Most Bizarre Injuries You've Got...

[Englishgremlin1]

Found a new one lunch time today - tried to blow my nose and subbed both shoulders.

The folks I live with are well used to me by now and one just said "some people would find that wierd!"
They are so used to things now that it is almost normal, visitors find it odd though!

[Ali13]

I knock out my thumb (why is that the one word I can't type...thimn thimb thumb!) everytime I do the dishes and lift a plate. And then again when I turn off the hot water tap.

Question for more sensible people than me: How do you know you've dislocated something, because I'm never quite sure as I've only ever had serious pain while shoving my shoulder back into place.

[sanguine_emma]

it's a bit of a sliding scale with us bendies. For normal people, a full dislocation is something that usually lands them in hospital, and because their ligaments are so tight (must be weird, huh?) that it often gets stuck out of joint, and it usually does some damage to the soft tissues. Partial dislocations or subluxations probably happen to normal folk occasionally, but they probably have to fall over nastily, or play rugby or omething. For us, subluxations are easy peasy. Sometimes they hurt, sometimes they don't. For a lot of my life, I didn't realise that when a joint sort of feels out and won't move properly, that's because it's had a subluxation. I had no idea that it wasn't just a normal every day inconvenience for everyone. I think most of the time when I say dislocate I'm probably being lazy and mean subluxate. But your average person on the street doesn't know the terminolgy, hence the laziness. Some people less fortunate than myself have proper dislocations - often shoulder joints. I don't know where subluxation becomes dislocation - but I think that if the joint is still partially in its socket or proper place, and can be relocated from there, it's probably a subluxation. If it's seperated properly and the limb is stuck at a strange angle, looks a bit weird and it's a bit more of a big deal to relocate it's probably a dislocation. Does that help?

[barkingmad]

I completely agree with what Emma says. Usually I can relocate a dislocation if I do it fairly quickly so that the surrounding tissues dont have much of a chance to swell. For me when I dislocate it hurts and hurts for days ........or weeks after like my shoulder on residential.

If I sublux they usually spring back or with the gentlest touch they go back to normal position, these dont tend to hurt me much but that may be due to the fact that it is a regular occurence and everything is stretched or something. The first time I subluxed fingers they did hurt, so maybe it doesnt then once it has done it a few times.

[Finarda]

I subluxed my hip last week by swiveling on my office chair to talk to someone.

Subluxing to me is when the joint doesn't come all the way out - either it pops back in by itself, or it's kind of wedged out, but not enough so that the bone has to be pulled way outwards before it can get back into socket (I'm not sure that even I know what I meant by that!) There's a level of pain difference too.

Fiona

[Tabi]

Yesterday I stepped towards OH to hug him, kicked the toe of his (stupid pointy) boot, and dislocated 3 toes.

[mindsquatter]

I sublux my elbow pouring a pint - from a can, I mean, not like pulling one in a pub! This is why I drink wine ... with screw cap, not cork

[loosebones]

I have to nominate Adele for a bizarre injury...I get a phone call saying she's cut her heel - by dropping a plate, it breaking, hitting the cupboard and slicing the back of her ankle wide open.

[sanguine_emma]

It was adele's achilles tendon you saw? Ouch, poor thing.

[loosebones]

It most certainly was. Fascinating!

[barkingmad]

yuck ..poor adele!

[Finarda]

That reminds me of a scar i have on my upper arm. Last February I had dislocated my shoulder twice so it was sore and fragile. I had gone to the kitchen to get a bowl of apple crisp and had left the leg rest part of my recliner chair up. I was too lazy to put the leg rest down so I tried to climb on, slipped, dropped the stoneware bowl and realised that if I put my hand down to save myself my shoulder would certainly dislocate badly. So I consciously decided just to fall on the bowl. Unfortunately when it hit the ground it shattered and there was several sharp pieces stick up that embedded themselves in my arm. Nothing like pulling out shards of stoneware out of your arm to make you feel embarassed

Fiona

[shen]

Just sneezed and subluxed my spine... pain...

[Tiz]

shen - ouchie!

This was quite a while ago but it was so impressive I think I need to share.

Picture the scene – Dan and I are heading up North to visit rellies and are already running late to pick up his Mum who’s coming with us so we’re rushing to leave the house. The car’s a bit of a tip so I’m doing a quick tidy before we go, I open the driver’s door, bend down to scoop all the rubish out of the door pocket, and in a most spectacular demonstration of forgetting which part of me’s where I manage to slam the door shut before I’ve quite finished standing up and smack myself in the cheek with the corner of the door. I split my cheek wide open (cue hysteria that I’m going to be permenantly deformed) and we had to rush off to casualty to get me stitched up.

I was very lucky that I didn’t break my cheek bone or damage any of the nerves that could have affected my eyesight (the doctors were very thorough in checking all that), I was also rather lucky that the surgeon who stitched me up had worked in plastic surgery (they wanted to send me to a specialist plastic surgery hospital but couldn’t get me in anywhere). Anway, I ended up with 7 stitches in my cheek and a very impressive black eye and we finally set out to collect my Mother-in-law five hours late!

This was in January 2008 and astonishly I only have a very fine scar that hardly shows. Now whenever we’re running late for anything Dan just keeps telling me “DON’T RUSH!!!!!”

[mindsquatter]

Tiz - that is impressive!

Nowhere near as impressive, but certainly up there in the bizarre stakes - I dropped a pot of yoghurt (trying to open it) last week, it bounced into my rib, and subluxed it. It wasn't a big pot, just an individual serving one.

Oh, and I sliced my finger on the foil of a painkiller wrapper. Put an elastoplast on just to realise I'm not doing so well with latex these days, so took it off, put on some plastic skin, which promptly peeled back off.

'Nother painkiller related one - I was having one of those days where i'd dearly love to curl up in a ball, but would doubtlessly sublux something if I tried ... took a couple of painkillers and choked on them.

It's been a fun couple of weeks!