Worst (hilarious) injuries

I somehow manage to get the most absurdly bad injuries over nothing...

Around 3 hours ago I was working on this old commuting bike I got (whilst wearing sandals). Just finished putting a freewheel on it and a rear brake, took it for a spin round the block, was nice & fast. Road back into my garden and saw if I could still backwards-circle (managed a half turn)

As I was just popping off my bike, I felt my toe catch something. (mudguard rod) Didnt really hurt, just tried to shake it off. Then I looked at my toe, and f**k! see the whole nail on the big toe lifted back and gushing blood!

I was like oh s**t, this is bad. Dont wanna have to go and wait for hours in A&E (embarrassing too!) I run back in the house get some bandages together. At this point the pain starts to catch up with me, its immense, and theres loads of blood trickling out.

I decide a picture would be cool, then spend 15 minutes looking for a camera, find 3 but all the batteries are dead! I go about cleaning it up & try to push the nail back on, blood gushes everywhere, it hurts like f**k and it looks so cool & gruesome I really wish I could take a pic.

I want to do some riding this week so I decide I should really get it seen to quick, so I dont end up with a painful mangled foot for a month. Call up the GP, they are closing in 10 minutes.

SO I somehow squeeze my bandaged toe into a shoe, endure an extremely painful race to make the 30min journey in 10min. Get there, and the nurse takes off my good bandage, puts a crap "glorified plaster" on it, and tells me to go see a private podiatrist to remove the nail & make sure I dont get gangrene!

Wtf? So I end up re-dressing it my self so its sturdy enough to make the journey home (lots more pain) looking like an idiot spinning on the granny ring of my sisters hybrid with agony on my face

Well, I certainly cant see a podiatrist. So I guess ill be spending the next week at least not riding and trying to pull my nail off. Ill have another thing to add to my many bike related scars.

it will fuck up if you don't have the nail removed.

ouch, fuckin ouch.

ow. go to A&E mate. where are you? Can someone give him a "backie" to hospital?

just save the trouble and axe wound your toe off.
no toe no nail eh ?!

only jookin!!

hope it heals good, and ye, get it seen by a foot doctor cos the nail needs to be sorted
or it will forever cause you problems in the future with malformed growth and so on.

take care!

This ain't me, but it must have hurt like a mutha:
http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/?p=455
http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/?p=806

His finger got caught in between a spoke and the frame, slicing the end (and bone) clean off. Owie

A bit of wood between the teeth, some pliers and a big dose of HTFU?

Far better to get it removed properly, A&E is your best bet if you've got a bit of time to kill.

do a sir renalph fines and chop it off with a power tool. (please dont)

for stupid bike related injury see my rider down post in the general section. yours is just one of those things. :P

hope you heal quick fella.

This ain't me, but it must have hurt like a mutha:
http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/?p=455
http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/?p=806

Check out the extra pics...After dinner though.

His finger got caught in between a spoke and the frame, slicing the end (and bone) clean off. Owie

seen that before, the dangers of disc brakes. And to think they put them on toys r us kids bikes!

I tested out my new DH rig last Thursday. Because I wasn't used to the weight I went off a drop and the back end just fell away. Dabbed a foot down and rolled my ankle - cue immense pain and what looked like a tennis ball emerging from my leg. After an hour at A&E (digital x-rays don't half cut the waiting time do they?!) it turns out it was just a sprain.

Saturday at my parents' - got out the shower and walked to my room. Stubbed my foot on my nephew's rocking horse - yep - broken.

And I don't mean the rocking horse either - I'm hardcore me. Only problem is I don't know which version of events to go with - gnarly downhill stack or young child's equine toy misadventure?

last winter my eyesight went south (shortsighted) and I managed to ride my bike into a large oak barrier across the canal footpath that for some reason I failed to notice. My nuts smashed into the handlebar stem and I lay on the floor for thirty minutes whimpering like a kicked dog. I was black and blue down there for a good ten days or so and with the direct result that I now wear contact lens!

You somehow think that attaching small discs of glass to "the boys" will protect them how exactly?

If you want to see a real injury click here
It's a climbing degloving injury, caused by a wedding ring.

I WARN YOU IT ISN'T PRETTY.

Holy fuck.

i refuse to open that one Object. if it's the one i think it is i've seen it happen for real and it's nasty. it's also the reason i don't wear a watch or a belt when working at height.

When I was about 17, I borrowed a mates Grifter to get home. Popped up onto a pavement to avoid a car on a narrow road and someone opened a car door. I swerved to avoid it and glanced off a garden wall. Alas the grips were smaller than my hand and I tore the skin on the knuckle of my little finger and severed the tendon. I can now say with some authority that I never need to see my own bone again. The most painful part was having anesthetic injected into the webbing of my hand and feeling the needle scrape along the bone surface.

If you want to see a real injury click here
It's a climbing degloving injury, caused by a wedding ring.

I WARN YOU IT ISN'T PRETTY.

My breakfast is all over my keyboard. I hope you're happy!?

i rotated my right knee cap around to the back of my right leg. that hurt.

broke my left hip twice and it hurt twice

i broke my ovaries

The most painful part was having anesthetic injected into the webbing of my hand and feeling the needle scrape along the bone surface.

my mum had a dislodged/stiff tendon in her thumb, which meant it was locked. I was there when she had it fixed in the same way as yours. Let me tell you, she SCREAMED!

If you want to see a real injury click here
It's a climbing degloving injury, caused by a wedding ring.

I WARN YOU IT ISN'T PRETTY.

worse

http://www.ogrishforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=361330&d=1215240747

Not bike related but when I was pissed I thought it would be a good idea to stand up on a hammock and try and "surf" it.

Legs went one way, head the other and face planted breaking my nose, chipping 3 teeth and slicing my forehead open. Rad.

I broke a finger in an enthusiastic game of "SNAP".

No joke.

What were you playing with, headstones?