Stupid Injury

[NeilB]

OK, so I welded my bed back together yesterday. It has a steel frame and a couple of the welds had broken on the base. A quick TIG later and I had a bed worth sleeping on again.
This morning my stomach was sore, a quick look proved I have sunburn in a neat circle! I know TIG produces UV, as does all welding, but I wouldn't have thought it would get through my T Shirt....how wrong I was!

Anyone else suffered a stupid injury at their own hands?

Neil

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by NeilB

Anyone else suffered a stupid injury at their own hands?

Neil

Knives, saws, hammers, grinders, hot exhausts, fish hooks, fish spines, finger over the gas vent on a Steyr rifle, possum I shot fell on my head from 40 ft up in a tree - where do you want to start?

[ray]

Hi.
I was once fitting a kitchen for a customer, all the units were in place and only the pelmit and cornice needed fitting.

I usually cut all the pieces to length and do the miters, stick them together with super glue which is purpose made for the job.

I stuck the run of pelmit together offered it up and started to screw it in position, as I was doing this one of the miters failed and seeing as it was in place I couldn't be arsed taking it down again, so I sprayed in some accelerator and dribbled in the super glue.

Well a dollop dropped onto my eye lid, instinctively I wiped it with my finger, it is now my eyelid has stuck together, and now my finger is stuck to my eyelid as well.

I stopped at this point and burst out laughing, brings a whole new meaning to egg on your face, well I managed to separate my finger and my eyelid but my top eye lash was now firmly fixed to my bottom one.

The moral of the story is?.

[hogen-deifar]

I was sharpening a knife getting it ready to cut the roast chicken up. Lovely knife it is, but wouldn't fit inside the sharpener. So I was slicing over the top of the sharpener and thinking to myself "I must be careful cos if I slip I'll chop my thumb off". Guess what I did??? Yep about 2 seconds later crunch it went down on my thumb, coming to rest on the bone.

Popped my head round the door to HWMBO at the time and said "I think I need to go to hospital". Couldn't move the thumb. Had all but severed the tendon that gives the thumb movement. Too complicated for the local hospital so had to be taken 45 miles to Bangor hospital where the next day they had to reattach my tendon. Luckily it was hanging on by a thread, so they didn't have to delve down into my wrist to find the elastic tendon!!

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by NeilB

Anyone else suffered a stupid injury at their own hands?

I used to race motocycles...

You really don't want to know.

[Tunicates]

Or what?

Last Thurday I finished building up a bike and was riding it home, thinking how sweet and fast it was, when one of the grips slid off in my hand. I'd used water to get them on, and had thought that they should be dry and grippy already. Stupid mistake. Stupid stupid stupid.

'Sack of potatoes' is a phrase that comes to mind. I must have travelled all of 6 metres, mostly on my face.

My wrist is swollen like a soggy balloon, I cant lie on my left side, cos my hip is to sore to touch and my face........oh, my face.....

[my agent will be sooooo cross, dahlings...... ......not! ]

Actually my face seems to be healing pretty quickly, but I look like one of those poor drunkards that are always falling and getting smashed up, except the rest of me doesn't fit the picture so everyone looks at me a bit funny on the street.

Broke my glasses, and so lucky that none of it went in my eye.

Luckily I've done a fair bit of first aid training, so managed to stick myself back together with bits of sticky tape and papier mache. All that Blue Peter watching comes in handy doesnt it?
Ok, I went to a+e and let them do it. They have the papier mache ready made see?
Anyway, wrist not borkd, so thats good.
Thats my stupid injury story.

Anyone else borking themselves?

[Scubee]

1. When i was about 13, i was ironing. I finished, and went to put the iron away in the other room. I carried it in my left hand. The door into the other room opened towards me, right to left. I opened it with my right hane. End result - a lovely triangular mark on the inside of my right wrist.

2. Master scubee must have been about 15 months old, and still in nappies. I had gone out for a (very) rare night out with work - a christmas do, if I remember correctly), leaving the Ex mr Scubee in charge of bedtime. Nappy change and the dirty one was wrapped properly (couldn't bollock him for that!) and dropped from the upstairs to the downstairs - normal process. I came home and decided that the quickest way to propell the orange bag to the back door was in true beckham style. Unfortunately, i hadn't noticed that the bag was right infront of the door frame. I broke two toes and i have never allowed myself to get that drunk again.

3. i went skiing- nuff said

[Richard Mason]

My kid then 15 yr old sister got so angry at my teasing that she kicked me hard on the kneecap, I didn't feel a thing but she broke her toe.

[frosty the snowman]

I've sustained 13 different fractures from such activities as parachuting, falling into a quarry, ten pin bowling and kicking a balloon with a wall behind it. I've also set myself on fire whilst caving and blown myself up with a camping stove. I sliced the end of my finger off with a vegetable slicer and tore the ligaments in my hand trying to climb a wet rock face. There are plenty more but those are the ones I'm proudest of.

[steelemonkey]

Originally Posted by frosty the snowman

I've sustained 13 different fractures from such activities as parachuting, falling into a quarry, ten pin bowling and kicking a balloon with a wall behind it. I've also set myself on fire whilst caving and blown myself up with a camping stove. I sliced the end of my finger off with a vegetable slicer and tore the ligaments in my hand trying to climb a wet rock face. There are plenty more but those are the ones I'm proudest of.

And people still dive with you??!