I was just wondering how many accident prone/rambunctoius 'lagers we have here! :D

I've personally had stitches in my head because someone thought it would be funny to throw a rock in the air..... :cool:

ouch know what the rock in the head feels like i had 8 stiches for that and another 18 when i fell of my bike into a sheet of glass
:undecide:

Ugh, stitches. Not fun! I had surgery on both feet a few years ago but I don't remember how many on each. Wait, that's not due to injury. *shrugs* Oh well. In August, I had an accident at work and a box cutter stabbed my thumb. BLOODY hell. My thumb was shriveled up from the huge loss of blood. Quite nasty. I had 3 stitches for that.

Some people say that stitches don't hurt when they are taken out. Ha...wrong! Well, at least in my case. When my feet stitches were taken out, I almost died. Okay, not really, but I was in lots of pain. :( I think my thumb stitches hurt a little, too.

I was just wondering how many accident prone/rambunctoius 'lagers we have here! :D

I've personally had stitches in my head because someone thought it would be funny to throw a rock in the air..... :cool:


ouch. Noep never had stiches, broke my colar bone once though. I was playign this stupid little game when i was six i think and we are in Hershey and my parents were out to dinner, and my Grandma was there, and she was in her room (we had those connecting door thingys) and i had my hand on my head, and i tried to fall, and i thought my elbow would hit the bed and i would be safe, but i missed the bed and i didn't have tme to get out of my position and it cracked the bone. O and one time in the morning i was opening a can of dog foof, and the4 lib was still on a little so i used my thumb to get it off, and the lib slit my thumb that wasn't that bad though. Ah good times...not really

Lol redsox :)

Aurora, well i guess i didn't think about surgery! Doh! on me haha.

I remember when you cut your thumb! you showed me a picture lol.

:lol2: That I did! Wait, did I show you it bandaged up or um...the actual cut? It was the actual cut, huh? EW. Hahaha.

Broke your collar bone? OWWWWWWW.

Actually - yes, but I dont think you want to know where!
I will say that getting them out was the worst pain I've ever been through!

Thought I had just four. After surgery I got stapled instead of stiches.

Not only I am an adventurous girl, but I also had a few skin surgeries (no plastic! just "weird moles").
I guess I could beat Renée Russo in that Lethal Weapon 3 scars contest scene...

I got bitten by a dog when I was 8. The dog was on a leash and everything. Should never have listened to my friends when she said, "No, really... he is friendly. He growls like that with everyone he likes." :mad: :mad: :mad:

Got my hand stitched up for that little effort.

When I was 10 I was running barefoot through the backyard and kicked a shovel. I maintain that was my Grandfather's fault for leaving it there, lol. :biggrin:

Have to have half my toe reattached for that one :frown:

Then a year later I stepped on a piece of glass that went right through the centre of my foot. That one hurt... a whole lot... :frown:

Several stitches later...:redface:

I really don't like needles, LOL. :biggrin:


Kitten.

When I was 9 I was running down a hill and I tripped over a log and broke my elbow. I had surgery and got pins put in my elbow because the little bone that joins the 2 other bones together got knocked out of place. 8 weeks later I had the surgery to get them removed. When I was about 2 or 3 I got stitches in my head for some reason (my mum cant remember exactly what happened.)

Thought I had just four. After surgery I got stapled instead of stiches.

I've had staples, too, for my knees. Bleeeeeh.

Kitten, that's...a lot!!! OW.

Wow, these are some pretty gruesome stories haha....

I had a friend who got impaled through the back of his knee with rebar! Just missed his kneecap. That coulda been REAL bad.

Danny, wait till I start writing about how I managed to splat myself on a concrete wall and only get 8 stitches on the head, a scratch and no broken bones... :rolleyes:
Of course, the splatting action was unintentional (and it didn't involve a car) :D
Okay, I'd better stop before I gross you all out... ;)

Yeah, "splatting"....mental pictures. *shudders* lol That does sound quite graphic!

I put none - the ones that come from the dentist when he pulled my tooth I didn't think counted. :biggrin:

I put my hand through a glass door about 5 years ago, that was 13 stitches. I haven't drunk Southern Comfort since!:smile:

Oh and when I was 4 I put the fingers of my right hand in the hinge side of a door and ended nearly losing the tips of my fingers when someone tried to shut it.:eek: That was only 4 stitches and two permantly damaged nails.

*cringes in pain!* lol.... how traumatic haha!

kochanski, seems like you have a thing for doors. Glad you are okay :)

Danny, Aurora... here's another graphic one, lol. When I was, 11 I think, we were out with the family. Dad parked the car, we got out... Mom was still sitting in, I was already out and I had a hand on the car. Mom gets out. My little brother shuts the door, with half my hand trapped in. My forth and fifth fingers were in, the others were out. I stayed like this, 'patiently' waiting for someone to take out the keys again and open the friggin' door, lol. 'aaahhhhhh...' Then I finally got released. There was a Burghi nearby (fast food, later bought by MacDonalds) and I got a Large glass of ice cubes for the hand + one Large Chocolate Milkshake for free :D
Again, the elastic kid had no broken bones, nothing... just a greenish half-hand for a while.
Come to think of it, I got more stitches from little surgeries than from accidents...

