Worst/most disgusting injury

[Vince Twelve]

Well, it did help my snoring problem, but I really had it removed because my uvula was abnormally large (like some other appendages of mine...) (god that was bad...) (apologies) and if I would sleep on my back, I would sometimes repeatedly swallow the thing, which would make it swell up to the size of my thumb and then I would wake up in the middle of the night unable to breath because a thumb sized ball of flesh was blocking my esophagus.  I would have to lean forward just to breath all the way to the emergency room where they would drain it of fluid and give me a shot so that I could breath again.  This happened three times before a doctor finally told me, "Y'know... you don't need that thing.  You can cut it off."  To which I replied, "Where do I sign up for that shit?!"

Now it entertains my students when I teach them the word "uvula" and then promptly bet them that I don't have one.

[Kinoko]

Big appendages, you say? (Damn, why didn't I go on that trip to Okinanawa! Curses)

My god though, that sounds terrible. I don't even remember I have one. The idea that my uvula might make itself known to me by almost choking me to death is freaky.

[Khris]

When I was thirteen, I rode home from school on my bike and actually managed to try to cross an intersection while a whole lot of cars where coming fast from the right. The guy is was riding with had been about 15 ft before me and just made it while the light was still green.
I was unable to see the cars cause there was a building site and a big container was standing right at the corner.
After hitting one of the cars, it was sky ground sky ground, then I landed on my side and head, heavily bruising my right hand. The ring finger was pretty open wide. The workers took me inside the container, where they wrapped a bandage around the finger, then the hand.
About an hour later is was at the emergency room, by then the bandage was sort of part of the wound. They made me put the hand in a bowl with some desinfective, it burned like hell. At least prying off the bandage wasn't as painful afterwards as I had feared.

Luckily I didn't break anything, apart from my bike. And the insurance paid for the damage on the car. I was unable to use the hand for a couple of weeks, though.

Another time I got home drunk and fell on a glass bottle ass first. Luckily the shards didn't cut an artery, but it had to be stitched. While I was lying on my stomach, getting my left butt cheek sewn together by a young doctor and a nurse, who were both very amused by my story, I actually fell asleep and started to snore loudly

No pics, unfortunately.

[SSH]

I was unable to see the cars cause there was a building site and a big container was standing right at the corner.

Or you were unable to see them becasue you should have stopped?

[biothlebop]

I remembered a retarded swing accident I had as a kid, I am the only one to my knowledge that managed to do this.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/el_tonic/new/wonderful%20childhood.gif

[Kinoko]

What a cool diagram!

[nihilyst]

As a kid, I managed to fall of my bike, and it continued it's way and tipped over after twenty meters. I don't know how I did it. I had a concussion afterwards. And that was my most disgusting injury, not because it was so disgusting, but because I didn't have any other. No bones broken, I didn't even have a bleeding nose in my whole lifetime. Guess I sometimes should go outside jump of a garage or something

cheers
nihilyst

[Chicky]

Most instantly painfully was jumping off a stage into a crowd of 40 year old metal moshers. 


But umm, when i trapped my little finger in one of those metal fold up chairs it chopped about 3/4 of my finger off and instantly i felt no pain. My body didn't register my finger as i whacked my shin on the chair at the same time. It was when i  noticed half my finger left in the hinge that i felt a bit sick 

[Tom S. Fox]

Wow, Kinoko, you manage it over and over again to make a thread, wich grows up to 3 pages within a day!
Respect!
I didn't feel like reading everything, so I'll just give you my answer:
I am very boring, too, the worst thing I ever had were some rashs.
I wasn't ever injured, either.
The only opportunity for wich I was in a hospital, was for my own birth.
But then again, that must have been really disgusting.
Especially when they finally saw me.
However, with some luck I might have an injury I can proudly show you a picture of, someday.

As for rotten.com:
I've been there once a saw one of the pictures.
Now, I see it everytime I close my eyes. Brrr!

