Things that make you go "Ouch"

[Grover]

i fell over a stone wall on Work Experience into a field. a good 6Ft drop onto the ground

i broke two fingers in the fall and got a few thorns in my right side

and oh yea, the floor was covered in stinging nettles and all manner of harsh wildlife

i went home that day with two broken fingers, countless stings, a few toad spits, horsefly bites and a really bad mood


ina similar fashion, my brother fell down an embankment covered in nettles, and nobody around wanted to go down there to get him back (for fear of stings themselves). he lay there, unable to get up without sliding further down, for 5-10 minutes before my cousin braved the nettles (in shorts ) and pulled him out

a bottle of vinegar later, he had stings covering his entire back, he looked like a pincushion


and breaking a collar bone is painful for weeks. you dont realise how much you move your shoulder until the slightest movement gives you unbearably crippling pain

 

[Krys]

Why do they do that? Pulling out perfectly good teeth, that is?

Well my teeth were growing into the muscles in my jaw...not nice!

Those are the ones that hurt most of all. Physical pain usually passes quickly and can be controlled, or at least reduced, by discipline and mind-tricks.

I totally disagree with this, physical pain can make you pass out, I've yet to have emotional pain do this.

Okay shall we go through my very long list?

Aged 15 - I landed on one of the vertical high jump poles at school and cracked 3 virtebrae (ouch was an understatement). Ended up in a wheelchair for a week so i wouldnt put too much pressure on the healing virtebrae

Aged 16 - ran into a table whilst playing 'bullrush' at school, cracked a rib and a finger.

Aged 16 - sliced my hand open on a gate on my way to my School Certificate exams (had to get a writer...its really hard to describe how to draw mathematical symbols when someone doesn't know what they are!)

Aged 17 - had boiling hot fryer fat spilled on my hand by a careless colleague....my hand wouldn't open for a week.

Aged 18 - I was walking to the toilet in my house and kicked my left little toe on a wall - broken, 1 week later same wall, walking back from the toilet - did my other little toe. I had a biology exam the following day and wasn't allowed in the lab because I couldn't wear shoes!

Aged 20 - ripped a large number of muscles in my stomache because I reached too far when I was rock climbing....took the doctors 10 days to work it out, they even had the foremost specialist in the UK come to work it out.

Aged 20 - appendicitis, let me tell you that makes you feel like absolute crap! Had the appedix out.

Aged 21 - torsion of fallopian tube (somehow the damned thing managed to get twisted).

Aged 21 - 1 week after the above, fell down 6 flights of stairs and dislocated both my knees...still have ongoing issues, see age 24.

Aged 21 - infected wisdom teeth...whilst on holiday in Las Vegas, let me tell you that take off and landing whilst your cheek is the size of a melon is not fun!

Aged 23 - infected tonsils. They got so badly infected they were actually touching each other! Got them removed - by far the worst post surgical pain I've ever experienced.

Aged 24 - Knee surgery on both knees due to recurrent dislocations from age 21.

Aged 24 - Endometriosis & Poly-Cystic Ovary Syndrome - Worst pain I've ever felt, passed out a few times from pain. Worst thing about this condition is that it only has one way of diagnosing it: a surgical proceedure. Had lots of it excised, but the surgeon didn't want to remove it all... So back to get some more out this year! It also has a nasty side effect of making PMS 10x (Garyw says 100x) worse, with doctors saying "you have to stay calm and don't get emotional".

Aged 24 - Passed out at work because they gave me the wrong kind of contraceptive

Aged 24 - Chronic sinusitis - which is basically massive headaches due to sinuses being blocked - still working on getting this under control.

Aged 25 - knee surgery on right knee did not take, and many rounds of physio and most likely surgery!

So yeah, for the last 10 years I've had quite a ride!

 

[Belisarius]

Krys - You've been through a lot, I hope your knee issues get sorted.

My things have almost all been self-inflicted by stupidity and playing with dangerous things, your problems are mostly bad luck in health. Hope you get better luck in the next 25 years.

 

[Krys]

Meh it doesn't feel like I've been through a lot, its just, me.

The self inflicted ones are nasty - because you just feel like an ass until you are healed!

 

[Mojave]

Darn, Krys! I feel really bad for you; Ouch!! I hope you feel better soon.

