What's the dumbest way you've sustained an injury, and what was the injury?

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Put a rib out of place by dropping a fire extinguisher on myself. I was carrying it cradled in my arms at chest height, big heavy sucker, when I slipped on icy ground and fell flat on my back. I saw the extinguisher seeming to hover in the air and watched it fall towards me like in slow motion. The thought flashed through my mind that it was going to crush my rib cage and I would die right there. Knocked the wind out of me and for the next month or two it hurt to take a really deep breath. A chiropractor said I had a rib out of place - he did some kind of crunch on me and boom, totally fixed. I've never had another stereotypical chiropractor cure like that.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Had a spot or two where I thought it was the end of all things, thought, "Well. I've burned the candle at both ends. Time to die."

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I was camping as a child, and sitting on my dad's knee around the camp fire. I tucked my knees and arms into my shirt.
My dad let go of me to scratch his head, and I, trapped within my shirt, rolled off his knee and onto a tree root.

Broke my collar bone.
Had to canoe out of the campsite the next day.

[blametheantifa@lemmy.world]

Slipped disk from sneezing.

Getting old sucks.

[flickerby@lemm.ee]

I once fell asleep with a laptop on my lap that had a horrible heat sink and would basically turn itself off every half hour. My legs were crossed when I fell asleep and my heel was right up against the vent.. Woke up with the laptop still on. Confused. And then PAIN. It has used my heel as a heat sink. MASSIVE burn, horrible pain, like four inch blister, still have the scar twenty years later. Had to wear flip flops for like a month shudder

[windyrebel@lemmy.world]

I was teaching my kid how to nail while doing one of those Home Depot kids projects that can you bring home. I held it up to show him and nailed too hard with the way I was holding it that the nail went through and pierced my left hand at the base of thumb all the way to the muscle.

I promptly told him, “that’s why the correct way to nail is to put it on the ground to do this and do not hold it like that, now daddy needs to go get a bandage real quick.”

I cleaned it, bandaged it, finished the project, and then went to the doctor just in case because it was fairly deep.

[windyrebel@lemmy.world]

Is this the Joker origin story?!

Damn man, sorry to hear that.

[slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org]

So i'm really lucky with my body rng. I'm 40 and i can still do everything i did at 20. I got back into skateboarding, i go downhilling and shit like that. I never felt old at all. One day, like 2 years ago i was sitting on my pc for an hour or two. I wanted to get up to grab a glass of water, after getting up i immediately crumbled and couldn't get up again. My back hurt like absolute shit for a week and then it went back to normal. Fun times

[fanciestpants@lemmy.world]

In college, my roommate decided to make jello shots in these little shot glasses we had. He and his buddies finished them off and stacked the empty glasses in the room. Ass of a roommate refused to clean them out, so they sat for a little more than a week, at which point I was sick of them enough to clean them myself.

The jello had crystallized around the rim of the glasses, cementing them together, and as I twisted a couple of them apart the crystallized jello sliced into my hand.

My wife still taunts me sometimes for getting cut by jello.

[fushuan@lemm.ee]

I hope not haha, it's crazy how such a minor cut doesn't heal for so long,but when you think of the elasticity that lips have it makes sense. So annoying tho.