[biothlebop]

It is possible to be boring and just attract a lot of injuries. I haven't tried to imitate Jackass (WWF though), but have still been in all kinds of retarded accidents (that I didn't see as my fault) all my life, often when bicycling (people suddenly opening car doors into the sidewalk or wooden bridges that have frozen overnight and people walking in front of me who cannot decide on which side to stay).
There are lots of other stuff, like when I was a kid, in the same elevator as me were two other people, one pressed the down button and the other was soon hanging by his scarf in the elevator ceiling. We were just staring for some reason and if it hadn't let go, he would have been choked to death.
Chicky:
I had the same absence of pain once when we were moving apartments and a fish-gutting knife was sticking out of a box I was supposed to carry.
When I picked it up, I ended up cutting myself a 8 cm scar about 1 cm depth into my left leg and didn't notice it except for the fact that my pant leg was wet. When I checked it and saw that I had cut myself, it began to hurt.  It's not even a cool looking scar anymore, more like some skin disease.

[Dr. Scary]

No broken bones or diseases, but I had a "funny" injury once...

I was about 10 years old. I was in my room trying to reach the top shelf of my closet by standing on an office chair. I grabbed what I was after and turned around... And since this was a swivel chair it someshow accellerated my turning and flinged me out into the room at an amazing speed; nose first on a nylon carpet!
The result was second degree burns on my nose and hands and all the other kids singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer everytime I showed my head outside for the next three months.

And also I have technically broken a toe when I kicked EXACTLY at the opposite side of a ball as a guy who kicked a LOT harder than me. But when I went to the doctors office they had the bright idea of using the next door dentist's x-ray machine to examine my toe. They said the bone was only cracked not broken, but the toe is stiff to this day.

Oh, and I guess an infection inside the gums just above my front teeth was pretty bad. Due to an old injury I have a porcelain front tooth. The original tooth was cut down to the root and root canaled, but the root canal started leaking causing an infection. The pain was incredible and I ate all the pain relieving medication I came across. Come operation day I learned that infected tissue prevents the spread of the anasthetic, so the procedure would go as follows:

10 DOCTOR DRILLS
20 DRILL HITS UNSEDATED TISSUE
30 I SCREAM MY ASS OFF AS IT FEELS LIKE TWO ICE COLD NEEDLES GOING STRAIGHT THROUGH MY HEAD
40 DOCTOR ADMINISTERS ANOTHER NEEDLE
50 GOTO 10

...so that was fun.

[Tuomas]

Had to add mine for public benefit. This will be a fun thing, since quite a lot has happened to me, but I never really hurt myself

I'll start in my childhood when I used to have this little car you could sit on and move it with you feet and use the wheel to turn. Now there might be a reason I don't remember this, but my mom says that it was more than ten times that I went down the 30 steps downstairs with it and ended up crying bad. Some people never learn. Though there's no-no-no-nothing tha-tha-that it did to my bo-body... I suppose....

So then I learned to ride a bicycle. And there was this high hill outside and we used to have fun going down it as fast as we could. That would be me, 5 years old and some boys 4 years older. I remember well that after the downhill there was a road, and after that a well deck which in this case made a perfect jumper for me when my steering failed. Suddenly I couldn't turn the bike and jumped high and landed on my back in the ditch.

Later I was at school, we were doing this bird feeding thingie which required a half sawed plastic pipe. As kids, we shared one with my friend, him sawing the pipe with a huge saw and me holding it with both hands. The saw was so big, he couldn't handle it and almost sawed my thumb off. It bled alot. Yet I was not given stiches just some bandage or so, and had to wear a leatherglove in the junior javelin throw contest the next day... In which I scored silver btw.

Then on 8th grade I had this marvellous idea of going to school with bicycle every day of the year, 7 km x 2. Anyway, this morning it was snowing like hell and it was dark. hAving ridden 30 minutes I was very late and couldn't get any faster. I actually carried my bike for 1 km. At some point there was this long downhill (again), and I started down it as fast as possible, forgetting there was a roadblock for cars down it. All I remember is seeing the block, then falling on my back having flipped over and the bike falling 3 metres away from me. But it didn't hurt. I actually flew whole 5 metres, the tracks were awesome. I guess the snow softened my fall.

Oh, and I broke my brother's little finger for good once and he once took a lot of speed with a swing and accidentaly jumped backwards landing on his back. Which reminds me, I did that once, only, I jumped straight up and landed on straight feet. I couldn't walk for a long time.

