List your annoying injuries.

[Jonny69]

I return from my camping trip in France with a mallet finger. For those that don't know the injury it's a broken tendon along the top of the finger so if I bend my finger down I can't straighten the end up again. I did it taking my jeans off, pushed too hard to get them off my fat ass, buckled under my own weight and felt a click in the top of my finger and it was broken. I splinted it immediately and got down the hospital today, but I have to wear a spazzy plastic 'mallet finger' splint for 6-8 weeks to stop my finger bending and allow it to heal.

Luckily it's on the left hand but can't type, picking stuff up, eating, washing, accessing pockets etc all difficult.

As it's such an annoying little injury that's going to haunt me for some time I thought lets find out what you've done that's really got in the way of normal life. Extra points for when something really pathetic has totally messed things up

[LeperousDust]

It's not mine, but my dad has his big toe irretrievably mashed in a machine incident years ago, so he can't balance properly on that foot, since your big toe does most of the work. He also has a bout of trigger finger which made drinking tea and little things weird since he couldn't go of things occasionally...

[Roberta]

Surprisngly with the job I have, I haven't really ever injured myself.

The only thing I've done that interfered with anything was when I was teaching pole, cooled down too much by stopping to talk, then went straight into a move with all my weight going down into my left wrist - and burst the ligaments in my arm.

Was not allowed to use that arm for lifting for months and it took 6 months to heal and made driving incredibly painful and difficult.

[Belmit]

In 2002 I had the pleasure of taking a cruise down the Thames with my fellow IT placement students from IBM to mark the end of our placement year. I got stupidly drunk and in a sudden choppy bit of the water I went over on my ankle in my posh shoes. I'd stretched the ligaments in my ankle and needed physiotherapy.

To this day it's still tight, and I can go months without it playing up then hurt it all over again just by putting a foot wrong walking along. So annoying.


My right thumb also locks straight sometimes from my early years of playing the original Super Mario Bros. - using the tip of the thumb to hit A to jump and just holding B constantly with the base to run.

[Blackstar]

I did the same thing as Belmit, waiting for the bus after school one day i fell off the pavement and stretched the ligaments in my ankle. A 'fall' of 5 inches, stupid pavements.

[kaiowas]

Lol, read Belmits post without having noticed his sig so I read it all as if Paula had posted it. When I got to Paula's actual post I saw "I did the same thing as Belmit", suddenly thought about it looked up and asked myself "Why was Belmit wearing high heels?"

[Belmit]

They were ankle boots, so you're not far off...

[Dee]

Falling off a single step resulted in a broken ankle, to this day it causes me grief when I have a hot bath, and when I walk for long distances.

Not long ago, I was showing off on a trampoline with my famous back bounce, (Pebs and the kids can vouch for this one), three days later it was hurting to breathe, as I had pulled a muscle in my back.

Dumbass.

[Pheebs]

Ooooooh owchy! These are nasty injuries!!

Only thing I guess that's affected me long term is an accident I had with my hand. When I was ickle I thought it would be a good idea to share my icecream with my doggy, Tony (a lovely dog he was. Absolutely gooooorgeous retriever). Anyways, he ended up taking a bite of the icecream... and caught my hand too quite nastily (instantly let go and ran off with tail between his legs Poor doggy).

Had a tonne of stitches at the hospital and have a nice wee scar on my hand now... but due to the injury I've lost all feeling in my left hand thumb. I could set it on fire and wouldn't have a clue. I would say it's weird but I'm kind of used to it now... have to remember it when picking up hot items/sharp tools and things as there's been a few occasions when I've burnt/cut it and not realised.

Can still feel pressure in it though. I guess it's a bit like when you have a tooth pulled out at the dentist. You can feel it happening but it's numb.

Oddness

[Belmit]

Oh, forgot another. Because I was a massive nerd at school and carried all my textbooks with me in a rucksack slung over one shoulder I now have one shoulder lower than the other. You wouldn't notice it unless I told you though.


Arse.