theCandE, scrapes on hands are horrible. I had a triple jog stroller loaded 5 lbs over capacity with my 3 boys. I knew the stroller could tip back and they could hit their heads on the pavement.
We took a corner, slightly uphill, and gravity pulled the stroller down backwards. NOt wanting them to hurt their heads, I hung on while we rolled until the stroller was gently on the ground.
My kids were fine. But my knuckles were trapped under idk like 75 lbs of kids! Since we were rolling, my hands ground into the concrete and skidded for about 2 feet.
Needless to say, the wounds were nearly to the bone. It took over 8 months for them to heal, and had me on vicotin for pain most of the time.
I now love my scars of love. but loooking back, their concussions would have healed much quicker! That was also the end of the triple jog stroller.
I have to say, it hurts so much more when you are older. I remember scraping myself up as a kid, but as an adult it just feels so much more awful. I felt like crying. LOL
Ow! I didn't think of posting pics. If we really wanna go there, I'll figure out how to post a pic of my leg bruise. It's pretty...like a rainbow from ****!
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Sadly I usually hurt myself in some stupid way. Getting off the couch and spraining my ankle is about at the top. I think my best story was how I injured my rotator cuff in my right shoulder. It was late & I was getting ready for bed. Reached back to unhook my bra...a nice new one with like 4 or 5 hooks instead of the 3 I am used to. Well some how my hand slipped off and my arm jerked down. POP came a loud sound....and then I think some cursing probably too. My husband rushed to my side to find me crying. Not from the pain but because I never get to hurt myself from doing something COOL! ROTFLMAO So I had to go to work....with a bunch of men...and explain to them HOW I hurt myself so badly! hehe I are a dork!
I also am prone to burning myself. Worst/last episode was making my BBQ pulled pork in the CROCK POT of all things! Went to rotate the meat and it was more done then I thought. Slipped off the huge fork and splashed EVERYWHERE! *sigh* Hubby says that I am not allowed to have a pressure cooker or a deep fryer. To think I can go to work and WELD but come home to the kitchen and POOF!
I used to have a desert iguana, and I had a heat lamp attached to the outside of his mesh cage. I tripped over a cord one night in the dark, fell forward into the cage with the side of my elbow against the heat lamp bulb. Because of the way I fell, I couldn't move my elbow right away, it was kinda wedged in there. It was a good 5 seconds before I got my arm free. Mmm, melted skin, anyone?
More recently, though not that recent (about 6 months ago), I fell down the stairs in the dark (I seem to have an isssue with darkness, lol). Severely sprained my big toe, was hopping on one leg for 3 days before I could put pressure on my foot (now there's a way to make one leg Hulk strong in a hurry, lol). Here it is 6 months later, it STILL is not fully healed. Mostly because I keep tripping and falling and stepping wrong (I'm such a klutz).
Now my compensating by walking on the outside of my foot has caused very unpleasant issues with other other bones in my foot. Sigh. Stupid bloody toe.
I have somewhat weak knees. They give out on me randomly quite frequently. I went to run across the street one day about a month ago. Lo and behold, the first couple of steps I took, silly things collapsed on me. I did an awesome action movie style roll almost across the entire double lane, sprang up instantly (as I was about to be hit by a car) and limped back to where I started fast as I could. The thing they don't show in action movies is how many bruises you get from doing that, even when you don't fall from a fast-moving vehicle, lol.
Once when my boys were little, I was making fudge late at night. I splashed the boiling sugar/cocoa mixture on my left foot and ended up with second and third degree burns. I still have scars and pain in that foot.
When I was about 38-years-old, I yawned one morning and ruptured two disks in my cervical spine. I had to have a two level anterior fusion with bone grafts and was in a cervical collar for three months.
Ummm... I have smashed my finger straightening out a gate to a kennel... I have a large opened blister on my index finger from a hot glue gun... I have a scar on the same hand (on the top) from where I tried to open an ink bottle with a pocketknife... right on top of that I got scratched by a cat... I fell of my bike because I was trying to speed up to catch up with a horse and cart... and broke my arm... I have to very straight very identical two scars from where I was reaching over to turn on a light and burned my arm on a friend's straightening iron... I have a scar on the top of my head from where I fell out of a truck when I was little and hit a rock... I have gotten bitten multiple times...
oh... and I can't seem to go a month without getting some noticable injury. Sometimes it's that I can't even go a week without something bleeding or whatever.
My boss says I'm accident prone and a liability... (not really... I'm accident prone, but it's always a small thing, nothing bad... most of it due to my own stupidity)
(not really... I'm accident prone, but it's always a small thing, nothing bad... most of it due to my own stupidity)
