Hey Pandas, What Is The Weirdest Way You Have Gotten An Injury? (Closed)

Gave myself a concussion with a hair dryer. I have very long hair and was blow drying it in my small apartment. When I went to flip my head down to blow dry underneath my head smacked the hair dryer which was hot. So I then reacted by jerking my head up and hitting the wall behind me. And that's just one of many weird injuries in my lifetime.

I have a couple but in honor of my dad who just passed away a week ago I'll tell this one first because it's hilarious....now. I wasn't raised by my bio dad, but we were still super close. One day he popped in out of the blue real late at night at my grandparents house. I was ecstatic like I always was when he made these surprise visits. He very rarely called ahead he'd just show up. Any how. I was about 15 and talking a mile a minute. You see the thing about his pop ins was that he'd pop out just as fast and un announced so you never had any idea how long he'd be there. So I was trying to play catch up as fast as possible before my grandparents woke up and got their time. I ran into my room to grab something to show him...a drawing I think, I got that talent from him. And when I went to run back out of the room, the door had partially shut... only I didn't see it because it was dark. I ran full speed into that door. It almost knocked me out. I stumbled to the living room and I could see that my dad had a mixture of concern and also trying to conceal laughter. He saw me about lose it and he said "nope...don't do it, you're tough don't cry" and then we both howled in laughter of how funny that actually was. The loudness of the door and our laughter woke up my grandparents. The next day I had a straight line bruise down my right side of my face. Looking back it had to be hilarious and honestly, strangely one of my most favorite memories. I miss my Dad so much. I miss his pop up visits.

Oh, Where to start...

I was kicked by a horse as I was walking/running away (he was upset), resulting in two perfect hoof shaped bruises on each butt cheek after a beautiful superman flight and landing.

I received a major concussion while grabbing for a towel just out of the H.S shower after Gym class. Feet slipped, and I rolled over, smacking my head on the concrete floor. Don't even remember getting dressed, but luckily, I did.

Working on a car when a lightning strike hit a nearby tree (I was in the garage). A bolt of electricity about an inch in diameter shot from the tire ramp, into the wrench I was holding. After a half hour of feeling on top of the world, I laid down for a two hour nap.

Jumping a BMX bike, the front tire fell off.

Hit in the head by a large rock that was kicked up by a car at a crash-up derby.

Had a rooster peck me in the eye.

Another concussion hitting my head on a iron cauldron (rendering pot) in the yard. Knocked me unconscious.

Slammed my thumb in a sliding van door backwards such that I couldn't reach the handle to free myself. Mom and Dad were on a tractor in the field, so I was stuck there for a while

Broke my right arm falling out of the right side of the hayloft. This is only funny because when he was the same age my brother fell out of the left side of the same loft and broke his right arm. My face landed in the only part of the barn floor that was dirt, leaving a perfect impression of a smooshed face.

Yet another concussion breaking a windshield with my forehead. I was had just hopped in the truck my friend was driving and hadn't buckled my seatbelt since I was staring at the girls cross-country team running by. My friend hit a fire hydrant.

Broke the tips of both pinkies wrestling

Threw out my back reaching for a can of soda.....

These are just the fun ones I can readily remember

Walking to school, I got run over by teacher who was late for school. She hadn’t cleared off her windshield, just a hole to see through, but not well enough. She hit me doing 35 mph, I was thrown 40 feet but only sustained minor injuries. God was on my side that day.

As I've gotten older (Well past 70), I've found such things as "getting out of bed" or "turning my head too quickly" can cause extreme pain if not done properly. For really severe injury, walking up and down stairs can achieve untold amounts of discomfort with knees clicking, locking in place and, ultimately, forcing myself to either grabbing said joint to try to move it or, as happened once, falling down the rest of the steps while trying to do this!
But the absolute "weirdest" injury was when my right thumb wouldn't unclasp while holding a drink, spilling the drink and causing my friends to laugh uncontrollably as I whacked my thumb on the table trying to get it to work.

My pet bird smacking me in the eye with his wing, ended up with the lower half of my eye full of blood for two weeks. Damn embarrassing explaining to doctor and the optometrist what happened, and I looked like a horror movie victim.

I broke my ankle carrying a vacuum cleaner downstairs, thought I was at the bottom but I wasn't. Splashed drain cleaner in my eye when the bottle fell over while I was cleaning the bathroom. Gashed my hand open dusting a rusty old trunk. Broke my toe accidentally kicking the tool box I left out. My insurance company would save money if they paid for me to have a housekeeper.

When I was a little kid and got my first root beer my mom forgot to put the bottle away. She went outside to feed our chickens, and came in to see me with red marks all over my face. I had found out that I could create suction with the bottle, and I could also drag it across my face while keeping the suction. I had lots of fun at the beginning, but then it got painful and I had to go to school with bright red marks all over my face for the next two days.

There is probably one for each day of the year, but here are a couple. I was in a car accident where I was hit broadside. I had a perforated ear drum, blood clot behind my right eye and a concussion. All on my right side, but I was driving, and my seatbelt on. It wasn't until the next day when I discovered my passenger had a really bad shoulder injury, on his left side. I was flung sideways, and my very hard head hit his shoulder.

Sitting on a bench at a roller-skating rink, with my right leg under the bench. Person #13 sat on the bench, causing it to collapse on my leg. Completely skinned my leg from behind my knee to my heel. Severed my calf muscle, which is now held together by scar tissue. No such thing as micro-surgery in 1973. I have a huge dent, plus severe nerve damage.

