Worst injury/injuries you've sustained?

[joshman1204]

hmm where to start ...

6 concussions doing a variety of stupid things.
18 stitches in my head at 5 years old after hitting a fence post on a dirtbike.
another 20 stitches at 10 years old cause I dove and hit the bottom of a pool.
broken nose twice when I was 16, once due to an airchair accident and the other a dirtbike accident.
3 broken ribs at 18 after slipping while cliff jumping and landing way wrong.
blew my right knee all to [censored] at 19 while skiing in park city and smacking a tree.

There is more to list but I dont have time right now.

[TomHimself]

tore acl in knee playing basketball

[InchoateHand]

Concussions, lots of lacerations, cracked my lacrimal bone landing on my face, the usual runners aches and pains---bursitis, heel spurs. My teeth are pretty much swiss cheese at this point (don't do drugs kids). [censored] up fingers on my right hand, partially helped by surgery. Lots of internal maladies---fatty liver, scarred up lungs from double-pneumonia, etc. etc.

That said, other than my fingers and my face, I've never broken a bone in my body, and neither of those really count, because they aren't exactly cast situations. I've also been lucky, given my former propensity towards abysmally stupid behaviour.

[Punker]

I was hit by a car when I was 15 and my left ankle was utterly destroyed. Multiple screws to hold it back together and cast for months. I wasn't right again for nearly a year. Lucky I didn't step out 2 seconds earlier or it wouldn't have just been my lead leg getting hit.

[banditbdl]

I got blown up while doing research in a Chemistry lab in undergrad and had skin grafts on over half of my body and a 3-month hospital stay. That was pretty bad.

[BCPVP]

Nothing really serious:
Broken arm (humerus) playing 2 hand touch football on frozen ground in 8th grade. The fall didn't hurt as bad as when the guy who tackled me tried to lift me up by the broken arm! [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

1" scar next to my nose after being bitten by a dog. Totally my fault. I was 3 and while petting it tried to touch it's eye. I got what I had coming...

[RunDownHouse]

Broken ankle in high school ball. It broke the growth plate, and the docs thought I might have some growth left in me, so its got two pins in it to this day.

I broke the same ankle again when i was in Germany about 5 years later. The docs took an xray, and then came back in to ask me what the [censored] was in my ankle. Those two docs then proceeded to call in about 4 more to show them the xrays, and have me explain the whole thing over again. I know those guys had to have been trained in that stuff before, but it honestly seemed like they were amazed and had never seen such a thing. Definitely put a bad taste in my mouth for the health care over there.

[TheMainEvent]

Broken Nose. I've been pretty lucky. And I drink a lot of milk.

[Nick-Zack]

Below knee amputation of my right leg. My dad was driving a riding lawnmower and somehow I ended up with my foot under it.

I've been lucky, no serious breaks.
The most painful was a seperated shoulder. Hurt like hell. The shoulder is still weaker than normal.