Childhood Injuries

1 Mar 2007

Quote by Miss_Kiss
I was exrtremely distressed at the time and it still upsets me to think about it now, but when I was a 14 I accidentally cut my sisters finger off. :cry:
Luckily they glued it back on, but you can tell it's not 'normal'.
Also my Dad made the mistake of letting my 12 year old brother loose with a petrol powered lawn mower. He was only wearing wellies and ran over his foot, he chopped all the toes of on his right foot except his big toe. Bless him.

:eeek: :shock:
Thats beats me cutting long grass at a new place I'd just moved into, not knowing it was full of frogs....did they manage to sew his toes back on?
My daughter once dropped a pickax that went through her foot and came out the other side, she was only three........heaven knows how she managed to pick it up in the first place.

1 Mar 2007

gosh where do i start :arrow:
Aged 4 (riding an old bike down a field the handle bars stopped working heading for a huge tree trunk)
CrAsH bAnG wAlLop tanya on the floor screaming mother was certain it wasnt broken so left me walking on it for 5 days when i virtually cudnt walk and had an ankle the size of my head my mother reluctantly took me to A&E to find it was broken in 4 places :eeek: very sorry mother and a cast on my leg for 9 weeks (6 of which the summer hols :doh: )
Aged 6 a family trip to BnQ walking down an isle some huge floor boards decided to tipple over from leaning on the shelf units unfortunately i was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up under 7 of these floorboards (taking 10 men to lift them of me)bad head injury and rushed to hossy for stiches and brain scans etc and i was bruised all over my body ( and a rather nice insurance payout when i turned 18) :evil2: although i still have a scar on the side of my face
Between the ages of 7 and 12 i had constant Tonsilitus skin problems and eating problems
Aged 11on holday in kent was playing with my younger sister and ended up with 3 broken fingers (of course my mam had been drinking so sent me to bed saying it will be ok in the morning of cors in the morning my hand was completely black and fingers all contorted) so a nice day in hossy again getting xrays and bandaging my hand up blink

Aged 12 running for the bus home from school i trapped my hand in the door then tripping over cos i cudnt get any further, ripping the skin clean of my knuckles and torn ligaments in my ankle hense another trip to hossy :gagged:
by now my clumsyness was a family joke
Aged 13fighting with my brother i ended up slipping down stairs banging the top of my spine of the radiator and causing a very bad injury to my neck 5 trips to hossy for that and a months complete bed rest no reading no telly etc no fun for a 13 year old this also happened in the summer hols i have the worst luck and still suffer with it now silly

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Aged 14on holiday in cornwall ended up with very bad sunstroke ending up in hossy cos i was passing out and foaming at the mouth :fuckinghell:
Aged 16 Had an allergy to insect repellant causing my lungs to close up so i cudnt breath :crazy:
Aged 18had an allergy to wax (just had my eyebrows and lip waxed) 2 days before flying to lanzarote i woke up cudnt open one eye and i looked like the elephant man and had to have notes of the doctor to say it was really me wen went to airport cos was was awful and swollen and covered in a nasty rash so loked nothin like passport pic mad

Aged 21 slipped on a mopped floor breaking my thumb wrist and leg in 3 places just before xmas really awful time and so so painfull
Aged 23 slipped a disk in my back resulting in yet another trip to hossy :violin:
i now constantly wear bubble wrap bolt

1 Mar 2007

my only trip to casualty was because i stuffed silver paper up my nose, aged 2 or 3. it took 4 people to hold me down.

1 Mar 2007

Quote by anais
I was like the walking wounded when i was a kid..
I cut my head open falling over nothing in the local park
Jumping up and down on mothers bed and fell off, shattering my elbow.......
Knocked myself out on the school radiator
Swing doors at School hit me in the mouth and broke my front tooth, had to walk around for years with half of a tooth.. hence my cap now!
Got hit in the eye with a sharp pointed pencil..
Cut my hand open quite badly playing hide and seek.....
Hurt my back doing trampolining, then got back on the week after and did the same thing again...... have a large lump on the base of back now.
Doing gym I dislocated my thumb...now have one thumb larger than the other.
Tore my thumb nail off, caught it on someones elbow.. hate anything to do with my nails.
Caught fire to my hair....... :? :? Dont ask!
Suffered terribly from nose bleeds and use to spend most evening sat at the local doctors with cotton wool shoved up me nose to try and stop it bleeding ! :?
Got hit in the forehead with a hockey ball, good job I have a hard head!
Jumped over a fence and didnt see the wire across the top.....have scars all up me shins.
Wont bore you with the rest..... :? :? :? :?