 

[Sky Captain]

Luckily I have never broken a bone or had a cut bad enough to require stiches..
Two years ago I slipped aboard my sailboat and ripped large piece skin from my big toe. That hurted badly.
Most unpleasant injuries I have had are shoulder ligament sprain last year when I slipped on icy roof and landed on my right shoulder. Could barely move my right arm for about a week.
Then about 2 weeks ago I tripped at a concert and 3 other people fell on me, got sprained ankle as a result, couldn't normally walk for 3 days.
Then there are numerous small cuts, bruises, skin abrasions from minor accidents with sharp objects, bicycles and such, but such minor things doesn't really count.

 

[astrosammy]

-Went into a a nice "suborbital trajectory" and landed right on my back after jumping from a swing (I was unable to breathe for a few seconds...).

- A few years later the rusty swing disassembled itself... A soft landing, no "Ouch", but it may sound like "Ouch"...

- Crushed a fingertip during bowling... (nothing broken, but it was bloody, finger has a nice scar now)

 

[Wishbone]

Had to take a mathematical probability exam at 21 yo, which started at 7:00, and kept on going past 23:00, when i finally passed. Still gives shudders to remember.

Having to administer an exam for 80 students from 9:00 to 20:00 in winter with no functioning heating, no drink, no food and no break.

The good thing was, it was not probability/stats, otherwise I would have banged my head against the wall pretty soon.

 

[Linguofreak]

Why do they do that? Pulling out perfectly good teeth, that is?

The Russian word for them is:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Зуб_мудрости

They have a habit of not growing in right and causing various kinds of trouble.

 

[SiberianTiger]

OK, your big toe. Big toe broken in a savage midnight attack by pet cat - pardon me if I giggle a bit on that one.

EDIT: Didn't know the common word for a cat was offensive, but so be it. Sometimes life's a female dog.

Don't know why, but she enjoyed greatly hunting me. I fed her pretty good, maybe I could be made scream like a mouse under certain circumstances?.. Otherwise, our relations were just great.

 

[jedidia]

Don't know why, but she enjoyed greatly hunting me. I fed her pretty good, maybe I could be made scream like a mouse under certain circumstances?

It's a cat thing... they simply enjoy hunting no mattter what. Indeed, if they don't have to do (or don't have the opportunity to do) any hunting outside, they can drive you crazy...

Luckily our male cat gets enough brawling right in front of the house (lots of cats in the quarter), so he's usually asleep when he's inside.

Anyways, outch-moments... not so many in my live (luckily), but a few funny ones:

At the age of four, I took a downhill with my tricycle. Our neighbours dog (BIG dog!) was helpfull enough to stop me before my uncontrolled decent could end in the main road by just steping into my path and giving me curious looks, but this means of emergency brake stoped my tricycle dead, sedning me flying over the dogs back and landing on my nose. The bones grew back together nicely without a hospital visit, although the nose is just slightly angled since then...

Somewhere around 10, managed to loose two teeth at once while training for one of our inofficial bicycle races we boys held in the quarter. I knew it was just about possible to race down that road AND take the adjacent 90 degree turn without using the brakes, but that day I messed up the position of my pedals, so that the inner one was low. You probably can guess the rest...

At the age of... hmmm... somewhere around 12 probably? Someone finally had pitty on me always having the slowest skateboard (we used our boards for downhill rollerball-like races in our quarter) and presented me with four high grade slalom rolls he had left over. They sent me right to hospital with a broken left arm and a lot of skin lacking on the left half of my face after the first test drive. I didn't know that any skateboard could go that bloody fast!

Not so funny, but definitaly outch, was a dental correction of pretty much everything in my mouth, between 13 and 17. Involved pulling 4 completely healthy teeth two times to make space for the others. Luckily, I already lost one of them in before mentioned bicycle accident, so that was a total of seven to get out. And then of course carrying a bloody vice in my mouth for 3 years, which they pulled tighter every 3 months. I hated it...

And as the crowning moment of my personal injury history, there was a work accident when I was somewhere 22 years old, which involved my right middle finger being caught under a falling steel plate of about 40 to 50 kg. I was lucky the joints were all out of harms way, so in the end all I had was an unrecognisable mess of a last limb. It was quite fascinating watching them stitching it together again, as was noticing that pain is somewhat subjective a thing... although I waited for local anesthesia for about 3 hours, I still didn't feel a thing. Going from that, I didn't take any painkillers before going to bed. Woke up in the middle of the night just to search for them as frantically as I ever searched for anything. The upside of the story was, six weeks of complete inability to work... right when Morrowind came out! :woohoo:

 

[Loru]

My turn.