Oh, and to make this even more longer, there was this time when I fell in the stairs at school. My friends laughed and the girls were worried. I walked home and it's been swallen for 2 years now

[m0ds]

What's the most disgusting injury you've ever had?

In order of blood and pain:

4 - Quad bike, 5 years old, didn't even know why I was there and on it, but I got stuck, tried to reverse and the wheel span and sheared the skin off the front of my leg.

3 - Running along pushing a skateboard, stood on dangling string attatched to back which stopped skateboard instantly, sending me flying forward and scraped my face on the tarmac.

2 - Bored, decided to pull down a barn, roof collapsed & sharp tile spliced arm. Beam narrowly missed killing my friend. LOL.

1- Exploring, jumped off roof, attempted to make path but landed on bush, didn't realise spiked metal fence was inside it & got punctured in three places up my body, blood spewed out of my leg and I walked 3 miles home, wasn't fun & wasn't nice when I was told I'd just missed an artery & could've exploded and died.

FYI I've also had 5 operations on a bone in my arm, which grew disfunctionally (I didn't break it), and I've even had an operation on some more private areas!!!11! Yes, that was penis enlargement. No, it wasn't really. It was to help things drop. Euch. I hated showing my ballsack to a doctor.

[ManicMatt]

I am most fortunate.

Everything is intact. (Except my appendix)

I suppose I could mention me falling off my bike a long time ago and my head scraped along the pavement and cracked my head open. No wait- i had my helmet on and sustained no head injuries, kids!

All my elbows and knees were cut up a bit, and my coat was ruined! Oh and my middle knuckle had been cut and you could see the bone. Infact my finger was funny and I had to push it back in. To this day my knuckle is scarred and raised higher than the other hand. (Which stopped a drip in my hand from working when I was at hospital having my appendix out)

Rotten.com. When I was shown that site around the year 2000 I when home and got into shock about it. It was this moterbike rider, whose face had come off, leaving some eyes and a mouth and lots of twisted flesh. He was not in any pain. (Drugs I imagine) That in itself was what freaked me out. How he didn't seem to care! Some reckon it was photoshopped, but who knows...

[Raggit]

When I was much younger I used to ride around on this little Honda 50.  One day, I lost control and flew off of it on gravel.  I was wearing shorts, so my legs were exposed.  The skin on my left knee was all torn up and looked like it had some sort of encounter with a meat grinder. It left a neat scar.
To make that situation worse, the motor bike landed WITH me, so the hot engine came down on my leg and left a massive burn.

Also, when I was even younger, like a toddler, I got my big toenail ripped back by a catching it on a door and I had to be taken to the hospital for the doctor to pull it all the way off.  I don't remember that too clearly, fortunately.

[InCreator]

This is still Worst/most disgusting thread. Or atleast, Kinoko's photo was. *Yegh!*

[Nacho]

That's the intention...

I never had something even remotelly disgusting.

Here finishes my contribution.

[Paper Carnival]

I have weak bones but thankfully never got myself in a real accident... I did fall from my bike a few times but not seriously, except that one time where I hurt my knee and left me a scar for a few years.

The weirdest injury I've ever had was when I was four and I... kicked a cactus. Really, I was four and I thought my shoe would protect me, and it didn't. The spike got right between my toe and finger (damn my luck) and the doctors had to rip off my nail to remove the spike and for a while I was walking with slippers and putting medicine on my nail-less toe until it grew back again.

[Haddas]

A horse once stepped on my head. But I turned out okayBLAAAAAARGH

[biothlebop]

Since this thread is going toward weird injuries, I thoight I'd share three of mine:
1. Once my one ear began to hurt really bad. I tried washing it and using a cue tip, but had to go to the doctor since it wouldn't stop. Turned out I had a hair from our labrador stuck in my eardrum.

2. I woke up one morning with my neck stuck so I had to lean my head to the left the entire day. Some muscle had totally cramped and if I tried to change the position of my head, immense headaches and pain would come over me.

3. I woke up once in the middle of the night and was paralysed. I couldn't move at all. At first I really thought I was dead and was thinking to myself (oh god no oh god etc) but then I regained slowly control of my body. Seems it's called sleep paralysis in English.