'Tis But A Scratch: People Share Their Wildest Injuries
It’s a dangerous world. Over the course of their lives, most people wind up on the receiving end of a scrape or a bump.
From rapid mountain descents to protruding bones, these tough customers fell victim to injuries of a harsher variety…but somehow picked themselves up and brushed themselves off without a care in the world.
1. Keep Pedaling!
I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle, flew through the air, and bounced off the driver’s windshield, breaking his windshield, my helmet, and two vertebrae. Then, I was thrown to the ground where my kneecap shattered.
Bone was sticking out of the skin. As I lay there in shock, unaware of how badly I was injured, I thought: "I might be able to get back on my bike and ride home."
2. Just Let Me Catch My Breath
I’m a bartender in a nightclub. One night, while working, I was pouring a drink and reached back with my other hand to open a fridge. That's when I heard a "pop" and got a huge pain in my back/shoulder area.
The pain was pretty bad but I thought that it was a pulled muscle. I thought there wouldn't be much point in seeing a doctor, other than getting some meds.
So, I waited and fought through the pain, which was so bad at times that it was hard to breathe. That was a Friday. I called in sick on Saturday and then had Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday off. I went back to work on Wednesday. I biked in.
That was when I finally decided to go to the ER, after a grand total of nine days. I had a collapsed lung, called a spontaneous pneumothorax.
20 minutes after getting to the ER, I was put into emergency surgery. I was essentially breathing with only one lung. Any major impact to my chest would have collapsed the other and probably killed me.
3. Hey, Pinhead!
I broke my neck on a huge shorebreak wave and didn't want to leave the beach, so I continued swimming and playing volleyball until my friends noticed that my neck was swelling up bigger than my head.
4. Snacking Cures All
My little sister fell down about 15 steps at our grandma's house when she was a toddler, she got up, giggled and went to go eat some snacks. This other time, while still a toddler, she was supposed to be napping.
We were in the living room and heard a huge thud. We ran to the room thinking that she'd fallen out of the bed.
Nope, she somehow managed to pull the TV down. This was the early 2000s, TVs were heavy back then! It had fallen on top of her. She was laying there, in a snow angel position. My mom freaked out.
When we got the TV off her, she got up and asked for ice. Not to soothe pain, but to eat. My little sister was and still is a champ.
