Hey Pandas, What Is The Worst Injury You've Ever Had? (Closed)

Been set on fire all over my back (then arms then legs) and my vest melted onto my back

for a more "normal" injury I was harvesting oranges I had climbed in the tree and had hooked the bucket I was throwing oranges into to a branch I was done so I jumped off the tree only a branch ripped my pants on my thigh and some some of my thigh just about 5 cm and not very deep

A biking incident. I was biking and my tire hit a rock and sent me flying into cement. The sidewalk had grass all over it, so a lot of grass had to be pulled out of my injury.

A window fell on my finger now the tip of my finger is missing

Got ran over by a riding lawn mower when I was four. I was following my grandpa and he stopped the mower. When he took off again, I stepped forward but he put it in reverse not knowing I was there. I lost two toes, the top part of my foot where the blade hit, and a tendon in one of the other toes. The only pain I felt was the pressure of him squeezing my foot to stop the bleeding. I went through surgeries, filing of the bones while awake, and skin grafting.

I broke both of my forearm bones while falling down head first from a few meters (about 6ft). Also got a concussion, but that was nothing compared to my arm.

My mom pushed me off a bunk bed in a camper when I was 3 or 4. I’d climbed up the side to wake her up and I guess she wanted more sleep. I fell back and landed on a countertop below, hitting my back on the corner and snapping my collarbone. It didn’t really hurt or anything until she picked me up off the floor about 2 or 3 hours later when she got up. That hurt like hell. Then the car ride to grandmother’s house. Bumpy and painful. My mom went back to the camper to go back to bed so I sat on the front porch and that’s where I waited until my grandmother came home and took me to the hospital.

Hit a tree sledding when I was about 11 or 12. I ended up with a "U" shaped flap of skin peeled back across the full width of my head.

My only ambulance ride in my life, and I honestly do not know how many dozens of stitches it took to put my scalp back together.

Deep bruised foot, judo accident. I fell (and landed) exactly as I had been taught. My partner landed kind of strangely and somehow clapped my foot hard between their legs or something. It hurt so bad I couldn't put any weight on it. Spent 3 days in bed alone in my studio apartment before my mom could travel out to take me to urgent care and get me a cane. It wasn't broken, but it was so badly bruised it was at least a year before I stopped limping.

When I was in like 4th grade, I fell of the top of the monkey bars and badly bruised my ribs. They still hurt sometimes 🥲. It might have been more than a bruise, idk.

I've skinned my arm once while falling out of a tree, skinned my leg while bushwalking (thank you Australia) skinned my other leg while falling out of a tree, fell out of a tree and cracked my head open, fell out of a tree and broke my tailbone, fell asleep-fell off the couch-face planted into a glass coffee table and split my head, was doing something dumb and got hit in the head with a pickaxe, fell out of a tree and got a concussion, fell out of the tree and got a stick through my leg, fell out of a tree and got a bruised a*s. Never broken a bone though. I have since learnt to stop climbing trees

My friend dropped a bucket on my head and cut it open.
E.R.

I once ran into a table and cut open my eyebrow.
E.R.

My great uncle pressured me into diving into a pool float and I hit my head on it and had neck and back pain for 2 days. Never went to the doctor for that one.

Flipped over my bike when I was 17. I landed on my chin and my bike landed on my back. When I went to a nearby house for help, I could see my own chin bone in the mirror in the bathroom. Those people didn’t have a phone, the house next door gave my mom the wrong street (Rose Court and Rose Way were miles from each other), and the third house was finally helpful. It was almost 90 minutes later by the time she got to me. I passed out for a little while. At the ER, a nurse accidentally socked me in the chin after X-raying me, a kind nurse had to clean out the gravel-filled wound before I could be anesthetized (I saw the holy pillars of creation through that pain), and then the anesthesia didn’t work when they stitched me up. Accident was at midnight, finally got home at 5am. When I’m clean shaven you can see that there’s less flesh the left side of my chin than on the right, from the doctor having to snip away some mangled flesh.

The accident also wrecked my back for years after that. Occasionally I couldn’t even tie my own shoes, or stand back up after tying them.
I finally stopped being relatively free from back pain when I became a dog walker about eight years ago. The walking and constant motion has been immensely helpful!

Luckily I didn’t break any teeth or get a concussion, but I did total my bike. 🙁

I will love the nurse that cleaned the wound forever. I said, “This is gonna hurt a lot, isn’t it?” And with all the love and kindness in the world in her eyes, she said, “Yes,” and immediately pinned my head to the gurney, quickly and efficiently cleaning the wound. I love that she was totally honest about it, but so compassionate.

I tripped and fell in my garden next to my house. There was a nanosecond when I had to decide if I let my head take to brunt of the fall, or my arm, and I decided to let my arm take the punishment.
Best choice.
After I fell, I could see my arm wasn't looking normal, and x-rays showed that the force of the fall had sheared off the tops of my radius and ulna, and my wrist was severed from my hand.
Surgery required 5 pins that were each 4 inches in length to hold my bones together. I was in a cast for 6 weeks. the surgeon wanted to remove the pins with a local anesthetic against the anesthesiologist recommendation.
Just a few minutes into the surgery to remove the pins, the pain from the local anesthetic was so intense (and I've given birth without anesthesia) I had mentally keep myself from reacting because my arms were tied down and I didn't want to hurt myself. The anesthesiologist arrived shortly, put me to sleep, but later, the surgeon chastised me for feeling the pain and wanting general anesthetic.
I think he's lucky I stayed as calm as I did.
My wrist now looks like Dr Frankenstein did an experiment-scars and usage.

When I was a toddler in the late 60's I fell on our floor furnace vent. My grandmother got me off of it and treated the burns on my hands and knees but they scarred. However, because of how I landed I have a tic-tac-toe board on my knees.

Compound fractured my arm. It's actually a funny story. I was in (I think) fourth grade when I was walking up a hill in my yard in the winter, with at least two inches of solid ice on the ground. My aggressive rooster started chasing me. I ran. I slipped. I fell. The rest is history.

I fell off the monkey bars at elementary school, landed on my arm with my b*tt and broke it in 6 places! Back then, they didn't do surgery for that kind of injury and I was in a cast for 4 months!

1. broke my arm after wiping out after reaching top speed on a scooter.

2. getting shot with a firework

Went skiing when I was 9, fell, and got a spiral feature in my tibia. I was in a cast/walking boot for 10 weeks. The most painful experience of my life.

UMM
I think it was when I fell out of the top bunk headfirst (I didn't break anything or get mahjorly injured, somehow). I've gotten hurt a ton more times 2. Dunno how im not dead yet lmfao.

Not an injury persay but my brother and I feature in a British medical journal. We'd developed a never before seen type of Impetigo after playing in sand at Coney Island (that looked more like sludge).