Most embarrassing injury????

[T.Austin]

I cut my thumb open whilst trying to remove a blade from a hover mower then riding pillion on my mates motorbike to the hospital with my thumb in the air all the way!!!

[Dipzy]

My father fell asleep on the toilet whilst on holiday, fell off and broke his nose.

[FionaH]

Di I did the same with my son aged 3 ish. I sent him to bed with Calpol. Not least because I t was a Saturday night and I had my first date in 10 years. (oh the shame) It was fractured but I married the date The lads 17 now and still reminds me....

[bubblewrap]

while ironing my work shirt one day in only my boxer shorts the iron slipped and i ironed HIM !! aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Botox is less painful!!

[Birdie Wife]

This thread is giving me some much needed laughs on a Monday morning office day!

Okay here's mine... well, there's two really...

1. while trying to squeeze into my car when someone had parked too close, i ended up hitting my head on the door which then bounced off the frame and then the door again, several times. I had a massive black eye for a couple of weeks including when I had to meet some VIPs to the reserve.

2. I went off on my lunchbreak to sit on a grassy knoll with a colleague. Didn't notice there were ants about and got bitten all over my tushie. Big red itchy rash for ages. made OH laugh though!

More! C'mon, share!

[Headfry]

Got hit on head by the boom of a little dinghy when re-learning how to sail....huge egg sized bump on my head, but about 4 days later the bruise came out like the biggest love bite ever on my neck! not good when 45 ish and working in posh reception!!! so embarrassing!

Got stung on eyebrow last year, left the sting in to show Mr HF what a bee sting looks like,
Went to work with black eye, in same posh reception!

[OverWyreGrower]

In our recent wasp attack (end of July), Mr OWG broke his toe....

However, he needed taking to hospital, x-raying and the flippin' foot in a cast for 4 weeks....

And of course, the whole story with me being chased up the garden by a swarm of wasps has to come out, and Mr OWG running out to save me etc....

I think people wish they'd never asked!! Especially as most people assume it was done whilst a) playing sport or b) whilst drunk....

[Winged one]

Being a hockey goalie, I used to look like the Michelin man covered in padding. One night in a friendly match for training, our team were creaming the others so I was bored spitless and freezing cold. So I took off all my pads and went running around the pitch (bearing in mind I had been a goalie for about 8 years by then, and only been on the pitch for 2 months when I was learning). The ball got sent over to me, I panicked and ran forward to wallop it (which I did) but also fell over my feet and did a somersault, landing on my knee. I ended up ringing a taxi to go to A&E later that night (a big deal as I was a broke student living away from home) and sent home on crutches for a week (torn ligaments).

The team wouldn't let me out of goals again until I left that club 3 years later....(understandably as, apart from me being a clutze, I loved goals and no one else wanted to be in there - ever!!).

[HeyWayne]

I'm going to be really boring here - never really done myself any serious damage.

Theres a few I remember, but nothing really embarassing.

1. Whilst ice skating once, trying to impress a girl, I thought I'd go round the end bit (the bend) on one foot. I hit the wet bit that always appears there, next thing I remember was waking up with loads of people looking down on me and a large bump on the back of my head.

2. Whilst cycling over to my uncles house on my BMX I thought I'd wheelie off the kerb and wheelie right accross the road (it was a quiet road). I pulled the wheelie then watched my front wheel bounce off accross the road and into the stream next to it. I ended up somersaulting over the handlebars.

3. At my mums house she has one of those loft ladders that slides up into the loft. I was putting it back up once and it hadn't quite caught, it slid back down and I didn't quite manage to get out of the way quick enough. I had a deep cut on my shoulder and one at the top of my other arm.

4. A few years ago at one of our yearly trips to Centre Parcs we bought a cheap little barbecue (before they started installing them in the lodges) from the Parc Market. When putting it together I noticed that one of the holes on the legs wasn't quite punched through, so I thought I'd "cut" it out with the foil knife on our barmans friend. As I was pushing, the knife folded over onto my finger and cut quite deep. I spent the rest of the trip with a large comedy bandage round my finger, it looked like something from the Beano/Dandy.

Nothing really embarassing though.

[Pumpkin Becki]

I broke my foot last summer whist visiting my Dad who had been rushed into casualty with breathing difficulties. My OH and I were just paying for the carpark, I turned away from the paystation and turned my ankle right over as I fell off the kerb. My Dad got a bit of shock when I appeared again on crutches with a knee-to-toe plastercast! At least I was in the right place...

I have also poked myself in the eye with a copy of 'Which' magazine - I got rushed to to Maidstone Opthalmic and came out with a very natty eyepatch! OOhAaarrgh Jimlad

[Birdie Wife]

I broke my foot last summer whist visiting my Dad who had been rushed into casualty with breathing difficulties. My OH and I were just paying for the carpark, I turned away from the paystation and turned my ankle right over as I fell off the kerb. My Dad got a bit of shock when I appeared again on crutches with a knee-to-toe plastercast! At least I was in the right place...

I have also poked myself in the eye with a copy of 'Which' magazine - I got rushed to to Maidstone Opthalmic and came out with a very natty eyepatch! OOhAaarrgh Jimlad

PB, that's so funny - I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes trying to hold in the giggles so everyone in the office doesn't stare at me laughing ma a**e off... thank you so much!!

[ailsasyl]

when i was school we went on a trip to a zoo or safari place, there was a bit that had two round walled areas one had otters in cant remember what was in other one. Half the class ran to look at one and half to the other when i went to switch i ran head long into another girl banging heads had a massive bump on my eyebrow and eyelid couldnt see out for a couple of days! School pals had a field day

Not injured in this one, but..... Stacey and I had gone to hobby show in Glasgow it was really busy and we were trying to find a particular stall. (I have dodgy ankles had op on one last year this was the year before and have regularly sprained and dislocated ankle) as we were walking past this woman I lost my balance and staggered to the side, Stacey grabs my arm and out of concern I'd fall again says loudly "No dont do that again mum" The look on the womans face was priceless, reckon she thought I had had a drink or two !!

[srodders]

I used to work in an A&E dept in East London - we had a couple of good ones

There was a chap sitting in a chair with a plank of wood across his lap - I then noticed he'd nailed his hand to it.

There was another chap that looked like he was holding a ball bearing - but it was a nail head and the rest was sticking out the back.

[Pumpkin Becki]

PB, that's so funny - I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes trying to hold in the giggles so everyone in the office doesn't stare at me laughing ma a**e off... thank you so much!!

Hehe! Thank you

[jackie j]

When I was 7 months pregnant with my fourth child we had a beach hut on Teignmouth beach and I sat in a canvas chair ( not a deckchair ) and promptly fell through, try as I might I couldnt get out so I had to go on all four's and crawl out, I was trying to do this quietly and without making a fuss when one of my boys came around the wind break and saw me and did he shout to everybody that mummy was stuck in the chair so of course everybody came to look not help.