yeh i got a stress fracture on one of my metatarsals from doing a 12 hour shift behind the bar at wetherspoons (they treat the staff like robots). if i'd been allowed to wear my black trainers it would have been fine but i had to wear 'smart shoes' so i bought some black ballet pump things with really thin soles as they were the cheapest things i could find (i wasn't about to spend money on shoes that were gonna get covered in lager, you understand) and anyways the next day i couldn't hardly walk up the stairs, and it went on for a about a week untill i finally went to the doctor who had the cheek to tell me my foot was hurting from wearing high heels...you silly girl etc etc was implied (i was wearing them because my boots were really tight around my foot and that made it feel better)....so six months down the line it's still giving me jip and occasionaly agony, so i went back to the doctor and as soon as i mentioned i had private health insurance i was booked for an xray and an appointment with a consultant 24 hours later.....it was clear from the xray what had happened, and it didn't heal optimally a i'd never been told to rest it or strap it up- so now it will probably affect me for the rest of my life to some extent.
the moral of the story is: wetherspoons and the NHS are ****.

Reply 3

Schroedinger's Pandora

13

I laughed so hard last week I think I pulled a muscle in my back or something, it was killing me for absolutely ages.

Wiped the smile off my face thats for sure.

Reply 4

OP

subterfuge

ouch...

well i do have an annoying injury from this morning, but nothing quite that bad... i just shredded a bit of skin off my knuckles trying to put something back in the cupboard... i also knocked out a packet of dried noodles in the process which spilt all over the fridge/floor.
so yeah, not as bad, but it it still annoyingly stingy...

on the bright side, crutches can be kinda fun.... though perhaps only for races when you're not actually the injured one...

i recommend lots of chocolate/nice food/sympathy to cheer you up :smile:

I'm lucky, I don't have crutches (would feel really stupid if I did). I just have 2 toes plastered together and a turbi-grip. I really want to do the race for life on 6th June, and it might be cutting it fine with the 6 weeks healing thing, but I will definitely try and make it for there.

Reply 5

xavier2k3

I have two infact, 3 stupid injuries. Two of them related one not so.

1st: The first was in year 11 when we'd just started going rugby at school (although i'd played previously). I was running with the ball when i tripped over someone's foot (who was on the floor at the time), flipped in the air and landed on the side of my neck fracturing a bone and damaging a muscle, which to this day still hasn't fully recovered.

After it happened i couldn't move my neck at all, what's worse was it was in the middle of a massive field in the freezing cold with nothing but that stupid silver film to cover me and i had to stay there for an hour, not being able to move before the ambulance came. It drove onto the pitch and everything.

The funny thing about it was my dad was watching from the car park wondering who it was, finally decided to ask someone who told them that it was me and he sprinted down onto the muddy pitch and almost fell over himself next to me.

2nd: I was running down the stairs when there was a toy that one of my little brothers or sisters was playing wtih on one of the steps. It was a a toy with wheels. I slipped on it, flipped over the banister and fell about 6 feet, landing on my elbow and instantly breaking it. I had to have a pin put in it.

3rd: Shortly after i was allowed to take the cast off my elbow, i went upto the petrol station to get my mom a newspaper. On the way back, a stick i ran over got caught in my back wheel, locking it up and taking me down to the ground, after hitting a parked car. So then on came the cast again for another month and a half!

I've done other stupid stuff as well, but they're the 3 major ones where i broke something. The others include tripping over a barbed wire fence and gashing my leg, falling out of a tree onto a sharp branch and needing an operation to have the wood removed from my leg and a feast of other stuff. I've been through some wars i tell thee!

regards
--marty

Reply 6

HistoryStudent

13

When I first started playing rugby, and it was a tackling drill I'd never done before, I slipped and fell onto my knee awkwardly, twisting it so badly I couldn't put my full weight on it for months afterwards. Now that really was annoying.

