Your gruesome injury stories..

[ODogg]

So last Friday (the one over a week ago) I was walking into my bedroom in the dark, reaching up for the light over my bed on the ceiling fan, and I stubbed my toe. It hurt pretty bad but imagine my surprise when the light was turned on and my entire freaking toenail had come off! You want to talk pain? This was serious pain. And the next day it only got worse. It's been 11 days now and only yesterday was I able to go through the day without intense, burning pain in the toe. If you've ever cut your toenail too close then imagine that over your whole toe.

This was not as bad as my knee dislocating though. I dislocated my right knee 7 times before I finally got surgery at OSU Medical hospital and since then it's been ok (knock on wood). If you've ever dislocated something before you have to know how painful and messed up of a feeling it is. If you've not, then thank your lucky stars!

So do share with us all your gruesome injury stories...I'd like to hear some others as we all know, misery loves company..

[MC Fatigue]

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The worst I've had was a badly sprained ankle. I've been injury free most of my life.

Taking BJJ classes now, though, I'm not so sure it'll stay that way.

[ODogg]

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It's funny because with all my exercising i've gotten into in the last couple of years I always figured that's how I'd hurt myself, not trying to turn on the stupid light and stubbing my toe.

[VDusen04]

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No bones exposed, nothing dislocated but. . .

Playing basketball, I eluded my defender on the right wing and seriously thought I was about to dunk on a 6'8'' Eastern Michigan lineman who was standing between me and the basket. As I rose I was shoved in the back by the defender I had already blown by. Further, I never had any chance of clearing a fellow standing almost seven feet off the ground, so my legs clipped his shoulder and I took a nice face-first tumble to the floor.

Bitter at being pushed from behind I quickly checked the ball up before noticing a little hitch in how I caught the check back. My pinky was permanently curled into a ball. I figured it was dislocated so I tried to force the finger straight, which was temporarily successful until I let go, at which point it'd just curl back down, shriveled.

As it may be already apparent, I'd ruptured a tendon in my hand. In one sense it was embarrassing to admit I was casted up for what was essentially a pinky injury. On the other hand, I took pride in the fact that my surgeon told me my tendon had more or less exploded and was the worst he'd ever worked on.

The most gruesome aspect, aside from my finger shriveling up like it died, was the fact that part of the rehabilitative process involved jamming a rod into my finger that was physically sticking out of my skin and exposed to the world. It felt really primitive and unscientific but I guess that's how we roll. Further, I thought there would have been a lot more to removing the rod - painkillers, exacting precision - rather than the "snag a pair of pliers and yank" approach they used. It worked though, and my hand is now awesome again.

[superjames1992]

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I've never had a serious injury. I've scraped my knees/elbows up and sprained my ankle before, but I've never broke anything. I guess I'm pretty lucky in that regard.

I almost broke my arm on the Eiffel Tower last week when I slipped on the steps going down (it had been raining) and I landed smack down on my forearm, which caused a lot of bleeding. Fortunately, nothing was broken. Now if I was 50 years old, that may not have been the case...

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I busted my chin on a jet ski once when I was about 17. They were an earlier model then what I was used to riding, I was doing the usual fish tailing and stuff. Out of nowhere it just caught the water wrong and the g-force of it pulled my entire body down that I busted my chin on the side of the jetskit. Had to get stitches in my chin and lip.

[ScoobySnax]

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I was 13 and while at the YMCA, I was on a treadmill and stopped moving. I fell on to the conveyor belt, dislocating four fingers. I could have easily been mistaken for a gang member that day.

[PantherBeast_OS]

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The most gruesome injury I had was when I was in the 5th grade. Our class went skating out the end of the school year. We was getting ready to leave the skating ring. I was about to go and take off my skates. And all of a sudden one of my skates rolled out from under me and I fellon my behind and that leg that rolled out from under me went under my butt. Then I fell on that ankle and broke it just from the force of the fall I had when I went to the floor. It hurt so freaking bad.

[VDusen04]

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The most gruesome injury I had was when I was in the 5th grade. Our class went skating out the end of the school year. We was getting ready to leave the skating ring. I was about to go and take off my skates. And all of a sudden one of my skates rolled out from under me and I fellon my behind and that leg that rolled out from under me went under my butt. Then I fell on that ankle and broke it just from the force of the fall I had when I went to the floor. It hurt so freaking bad.

