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The injury thread (could become graphic)

*89Laredo*

NAXJA Forum User
Location
Sheffield, IA
I know I start alot of random threads, it happens when I'm bored at work... Lol

What stupid stuff have you guys done to hurt yourselves?

My most recent one was at a jeep outing. I got drunk and tripped, landed in a fire.

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ive got no pics...

worst one was falling on a mossy rock while fishing...hit an overhanging rock with my shin and tore a gash about 7 inches long and about 1.5 inches wide in my leg...i could see my shin bone because the muscle was torn wide open. that one hurt like hell! here is a pic of the stitches...

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7 internal 12 external stitches...cost me about $800 without insurance at the time. this was in 2007...

i have no pictures of my battle with fire. that happened in 1995...way before digital cameras
 
I chopped the top of my thumb off using an iron worker building off road light mounts
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crappy stitch job
That is seriously one of the most brutal things I have ever seen. Kudos!
 
There was another thread (think it was on these forums), where the guy had a cut-off wheel break, and a chunk of it stuck in his arm. Between punching myself in the face with a ratchet, and seeing the injury threads on here, I got a lot more safety conscious. Glasses, sleeves when grinding, always chocked when I'm working on the drivetrain or underneath it, etc.

This is probably a week or so afterwards, since my left eye is open. Lucky I didn't put my eye out.
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Noticed that was last year? How long did it take to heal up?

It took a while. Almost three months for the road rash to heal up fully. Here is what it looks like as of five minutes ago.


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Where the tear was there it is still healing as far as the scar tissue is concerned. Sometimes you can barley see it, others it is pretty purple.

Here are a few pics of if as it was healing.

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This is one of my last little issues. I tore an Achilles tendeon while in China.

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I had it operated on, then 7 months later while in rehab, I tore it again. :rattle:
 
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