Post A Pic Of Your Gnarliest Injury!

Not my worst, by far, but this is one of the only injuries I have a picture of -

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My face and a handrail met on a blind date one icy day last February. Needless to say, they found out quite qickly that they weren't very compatable >.<

Ms_Magdalena said:
Not my worst, by far, but this is one of the only injuries I have a picture of -

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My face and a handrail met on a blind date one icy day last February. Needless to say, they found out quite qickly that they weren't very compatable >.<

It would appear that a moneymaker as perfect as this is not permanently defected by mere physical assault. (THAT would be Mr. Demerol meeting Mr. Percacet within me. Wow. I hope that makes sense to SOMEone. Heh.)

Inanimate objects, much like Mr. Handrail, are just jealous.

Ms_Magdalena said:
Not my worst, by far, but this is one of the only injuries I have a picture of -

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My face and a handrail met on a blind date one icy day last February. Needless to say, they found out quite qickly that they weren't very compatable >.<

...get it, blind date...youre killing me softly, magdalena. anyway, im looking for pictures of when i got hit by a car on my bicycle. the scarring from the glass on my hands and head was downright artistic.

SonOfAPunk said:

unravled said:

chainlink said:
OMG !
I was looking at my pics and found this from last summer. I'm not good with ladders either.

Fell off the ladder and landed across the top of it on my ribs. It left a ladder shaped scar there.

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Christ, dude. Get an office job and stay indoors.

Harsh.

Reminiscient of that one ex-member who obliterated a hand doing dishes, and swallowed a thumbtack.

Total badass though, for real.

Naw, actually Poe was playing Hello when I was signing up here.

" . . . I don't have the password, but the path is Chainlinked . . . "
and I was like , " ok, that'll do."

The only really honestly debilitating injury was the hand and that was pretty serious.
Eight straight hours of surgery, two weeks in-patient and six months or more of serious physical therapy starting out three times a week. But at this point you would probably never know unless I pointed it out to you. It works just like a normal hand. Still a bit of lingering nerve damage, phantom sensations and poor feeling for details. Finding change in my pocket is a problem and typing is hard just because I can't really feel where my hand is on the keyboard so I have to look a lot.
I laugh at your toilet paper issue cause that was one of the first things I remember after coming home, how embarrassed I was that I had to have the landlord come and move the toilet paper holder to the other side so I wouldn't fall off the toilet trying to reach it ! lol.

Trooper was when I got the fingers ripped off in the motorcycle chain and rode the Ninja900 to the hospital with the finger tips in a dishrag because the ambulance was going to charge me $450 for a ride a mile and a half up the road.

chainlink said:

SonOfAPunk said:

unravled said:

chainlink said:
OMG !
I was looking at my pics and found this from last summer. I'm not good with ladders either.

Fell off the ladder and landed across the top of it on my ribs. It left a ladder shaped scar there.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Christ, dude. Get an office job and stay indoors.

Harsh.

Reminiscient of that one ex-member who obliterated a hand doing dishes, and swallowed a thumbtack.

Total badass though, for real.

But chainlink... Are these incidents where your SG name comes from?

Naw, actually Poe was playing Hello when I was signing up here.

" . . . I don't have the password, but the path is Chainlinked . . . "
and I was like , " ok, that'll do."

The only really honestly debilitating injury was the hand and that was pretty serious.
Eight straight hours of surgery, two weeks in-patient and six months or more of serious physical therapy starting out three times a week. But at this point you would probably never know unless I pointed it out to you. It works just like a normal hand. Still a bit of lingering nerve damage, phantom sensations and poor feeling for details. Finding change in my pocket is a problem and typing is hard just because I can't really feel where my hand is on the keyboard so I have to look a lot.
I laugh at your toilet paper issue cause that was one of the first things I remember after coming home, how embarrassed I was that I had to have the landlord come and move the toilet paper holder to the other side so I wouldn't fall off the toilet trying to reach it ! lol.

Trooper was when I got the fingers ripped off in the motorcycle chain and rode the Ninja900 to the hospital with the finger tips in a dishrag because the ambulance was going to charge me $450 for a ride a mile and a half up the road.

Okay. Cat's out of the fucking bag. You're busted:

You're the fucking Terminator.

Or at least the evil Liquid Terminator.

Hey ! 450 bucks is 450 bucks !

Shit dude. You're a hardass.

Personally, I have paranoia issues with being disabled from my complete ability. I still have nightmares that my injurnal groin hernia is going to pop back out and be a hideous lump next to my sack for the rest of my life. But the worst part of alll this I hate the most would be the healing process.

In constant pain. Limited to the nines with what I'm allowed to do and capable of doing, Not to mention I hate drugs, have never done any in my life, and I'm jacked up on fucking meds all the time.

I like that it either numbs the pain, or makes me forget about said pain. But it goes back to limited abilities: in this case, mental abilities. I feel alright, but I know I'm loopy and it's frustrating to know I'm not as smart as I usually am. But again that frustration usually goes away with more meds. Hahaha.

And I'm not a really motivated, working individual by any means. I love taking it easy as much as I lkove getting totally rad. It's just I miss the freedom of being able to choose between the two. I'm a free soul. Being confined like this ain't my bag...

As I type this whole thing with one hand...

*Sigh*

Rant over.

(Blame the pills for the thought process of this rant. )

mmm. Pain and suffering build character, if you're not one already

How long a recovery and what type of therapy will you get for that injury ?
Different experiences are rad. Maybe a big time-out all wasted will be insightful for you in some way.
I remember how shocked I was at what a two handed, bipedal world we live in. Wiping ambidextrously is just the beginning.
Having some forced down time, being injured and on meds might just be the experience you need to change your life forever, or make you realize how great your life is. Or, whatever.
You might just watch HBO for 4 months, get all depressed, hooked on the pills, pick up the wiskey, start suckin cock for blow. It could be the begining of a horrible end. I donno.
I read, a LOT. I like that anyway, but I don't usually get that much time for reading personal interest stuff.

Yeah, one year ago I went through the "Wow, I really am thankful for everything I got" phase during my post hernia op recovery. It is a nice eye opener to all the little things we take for granted, even though it, itself is a no-fun zone of pain and disability.

And yeah, I read too.

Palahniuck didn't know what hit him, I went through his shit so fast. Hehe.

Recovery: Don't move your left arm (hand is okay, but not much more than a useless clamp without assistance of said arm), wear this stupid brace that makes me demonstrate proper posture while my shit settles properly, go in every few weeks to see if I need corrective surgery, or a re-break (Oh god, please no ! ) to make it proper.

Depending on a bajillion different things, I can be recovering to as little as a month, and as long as over a year.

I'm gonna be doing god only knows what for physio.

unravled said:

chainlink said:
OMG !
I was looking at my pics and found this from last summer. I'm not good with ladders either.

Fell off the ladder and landed across the top of it on my ribs. It left a ladder shaped scar there.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Christ, dude. Get an office job and stay indoors.

+1.