[FizzyWolf]

I've been in A&E for a slashed elbow, pain in the lumber region and a broken arm.

[Steven]

Broken leg. Double fracture in my femur, just above the kneecap. 4 hour operation to put 2 pins in. Still have the scar

[FizzyWolf]

How did you do that then?

[Steven]

Football.

Innocuous as well. So innocuous I tried to walk around at first. Collapsing on the floor was the first hint something was afoot

[gerryman62]

blood clot, was in hospital for week gettin warfarin injections have to go to hospital twice a week to give blood samples takes 4 hours each time .

[RMCF]

Originally Posted by FizzyWolf

I've been in A&E for a slashed elbow, pain in the lumber region and a broken arm.

Can match you on the broken arm - both bones snapped. 2 days inside. 3hr op to insert plates and pins.

Again football to blame !!

[Gadget Daddy]

jeez loads but not in recent years....what i can remember

Broken Leg - Fell off Tarzee Rope into a rocky stream
Dislocated Ankle - Football
Unable to see out of eye - got hit in the eye from a squash ball directly off the bat
Lots of twisted ankles and ligaments - football

Pete

[JayPJay]

gerryman 62 Just a few questions if you dont mind. I have just come off the phone to a relative who has just told me they also have a blood clot and are having to take warfarin and go for blood tests every other day, how long ago was your problem how are you now and has this problem caused you to be off work.

[tapzilla2k]

I cut my head open on a kitchen unit when i was about 7 or 8. My dad took me to A&E and they put that glue stuff onto it. Took a few hours to sort out from my dim childhood memories.
LFC_SL - a mate at school broke his leg playing football, went up for a header, next minute a crack was heard and he was on the floor.

[lord-dudester]

ive been a few time's, came of a scooter and ripped my lip in half on the handle bars, once for a major mountain bike crash, popped my shoulder out! once for a big deep cut in the palm of my hand from a big bit of glass and the final time blood poisoning (i'll never go back after this one) - too many smarties at a disco. needless to say, i learnt my lesson that time

[pixelated]

Yep. Most recently was for ruptured ligaments, a stretched achilles tendon and allegedly some goosed fibres in my ankle around a month ago. Messy.

Painful. And football was the culprit again!

[Steven]

Someone somewhere is trying to tell all of us something

[tapzilla2k]

Probably that football is best left to over played professionals
I was rubbish at football
The arches in my feet have caved in, so no Kevin making a fool out of himself trying to play football like a duck that's lost it's quack.

[tonycommander]

3 dislocated knees - 3rd time the ligaments snapped and my knee cap went way round the back somewhere!!!

Broken wrist falling backwards through the laft hatch!

Scariest was going their for a bad backache, only to be rushed to ward with Pnuemonia, and 10 days later being let out, with a warning about being hours away from death by suffocation.

[njp]

Broken nose, lacerations requiring stitches and a "large facial haematoma" after being dashed on to rocks by a freak wave whilst "rock hopping" in a kayak around the coast near Ilfracombe. I looked like a panda for weeks...

More head stitches after locating a rock with my head whilst attempting an inverted kayak descent of Triple Drop on the River Dart when it was in spate.

I have an affinity for rocks.

[shodan]

I've only been for me twice. Once was a dislocated shoulder after a motorbike crash (about 2 hours after and I'd picked the bike up, straightened a few things out and rode home!) the other time was after a recent car crash. nothing serious wrong but being hit from behind (Ooerr missus) and writing the car off made me think it was best to go get checked out!
Been there quite a few times with other people though!

[Mindcrime]

Been to A&E on numerous occasions but the most recent was for a suspected series of 4 heart attacks in a few hours Thankfully it wasn't a heart attack, the protein released during an attack wasn't present, but still don't know what it was.

Occasions before that were enlarged testicle; torn tendons in both feet; torn tendons in both hands (one after another!); severe rope burn on left hand; fell down concrete stairs at the age of 4 and very nearly ripped left eye brow off, it was dangling by a thread.

[dts_boy]

i've been in once or twice:
tore all the ligaments in my foot - the doc was amazed it wasn't broken but patched me up and sent me on my way
had a very scratchy eye - ended up being bits of metal which had started to rust (still got no idea how they got there)
the last time was when i stupidly electrocuted myself - depending who u ask i flew across the room and hit the opposite wall, i was thrown back around 5ft and the best one was i hit the back wall of the office and as my body touched the metal frame all the lights blew out
don't like to make a habit of visiting though

[NGD Boy]

Originally Posted by LFC_SL

Broken leg. Double fracture in my femur, just above the kneecap. 4 hour operation to put 2 pins in. Still have the scar

That's a very difficult bone to break... very strong bone... must have hurt.

I have only been to cas once..... with arc eye..... very painful.... when I was approx 17 yr old I had to watch some old guy welding and keep an eye on him as he was diabetic and prone to diabetic collapse....I stupidly watched him weld all day, even though he warned me not to watch... I was there to call 999 in case he collapsed..... about 8.00 pm in the pub that night it started..... never again!!!!

[Steven]

Originally Posted by NGD Boy

That's a very difficult bone to break... very strong bone... must have hurt.

Well not until I tried to carry on walking

Edited because it may not have been appropriate to go into detail

[WibXL]

I've been a few times for the following:

Stitches for my head after being pushed over at school.
Sprained ankle after attempting to roller skate.
Broken nose and other assorted facial damage after being kicked in the head.
Stitches for the back of my hand after I cut through it with a saw.

Not had to go in a while though and hopefully it'll stay that way.

[sinizterguy]

I have been to the A+E. To get in the way of doctors doing their jobs. While I was a dental student people in my uni decided it would do us good to go observe the A+E and different departments within in a busy hospital and how it would give us some insight into how to deal with patients or some such BS. It was one day of my life completely wasted. Didnt do us any good and all we did was get in the way of people when they were supposed to be doing real work instead of babysitting us.

