Things that make you go "Ouch"

[Stevodoran]

Lets see.............

Grabbing a piece out of the lathe after working on it for 3 hours (got some burns ill tell you that)

Leaving the chuck in the drill and turning it on causing the chuck to hit you.

Accidentally slitting my right leg on a jagged rock in a forest.

My knee popping out of place so it is at the side.

Got my finger crushed in a sliding door.

 

[N_Molson]

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.

That one is really frightening :hide:

I tried to clean my ears at the age of 4 and got into the internal ear. It was fixed in a clinic, and I have excellent hear tests on the both ears.

I broke my shoulder at the age of 6, falling from a 50 centimeters-high hammock ! :facepalm: No consequences however.

I broke myself a right hand finger while fighting with another boy at school at the age of 13.

At the age of 14, I broke myself the left forearm falling from a 3-meters high coastal dam. It was a steep wall (but not completely vertical) of stones and rough concrete. I was unconscious on the sand during a few minutes. After that I realised my head was at a few centimeters from a sharp stone. Got lucky ! Still, I had to get back home alone with a broken arm, under a pityless noon summer sun. Probably the longest 200 meters of my life, during the last meters I saw black spots, almost passed out. And of course, I met no one on the streets...

Nothing really serious since then, except teeth surgery... Complete anesthesia, had several days of moderate pain after.

 

[Belisarius]

Trending topics - teeth hell, knee hell, riding around on bikes

 

[Fabri91]

Up until now I thought it would be more of an exception to have had a broken bone or similar injuries.

Either Orbinauts Live Dangerously or we magically attract bad luck.

 

[HarvesteR]

Hmm, I've never had any broken bones or stuff like that.. Let's hope it stays like that.

The worst physical pain I've had, must have been when I had a nasty inflamed abcess growing out of my jaw... it might have started out as a pimple, but obviously it aspired to much greater things.

It had to be drained... which means taking a big, sharp needle, and poking it until the juices run out... kinda like popping a zit, only more surgical... Oh, and anaesthesia is useless on such things...

That had to be the most painful, because it was a long, drawn-out procedure... It wasn't a single shock of huge pain... it was evenly distributed over the course of the entire event (which took about half an hour).

Now, I've also had my share of build-related injuries... I like to think I can build stuff and work with power tools, but I've yet to see one project of mine where I don't lose some skin and tissue to them...

I've once put my finger through a disk sander... (fingertips really do regenerate :thumbup: )

I've hacked myself with most types of cutters, saws and what have you...

I've burned myself with soldering irons countless times...

And I've almost had a power drill through my leg once... thankfully it just chewed into my pants, but it just needed a bit more to keep on going...

Cheers

 

[Krys]

Generally speaking, most people don't get through childhood without visiting the hospital at least once. Mostly for breaks/sprains.

 

[Linguofreak]

But I have to say the absolute worst pain I've experienced has been toothache. It was really, literally unbearable.

Yeah, as I mentioned before, the worse pain I've experienced has been tooth related. I once managed to saw through my thumbnail (which eventually fell off), but that wasn't anywhere near what you get with dental pain. (In fact, at first I didn't even know I'd sawed through it. First I thought I'd just nicked myself on one side of the thumb. Then I saw a bit of blood coming out the other side too. Then it started to swell and a crack appeared in the nail.)

 

[Solar424]

My turn. Not many memories from more than a few years ago.
Age 12: Fell onto an edge where the decorations on two walls meet, had to get three stitches.
Age 12: Got a cavity filled without anesthesia, because it was "too small" to need it. It felt like someone was drilling into my teeth, which seems appropriate because that's what filling a cavity is.
Age 13: Fell down some navy style steps (steep, metal, sharp edges) and scratched up my back a bit.
Age 13: Tried going up a steep ramp on a bike at a skate park, fell back, hit my head on the ground, and maybe suffered a minor concussion. Good thing I was wearing a helmet.
Common trends: Something involving gravity,sharp objects,or my head.

 

[Linguofreak]

Generally speaking, most people don't get through childhood without visiting the hospital at least once. Mostly for breaks/sprains.

Actually, I've never visited the hospital for an actual injury: Once to the emergency room when I was three to get a crayon tip sucked out of my nose, once for surgery to correct my lazy eye, once to the emergency room for a fever, once to the emergency room in adulthood for being stupid enough to comment that I *might* have sprained my back in the presence of liability-paranoid ski resort staff (I hadn't).

 

[Sar]

1, cut an apple and ended up with three stitches in my left forefinger
2, scissored the bottom off from the same finger few years later and ended up with three stitches.
3, waited two days in a hospital waiting to get appendectomy, recall sleep and calling for meds, which they injected into me, one nurse didn't want to inject through my tattoo and apparently I don't have another shoulder so she injected it into my heyney...
4, cut my left forefinger with a freshly sharpened chef knife, lengthwise. Got it glued back up again though. (I like them almost sharp enough to shave)
5, leaned most of my weight on my left palm, too bad it ended up on a hotplate resulting almost third degree burns.

One thing that didn't happen to me, but shivers me for some reason. A trainee in my fathers restaurant accidentally opened the deep fryers valve that pours the oil out and out it went, straight on her legs. From what I heard the girl passed out pretty much as soon as it happened and the oil kept coming on her legs, until someone managed to pull her out.

Another deep fryer accident: Cook decided to clean one deep fryer while the one next to it was still on. keeping the cleaning water in the middle... And I think everyone knows what happened next and what happens when half a liter of water ends up in several liters of 180c oil. She did manage to shield her face with her hands though.

