Morning
I'm tired. This weekend's injury tally = badly bruised wrist and scraped fingers. Achilles still hurts. Not interesting injuries, but injuries nonetheless.
How was your weekend? Alternatively what was your most amusing/interesting injury ever?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:23, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have a scar on my leg
Which looks like a bullet wound.

However it was caused by try to get onto a bus in the late eighties wearing a skirt that was way too tight. This meant that I couldn't step up high enough to get on the coach. Therefore I slipped, gashing my leg.

I tell people I was shot.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:33, Reply)

At the time, did anyone ever refer to it
as a nasty gash? :-)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:40, Reply)

*sniggers*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:43, Reply)

Ive got one on my wrist
From firing a dart into it, using a high powered sling shot... Hard to keep a strait face explaining that one to A&E
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:40, Reply)

I've never had to go to A&E for anything, let alone some misadventure
do they look disapprovingly at you?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:44, Reply)

To start with yeah
But I knew most of them in there by this point, they just laughed at me holding my wrist with the dart still sticking out of it
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:46, Reply)

Nice big scar on the elbow
Was going down a hill, some bastard in a car forces me to swerve and land on my elbow. Three months to heal, that took. Stank too from the dressings the nurses were putting on it.

Now though I have a big fuckoff scar and absolutly no feeling at all, so I can pierce it and use it as a handy extra carrying device.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:46, Reply)

I have an Art injury.
Art is a dangerous business you know.

I was cutting out a frame with a scalpel blade and it slipped and now I have a small scar on my arm.

To be honest, considering how cack-handed I am I'm surprised I still have all my fingers after many years at art school.
( girlinthehole, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:09, Reply)

sounds as dangerous as the making of drug taking paraphenalia
I have a scar on the palm of my hand from where I stabbed a plastic bottle to it with a knife while making a bong at uni.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:15, Reply)

^ I have this.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:16, Reply)

It's a shame Duckie isn't here
he has loads of these
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:19, Reply)

I have a nice scar on my right shin...
www.b3ta.com/questions/blood/post220428
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:23, Reply)

Working in a lab, as I do
a few years ago I got the classic science injury.

I was pushing a glass tube into a plastic tube. It was a tight fit. So tight, in fact, that as I pushed I started doing so a little off centre, which applied enough lateral force to cause the glass tube to snap and the jagged end of it was pushed into the end of my thumb with some considerable pressure.

It created a circular hole, like coring an apple, and bled like buggery.*

About two months later it became sore again, and I noticed something below the skin. A few moments of investigation with a pair of sharp tweezers revealed a little shard of glass, which I had to extract. Nice.

*I don't actually know how much bleeding buggery would cause. It's just a figure of speech.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:24, Reply)

I'm quite happy doing minor surgery like that on myself
but when other people do it I turn into a bit of a wimp.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:34, Reply)

I had a fantastic weekend
Well, Sunday was hungover but that was expected. The only injury I've good to A&E with was a sprained ankle from jumping down the last two steps of some stairs.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 10:15, Reply)

I have a scar on my palm...
Juggling chisels is not a smart hobby.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 10:17, Reply)