Age 3:
- mild traumatic brain injury with cerebral edema after falling on asphalt sidewalk in park.

Age 6:
- 9 stiches on the top of my head & 6 stiches on right knee after concrete building block has fallen on me.

Age 14:
- hit by a car while I was riding a bike. Result: few scars on my left hand

Age 16:
- I hit jamb with my elbow. Result: broken elbow and I didn't notice that it was broken. It healed itself but now elbow movement is limited by ~15 degrees

Age 22:
- multiple bites from a dog (actually it was 1/4 wolf). 2 on right hand, 2 on right leg, 1 on right hip and 2 on left ankle. Very painfull.

Age 23:
- broken nose on sailing boat (skipper haven't announced turn)
- stabbbed in the left arm by a robber with knive. (actually he ended up in much worse condition than me). Result: 2 inches long scar on my arm

Age 24:
- again broken nose - fight with two robbers

Age 26:
- mild traumatic brain injury after mis calculated jump in pub (I hit the stairs with my head)
- cold burn on left arm after liguid propane-buthane gas distributor malfunction

Age 28:
- broken heel after miscalculated jump of the stairs. Result: a lot of metal inside my heel removed after 7 months.

 

[Belisarius]

So far most horrible are the squashed finger from Jedidia, dog savaging from Loru, Aedar's bike wreck plus road rash, and Krys's "women's things" aged 24.

 

[Wonderer]

Well my list isn't that bad.

5-6 years old: almost drowned twice, the sinking feeling before passing out was horrible, after that learned how to swim.

9 years old: fell off a bike during a race - dislocated wrist and cracked knee cap. And a jaw surgery to remove an extra tooth.

18 years old: all 4 wisdom teeth removed, one was sitting on a nerve, so a horse dose of anesthetics didn't help the pain.This was done in preparation for braces.

This year I should get braces and two years later another jaw surgery, and the surgeon has already warned me that the healing process will be hell :dry:

And lots of other minor cuts and injuries that left scars here and there.

 

[TMac3000]

Just remembered...

Cut my finger with a steak knife. Can't remember what age, but I was a kid.

Slammed my finger in the car door some years ago. I looked at it, and when I saw blood under the nail I knew I was in deep kimchee. Took a big dose of Vicadin, but instead of stopping the horrible make-you-want-to-vomit pain, it just made me dizzy. I ultimately lost the nail. It has long since grown back, but you can just make out the scar tissue underneath, and the nail looks a little different from the others (has kind of a funny shine to it).

 

[ky]

Im surprised I havent broken any bones or gotten any stitches even though I play football and basketball.But here I go:

Age 1:Almost electrocuted myself touching a power outlet with my finger.

Age 5:A TV fell on me(how am i still alive?)a few scrapes and cuts but nothing minor.

Age 8:I fell of a bike whiloe riding a few scrapes and bruises.

Age 14:A few weeks ago I got kicked somewhere guys wouldnt want to be kicked by an ex girlfriend(i guess because i broke up with her she was mad)hurt like hell.

 

[Ripley]

Well, aged 25, I broke my left [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femur"]femur[/ame], due to a cancer. It just snapped spontaneously while walking after months of ever growing pains.
That was the most serious pain I suffered...until then, and believe me, it was as painful as hell.

Then, in a first-aid of a traumatic hospital (they were not prepared to treat that kind of illnesses, but that was the closest hospital the ambulance drove me to) after some X-rays to assess wether it was REALLY broken or not (and I told them it was REALLY broken, but they would not believe me), they decided to treat the fractured bone to somehow "stop" the two parts of femur from moving, by inserting a looooong nail from side to side of my leg just above the knee, to apply some "traction" weight (like in the old days....veeeery old), and they did it with something like a drill-machine.

The man asked my relatives to go out while i tried to gather all my energy and machism, but I was just terrorized, my father tried to say something about anesthesya, but there was apparently no time to make all the preliminary exams to decide how much anesthesya I could sustain...then he approached me saying something like "don't worry, it won't last long", while inserting and securing this nail in the drill-machine.
Then he pushed the sharp tip of this nail against my leg, letting it opening its way to the bone, and he pulled the trigger......

Now THAT was my new pain-world-record!