I've had tons of other random/ annoying injuries. Once I managed to cut my thumb open on a tap in the bathroom, and last year I did the same thing but on opening the lid on a Chinese takeaway. I got thrown off my bike at full speed down a massive hill when I slipped on a slight puddle when going from the road onto the pavement. Oh, and once I accidentally cycled into a wall, luckily not at full spped this time, which was painful in the you know where.

Reply 7

~the_one~

Stabbed myself THROUGH my foot (yes in one end, out the other) with a pitchfork while 'gardening' at school, i swear i was in shock. Had stiches and crutches and i absolutly HATED crutches, they are definatly definatly no fun trying to get the tube everyday for school, and you have no idea how much it hurts every muscle in your body.

Reply 8

OP

Btw, I was told that it will take 6 weeks for my bone to heal. I was just wondering that after that (on 6th June) would I still be able to participate in a 5km jog/walk?

Reply 9

subterfuge

well it's unlikely you'll be able to get any training done, but whether you'll be able to do the race depends on how quickly the bone heals. You'd probably be best speaking to the doctor again in a few weeks.
It should be not too bad by then, but walking rather than running would probably be advisable if you still really want to take part

Reply 10

The Albatross

12

had a sex injury last summer hehe.

my bf and i were getting it on in a japanese hotel room - thing is in japan they traditionally dont have beds just sleep on tatami mats. I got burns all down my spine. and i didnt notice til afterwards (must have been enjoying myself) or i would have stopped!

Reply 11

OP

subterfuge

well it's unlikely you'll be able to get any training done, but whether you'll be able to do the race depends on how quickly the bone heals. You'd probably be best speaking to the doctor again in a few weeks.
It should be not too bad by then, but walking rather than running would probably be advisable if you still really want to take part

Well, it's for charity, so I might do that all the same. I was lucky that I'm actually doing my pharmacy project in the hospital so I could just nip off down to A&E, get checked, x-ray done, bandage put on... with not too much waiting to be done.

Reply 12

55909

6 weeks? thats a lot for a toe, but i guess if your still on it alot, then i guess mite be a bit more realistic.
Okies...

Story 1: My horse bucked me of after it had spooked at its shadow, luckily i landed on my feet...unfortunately the horse didnt like this idea and stood on my foot braking my toes, so while trying to rock him off it (dum,b git had no idea why i was shouting at him) he stepped forward onto my other foot and left me with 8 broken toes and crutches for 2weeks.

Story 2: This is even worse lol, i'm a sports fanatic, any sport, anytime! Only problem is i get a tiny bit over competitive...ok seriously over competitive, i would do anything to win...u dont play to just take part blah blah blah...lame thing is, i stood on my own foot and torn my achiles clean, and the ligments across the top of my foot lol! 4weeks on crutches WOO-HOO!

Reply 13

Nenime

I think the stupidest injury I have had was tripping over my own shoelace whilst playing netball and breaking a bone in the side of my foot - I had to use crutches for about 3 weeks.

Reply 14

LPK

20

Xenon, what is it with you and your ankle area? :p:

If it aint football it is running for a bus :eek:

hello btw

Reply 15

username54863

I seem to remember stubbing my toe while dancing (ironically) to "Lets Dance" causing the entire nail to break and grow out, pretty annoying.

Reply 16

big_pd

When i was in the Navy the duty officer was coming round to check we were in bed during training and i wasn't, also i was pissed and underage so thought i had better get my arse to bed. Whilst running through the room i tripped and hit my knee on a locker. I went to bed even though it hurt like **** cos i didn't weant to get in trouble. Following morning I had paramedic in my room taking me out on a stretcher with a cracked knee cap. Had keyhole surgery followed by 9 months of physio! Wouldn't recommend it!

Reply 17

OP

LPK

Xenon, what is it with you and your ankle area? :p:

If it aint football it is running for a bus :eek:

hello btw

Lol, you know what, I wouldn't have minded if it was a football injury-all my injuries have come like that. When I told my friend I got injured, she initially thought it was from football.
It it not right on my toe which got broken, it's on the side of my foot, but the metatarsal bone I think going down from my little toe. If I've got that explanation a bit wrong, don't blame me, I'm no doc...

Reply 18

Emmalina