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I work for a summer camp and being the most qualified first aid guy (I'm aquatics director and lifeguard instructor), always face the strangest injuries. I've had to work on kids with 5" rusty nails through their feet, 20+ wasp stings to the face, old rebar through the calf, but the worst was this poor kid who caught a fish for the first time, bent down to pull it off the hook, the fish slipped off and he jerked the hook right into his hand. We couldn't pull the hook out because of the barb. We had to hold him down, feed the hook through til the barb poked out, clip the barb and pull the hook back through. I thought the poor kid was gonna give up the ghost on us.
Man, the more I think, the more effed' up injuries come to mind. This one didnt happen to me but it was in my living room and I was witness....
Years ago two idiot buddys of mine were joking around with these knives they had just picked up at a huge flea market (Rodgers OH.. ITS AWESOME) that day. After about a dozen beers each, they werent being so careful and werent listining to the various people telling them that they should knock it off. They were having a fake knife fight and another guy walked in between them to break it up. Long story short, he took a switch-blade through his hand. Right through the meat between thumb and pointer finger. SO MUCH BLOOD!!! He refused to go to the hospital, and just left. I finally got in touch with him the next day, and he had sewn it up with fishing line. Bit of a scar now (10 years later) but none worse the wear.
my uncle was playing with a claw hammer when he was younger (probably like 12) and he had both hands on the hammer went to swing and got the claw of the hammer stuck in his head.....he ran inside to my grandmother with the hammer still in his skull lol
My dad and I were fishing down in FLorida about 12 miles out on my 17th birthday. I was on one side of the boat and he was on the other. He reared back to cast his line and caught me in the face with a 9 prong fishing lure. I only have one small scar from it.
lol o f*ck these are to good!
i remember when i dropped and axe and the wood handle bounced off a stone and came back and busted my lip and cracked a tooth in half. good time!
If it's been done I've seen it. 10 years on the ambulance and nothing gets you anymore.
...please some highlights.
I had my right hand on fire in high school. My fingers were the size and colors of raw bratwurst. After that healed I 85% removed the index, middle, and ring fingers at the first joint with a tall window/guilotine. Amazing they still work fine.
Oh yeah years later I split the same middle finger lengthwise to the back of the nail by catching it between a paralell and a guard on a surface grinder ; )
WOW MAN! you win!!! i was drunk and punched a board on a fire, hand went trough the board into the coals... if my brother ws not there to pour his beer all over my hand it would have been 10x's worse
WOW MAN! you win!!! i was drunk and punched a board on a fire, hand went trough the board into the coals... if my brother ws not there to pour his beer all over my hand it would have been 10x's worse
Hahahaha I was cleaning our kitchen stove, and the cleaner was flamible, forgot about the pilot lights Turned around to put it out in the sink, and the damn portable dishwasher was hooked-up. Ran down the hallway doin my Johnny Storm impersonation and put it out in the bathroom sink.
Okay... Some years back I was at our river house when this 11 year old kid (TwistedWheels' nephew I might add) wanted to take me for a ride on his dad's new Rhino (sidebyside atv capable of 60 mph). I was pretty drunk so I said sure. When the rhino flipped i tried to stop it with my flip-flop clad foot. My foot was grabbed by the front wheel and taken up into the fenderwell. When the crash was over I thought maybe my foot was broken. So I righted the rhino and told the kid to wait while I pissed. As I'm pissing, I notice that my foot is pretty wet. I check to make sure that the wein isn't making some overspray and hello, my foot is turned inside out. I convince my friend(ex gf) to drive me to the hospital an hour away. 50 some odd stitches and a drain later and I've got something resembling a foot again. I've actually got some polaroids taken in the E.R. but they're pretty nasty. Now I've got an awesome scar on my foot that looks like a shark bite!
Final score: side-by-side atv 1
foot 0
I was cutting a bolt off in a F350 rear spring bushing with the torches, of course I wasnt wearing any safety glasses. So the rubber bushing is on fire, sparks flying everwhere, then BOOM, damn bushing popped and a big ball of burnning rubber and metal sticks to my right eye....initial reaction was to blink and cover my eye with my hand. WOW, my eye and my eyelid somewhat melted together and I had to pry my eye open with my fingers to wash it out in the eye wash station....the inside of my eyelid stuck to the rubber/metal and all of it was stuck to my eye. Lengthy ER visit, eye doctor visits and 3 weeks of antibiotics and eye patches. Now I wear safety glasses for almost everything...even when I'm weed eatin LOL. Blinking with the first few layers of your eyeball missing and the inside of your eyelid blistered is not fun.
I had someone try to put his hockey helmet through my face when I wasn't looking (collision at sunday hangover hockey). Sent an upper and lower tooth through their respective lips, and once the top tooth wiggled it's way through my lip, it decided to break off above the nerve. My top lip has a nice scar that makes it look like I have a little bit of a fat lip in front of the rogue tooth. Bottom lip just has a small scar on the outer edge. I blacked out for a couple seconds and by the time I got myself together I had made a new face-off circle in between the hash marks.
Someone found my tooth on the ice (still had some skin attached from my lip) and I took it to the dentist. He glued it back on, only to be swallowed with some chicken wings a couple months later. Now it`s all plastic and it`s been hanging on for 3 years or so. I think the nerve is still alive too, I stll get some sensitivity pains once in a while.
ehhh,, being a full-time mercedes-benz tech has immune me to battle wounds. I get cuts, scrapes, burns, daily... comes with the job I guess. biggest thing for me is not getting blood on the interior of a 100k car. last month I was doing rear wheel bearings on a CLK. my wrench slipped off and the top of my thumb caught the backing plate. half of bottle of super glue, rubber glove and I was good as new.. then decided it was a good time to put my snap-on work gloves on.
I went to culinary school and also worked in a restaurant. A very important rule in the kitchen: If it can be hot, treat it likes its hot. Ive done it, and Ive seen countless people grab sheet trays, pots, ect. without a towel because they just assumed it wasnt hot. And when youre moving fast you really go for a good grip on things. The worst I saw though was a kid lopping off the tip of this thumb, and a girl carrying a 5gallon bucket of piping hot stock, slipping and having it go alllll over her, probably not much worse than a decent sun burn but she was red as a lobster!
Personally Ive been really lucky, Ive only gotten a few minor burns and cuts from culinary school/kitchen work, and stitches twice when I was much younger. Never broken a bone or anything.
Speaking of cooking injuries. I added a new one today. Was cleaning the charbroiler with a wire brush and it decided to stop. I was rushing and leaning on it hard. My hand went forward and the brush rolled back under it. My hand went straight on to the grill, made a singe kinda sound and STUCK. Wouldn't have been so bad, but I was in an awkward position so that hand ended up holding me up until I could get my other hand on something that wasn't hot to push myself away. The blisters (nice, uniform grill marks) aren't soft and squishy like a normal blister, they're...crispy. The skin around it feels like a bad sunburn.
no joke get some silvadene cream for those burns... keep them wrapped... that is really tough skin on your hand there, for them to burn like means that is a bad burn bud... i know it may not feel like much but infection is no joke on burns... get some good silvadene cream from the local pharmacy or Dr...
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Turned around to put it out in the sink, and the damn portable dishwasher was hooked-up. 