 

[Krys]

fryer oil is nasty stuff, it gets everywhere, and getting rid of it is not easy, miss the little plug and whoosh there goes all the oil! I remember having to clean up the restaurant after someone forgot to put the bucket in front of the drainer...... It took us 4 hours to clean it up!

I'm going to put in a story about my brother.

When he was a little boy, he was sitting in a tree after school waiting for my dad to pick him up. One of his friends was playing on the other side of the tree, and flicked a brach at my brother. So my brother flicked one back.

5 minutes later my brother is being rushed to the hospital as one of the branches managed to flick his eye right out of the socket! Fortunately they put it back in, and stiched up the gash, but every time he smiles I remember what happened as the scar is still there. No permanent damage to the eye and he still has 20/20 vision.

 

[ky]

Wow I would not like to see that or experience it happen.

 

[N_Molson]

Also, what I realize reading this topic is :

a) Human body is very resilient.
b) Medical technology can fix a lot of things.
c) Without that technology, most of us would have died before the age of 10.

And of course, projects like the ISS participate in improving that technology :thumbup:

 

[XSSA]

Sister was hoping over me and hit my hand shoving my thumb nail into my nose. Not going in my nose but cutting into it.:cry

 

[jangofett287]

My turn:
I'm only 15, so I haven't had much time to accumulate much, but here goes (in no particular order ('cause I can't remember)):

• Dropped a TV on my big toe, lost the nail.
• Had foot stood on by someone in hiking boots while in sandles, this was on a ferry, and resulted in another lost nail, and a visit to the ships (french) doctor.
• Had operation to correct lazy eye, and was blind for 2 weeks.
• Cut forehead open on pavement when I tumbled head over heals when running and I lent forward. (x2)
• Cut same bit of forehead open on a gravel drive doing exactly the same thing.
• Almost cut one of my fingers off with a bread knife.

I also have a couple of triangular vertebrae in my spine, a horseshoe shaped kidney, and have had my share of illnesses (flu, ear infections etc.)
Nothing big for me, just lots of little stuff. But you can't argue with the little things. Its the little things that make the world go round [/simpsons quote]

 

[T.Neo]

The only time I needed to go to the emergency room because of an injury, was when I fell backwards and hit my head on a dresser, and needed staples in my scalp... was not particularly painful, but quite scary and highly annoying. And I had to wait in the emergency room for what seemed like forever, next to a guy who had his leg ripped open in a chainsaw accident... they started stitching him up... and at that point I really, really, really didn't want to have to have stitches...

I would say that was the only truely injurious injury I had as a kid. The rest was superficial stuff, more or less.

Yeah, as I mentioned before, the worse pain I've experienced has been tooth related. I once managed to saw through my thumbnail (which eventually fell off), but that wasn't anywhere near what you get with dental pain. (In fact, at first I didn't even know I'd sawed through it. First I thought I'd just nicked myself on one side of the thumb. Then I saw a bit of blood coming out the other side too. Then it started to swell and a crack appeared in the nail.)

Ouch... I would certainly rate that as more gruesome though. :blink:

 

[Brycesv1]

5yo- Friend rolled a toy truck down a 10 foot slide with my head waiting at the bottom.
8yo- literally kicked off a trampoline, landing on the rail around the side. Bruised rib.
13yo- an old fence broke as me and 2 friends were climbing it. sliced my knee open on one of the brackets on the way down. was too swollen to walk for 3 days.
Shortly after- stepped on a board that had a 4 inch nail sticking out. Doctors pulled a nice amount of rust out of my foot. missed any bones and i was good to walk after 2 days.

i think thats the last serious damage iv taken

 

[Keatah]

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.

Or if your dentist is a hot HOT babe, then you don't need any shots or anything!!

But really, medical science is superb at fixing up mechanical problems. Like when I dumped my bike and pushed both balls out from their sockets and right up through my shoulders. What a sight to see! Almost comical too. A zombie in the making. I was told that I was making sneery-eyed comments to the woman doctor who reset the joints. I don't remember that, but seemingly it was a full-blown riot in there.

Even more amusing was we hauled the swingset to the top of the "mountain" in the backyard and took flying leaps to get some speed going, well I got enough velocity going, and with the snow and ice and everything.. You kept your speed when you hit the ground! And I zoomed right into and under the rickety chainlink fence. My buddies tried to pull me out, but being wedged in there and stuff just made the bottoms of the unfinished and sharp fence links stab me right in the back and butt. The more they pulled the more I got stabbed! The neighbors all came over with wire cutters and bolt cutters or like tools and eventually I got freed. I got all bandaged and shot up with those shot things at the hospital.

More recently a set of strained ligaments in my torso putting down two muggers from the dark side of town. Nothing a week of lounging around and playing games wouldn't fix up! You see, me and my lady had gone to a concert at a theatre right between the upscale and ghetto parts of town. Once in a while the lowlifes leak out of the projects and ooze into the stairwells it would seem. I'm certain they were out looking for some fun or something.

 

[Saturn V]

Hmmm...2 come to mind:

1. Catching a line-drive up the 3rd base line with my left eye. Knocked me out (or so I'm told). Swelled so tightly shut, I couldn't see out of it for almost a month, and once I could open it, people were asking me to close it again because the entire "white" was blood red.

2. Having my spleen removed.

Both obviously survivable, but not particularly fun...and neither something I'd want to repeat anytime soon.

 

[Eli13]

I forgot this (dont ask me how i did) but when i was 13 (im currently 14) i was playing ice hockey with some friends and i was dumb enough not to buy gloves so when i got checked into the boards it cracked my middle finger nail and well it died and fell off. It grew back luckily.