Worst injury you've had

[ruth11]

I'll get the embarrassed looks in now.....

Bought brand new 125cc motorbike, did 2 hours tuition, promptly fell off on the way home. Rode it straight into a kerb in the middle of a dual carraigeway.

Broke Tib and Fib of left leg, the broken bits of which put a large man's-hand-sized hole in the front of my leg. Had to have bones pinned, then a very nice plastic surgeon took my latimus dorsi muscle (the really big muscle down your back from shoulder to waist) from my right side and plumbed it into the front of my leg to plug the hole.

At the same time, the impact also ruptured some ligaments in my knee that I still haven't had fixed - PCL and Medial ligaments. Thankfully I don't really need them for every day stuff, it just means that I can't play sport any more.

I'm a very lucky girlie to have a leg from the knee down - very few surgeons can do this stuff and Leicester Royal happened to have one of them. He left a couple of years after fixing me up and I'm told that for the last couple of years they've been amputating because they didn't have anyone who could do this surgery. Thankfully they now have a replacement, but I class myself as very lucky (and unlucky for doing such a lot of damage to myself in such a stupid fashion - I wasn't even going very fast!).

The scar on my leg looks like a shark bite though, so that's what I tell people at first!

[Lucy]

Had several stitches in my chin after I went over the handle-bars on a very steep hill whilst giving my friend a lift. (I was only seven)

Broken nose, from stopping a plate -thrown by my mother.

Stitches in my head from being hit with the boom on a sailboat.

Stitches in my bottom after I fell over at nursery and landed on a bracket. (no H&S in those days)

[n5gooner]

I've dislocated my shoulder 9 times, ~ I've since had an ops to stop it popping out.
Crashed the MBT on Sunday, coming down a very steep ravine, front wheel got jammed, I flipped over the bike, whilst kicking it away from me, luckily my feet became unclipped, I managed to tuck my head in and roll across my shoulder (the Aikido came in useful then!), my mate behind me scored it 8.5/10 - I ended up cutting my thumb a little.....very very lucky.
Broken finger riding the MBT, got it caught in a wire fence, ended up facing 90 degree's the wrong way !

[FiveTimes]

Several stiches above my left eyes after being whacked with a golf club by a friend. I remember him asking me to stand back, so I took a step back and though that was enough, but during his back swing it caugh me flush on the eyebrow and then I remember his dad carrying me home with my eye covered by tea-towels soaked in blood.

[Clownio]

Have broken both legs (Tibia & Fibula) playing football, though not at the same time. Second time a f**k witted surgeon at East Surrey screwed up the operation and I ended up going back in (to a different hospital privately) to have it re-broken and fixed properly.

Most recently ruptured my achilles tendon playing squash - which hurt like a bastard !

Have also broken wrist, ribs etc.

[DBA_bloke]

Stubbed my toe last week. Ouch!

[ElectricChair]

I fell off my skateboard when I was 16 - scraped my face and the bruises last a whole week.

What a wussie I am.

[n5gooner]

Have broken both legs (Tibia & Fibula) playing football, though not at the same time. Second time a f**k witted surgeon at East Surrey screwed up the operation and I ended up going back in (to a different hospital privately) to have it re-broken and fixed properly.

Most recently ruptured my achilles tendon playing squash - which hurt like a bastard !

Have also broken wrist, ribs etc.

ouch !!!

[Clownio]

ouch !!!

Yes , that's sort of what I said.

[Orbit]

After much sangria, while on holiday in Spain one year, I managed to knock my front teeth out while attepting the 'caterpillar'. What a prat. To make matters worse the only dentist in town 'speaka-no-english' - so she resorted to drawing on a post-it note to explain how she was going to 'fix' my teeth.

Three months and five visits to the dentist later I finally got new ones fitted.

Needless to say I try to curb the breakdancing nowadays.