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#1 The Black Sheep

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 08:35 PM

Anyone have any weird stories about hurting themselves and not realizing it until later?

I fell asleep with a heating pad on my feet once and woke up with a burn blister the size of a coke can on my leg. On a couple occassions I've bumped into a wall or something and found bruises the next day.

And my ankle tattoo was painless!
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#2 Texas Angel Ang

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 08:49 PM

Heating pad incident more than once, broke my finger, dislocated my shoulder more than once, that thing just pops out whenever it feels like it. Hmmmmmm I didn't find out until after my accident that I only have one kidney :Birthday_Balloons:
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#3 Ratticis

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Posted 06 November 2009 - 11:38 PM

I'm dealing with a few right now. Pressure sore on my arse, cut up my heals on my footplate, and got 3 burns on my legs from a hot dish from the microwave. I'm a clumbsy dumbass

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Posted 08 November 2009 - 06:16 PM

Just small bruises and scratches that I can NEVER trace the origin of.
It's always, "how the hell did THAT get there?" :)
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 08:49 PM

As I cannot feel pain in my left foot, I was completely unaware of the drawing pin embedded in it for an entire day, though I did have extra nerve pain around my knee. I even did ten minutes on the treadmill with it.

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Posted 08 November 2009 - 08:56 PM

Does having two hooks from a fishing lure embedded in your belly, count??? Found it at the picnic after the fishing trip.
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 09:24 PM

Checked my ass yesterday and I've got what looks and feels like a blood blister there. How the hell did that happen? And is it likely to be just a blood blister or have other people had that as something else? On the plus side, bed rest meant I finally finished the book I was reading..... :)
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Posted 08 November 2009 - 09:38 PM

View Postguido, on Nov 8 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

Checked my ass yesterday and I've got what looks and feels like a blood blister there. How the hell did that happen? And is it likely to be just a blood blister or have other people had that as something else? On the plus side, bed rest meant I finally finished the book I was reading..... :)

I don't know guido, could be the beginning of a pressure sore. I'd have it checked out ASAP. :)
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Posted 24 November 2009 - 06:49 PM

I broke both my legs without knowing. After about three hours my one knee swelled up and I thought that I just pulled something. It wasn't until I went to bed that I knew something was very very wrong...

countless other scrapes scratches bruises... luckily, my body knows when it's been burned and I can deal with it quickly. Doesn't help when you're clumsy dumb ass and dump a mug of boiling water on yourself though...
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Posted 25 November 2009 - 10:33 AM

Heres a mystery
Leg damage we know and understand .. but
On 2 occasions now I have broken my fingers
Without knowing it until somebody says ...
My damage is in the Lumber region with patches of dead chord along it
Maybe I realy am daft and uncensible

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Posted 26 November 2009 - 06:16 PM

I often find bruises,

I have got this pain in my knee, i don't have any feeling in myleg so touching it doesn't hurt, but if i try and put weight through it its excruciating, and it crunches when i bend it. Went to A & E, and was told it wsa ok, probably arthritis (im 38) and i said this pain came on suddenly but that didnt matter.




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