Ever been seriously ill/injured?

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I reportedly turned my car into one giant wheel and rolled it 3.5 times. It left me unconcious, and I don't remember any of it. I fractured 3 vertibrae and had to wear an upper body cast that prevented me from bending at the waist. I also sustained a head injury. The weird part about that is, I had stitches on the right side of my head even though I was sitting at the left side of the car.

Actually, what's intresting is that many if not most people who are struck by lightening have it happen to them more than once.

I had the mumps at 10 because I had a bad batch of the vaccine, which didn't prevent me from getting it. It happened to be the last day of school when my mom noticed it, so I got an extra day of vacation. I didn't feel anything until much later that day.

As far as injuries go, the worst thing that happened was a sprained ankle. Recently, I had minor carpal tunnel syndrome after doing a temp assignment where I did data entry for a few weeks. I just wore a wrist brace at night, and the symptoms went away, so there was no need to go to the doctor. I'll just remember to take the wrist brace with me when I get another job where I'll be on the computer all day.

Hmm... I've never tried to list all of mine in one go. Lets see...

Many cuts when young... generally accident prone. No breaks, that I can remember. I just leaked a lot. E.g. coming back home to my mother, who couldn't stand the sight of blood, after a local "gang" fight had finish with me getting a lump of rough concrete in the head. I tiny cut to the top of my head, but they bleed masses. I walked how and was eventually carted off in an ambulance. I think my mother waited until I had left, before fainting.

So, I have scars in various places. Plus the appendix scar (near to perforated before they operated, I gather).

Hung myself, briefly, by the palm of my hand, on a hook, climbing over UI wall I shouldn't have been climbing over. Hook was rusty, but sturdier than my hand...

Pencil in above eye, glass into hand (more than once), spun tin can top into face, gravel in knee (repeatedly), corrugated iron into inside of elbow (quite hard to do that one... also climbing over a gate that I shouldn't have been climbing over), fell from tree, stamped foot down (while paddling) onto base of broken bottle, cut lip on blade of grass(?), bee sting in mouth, needle through hand, nearly chopped top of left thumb off (remains of the nail were surgically removed - later, it was painful when the "kind" nurse slowly took out stitches from under where the nail had been).

That takes me to about age 11.

Grammar school included... ski tip into hand, more glass into hand, iron railing into hand. Managed to avoid shooting myself, which is a surprise, as I had to be in the "army cadet" stuff for a bit, with occasional live ammo, and had goes on both a sten gun and an SLR. Failed to blow myself up a few times, while experimenting with pipe bombs. Did blow up a concrete path.

Skip to university. Car crash. Me as passenger, back wheel fell off, rolled several times, which was surprising, as we had only been travelling at about 30mph, I recall the windscreen coming back at me, in a thousand pieces of toughened glass, just before my head left a visible dent in the roof of the van. I ended up in the back, unconscious. Driver was lucky - saw the van afterwards, and the roof had folded down to form a point, just an inch in front of where his forehead had been. A month later I started getting headaches. I put it down to partying. One on the Friday night (where I rescued someone trying to commit suicide out of a window - a first floor window, into a bush? so not a very serious suicide). The next party was on the Saturday night, in our rooms at college. I gave up my bed to a visiting friend and went to sleep elsewhere, on the floor. Headache was worse on Sunday. Eventually went to hospital (about midday) where they diagnosed a subdural haematoma. They drilled three burr holes in my head at about 1am Monday morning (interesting sound that, having holes drilled in your head - local anaesthetic plus happy pill - they want you conscious) and took out 30cl clot.

What next... hole in back of month from foil blade, with plastic tip still on. One should always wear the mask, even when "play" fencing. Nothing much more spectacular.

More recent stuff... (I seem to have stayed relatively non-accident-prone for a while after college)...

Dislocated knee while changing TV channels (which eventually resulted in me giving up Kung Fu). Again in a car crash, as a passenger, suffered fractured pelvis, which was no fun. Fell out of van (drunk), and had two more (drunks) fall on top of me... bruised/cracked ribs that became infected some days later. Tripped over marquee guy-rope and hit head on next tent spike along. Unconscious briefly (drunk, too). Three stitches in between my eyes (lucky, huh?). Ripped muscle in calf while trying to push a car.

I think that covers most of the memorable ones (I had to go back to edit in the pelvis one, I'd forgotten it!). I like hospitals. Certainly there are at least three times I would have been dead, bar for them.

No i have luckily never been seriously ill/injured and those are two things that i fear in life.

I had encephalitis when I was 3. I was in the hospital for a long time. Was unconscious for a while, had a few seizures. I've often wondered if I suffered any kind of brain damage because of it, which is fairly common. I was so young that I don't remember what I was like before the encephalitis (or even after it, for a while).

I had two very painful ear infections, one in 1997 and one last year. Both were due to "swimmer's ear."

yeah ive had some major fevers of 103 or more when i was a baby, been dehydrated wich put me in the hospital for a few days, had my apendix rupture when i was a teenager was in hospital for a week, and recently i had hernia surgury

Lau, I really enjoyed reading your list! Wow, you're clumsy... a lot like my dad! He makes fun of me and my mom (sometimes in a very hateful, disdainful manner) when we complain about health problems, saying he hasn't been to a doctor in 20 years... but he has, loads of times! Car accidents, motorcycle accidents, a van accident, a sailing accident, industrial accidents, a cat bite that caused a bad infection... not to mention the time he stepped off a sidewalk and broke his foot!


9CatMom, I also had a very painful ear infection from Swimmer's Ear; it felt like someone was shoving a needle into my brain thru my ear!

Ooh ooh ooh, I got another one: I've had a potato beetle crawl into my ear when I was asleep, then keep trying when it got to my eardrum. I woke up thinking my brain was hemorrhaging. It wasn't really an injury, but it was the worst immediate experience I've ever had.

I've also broken my ankle during a skateboarding mishap, riding in a 10-foot high bowl-shaped structure. That was far from serious though. The physical therapy that I received afterwards was a great experience. I want to feign injury and go back there again, for more carressing and massaging from the hot female physical therapist!

I went to a hospital emergency room, where they were able to figure out what it was. Luckily it died after only a few hours being there, so it stayed in until a speciallist could extract it the next day. After that, I slept with a moscuito net over my head for many nights.