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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:45 am

Last weekend I was one of a number of people staying at a beachside retreat; one night I was obliged to pick my way through a totally dark room when I whacked my right foot into someting and managed to break the middle toe.

So... has anyone else done her/himself a mischief lately?

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 689

Yeah ... sort of ... I'm type 2 diabetic and ate some maltesers last night. I to had to get across the bedroom in the dark .... thankfully I didn't have an accident on the way! Razz

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:04 pm

Yup, just now!

I caught my wrist, yes wrist in a zip on my tail back (for the bike). Now look like I've been bitten by a vampire......

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:19 pm

Last Saturday I dropped a Yaesu FT-73R with FNB-10 battery pack but no harm was done as the radio landed on my bare left foot. Fortunately the dropped object wasn't a 63Ah deep cycle lead-acid battery Laughing

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:56 pm

Not self inflicted, but when I gave blood on Wednesday, they had trouble getting the needle in correctly.
So I've got a sore arm with a two inch diameter bruise.

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I've learned recently that, even if it is your own soap, you shouldn't wash it as fast as you want to. Wink

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:16 pm

My new wheelchair is about 3 or 4 inches wider than my old one - the only one I had ever had, and the one I used for almost 5 years. It takes a while to get used to making allowances for that extra width when going down corridors and through doorways. My knuckles on both hands have received several knocks as I'm pushing myself through narrow passages.

I must look as though I've been in a fistfight. Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Hope you're sitting with the foot raised and taking it easy, Yastreb
Though beware of daytime tv, it melts the brain
I've got the dvd series on Firefly on

@ Titania sounds like you need gloves with padded knuckles

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:48 pm

Well, I'd love to tell you how I tore a muscle in my left leg two days ago, but I can't. I don't mean I don't want to, I just can't remember how I did it. The christmas party ended up a little bit rough, and judging from the hangover I suffered from yesterday I've done some wild things.

No pictures, so don't ask Wink

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:53 pm

Not very recent, but I did try breaking a piece of wood by stamping on it while wearing thin-soled shoes. The wood turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. Spent 2 weeks on crutches with badly bruised tendons along the bottom of my foot. Sad

Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:17 pm

Yastreb wrote:

I whacked my right foot into someting and managed to break the middle toe.

Did that a few years ago. Walking barefoot through a door during daylight hours and for some reason wacked the door frame with my baby toe. I looked down and the top half of the toe was sticking out at a 45 degree angle. Cast for 4 weeks just for a baby toe.

About 6 weeks ago I hit the same toe on the sofa (again with the lights on). Didn't brake as bad as the first time, but when I got to the emergency room, it happened to be the same doctor who operated on the toe the first time.

His reaction: Rolling Eyes

At least this time it was just a "tape it to the next toe" for a few weeks solution.

Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:27 am

So sorry, babe! Sad

Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:51 pm

I was just wondering - how did you end up in a dark room?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:48 pm

@Yastreb
I know the feeling. Many years ago I managed to thump my right little toe against a door frame, at full running speed. For several days I had a swollen foot and I thought I had broken my 2 right exterior toes.
In the end, no broken bones, but a week of pain.

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:53 pm

@Yastreb
I caught an errant basketball pass on the inside edge of the tip of my middle finger about 3 weeks ago. The result: I dislocated it at both of the lower joints and possibly broke or sprained it. I had to yank it out and reset it, which disgusted everybody in the gym as you could hear it across the entire court.
I still can't use the damn thing.

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:58 pm

wokabo wrote:

I was just wondering - how did you end up in a dark room?

I didn't want to disturb my room-mate by turning on the light. Next time (if there be one) I won't be so kind.

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:41 pm

Not recently (March last year) I was walking back home after a pub crawl, texting away not looking where I was going and fell off the kerb and went flying into the road. After a morning in A&E the next day turns out I had broken my '5th Metatarsal Bone' and had to wear a boot thing for 6 weeks Rolling Eyes

And all for falling off the kerb...

That first post reminded me of it, hurts doesnt it!

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:40 pm

I was in Kyoto and had been visiting the temples. It was dark and raining and I stepped off a kerb to cross the road, expecting the normal 6 inches or so drop. In fact I stepped into an uncovered drainage ditch about 3 feet deep. I was badly cut on my arms and face, split lip, blood running down me, and of course filthy dirty. I probably looked as if I'd been in a fight, or drunk, or both.

I went into the nearest place, a Ryoku (Japanese style hotel) to ask if I could use a toilet to clean myself up. I expected to be treated with contempt, and in fact it was the opposite. The receptionist, who barely spoke English, offered me the use of a room, towels, a shower, wanted to call a doctor, and so on. When I'd cleaned myself up and established that nothing was broken or seriously damaged, I came out to find they'd prepared tea and a snack for me, and wanted to 'phone for a taxi to take me to the railway station. They had also cleaned and dried my jacket!

When I asked them them how much I owed them for all this ..... nothing!

Japanese hospitality!

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:48 pm

I got some of my son's diaper rash cream in my eye the other day. It may help with sore butts, but my eye has been bright red, tearing, and hurting like the dickens.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

@bohigal you sure it was the cream and not any of the nappy ( diaper ) contents? That would give you conjuntivitis at least.

@ falnsb
My hubby and elder son have been to Japan many times and always use Ryokon as opposed to the Western style hotels. they find the service and hospitality cannot be bettered.
When in Japan they have often found people will go out their way to help in spite of them being Scottish gaijin.

Way back to OP
My shingles are getting better
My dad's hip( broken in October) is getting better.
But disaster I broke a nail this evening when putting up curtain rails in my daughters new flat

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:28 pm

Nanny Ogg wrote:

you sure it was the cream and not any of the nappy ( diaper ) contents? That would give you conjuntivitis at least.

I hadn't thought of that, and thank you very much for ruining my supper! Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

That's the benefit of having had 4 kids

Or
Have you ever chopped chillis then touched sensitve parts before cleaning the hands?

< we need an eye watering icon here> Crying or Very sad

<-- - JC

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:42 pm

^^^There are lube products that do that on purpose Embarassed

Thanks for the mothering advice!

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 1:49 am

Just spent the Christmas weekend with a lovely case of gout.Hurts a lot worse than a broken toe,but a least it goes away faster.

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:33 am

No mischief, but I have had a broken toe before. I can honestly say that, of all of the bones I've broken, that one was the most painful. Firstly because it wasn't worth the money to go to hospital for it (my toe is still crooked), and secondly because you aren't injured enough to stay at home and sloth about, so you gotta walk with it.

Good times.