vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?

[X-ray]

@ Karlos

At least your impalement was not self-inflicted. I did something really clever when I was 14, which resulted in a welding rod being shot lengthways through my thumb. It entered at the base of the thumb and the tip of the rod came out at the tip of the thumb. It was right next to the bone, and stuck fast.

I won't say how it happened, but I will say that the particular 'research' I was doing (welding rods as projectiles) was ended the same day...permanently.  

The doctor was a real {bleep}. He made me lie down and then jumped on my chest, pinned my hand and just ripped the welding rod out. I could feel the rough texture of it grinding against the bone. And he did it without sending me for X-rays first.

[Karlos]

I remember the sensation of feeling the steel grinding between my bones too. That's probably the nastiest physical sensation I've ever had.

After carefully budging it about 1 inch I realised there was nothing for it other than to just yank it out as quickly as possible.

[odin]

I think I am going to faint....

[Karlos]

*thudumpfh*

Odin? Odin? Y' ok dude?

[Nataline]

A scarbragging contest? Coo.

Things life has taught me:

- If you insist on lighting a firecracker while holding it in your hand, at least throw it away before it explodes. (Fuse burntime miscalculation. Burnt palm. Age ~10.)

- If you really want to shake a squirrel down from a tree, make sure it doesn't land on YOU. (Bites, scrapes, tetanus shot, Mum making a fuss about all sorts of exotic rodent diseases. 12.)

- If you want to learn how to juggle, axes are not the things to start with. (It bit my hand. ~14.)

- In fact, don't touch the damn axes at all. (Threw an axe from the middle of a smallish creek to the bank while building a bridge. Almost got my arse kicked by the guy it hit in the stomach - luckily no injuries inflicted. 16.)

- When coming down from a truck's cabin, climb - don't jump. (Sprained ankle. 26.)

- Don't wash dishes. (A glass imploded in my hand. All fingers in the left and 1 finger in the right hand shredded. Blood all over the kitchen. 27.)

- Girls are mean. (Love life. From 20 (sic) to this day.)

Sorry for not being impressively maimed, I just wanted to participate. :-)

[X-ray]

I think Karlos and I should start a club called Impalees Anonymous. After all, we've done for real what all the magicians claim to be doing on stage.

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:

After all, we've done for real what all the magicians claim to be doing on stage.

clicky here (req flash) :lol:

-edit-

On reflection, most people I know my own age have managed to impale some part of their anatomy on something at some point. It must be one of those rites of passage :lol:

[bloodline]

-Don't test the soldering iron for hotness by holding it near your upper lip. Even if it makes sense at the time.

Hmmm... I still do that :-/

Strangly despite numerous injuries I have never scared. It's really strange and I'm not sure why.

My worst accident probably occured when I was using a glass rod to stir something in Chemistry class (this was year 3 or senoir school), but when I put the glass rod down I "applied too much pressure" (tm), and the rod broke.

Half of the rod went into my hand, between my index finger and my thumb and ripped out through my palm. I remember that strange feeling of looking inside my hand. I was surprised by how "White" it was inside there, it too quite some time to start bleeding, but once it did... it really went for it.

The Matron, decided to use some sticky things to hold the flaps of skin together while I went to see a doctor. The Doctor, had a look and said that it seems to be holding together quite well, and he would leave it for a day, and if it gets worse he'd stitch it together.

I'm terrorfied of needles, so I didn't move my hand at all. I just tensed it and refused to even wiggle my little finger.

The next day it looked fine, so it was left alone... now I have no evidence of the injury, nothing what so ever. :-(

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

The next day it looked fine, so it was left alone... now I have no evidence of the injury, nothing what so ever. :-(

Yeah, it's kind of dissapointing when that happens. My foot has only  the faintest of marks :-( Mind you I had a dry skin patch for a while that might have somehow erased the mark.

As it goes, I still got a semi interesting scar on my left forearm where some half-headed glue-sniffing chav tit up Castle Eden walkway shot me with an air rifle.

[Floid]

Strangly despite numerous injuries I have never scared. It's really strange and I'm not sure why.

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The Matron, decided to use some sticky things to hold the flaps of skin together while I went to see a doctor. The Doctor, had a look and said that it seems to be holding together quite well, and he would leave it for a day, and if it gets worse he'd stitch it together.

I'm terrorfied of needles, so I didn't move my hand at all. I just tensed it and refused to even wiggle my little finger.

The next day it looked fine, so it was left alone... now I have no evidence of the injury, nothing what so ever. :-(

That's funny, because my previous most visible ones were caused by the sticky tape stuff -- both times I've had it were for slice wounds, and when they put the tape on, someone taught them to overlap the skin (to 'reduce scarring,' of course) -- instead of simple scars, I've got these raised lumpy lines that still feel weird for all the over/undergrown nerves.

The chair bite looks like one of those, and probably could've been taped in the deeper spots, but since it wasn't, it's fading a lot faster, and thankfully lacks that horrible 'crossed wires' feel when brushed against.  (Not nearly as bad as some sensations mentioned here, but 10+ years of repeatability is good staying power.)

[Karlos]

Floid wrote:
(Not nearly as bad as some sensations mentioned here, but 10+ years of repeatability is good staying power.)

Aye, I could have bitten through a section of 2 by 4 when pulling that fork out. I dread to think what witches brew of hormones were pumping into the bloodstream at that point.

[whabang]

If you are to carry heavy things, make you get a firm grip, and that you get a firm grip on something which won't get loose.
When I was 17, and working in the warehouse of a transport company, I was asked to move a big piece of steel pipe. It weighed about 70 kgs, and as I am a fairly big guy, I grabbed it's handles, lift it up properly, and started to walk.
Three seconds later, one of the welded-on handles came loose, and I dropped the pipe on my right foot. As I didn't wear any steel-capped shoes the pipe smacked the big toe with ease.

I still can't bend that toe without using a hand for help; the "whatever-they-are-called", that makes the toe move, musta snapped.

"Baah! I don't need no frigging doctor! I need some bloody steel-capped shoes!" (I got them the nex day. :-))


I have also noticed that it can be very painful to step on rusty nails...