I'm in pain.. I have a pain in the arse... literally.
I was at a play park on Saturday morning with my kids, I was on the seesaw with my youngest when my brother-in-law decided to add his weight to her end of the seesaw to put me up in the air. He then jumped off, sending me plummeting to the floor.
Long story short, it seems I've bruised/broken my coccyx- not been to Dr as the treatment for both is keep weight off it & wait.
The drive home from Birmingham to Scotland yesterday was excruciating, luckily I have a standing desk at work so today I'm not going to put any weight on it at all.
It's one of the most uncomfortable and ridiculous injuries I've had in a while (after broken ribs obviously).
Make me feel better about myself... What stupid injuries have you had?
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Broke a rib playing football in my garden with my son.
We both slipped and I ended up landing side on on his upturned foot.
Broke some ribs body sparring with my cousin at a boxing club.
Broke my wrist in goal at 5-a-side. Joint is now knackered.
More recently, whilst trying to flip a superking mattress on my own, I managed to snap one of the bed slats, causing a large splinter (around 30mm long) to go (fully) into the sole of my foot, which I then had to retrieve with a pair of pliers. Bled like a stuck pig.
I said maybe.....
Ever thought of changing your username from lasermonkey to laserpig?
Tripped over my shoelace. Broken arm + piece of stone lodged in my chin.
Slipped on ice. Fell on my arse, broke my arm.. still not sure how..
At an age slightly above toddler.. investigated a plant pot.. got head stuck in plant pot.
a) part-time job working on Bejam (that dates me), unloading a frozen delivery into the cold store at Christmas, and dropped a carton of frozen turkeys (roughly 7 massive turkeys) corner down onto my foot, wearing normal shoes. Sharp intake of breath, a shoe full of blood, and permanent damage to my toenail. Not to mention major problems changing gear on the bike riding home that night.
b) a couple of years earlier, burst a couple of discs in my lower back courtesy of sneezing whilst getting out of bed. Led to 5 weeks in hospital, 4 of which were on 24 hour traction. I have never, ever, felt pain like that before or since, and don't intend to.
About 30 odd years ago my older sister had a nasty accident on a seesaw. She was playing with one of her friends who was much heavier and decided to use her weight advantage to play a prank. My sister is about five stone soaking wet, her friend Rachel was always a big girl, as in very tall, and consequently a massive advantage in weight.
As my sister was on the up end and was fully expecting to come back down again, at the moment of the ascent turning into decsent her friend did the bump thing, where just as my sister's end was starting to go back down her friend abruptly put her full weight back down on her end.
This caused my sister to slip off the end of the seesaw and smash her top front teeth on the steel handlebar.
I can still remember her coming home, screaming with blood gushing out of her mouth and nose and with broken front teeth. Makes me feel deeply anxious, frightened and sick just recalling it from memory, it was quite horrible.
I also feel for her friend as she must have felt truly awful for what happened and obviously didn't intend for that to happen, I can't imagine what she was feeling as they both came home and had to explain to my parents why my sister's face was all messed up!
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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The date of this accident - 3 May 1979 - also the day that Thatcher government was first elected. I always think that the two things were somehow connected...
Gashed my forearm completely open on 4mm Plexiglas when it snapped into a point instead of down the guide lines.
Rock star slid down the stairs and ripped " pretty much everything" in my ankle ... whilst getting X-ray'd was asked how I broke it last time... turns out I'd fractured it a year-ish ago... line sup with the very painful martial arts tournament.
Mate used my head a golf tee to send a can flying.... he missed... I got 5 stiches in my skull.
... I lost 1 of the stiches less than 24h later when I miss timed a space hopper bounce and went down a set of stairs...
Served me right.