[Leej]

I had an itch in my ear. I used a pen to scratch it with and the small blue bit on the end came off and i made it worse trying to get it out and pushed it further down.

An embarrassing trip to A&E made worse by them not being able to get it out and sending me to another hospital, where i had to explain it all again.

And i wasn't a kid at the time

[Jammyb]

Went with the GF recently when she was having a bad asthma attack due to a cat allergy. I found it slightly bizarre because the woman in the queue in front of us had a face that was gushing blood due to being bitten by a dog, was told she would have to wait about an hour. We got taken straight through. They don't muck about if you're having breathing difficulties.

[Woodywizz]

Been a few times :

Broken left leg - twice, both from playing football

3 broken fingers, and a broken jaw - from Ju-Jitsu

Torn knee ligaments (which was worse than the broken leg) - again football

Also had to have blood vessels in left nostril cauterised after a 4 hour long nose bleed - after getting kicked in face by my elder sister

[WibXL]

Sports and AVF members just don't seem to mix well. Apart from the fact that it seems to give you a good excuse to use all your AV stuff whilst you're laid up and recuperating.

[square-eyes-baz]

Split the top of my head open- pulled the school bell onto my head,few weeks later did it again
Split the back of my head open-fighting my brother and he kicked me backwards through the air and I landed on my head onto a plug in a wall socket
Multiple cuts to my finger- got pulled onto an electric drill -extremely painful
Broken hand,missed it on first x ray went back the next day in pain and they got it right 2nd time
Broken wrist
broken foot
broken toe
broken ribs
Metal in eye -4 times! Ended up in Stoke Mandeville
Cut my eyeball open- that one really hurt
Accidently got petrol in my eyes and in my nose and mouth
Cut my finger open and cut the nerve through-again sent to Stoke Mandeville for a plastic surgeon
Jumped across 2 brick walls and landed on the edge of the brick on my shin-down to the bone-ouch
Food poisoning -twice
broken dinner plate stabbed me in the arm deeply
Large hole in knee and other injuries-motorbike accident.
Unfortunately this is not even half of it ,I often wonder if its a combination of being lefthanded (or cack handed as my dad always said) and being a teara*se.

[LFCRules]

Had only about 3 or 4 in my formative years, and never actually got past A&E, i.e. got taken to a ward, until about 25. Since then had 3 major incidents over the last 8 years:

1) Acute pancreatitis - very painful stomach pains, within approx 2 hours of lunch at work (In Brum), and starting to feel something was up, being violently sick at home, then my first ambulance trip , ended up in A&E having my first shot of morphine (first of many!). 2 weeks in hospital, 7 days without any drink, and 9 days without food whilst my pancreas calmed itself down. Really wouldn't recommend this to anyone, although I did end up losing about 1.5 stone in 2 weeks!
2) Another acute pancreatitis episode, this time in Edinburgh, had one trip on one night to A&E, they sent me home saying it was an ulcer. Went home, but was back in A&E the next night, sent me home again. Then 2 days later, went back where they accepted the pancreatitis, and spent another week or so in hospital.
3) Ruptured Patellar Tendon - continuing the sporting theme of others snapped my patellar tendon playing volleyball (Patellar tendon connects the knee bone to your shin bone, one of the strongest tendon's in the body!) Felt as though someone had hit me with an iron bar, but I wasn't even near anyone, just jumped, landed, and snap! Went to A&E with a dislocated knee cap (patellar) due to the snap, and they diagnosed it as just that, a dislocation, and sent me home!! Wasn't until the follow up the week after in the "fracture clinic" that I was diagnosed with RPT, and admitted there and then, and was due for operation that day, but was operated on the next day. Spent 3 days in hospital, 8.5 weeks in total in a full leg cast, and 5.5 months in physio getting my leg bend and strength back.

Others prior to this was a cut on the elbow, sore throat, and a body rash/infection, and that was it as far as I can remember. No broken bones, yet, although with the RPT the doc did say I would have been better off breaking the leg


EDIT: by the way, they never found a reason for the pancreatitis, as I didn't have the usual sympton's of too much drink! Had an ERCP after the 2nd one, but still no joy, I've just got my fingers crossed I don't get it again!

[shodan]

Originally Posted by square-eyes-baz

Split the top of my head open- pulled the school bell onto my head,few weeks later did it again
Split the back of my head open-fighting my brother and he kicked me backwards through the air and I landed on my head onto a plug in a wall socket
Multiple cuts to my finger- got pulled onto an electric drill -extremely painful
Broken hand,missed it on first x ray went back the next day in pain and they got it right 2nd time
Broken wrist
broken foot
broken toe
broken ribs
Metal in eye -4 times! Ended up in Stoke Mandeville
Cut my eyeball open- that one really hurt
Accidently got petrol in my eyes and in my nose and mouth
Cut my finger open and cut the nerve through-again sent to Stoke Mandeville for a plastic surgeon
Jumped across 2 brick walls and landed on the edge of the brick on my shin-down to the bone-ouch
Food poisoning -twice
broken dinner plate stabbed me in the arm deeply
Large hole in knee and other injuries-motorbike accident.
Unfortunately this is not even half of it ,I often wonder if its a combination of being lefthanded (or cack handed as my dad always said) and being a teara*se.

Goddamn you are accident prone!!! You shouldn't get out of bed unless you are wearing a mitchellin man suit!

[phill1979]

I have not been that often but the times i have been have been for,

A broken collar bone.
Swallowed a old 5p
A sharp stabbing pain what turned out to be a water infection.
Twice in a week with pains in my back where i was unable to stand, turned out to be a kideny infection..