Blood and Bones. (Injury thread)

Like, really big footballs hitting your balls? Or a really painful attack of the balls? Or just been hit in your massively oversized testicles?

 

One of my friends in primary school literally had a hole in his heart. He'd had it since he was a kid, and it had never been noticed until he was about 10. The scars left from the operation looked simply fantastic.

 

Arrow... to the hand? What's the context behind that one?

 

Ooh, I've had my fair share of injuries that I caused myself, and injuries that were inflicted on me.

When I was nine, I swung off play equipment and concussed myself so bad I caused a subdural hematoma (bleeding in the brain below the dura mater). I was lucky to escape brain damage. While I didn't faint, my level of consciousness was altered (I was very unresponsive, my pupils dilated randomly, I had wild mood swings during it, and a thunderclap headache. Something like a 1-5% fatality rate if untreated)

When i was eleven, a bully at the primary school I went to shot me in the arm with a skewer shot from a rubber band, a crude bow and arrow. I still have a rather large scar on that arm. The skewer penetrated approximately a centimetre into my arm- at the time I foolishly decided to pull it out. I remember vividly that a bit of flesh did come with it, and oh BLIMEY IT HURT.

When I was thirteen, I was riding my bike home from school when someone pulled their car out at the wrong moment; i hit the car side on going about 35km/h. Luckily I was wearing a helmet, so the only injuries from that were some rather series abrasion, gravel burns, and lacerations. The person driving hopped out, apologised profusely, explained that they had hit the accelerator instead of the brakes. (I had seen them coming; I judged that at their current speed I was able to cross the road safely.) The helmet in question had serious damage to the polystyrene inner; I shudder to think if I hadn't've been wearing a helmet what might have happened.

When I was fifteen, I got in a fight with a much larger guy after he had poured soft drink all over me for the fun of it. I hit him in the temple with a closed fist, hoping to daze him; he grabbed me by the throat, lifted me and dashed me several times against a brick wall's edge until I was losing consciousness; I remember one of my mates standing in front of me while I passed out, bleeding from the back of my head.

Haven't had any injuries since, besides a burn last year on my thumb that melted the skin on top.

Illnesses; I was always a very hardy person as a young kid. I shrugged off gastroenteritis like it was nothing.

However, at the beginning of 2012, I got food poisoning from a meat pie I had during a staff induction. I had to travel home about 60km / 40mi on public transport before I could safely sleep. I threw up so hard I burst blood vessels in my eyes; it was near impossible to keep my eyes open after that. I quite literally wept blood; the entire white of my right eye had gone red from the blood pooling, and the left eye was about 70% bloody. I've got a photo of my right eye about a month after the food poisoning. Should I upload it? :P