Life: Question of the Day: Injuries

[escritoireazul]

Saw this and couldn't resist answering.

questionoftheday: What was the dumbest, most embarrassing injury you ever obtained?

I'm not actually embarrassed by it, but it does make for a funny story. I did marching band in high school and undergrad, specifically color guard for most of those years. One time in high school I was showing off some big tosses in my yard, lost the rifle in the sun, and stepped backward to safety -- except I had apparently also angled the toss back and promptly took a rifle butt between the eyes.

It's the only time I had to have stitches (that I remember; I had surgeries when I was still an infant), and I still have a faint scar from it between my eyes. (By far the least noticeable of my facial scars, but I'll talk about the others another time.) And I get a lot of mileage from the story.

I still have the rifle, too. The blood-stained tape is long gone.

Comments

[escritoireazul]

I love that so many of the injuries come from every day things rather than, oh falling off rock climbs or being hit in boxing. (The other day, I accidentally punched myself in the face at work -- which, now that I think about it, is also a pretty good story for this topic -- and it hurt longer than any actually punch I took to the face back when I took boxing lessons. I don't know why!)

That must have been some hardcore coughing!

[wpadmirer]

I've done that! I have been pulling on something, my hand slips off and punches me right in the face. I hate that.

The coughing thing was bad. I had bronchitis, and osteopenia. But now, through years of working my ass off, I actually have normal bone density. So now I can cough and NOT break ribs!