Got thrown off a wooden floating dock, by the son of Satan, and my cousin. They dropped me along the very splintered edge of the raft. Skinned from heels to shoulders. Took 2 weeks before I could walk properly.

Staying at a high-end hotel. Shower/bath-tub each had their own soap dishes. The kind that stick out. Taking a shower, dropped the soap. Bent over to retrieve soap, almost knocked myself. Huge goose-egg for a week. Nice color for the first few days. I had hoped it might knock some sense into me, but sadly, it didn't.

I was 8 and 1/2 months pregnant, in January, in Germany, and got all maternal and worried about our cat being stuck in our (not attached) garage. (She would have been fine if she had been, but ... pregnant brain and hormones.) She was not locked in the garage. Walking back down the hill, in flip-flops -- slipped on the frosty grass and broke my leg. Gave birth to my first son with my right leg in a cast to my hip. It was a really interesting experience ... would not recommend.

I was cleaning my ear with a q-tip (yes I know, you shouldn't do that) and for some reason, I took my hand off it while the other end was still in my ear, I think I tried to grab something that fell and I turned my head. The q-tip struck the open cabinet door and slammed the whole thing into my ear canal.

I have two...
1. Was riding my bicycle when the pedal somehow came off while taking a turn. I didn't realise, stepped into the air, bike falls down and I take the turn on the street while scrapping the skin of my waist off...

2. Electric cooker. Was cooking something when and when I touched the food electricity went through my whole arm and shoulder. I lost feeling in that arm for about two weeks and spent 2 days in hospital for observation of heart failure.

Remembered another silly one. I strained my shoulder while taking off a shirt. :3

My wife was definitely a Doctor Pimple Popper wannabe and decided to pop a cyst on my back (or at least squeeze the gunk out of it - which is actually what GPs recommend). A month later after an operation to remove the massive abscess that developed, and left with a 4cm scar I'm vowing never to let her anywhere near my 'spots' again!

When I was 6 or 7 my Aunt and Uncle had a hobby farm, my cousins, sister and I were clearing a field of all the rocks and sticks, when we were done my Uncle had us all run back to the house because he was taking us for ice cream, I ran and tripped over the only stick which just happened to be the exact same distance from the last rock as I was tall. I cut my forehead open & my Uncle took off his shirt (he was a very large man, shirt was a 4X) to wrap around my head. By the time I made it to the house it was totally red, my Mom was so freaked out my Aunt had to take me to the hospital. A few months later at their place again I fell (was pushed) off a 2 foot tall dollhouse and my arm landed on a sprinkler. The sprinkler had an arm shaped dent in it, which I thought was funny. When I went to stand up my hand stayed on the ground and the skin on my arm just stretched, which I thought was hilarious (there was no pain) so I had to pick up my hand and hold it the other hand and the skin just sagged down in between. When we went to the house my mom freaked out again and my Aunt drove me to the hospital. They had to knock me out and set it under an X-ray machine. That was when I realized that you should not freak out in front of your kids and wait till everything was over to get upset.
A few weeks later Mom asked me to go down to the basement with her because she heard a strange noise. It turned out that a mouse had had babies in an old mattress, my Mother was terrified of mice so grabbed me by the arms and used me like a human shield to "protect" her. I just backed out of the room and shut the door. The next day at school I get called to the office. When I get there the school nurse, Principal and a lady from child protective services were there. They asked me how I got hurt. I told them the truth, you could tell they didn't believe me. Having 2 handprint bruises wrapped around both of my upper arms probably looked suspicious & telling them my Mom did it didn't help much. I tried to tell them that my parents would never purposely hurt me and that my Mom was just terrified by the tiny cute little mice but they were convinced that I was being abused. They sent me back to class and they all walked me to the top of the stairs and watched walk/fall down them. Their helpful response to my new injuries was actually laughter. They all looked at each other and said I really was just a klutz and they never did talk to my parents.

I broke my collar bone at band practice when the guy playing bass drum basically ran over me and fell with my snare drum harness on.

I have several... I am more accident prone than I care to admit, but the first one happened at high school. The area in front of the school had those concrete garden benches, the kind that is just a slab set on two upright slabs. My best friend was sitting on one, and I saw that one of the uprights had been jostled off the end of the pavement, and was sinking into the sand. I walked up quickly to pull her off of it, when it collapsed, crushing both my big toes underneath. I have never felt pain like that, and, as I said, I've had a lot of injuries... but YIKES.

Second one I was scraping alligatored paint off the eaves of my house. I was getting ready to stop for the day, picking up tools, when I saw one little spot that I wanted to hit with the wire brush before I shut down for the night. I was using an attachment to my giant electric drill. I climbed the ladder and grabbed the drill... I didn't bother to put on my hat and safety glasses for just a minute's work... when the wind blew, wrapped my long hair around the shaft of the drill, bashed me in the face and knocked me off the ladder while pulling out a half dollar sized hank of hair. I was lucky I just had a bald spot and a black eye from that one. Always wear your safety gear Pandas... always.

Literally just grabbing a cup, but my skin was really dry cause it was winter so somehow I started bleeding. There have been weirder, but I can't think of them right now

I pointed and dislocated a finger. I turned and dislocated my knee. Sneezed popped out a rib. Ehlers Danlos is never boring

It was our anniversary. I tripped over hubby’s feet. He’s complaining loudly about how I purposely broke his toe. All the time I’m on the floor huddled in a ball because I broke 2 of my toes. So we both hobbled around the next few days with our broken toes!