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Shouldn't laugh I know but some of the images here are priceless.
You could write a first aid manual on the basis of that lot.
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2 Mar 2007

Quote by Geminifemale
I must confess
I was attempting to remove my sisters tonsils with a rug hook and it got caught round the dangly thing at the back of the throat. She started screaming and crying and in my panic, i yanked it out followed by a whole load of blood.
Mum came running the room and i explained that i tried to stop her putting the hook in her mouth in the first place and that I prevented her from choking too.
After a trip to the doctors, we were consoled/rewarded with jelly and icecream, and my job title changed from surgeon to nurse.

you were WHAT :shock: :shock: :shock:
I wont sleep tonight after reading that cos there's only 69 miles between us

2 Mar 2007

Quote by cukman
I must confess
I was attempting to remove my sisters tonsils with a rug hook and it got caught round the dangly thing at the back of the throat. She started screaming and crying and in my panic, i yanked it out followed by a whole load of blood.
Mum came running the room and i explained that i tried to stop her putting the hook in her mouth in the first place and that I prevented her from choking too.
After a trip to the doctors, we were consoled/rewarded with jelly and icecream, and my job title changed from surgeon to nurse.

you were WHAT :shock: :shock: :shock:
I wont sleep tonight after reading that cos there's only 69 miles between us
It made a change to play REAL doctors and nurses, where i actually got to opperate rather than the USUAL game where i was in constant labour and needed lots of examinations prior to giving birth........To be followed up by a game of house or mums and dads, where i would get pregnant and have a baby...(see docs and nurses)
By the time i got to twelve, i was into shooting( .410 and .22) so it had no lasting psychological damage

2 Mar 2007

Jeez I am suprised some of you are still alive with what you've been through!
I fell off a slide head first, which was nice. Stitches still twinge if I catch them!
And also had a brick thrown at my head once by a ginger kid on the next road.
Ah memories.

2 Mar 2007

mine happen 5 years ago when i went to go to mcdonalds with my son lost me balance fell over the bush and climb up the window to tell Mr north he said "it was just sprain" so of i went to mcdonalds in pain
3 days later the pain was so bad and I could not walk ,went to hospital and they said i broke it.
was in a pot for the next 6 weeks .
so now when I or any of the kids are hurt i try and treat them ,if not off to A&E str8 way by passing Mr north .lol

4 Mar 2007

Childhood was a safe and mostly happy time for me and aside from the usual cuts, scrapes and bruises and one mild concussion 5' tressle table that had been leaned upright against a wall fell on me sitting on the floor where it fell...ouch !! nothing that serious. Oh I did jump between two paths in a garden and didn't see the wires strung between the trees, boy did that hurt as one of the wires caught me right across the throat.
Adulthood has been a somewhat more dangerous affair...although only two really painful events (so far)...they are good though and quite funny looking back on them.
Minor incident dislocated finger, problem with incident clifftop location of occurence 40 miles from nearest hospital for remedy of said dislocated finger. Interesting journey to hospital clutching dislocated finger. Am now older and wiser would attempt self administered relocation of appendage these days.
Major incident Hit by coach, 4 broken ribs and bruise from shoulder to arse. Smirk on doctors face following morning when informed of manner in which injuries recieved priceless (I had and still have very little recollection of the actual incident taking place !!) Can now claim immunity from the phrase "you could get run over by a bus tomorrow" as can quote back "Been there done it"
Hope the above makes someone smile! and glad that all who have shared their missfortunes are still with us to share them!
JB
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