The kid from next door had found his dad' s machete and we (when i think about it, it was mostly he who used the machete) were playing in the wood behind our houses.
He wanted to chop a tree and right at that moment i felt the knife on my head.
He said it was just a scratch but when i touched the back of my head, my hands were full of blood. I went inside again and we went to the hospital. 11 stiches.
I never played with that guy ever again.

I've been lucky, only stitches have been after having a baby.

Sara- wow, so the door actually LATCHED while your hand was in it?! Sheesh.

LabQueen- i imagine the stitches weren't the most painful part of your child's birth :eek:

i actually got my arm stuck in a sofa bed and damaged the nerve (what would be your funny bone) so they had to operate.

i broke the bottom of my foot and they had operate on that too to fix it.

Hummmm..now you got me thinking...

Ran my tricycle into the corner of a coffee table when I was 4. A few stiches in my left eyebrow. Still have the scar..quite menacing!

Around age 8 I was prowling about the farm and it was snowing. There had been an old barn door under the snow that I didn't see, I slipped on it and fell under a barbed wire fence. Almost tore my ear off that time, but they sewed it back on and you can't really tell unless you know where to look.

At around age 11, I was playing hide and seek in the house with my brother. I was hiding in a small room and when he finally found me, he gave me a good shove...right out the second story window. I crashed through the glass, hit the first floor roof, rolled across that and onto the ground. I dunno how many stitches I got that time.

Was riding my bike down a big hill on the highway...had the feet off the pedals, arms in the air and hit something. Wow, did I go flying. No broken bones but I split my head open so I have a scar on my scalp that looks like a part in my hair. Lotta road rash.

Was hanging upside down on the money bars at school and some dummy pushed my feet. I fell, hit myself on the bars on the way down and split my head open.

Man, car accidents.....motorcycle dumps......shot (!!!)....surgeries...I have had stiches a lot but I have few lasting scars from them. (Pale skinned, red head...we don't scar so badly.) My poor mother thought I would be retarded from all the head wounds.

She may have been right.

p.s. I tell people that the scar in my eyebrow is from a knife fight because it sounds cooler than the tricycle/coffee table bit. Sadly, they know I am full of BS.

Danny; lol, too right

Danny... yes :D nice hu... lol... seems like a comedy movie scene lol...

DangerKitty, congrats! lol... I will have mercy of readers and won't list all my adventures. But this thread is really funny, in a certain way. Good thing we are all doing more or less good :)

Lol, wow Dangerkitty, now i think i know how you got your name ;)

:) Danny :)

Sara, go ahead and make a monster post. It's all fun. It's off-topic, no one will mind and I would like to hear about your adventures.

Yeah, I've done the stitches thing a few times. Mostly for deep cuts while bushwalking. The other time was when I was 12 and had my appendix removed because they decided to explode (on my birthday, too. Which, amusingly enough, was on a Friday the 13th). They didn't stitch me up right, either - they only used 5 stitches on a two-and-a-half inch long incision, so now I've got this stupid scar on my abdomen with pull marks where the stitches were. Not nice. Now I can't wear low rise pants ...

I actually forgot to mention this past New Year's Eve where I didn't get stitches, but I probably should have. A baby headbutt me in the lip and split it open.

I can tell you that I had fun explaining that to people, LOL.


Kitten.

Lol Kitten, bet that was quite a fun experience.

HenchWench- I love scars. You should be proud of yours :) Too bad mine on my head and no one can see it.... except for when my hair is really really short.

HenchWench- I love scars. You should be proud of yours :) Too bad mine on my head and no one can see it.... except for when my hair is really really short.
I've got a few scars, though - another on my thumb from an accident in metalworking class back in high school and a scar across my right eyebrow from where my eyebrow ring came out. I'd wear them with pride, but they're not really anything to be proud of. I didn't get them doing anything particularly clever or brave - unlike my partner, who shattered his shoulder on active duty, doing peacekeeping in East Timor. That's something to be proud of.

ive never had stitches...surprise surprise. ive come close a few times.....and ive taken stitches out (of other people).

I was a very clumsy child, falling off swings and stuff

Lol, my sister decided once to swing without hanging on and she flew backwards and hit her head and knocked the wind out of her.

Luckily, I've never had any. :smile:

I got a few stitches after I hit my head on a wooden footstool at age two.

(Oops...I forgot to count the stitches I got each time I gave birth and tore...um...down there...eewwww...I guess that makes "at least ten"...)

I opted for "just a few" before I remembered that surgery might count.

If so, that'd be one stitch and a dozen staples.

If not, I'll stay with the less-than-half-dozen I got for falling on a flight of stairs and slicing my chin open when I was 4. On Mother's Day, no less. Ow.