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[Charity]

Haha.. not really the worst but the most ridiculous for me was when I was trying to sharpen a pencil with a razor (the kind you shave your legs with) and I pressed hard and didn't realize the back of the head of the razor was sharp too, so the blades stabbed through my thumb finger on the back end when I pushed down. :|

[Shirlyn]

Looks like you guys all had some really serious injuries, made me feel that mine is super lame compared to you all. My worst one was scratching my knees from falling on stone pavements. It was a real pain walking for the next few days while they were healing.

[Capet]

When I was young (around 11) I was running in my driveway (all rocks) and fell. When I looked at my hand most of the skin from my palm was dangling and underneath was blood & rocks, and when I moved my hand the skin reattached. The whole night I was in pain and after trying to disinfect it, I had to use a tweezer to cut my reattached skin and remove the rocks. I'm sure its not anything compared to some others on here, but was pretty traumatic at the time.

Edited by Capet, 06 June 2011 - 08:08 PM.

[Narcissa]

When I was young (around 11) I was running in my driveway (all rocks) and fell. When I looked at my hand most of the skin from my palm was dangling and underneath was blood & rocks, and when I moved my hand the skin reattached. The whole night I was in pain and after trying to disinfect it, I had to use a tweezer to cut my reattached skin and remove the rocks. I'm sure its not anything compared to some others on here, but was pretty traumatic at the time.

Being forced to take out rocks in wounds is the worst, isn't it?

[spruced21]

Not nearly as exciting but I was playing volleyball in sand one time, and I dove really hard and fast and scraped up my entire left leg.

Sand in scrapes = ouchies

[frostz]

worst self inflicted injury on accident?

i was using one of those carrot shaving knife things to shave carrots and i thought it would be a good idea to try and chop the carrot with it, the slipped and the knife went into my hand.

[Surrico]

26 January 2011

Was cooking dinner for my family, and I was using a mandolin to cut onions. But I couldn't find the guard that matched the mandolin so i used a smaller one which turned out to be a mistake. About 3 slices in, I took a decent size piece off my thumb. Dad rushed me to the ER to get it taken care of but along the way he was calling everyone and laughing at it. Butgot to the ER and got to wait 45 minutes to see someone who then decided that the best course of action was to chemically cauterize (chemical burn) the wound to stop the bleeding. She took her time doing this too. But afterwards got about 3 months of cleaning the wound and dressing it...and not being able to use my thumb which sucked. Also this makes 2 of 4 people in my immediate family to be wounded by a mandolin.