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

[wpadmirer]

LOL. That's great. I have a series of dumb injuries. Most of them coming from doing every day things, which considering that I ran marathons, rock climb, and take boxing lessons is kind of crazy.

I've broken my nose three times and my coccyx three times. None of them doing anything dangerous. I'm famous for getting really deep bruises on my legs from running into the corner of my desk going in and out of my office.

And I once broke a rib coughing.

[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!