The nail exited from the opposite side of the leg, leaving my bone with two beautiful hooking points where doctors could finally attach these hanging sand-bags. That helped a lot in reliefing the pain.
The funny part is that since this nail was dangerously sharp, they stuck on both ends two real cork-wineprops!

I still have a picture of this, not to forget what I went through. And it was only the start of it.

It happened in Italy, few km from Rome, in 1988.

That was my first cancer, and painful situations obviously began to pop-up quite often (chemiotherapy, bone marrow samplings, etc), but I'll spare you further details.
Then I had the second (hopefully last) cancer 10 years later, in 1997, where my left femur was definitely removed alltogether, and now I walk with a big hip-femur-knee internal prosthesis, I wish I had a X-ray to show...Then in 2008 the prosthesis was totally replaced with a new one, due to a serious infection...

That's where my Orbiter Forum nickname comes from, I had to fight my Alien.

 

[Fabri91]

That is...impressive. Hope you are feeling well now, the scene of the drilling machine is something I'd like never to go through!

Regarding myself I've never had a serious injury or a broken bone, only once as a little toddler during the two years we lived in England I apparently fell over backwards on some gravel, hitting my head, but in the end it was nothing too serious, barely worth mentioning. There was some bleeding but it did stop itself on the way to the hospital.

Ah, right, there's something I forgot. During our holiday on the Isola d'Elba I thought it was a GREAT idea to ride with my awesome bike (I was 5 yers-old) down the gravel road that lead to the apartment we rented, and I fell over. Nothing too serious again, but the underside of my left "upper" arm (between shoulder and elbow) was very bruised, with some bleeding. Thankfully we had an emergency set with bandages and similar stuff in the car, so it could be washed and bandaged. A couple of days later it was ok again.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Mostly just scrapes, cuts, bruises etc. here with one lightly sprained wrist thrown in for good measure...at least until 2008.
I was playing dodge ball with my scout troop in a field and in the process of dodging 3 balls at once banana rolled over a rock, root, stick, part of alien spacecraft, spire from the lost city of Atlantis, or something right where my right tibia, femur, and patella meet on the inside of my knee. It didn't even hurt then so I got up and kept playing. That night, I was sitting on my knees (yea, I know, I know...) and when I pushed with my right knee to get up, my world exploded. It felt like someone took a sledge hammer to my knee. I ignored it (it was fine from then on) till around August and my freshman year of college. My knee was hurting when I walked. Nothing major, but I went to the doc. He said take it easy, modify your schedule etc. and I did, and it worked...till next year. Literally one year later (fall '09) I went back with it hurting again. This time he gave me a prescription for a Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) and this worked...till Janurary. So then he sent me to physical therapy. Somehow, the knee got worse. He finally said let's try a brace (hinged type) and if that doesn't work, we're cutting you open. So I wore it January to April and my knee was fine...until about last November (2010). I haven't been back yet, but I need to. My knee is much worse now than it was. Sometimes when I'm walking, at a certain part in my step, it hurts right under the kneecap where it is against the femur. Unfortunately, my college schedule is intense right now and I just can't afford to take the time out to do the surgery which would likely require a month at least of limited activity.

 

[T.Neo]

Let's see... I fortunately have not been in much physical pain in my life, I think that partially has to do with my obsessive-compulsive traits...

I poked a hole in my middle finger once, with one of those... cake-bake-readiness-test-sticks. I mean, I poked this stick through into the skin, and then out the other side... this was through the flesh on the underside of the finger. Yeah. I think this was around age... 5 or 6. Somehow I managed the pain well enough not to tell anyone. Formed a nice blister-like layer of skin, which my mother then noticed and gave me hell for...

But I have to say the absolute worst pain I've experienced has been toothache. It was really, literally unbearable. All I can say is thank goodness for dentists- I don't want to think about people in the days of old who would have had to withstand such pain chronically for years on end (after my experience, I would say that I probably couldn't live with such toothache for a few days).

The next day I found a gaping hole in my tooth. Go figure. But those anesthetics really are magic, if your dentist knows what they're doing, there's no reason to fear a dental procedure.

Now I'm worried that the tooth has decayed around the filling, or the dental pulp has become inflamed/infected, because the tooth is sensitive to temperature, or that there is another cavity nearby, or something. :dry:

Psychological pain is another kind of pain though. I swear, if bad depression does not eat away at the brain, it most certainly eats away at the mind...