What did u survive?

[MicBat]

-When I was in kindergarten, I ran into a brick wall and had to get stitches (i still remember the donald duck bandaid i got).

-When I was 10, I went to jump off a swing, got my leg caught in the chain, broke my arm, and tore my leg up pretty bad.

-When I was 13, I was playing football in the street and ran into a mailbox. I broke my arm and the bone came out!!! It was horrid!

 

[mkepcotmgmak]

eww jonnie - the mailbox? HAHA at least you were running... my sophomore year in high school... i was standing STILL, and then went to lean on a desk, and the damn thing fell over and i fell on it... and my knee somehow got injured badly enough to see my knee cap - so.... what did i do? looked at all the blood, realized after the teacher said... "THATS OUR KNEE CAP" - that i was looking at my kneecap, and PUKED EVERYWHERE... 3 times...

 

[MicBat]

Originally posted by mkepcotmgmak
eww jonnie - the mailbox? HAHA at least you were running... my sophomore year in high school... i was standing STILL, and then went to lean on a desk, and the damn thing fell over and i fell on it... and my knee somehow got injured badly enough to see my knee cap - so.... what did i do? looked at all the blood, realized after the teacher said... "THATS OUR KNEE CAP" - that i was looking at my kneecap, and PUKED EVERYWHERE... 3 times...

:lol: :lol: I'm sure I puked too... I've tried to block it out of my memory, I guess.. I dont remember much of it.

 

[tigsmom]

Well I've only had one clumsy moment that I can remember. I was 11 & I was carrying 2 glass milk bottles up the stairs and I missed the last step. I fell palms down on the broken glass & cut my thumb right thru the joint. The bone was sticking out at a very odd angle. The ER doc popped the bone back in & the plastic surgeon made three layers of stitches. It looks good, still works, but isn't as strong as it should be because I had too much tendon/ligament damage. I didn't :hurl: , but freaked the doctors out because I wanted to watch them put it back together. (they wouldn't let me.)

 

[Lil'mermaid]

You want clumsy???

I was riding my bike and I didnt know how to stop so when I tipped I threw my hand out and hit a picnic table and snapped my wrist.

Another time I was standing still and fell down cutting open both knees.

Once I was sitting in my desk and I dropped a paper, so I leaned over to pick it up, wrapping my foot around the desk leg to keep from falling. I leaned a little to far and fell over, desk and chair crashing on top of me! The guy sitting next to me said "Geez you must be some kinda dork to be able to pull that off" as he helped me up. I was less than happy with him, now as one of my best friends he keeps me from falling as much.

 

[imagineergurl]

Hm, lets see. Last summer I was riding my bike with a few friends down to the Deerfield Beach pier. I was going down a super steep bridge, going really fast and not paying much attention, all of a sudden this car drives by me speeding and does a sharp turn right in front of me! I ,being the super human that I am, thought that I could easily just lean the bike over and slide underneath the car. (Oh my stupidness astounds me) I started having the bike slide, got about an inch of the wheel under the car (wouldn't have fit anyways) when (I still can't believe I didnt see this coming) the back wheels drove right over the bike that was underneath it. This made the bike completely stop and fall, making me fall to the cement and all the weight from the car on the end of the bike pushed more pressure on the bike completely, like, killing my leg. I had this huge cut on my leg from the bike (still have scars) and had to have a few stitches.
The stupid driver freak never stopped, my one friend tried to follow him but didnt catch up.

 

[Wckd Queen]

Lets see...aside from surviving Catholic school...I have broken my ankle, been trapped in an elevator for what seemed like an eternity (and it was in the parking lot at Sears, and all I could think was that I couldnt have picked, say, Neiman Marcus to get trapped in and suffocate :lol: ) and went thru several surgeries as a child.

Oh, I had this little bracelet with a ruby red bead dangling from it when I was small. I was playing on the steps (why do kids do this? Why? Why dont we listen when our mothers say "DO NOT play on the steps!"?) and naturally I tripped. Well, I went down hard and fast with my hands out in front of me. I broke my fall, but the little ruby bead turned out to be hollow glass, and the shards of it were imbedded in my bloody little hand. I have very little recall of this, other than the shriek I let out. I remember the doctor snapped his fingers and the wound was all cleaned. How he did it, I dont know. I did have to keep it wrapped in a bandage for what in kid time was years, and I still have the scar in my palm.

Its funny that my family calls me "the cat" because Im usually pretty agile and loose ligamented. When I was small, I got my legs caught under a glider on our swing set, and I just dragged and dragged until my father saw me and came out to rescue me. No damage. Yet foot meets the smallest speck of black ice in my own driveway, and BAM! Broken ankle Go figure.

 

[wsapooh]

I survived a cancer scare. Missed the big C by a matter of days.
Get your check-ups everyone! DO NOT put it off!!

I survived a tornado at age 6. Sitting out on the front steps of the house trying to figure out why everyone's trash can lids were flying through the air.

 

[mkt]

Originally posted by wsapooh
I survived a cancer scare. Missed the big C by a matter of days.
Get your check-ups everyone! DO NOT put it off!!

oh yeah... after my dad passed away from cancer, I get my checkups regularly

 

[no2apprentice]

Let's see...the usual stuff: 2nd degree burns, fractures, shoulder injury (took 9 months to get over that one), chemical agent, fires, fists, feet, guns, my auto-immune system...that's about it.

Oh yeah, almost forgot floods and earthquakes.

 

[JLW11Hi]

I once stuck my tounge on a frozen metal poll....

 

[wsapooh]

^
A true Minnesotan!

 

[Maria]

Hurricane Gilbert, Hurricane Isidore.

The one that scares me the most and I did feel very close to death, was when I was in living in Toronto in ´89 and decided to go take a picture of the brand new Skydome, from the flower beds in front of the main entrance, and kept walking backwards to get the whole thing on the picture. I stopped by MIRACLE, one step from falling on the street below!! I looked down and saw the flower bed had ended and I had no idea there was a street below! No railing, no nothing (I shouldn´t have been walking on it, of course)! I felt my heart jump and I just prayed not to panic (sp?) and trip on my way down the flower bed... Wheeew!

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Originally posted by Maria
Hurricane Gilbert, Hurricane Isidore.

The one that scares me the most and I did feel very close to death, was when I was in living in Toronto in ´89 and decided to go take a picture of the brand new Skydome, from the flower beds in front of the main entrance, and kept walking backwards to get the whole thing on the picture. I stopped by MIRACLE, one step from falling on the street below!! I looked down and saw the flower bed had ended and I had no idea there was a street below! No railing, no nothing (I shouldn´t have been walking on it, of course)! I felt my heart jump and I just prayed not to panic (sp?) and trip on my way down the flower bed... Wheeew!

Wow..that last step would've been a "doosey"

Thank god!

 

[celticdog]

I was turned into a newt.........but, i got better!