What is your worst injury ?

Worst pain ever

 

I once get a boot in the ear when playing football and ended up with a burst ear drum. That was rather unpleasant

 

Nothing as bad (or is that good) as Jay, Gordon or BFC Dave, but my worst ones are:

Playing 5-a-side footy indoors in somewhere near Camberley (when I lived in Reading) and this guy takes a point blank pot shot from about 3 yards. Saved it good low down on the left hand post. Stood up and thought that stings a bit - anyway carried on. This was the first half BTW. At half time mt left hand still stinging a bit & I'm still thinking that was a good shot but at least I saved it. Carried on second half - still stinging. At the end of the game I shouts over to the mates I was playing with "well played" etc. etc. but now I'm gonna have a look at my hand now cos it's still stinging. So I take the goalie gloves off to find the pinky finger of the left hand hanging by the tendons! At which point I passed out as I hate the sight of owt like that. My mate phones for an ambulance and he follows me to Camberley Hospital. He makes sure I'm OK, drives back home, picks the missus up, then drives her back to see me in hospital. He makes sure everyones OK, then has to go home as it's about 10 p.m. by now. Later on drugged up the eyeballs two male doctors just yanked it back into place, say it looks OK ish, oh and can you leave now cos we need the bed! Oh, and come back in the morning for some other doctor to have a look. It's about 2 a.m. now and I live 20 mile away - I said - and I haven't any transport as the ambulance brought me etc. etc. Oh, they said yeah, don't drive for 24 hours. So how am I gonna get back? They just said see ya in the morning - 10 o'clock OK? Calls a taxi to get home - cos the missus is fed up now. I'm starting to feel sick now with all the drugs and lack of food, so they give me a plastic tray thing to puke into. Taxi turns up - sees me puking - asks where you going (we say Reading) so he fecks off. Phones another taxi who does take us home - charges £30 (it was about 15 years ago). So I say can you pick us up about 9 o'clock in the morning? No chance mate I live in Guildford he says so no. It's about 5 a.m. now so need to get up at 8 to start ringing for a taxi to get me back to Camberley. **** it I said to the missuss - I'll drive, I'll be reeght. So I did.

The other time I was on my bike - front wheel comes off and I go head chin into the side of the pavement. Well theres blood and teeth everywhere. Knocked out both front teeth, cracked another 4, busted lip, busted nose, gashed chin. In hospital all night for that one as well,

 

ugh, reminds me of when my little brother fell in our neighbours kitchen and landed on his chin and he bit clean through his tongue, never seen so much blood.

 

just noticed that, I meant Eduardo style like how it happened. While my ankle is broken, it thankfully isn't hanging on by a thread like his was. Didn't want you thinking I was an amputee

 

Fractured my left arm whilst playing football at school, was 15 at time.

 

21st birthday fell 20 odd foot, broken ankle with screw through it and broken leg with the bone coming through the side, ended up with a plate and 6 screws in, 1 week in hospital and a little over 6 months in plaster. That time when l twisted my knacker playing football hurt an all.

 

Worst sporting injury I've ever witnessed:

Whilst playing for Barnsley CC against Sheffield Collegiate at Shaw Lane. I was the non striker. If memory serves me correctly Richard Kettlebrough was bowling off spin from the Holgate School end and Adie Darlow was on strike with a chap called Bethel stood at short leg (stupidly without a helmet).

Adie took a big swing at the next ball and middled it hard enough to send it over the old pavillion, were it not for the guy at short leg stopping it with his cheek bone, eye socket, jaw and skull.

It was like a car crash. Blood and bone every where. Worst thing I'd ever seen at that age (17).

I stopped playing cricket for a while after that (not because of the injury but because I became more interested in birds and booze than Yorkshire League Cricket) so never realy found out what happened to the fielder.

I heard stories that his eye socket, jaw bone, cheek bone and possibly skull were all fractured and required reconstructive surgery. Apparently he didn't play cricket again for several years (if ever) but someone else may recall more about the incident and the aftermath, as my memory from before the age of 32 is hazy at times due to a good decade of abusing my body and mind in pubs and clubs.

 

When I played Hockey, I was warming up to come on as a sub and stopped the ball in the middle of my thigh. It left a very circular bruise for 2-3 weeks. Looking back though I was either lucky or stupid as I used to play without shin-pads...

 

Collision with a car on York Road at Doncaster 1979. Left with a Compound fracture tibia and fibula of me left leg, Fracture dislocation of my left hip. broke every bone in my left foot and my right thumb. Ended up in hospital for 3 months crutches from 6 months. Needed a hip replacement at the age of 21 now at 53 i'm on my 3rd total hip replacement (the second one I smashed the socket after falling down stairs)

 

Done ankle and knee ligaments playing football. Broke about 6 of my fingers at different times, had my nose broken a few times, had a pint glass shoved in my face (got lucky there really as the damage could have been much worse), broken ribs which I could still feel months later. The worst has to be a slipped disc at the bottom of my back though, couldn't even get to the toilet for a few days, it was agony.

 

Broken back, broken leg 2 fingers and a black eye, all at once, thanks to motocross, it's something that happens in the sport.
BTW I have BFC graphics for my bike, looks trick.

 

Breaking my arm while deputising in goal. Playing on, pint after, drove home changing gear in agony, went to pub that Friday night, got drunk while arm had doubled over, went to bed, decided enough was enough, went to A&E got it in plaster then taxi to Courthouse as reds were at home. Damaged knee ligaments and broken big toe few times but sound lucky compared to lot of you!

 

theres some ridiculous stories here guys, love it!

I'll try my best to remember the worst/greatest.

got all my fingers trapped in a door on christmas day when I was 8 and broke them. More recently, was chopping branches with my girlfriend. Was holding a branch in my hand for her to cut and I could see where she'd got the shears positioned would mean she'd cut my finger clean off. I told her this and she didn't hear me and started the action to chop the branch, in the .5 seconds it took i grabbed the top of the gardening glove I was wearing and pulled it upwards off my finger just as she chopped the top of the glove off. So not an injury but very very close to losing a digit.

 

Yep. Needed steroid injections in to the AC joint in the end to stop the pain. 5 minutes of a big **** off needle jabbing between the bones

 

communated fracture of the femur,proper mess,15 pins,plate from my hip to the side of my knee and a dynamic hip screw,6 months no weight baring sat in a wheelchair followed by nearly 18 months on crutches,both bones in my forearm smashed,pinned and plated all done in a motorcycle crash,those drystone walls arnt as flimsy as they look

saw a couple of posts about breaking hands after cracking hard objects,well,I did the same,punched a wall and bust 4 bones in my hand,had to have it pinned,it would have been far less painfull to have thumped the lovely person that was shagging my ex wife and in hindsight that's what I should have done,but didn't know it was him at the time,the **** even came to see me on the mend.

 

Had my heart broken 3 times

1998, 2002 and 2013. ****in bitches

 

Back in May whilst playing 6 a side footy, i shattered and dislocated my kneecap. It happened a couple of days before the Huddersfield game, so had to miss out!
Was sat in a splint for a week until i got operated on. After the initial operation which consisted of piecing the kneecap back together with dis solvable screws and figure of 8 wire, i had to have a further operation to remove a loose piece of bone which was still in there.
The knee is fine now, although i still have to strengthen it, can't run properly yet, so no more footy!
Also it doesn't bend fully, so kneeling down is now a problem.

 

So, you're a good goalie then?