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[Vice]

I fell 40 feet off of a guard tower into a sand pit and destroyed my Rotator Cuff and put me into a coma for a week.

[Bonzai]

i've never broken bones / been to the hospital, but i have had quite a few injuries in my life.

5 and under:
-fell face-first into a coffee table and split the piece of skin in the top part of your mouth that connects your lip to your gum. i don't really have one.
-flipped my dad's motorcycle on top of me from getting on the wrong side.

10 and under:
-stepped on a really long rusty nail that went through my shoe and a little into my foot on vacation in n.c.
-fell down in my bathroom and caught about 2 inches of skin on my knee on a sharp corner of a cabinet and proceeded to bleed all over my bathroom
-was playing football with my friend and his older cousins (they were about 14) and i caught the ball...so they tackled me into the ground and smashed my glasses into the bridge of my nose and i bled everywhere

11 - 16:
-nothing i can remember

17 / 18:
-fell off a school bus and skinned my knees / palms
-playing red rover, i ran into this kid to break their line and...well i didn't, and tripped and bashed the back of my head into lawn rocks
-3 days before prom i was trying to drive my friend's scooter and wiped out in the parking lot of the church i was taking my finals at, and scraped my left arm up (gg prom dress)

19 / 20:
-tripped down stairs at my apartment in orlando and skinned my knees

21 (this past summer):
-my bf's aunt and uncle have a lake house in georgia, and i tripped off their front porch and fell onto their concrete driveway. at first i didn't realize how bad it was, but then i noticed that there was blood running down my leg and had started to coagulate, so we ran in the house to see wtf happened. my knee and a good portion of my shin were skinned and swollen. boyfriend had to patch me up, and then i hobbled around for a few days. it was horrible when we had to swap bandages and pour peroxide on my knee. hurt like a bitch.

that's all i can think of.

[wit-]

Man Bon you take those knee injuries like a champ.

I've only had one real severe injury.

I was in grade 1 (December '96, I distinctly remember) and it was snowing for the first time. So like an idiot I ran around at recess trying to catch snow with my tongue.

And then he hit me.

There was a basketball game going on at the time and this huge grade 8 guy, without noticing, ran into me hard, and so I went face first into the pavement. I lost maybe 3-5 teeth, face was bloody/cut up. I remember the whole time I was crying for a band-aid (lolstupid). I was at the water fountain trying to wash out the blood and I saw my own teeth just come out...needless to say it was pretty scary.

Stayed home for 2 weeks, always had a scarf covering most of my face to hide the dried skin when going to the doctors. It was the sole reason why I needed braces. Otherwise I actually don't get injured at all/often.

Edited by wit-, 20 January 2012 - 07:24 PM.

[Bonzai]

aww poor wit, that sounds terribly painful!

and yeah, it's a wonder i have knees anymore i guess.

[Shadow]

Burning Vice, on 20 January 2012 - 04:07 PM, said:

I fell 40 feet off of a guard tower into a sand pit and destroyed my Rotator Cuff and put me into a coma for a week.

You're lucky you didn't die. I know a roughneck who fell off the rig at about 40 feet and he smashed his skull into pieces.

[So Lyst Year]

Worst I can remember is hopping/running down a flight of stairs only to wipe the grape out at the end and skin both palms, both knees and my right shin. Hurt like a BITCH

[yiffgurl123]

when i was like 11 i broke my wrist in little league baseball tagging a guy out (it got caught inbetween the ball in my glove and the dude's cleat)

it didn't even really hurt, i stayed in the rest of the inning and even turned a double play, the only reason i had to come out afterward was cause it had swollen so much i couldn't put my glove back on

also one time i burnt my arm on an oven door that left a weird huge triangle shaped scar but that didn't really hurt either

guess i'm just lucky

[PowerCrazy]

When I was around 9 or 10, I was riding my bike home from school and somehow got flung from my bike. One of my front teeth pierced through the bottom of my lip and my tooth snapped in half.

That's about it as far as injuring myself, however, I almost broke a kid's collarbone (I might have, honestly) playing touch football. The kid was the scrawniest person in our entire grade and I was kinda chubby at that point. One of the guys who was a total asshole and got way too worked up over recess game pushed me into him so I wouldn't intercept the pass. I ended up tripping him and landed right on top of him. I felt like a total dick even though it wasn't my fault

[Vice]

Shadow, on 20 January 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

You're lucky you didn't die. I know a roughneck who fell off the rig at about 40 feet and he smashed his skull into pieces.

I know right. The main downside to that is I can barely use my right arm and my memory is pretty shot. You gotta keep in mind that I fell into a bunch of sand to break the fall for the most part.

Edited by Burning Vice, 21 January 2012 - 12:45 PM.

[Shadow]

Burning Vice, on 21 January 2012 - 12:44 PM, said:

I know right. The main downside to that is I can barely use my right arm and my memory is pretty shot. You gotta keep in mind that I fell into a bunch of sand to break the fall for the most part.

Yeah, I know how sand works. Works a lot like water, oddly (The higher up the fall, the more concrete it becomes)

Better your right arm than you being six feet under, though.

[Rurouni]

I think I'm the only person on ETC who has died before, though, that's gotta count for something

[Shadow]

Yeah, I haven't technically died. Met the other side FMA style, but didn't physically die.

Concussion-induced comas are trippy.

[Vice]

Shadow, on 22 January 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:

Yeah, I know how sand works. Works a lot like water, oddly (The higher up the fall, the more concrete it becomes)

Better your right arm than you being six feet under, though.

I have basic mobility in it but I have almost no strength left in it.

[Sean]

get blown by shadow?

[Sean]

ILL TAKE IT