Share your FREAK accidents!

[BorderKelpie]

Gee, which accident should I share?
My most recent was last Christmas, took the kids to see a movie (quality bonding time - bah humbug!), anyway, I have an issue with low blood sugar. I guess I crashed during the movie, I felt restless, told the kids to finish the movie and meet me in the car. I started walking out, passed out and landed right on my chin. Broke my jaw in 3 places (bone came through the gum in front). Wired shut for 2 months, metal plate in the front and a broken molar in the back. Kind of hard to maintain a decent blood sugar level whe you can't eat. Happy Holidays!lol
When I was young (and immortal), I went on a trail ride with friends. At one point, I got off my horse and lead him down a rather steep hill to a creek. I didn't realize how muddy it was. He sunk in to his hocks, paniced, reared and landed with his front hooves on my shoulders. He weighed about 1250, I weighed about 108. Broken collarbone, lacerations torn ligament in my arm and an awesome hoof shaped bruise on my calf. That was a looong ride home.
'Course there's the head on collision with a drunk when I was 17 years old, and the broken hip when pregnant with my first DD, and the 3 broken ribs pregnant with the second DD, and so on and so on....
Geez, no wonder my insurance is so high.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

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My DD did that exact same thing! I had a new baby, and DD was 20 months old. It was her bath time, so I took off her clothes, then turned to grab a towel, so it'd be within arms distance.. somehow, in those 3 seconds, she managed to pee on the linoleum, then slip IN the pee, and smack her mouth on the side of the tub. her top teeth shoved right though her bottom lip.... naked, pee covered, bleeding face kid, napping baby, and rambunctious 4 year old DS, and my husband was away at boot camp.. yeesh. we went to the ER, but the doctor rubbed me the wrong way, and wanted to stitch her lip closed... he was a big, beefy ex-military doctor, and this was my little girls FACE... so I asked for a plastic surgeon, and they directed me to another hospital half an hour away... where we (3 kids and I) waited for 8 (yes, EIGHT!) hours for the plastic surgeon to be available, and by that point, he just glued it... she has a whisper of a scar, and I am really glad we didn't get the first doctor to stitch it... though the glue was nasty looking for weeks...

 

[Bluemoon420]

I had a freak accident ( part of it was due to being a stupid teenager) when I was 14. We were all riding doubles on a ten speed bike. When my friend turned the corner onto a side street, my right ankle got caught in the back spokes, and went around with the wheel. My foot was stuck in the spokes, and at that moment a small box truck turned the corner, and went over part of the wheel my foot was stuck in, and squeezed my it tighter.

I think I was in shock at that point, but I was screaming, my friends were screaming, the truck driver was screaming. Someone called an ambulance. They put me, and the back ten speed tire in the ambulance, and away I went to the hospital.

Now here's the weird part...I had NO broken bones in my ankle. None, Nada. However, what they didn't check for was torn ligaments. After two years of being in a leg cast. They finally did a special test, and realized I had torn ALL my ligaments in my ankle. Everytime they took the cast off, My ankle would just crumple over.

They sent me to a an orthopedic surgeon ( he was the best in the country at the time. Treated the Boston Bruins Hockey Team) He took one look at me the day before my 16th birthday, and said she needs surgery. On my 16th birthday, I was in the hospital having an experimental surgery done.
They basically reconstructed my whole ankle. It took a year of physical therapy, and some risks were involved, but I could walk again. It's been YEARS later, and despite not being able to be in air conditioning, some arthritis, and nerve damage....I NEVER want to see a leg cast, or air cast again.

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[chickensducks&agoose]

Okay, threadkiller, Let's get this party going! When I was 5, I was watching Mr. Rogers... BORING... so i decided to try it upside down... so I flipped onto my head, and promptly kicked the window out from behind the couch. I had a 3 inch cut along the inside edge of my right foot, and apparently missed the achilles tendon by something like 1/8th inch... anyway, so I realize that I've broken the window, and am terrified that my parents are going to kill me. Only my dad is home, so of course, he runs in, and there is glass and blood all over the place, and I've stuck my foot under the couch cushion, and am calmly watching mr. Rogers. (it didn't hurt at ALL... couldn't feel a thing)... he (obviously) figured out what had happened, and stuck me in the car, and my brother in the back seat, and made the 10 miles to the hospital in like 8 minutes, on dirt roads.... I remember watching the blood running down the right foot, onto the left foot, then dripping off my left big toe onto the floor of the car. My mom got home about 15 minutes later, and walked in to find us gone, (no note!), and blood and glass all over... anyways I ended up with 18 stitches (which DID hurt), and a long scar on my foot, that is still a little tender, and makes wearing shoes vaguely uncomfortable.