Well somehow, that story turned out better than I was thought, for the moment you mentioned ice skates you had me thinking sliced arteries or a severed limb. Still, that must have hurt severly. Ankle breaks are indeed gruesome.

[ODogg]

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oh man, this thread makes me cringe, wow...the dislocated fingers with Scooby especially and then the Legendkiller one...actually all of em are bad but wow...

[Madman55]

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Nothing too bad... fractured my wrist (It was my writing hand, so for two weeks of grade 4 other people wrote my assignments for me ). My knee randomly dislocates (can't remember the name of the condition. My kneecap grows faster than the tendons, so the tendons snap.).

I think the worst was playing basketball. I went up to block a shot and our legs somehow got tangled up and I fell sideways on my foot. Sprained a ligament in my foot there.

[USF11]

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So last Friday (the one over a week ago) I was walking into my bedroom in the dark, reaching up for the light over my bed on the ceiling fan, and I stubbed my toe. It hurt pretty bad but imagine my surprise when the light was turned on and my entire freaking toenail had come off! You want to talk pain? This was serious pain. And the next day it only got worse. It's been 11 days now and only yesterday was I able to go through the day without intense, burning pain in the toe. If you've ever cut your toenail too close then imagine that over your whole toe.

This was not as bad as my knee dislocating though. I dislocated my right knee 7 times before I finally got surgery at OSU Medical hospital and since then it's been ok (knock on wood). If you've ever dislocated something before you have to know how painful and messed up of a feeling it is. If you've not, then thank your lucky stars!

So do share with us all your gruesome injury stories...I'd like to hear some others as we all know, misery loves company..

Hey ODogg is your dislocating knee a patella problem? I have been dealing with this for awhile. Such a bitch cause I haven't figured out any solutions.

Worst injury I can think of is busting my head open on the coffee table in the living room, playing my dad in knee football.

[VDusen04]

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Hey ODogg is your dislocating knee a patella problem? I have been dealing with this for awhile. Such a bitch cause I haven't figured out any solutions.

Out of curiosity, how easy is it for you guys to dislocate your knee? It sounds like they can go at random times. A friend of mind dislocated her knee while at a school dance (and subsequently had to deal with "Man, you must have been doing some craaaaazy dancing" jokes for months to come).

[ODogg]

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Yeah my knee was a patella issue. The knee, prior to surgery, would dislocate fairly easily if my foot slipped in the least. The way to fix it, I was told, was a certain series of exercises to strengthen the inner, large tendon that runs on your inside of your leg from the knee to the base of your torso/thigh. I did those exercises like crazy but bottom line is the muscle was just too loose. My doctors said it was like a rubber band that had been stretched too hard and for too long and all the exercises in the world wouldn't help.

So what they did to fix my knee was they stretched the tendon down and screwed it into my knee with 4 very tiny screws. This made the tendon very, very tight and got my knee to track straight again on my knee. They also shaved some of the kneecap down and scoped (removed) loose debris of bony fragments from inside the knee. In my case they showed me a picture of a bony fragment which was nearly the size of the quarter! Yes that was just floating around in my knee. That loose fragment, the doctors said, is why sometimes my knee would buckle when I was walking just normally (and scare the crap out of me cuz I would think it was going to explode or something).

If you can see your knee and bend it then it should ride up and down and not pull any to the outer part of your leg. If it does then you're at risk for easily dislocating it. I often worry about my left leg because it does not track straight and it seems loose at times. My right knee has been much tighter and seems to track straight since the surgery.

On a related note, the recovery for the surgery for me was pretty difficult, but then I'm a wimp when it comes to injuries. I gained about 80 pounds in the 3 or 4 months I was off my feet (thanks to my grandma's cooking) and it started a weight problem i've been battling for about the last 10-12 years. But I'll take being overweight by 30 pounds or so anyday over having a knee that dislocates all the time! Being on crutches and having a watermelon sized knee all the time is for the birds!!

[ODogg]

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Oh here's those exercises I was talking about. If you guys have had issues with your knee dislocating or simply not tracking straight i'd recommend you try these.

http://www.ehow.com/way_5378911_knee-dislocation-exercises.html