 

[fowler_chick]

Broke my foot while answering the phone at 8 months pregnant... DA husband would not get up to get it so i did, my left foot was a sleep....took one step on my left foot and went down hard on my side....doctor told me to wear the boot foe 6 weeks...only ended up wearing it for 3

 

[McCord6]

I told my husband about this thread. He said I should put down his "FREAK ACCIDENTS." Oh dear, not something that is pretty and ALL of them winded him into the hospital for a lil while.

Hubby is what you should call a DARE DEVIL!

Theses are ones that I can remember correctly and can be told in short (long stories are hell to type!)

Playing at a friends house, all the kids were jumping off the front porch, over the hedges, while playing tag. Well, his friend's mom had clay flower pots hanging over the porch. He ran RIGHT into one, shattered the pot into TINY pieces, and ended up with 10 stitches in his forehead. Only weeks later, he joined the deaf school and one of the boys were curious about his stitches so he pulled at it and asked if it hurts, NO ofc hubby said. he kept doing it until the stitches actually did POP OUT, blood was EVERYWHERE and it was in the school's cafe! Back to the hospital, he was, to get new stitches put in. That boy was in BIG trouble!

Another time was Hubby and his brothers and sisters were jumping on the bed (hubby was the youngest at that time, his baby brother wasn't born yet). Well, the oldest brother accidently pushed hubby and he fell off the bed, hitting the back of his head on the nearby end table, busting his head open. Another 10 stitches were put in but this time in the back. When hubby gets stressed out, overly tired, or not feeling good, that same spot will feel like it's burning. He has seen a dr about it but they said there was nothing wrong.

Another time, LOL, hubby got into a fight with the neighborhood kids. Since hubby's family are mostly hard of hearing, the kids in the neighborhood would pick on them, calling them MONKEYS. Well. This time, they were picking on his sister, and hubby is VERY VERY OVERLY protected of his sisters (4 sisters, 2 brothers). He was not happy when one of the kids called his sister a WHORE (they were in middle school and the kids do have ugly mouths). During the fight, hubby got pushed down and landed hard on the street curb, he used his left hand to brace himself. His wrist was completely dislocated and the bone was cut cleaningly through. Several surgeries were required on his wrist. He still has problems with it.

Last one, (there are ALOT more but I'm not tellling them all) Hubby was out ATVing with his oldest brother. Somehow he lost control and ran right into a bobwired fence. He was tangled up completely. Took them a while to get get him out. He wasn't seriously injured but had ALOT of cuts and bruises all over. He did have a LONG and thick cut along his right side that did require stitches but nothing too serious.

 

[Boyd]

I once peed on an electric fence with a 5 mile charger with one acre enclosed

Thankfully I can have kids to this day

ok, you can laught now!

 

[Amyable]

 

[Lunachick]

It was a snowy evening two years ago....was supposed to visit my sister & her DH for dinner that night. I wanted to check on the chooks before we left. I go out our sliders onto a small deck...I slipped and somehow my wedding ring got caught onto the hook in the door (?!) To this day I can't figure out how - and my feet slip on the deck below me and I'm hanging by my ring on my finger! I thought my weight would pull my finger off! I panicked....finally righted myself and unhooked my ring/finger - YOUCH I was worried about my finger swelling and the ring on it! I run to the greenhouse where I have my toolbox and try to snip my ring to get it off....no luck - I thrusted my hand into the snowdrift for a few and waited......the more I did that the more I felt confident that my finger wouldn't swell so much that the wedding ring would be a problem. I was so worried I didn't go to my sister's. We stayed home, and I kept my finger and the ring! Lotsa ugly bruising etc, the next day but everything else was OK.

I think my sister thought I was making that story up so we didn't have to go out that night.

A few days later she saw my finger all black & blue....

 

[Bluemoon420]

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