Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

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I took care of a guy once who had an injury to the third toe and complete amputation of the fourth toe. When asked how this injury occurred......"I was using my twelve gauge shot gun to kill moles in my yard." :chuckle

All I kept thinking was "you might be a redneck if........." :rotfl:

I told him that I hoped his family was going to get plenty of miles out of his injury and his son said "oh yeah. The last thing I told him was not to shoot his foot with the gun." The guy had been balancing the barrel of the gun on his shoe while he waited for signs of the moles moving underground.

Pam

ok when I was little I for some dumb reason wanted to be hurt - I would do things like put on ace bandages on the school bus and tell everyone I sprained my wrist. I have no idea why I did this. Anyways when I was 7 I was playing outside and thought I would "fall down". So i fake fell - I mean I was just walking around the yard and fell. Imagine my surprise when my leg really started to hurt so off to the ER. Turns out my "fall" tore ligaments in my leg. I wore a hot pink cast for 6 weeks and got all kinds of attention.:chuckle Not long ago I told my mom about this - she didnt think it was too funny!

I was working in the e.r. one 4th of july 11-7, and some guy comes in with a finger blown off by lighting a firework. That was not so funny, but as I was standing there as the Dr was stitching it, his father comes over and asks if he could watch, Dr said "as long as you don't get sick". Father said, no I am used to this stuff, then he lifts up his hand and says" I blew this finger off last year". Well, I started to bite my lip, I could see tears building in the Dr's eyes, we laughed so hard about it after they left....Just had to be there...:rotfl:

38 year old female presented in ER with complaint of foreign body in bladder, to wit, Bic ball point pen refill! X-ray confirmed same. Urologist on call took patient to Cysto for removal. Queried the Urologist as he was leaving hospital as to how or why the Bic pen refill was introduced into bladder. His response was "I don't know - I don't care - maybe she wanted to see if it would write under water."

Specializes in M/S, OB, Ortho, ICU, Diabetes, QA/PI.

I used to work in a small rural hospital in Northern MI and some guy came into our ER with "rectal pain" - he claims that he picked some girl up in a bar, they went home and the last thing he remembered was her asking him if he liked "rough sex" - who knows what really happened but it turns out the rectal pain was caused by a jar of Wylers bouillion cubes in his rectum!! The on-call surgeon was able to remove it in the ER but apparently the X-ray was pretty interesting (because those little cubes are wrapped in foil)........ :rotfl:

Some of these stories make ya laugh and shake your head in disgust at the same time...

My husband and son are avid wrestling fans and I am always after them to stop roughhousing . They have broken several items ! One night we were sitting there watching and I decided to do a leg drop move on my hubby who was laying on the floor . I swung my leg up into the air getting ready to drop .......instead I dropped . My bare little toe had caught on my husbands pant leg and cracked completely to the side . I screamed in agony . When I got to the ER the doctor laughed right in my face ! When people asked at work how it happened I said " I caught it on something " . :rolleyes:

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

my favorite was a guy who had his member stuck in his zipper. It happened over 24 hours prior to seeking medical care. He was full of alcohol because he thought he could dull the pain trying to get it out himself...it didn't work.:lol2:

Specializes in M/S, OB, Ortho, ICU, Diabetes, QA/PI.

I saw the story about the kid who had his senior ring stuck on his member (and, might I add, that kid either has BIIIGGG fingers or a mighty small...........) and it reminded me of the time when I was first married, I was watching TV and playing with my wedding rings - absentmindedly, I put one of them on my toes and it got stuck -- I got it off eventually but not before it was awful swollen and painful -- my incentive to get it off was the thought of the abuse I would take at work if I had to go into our ER for that dumb reason!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I saw the story about the kid who had his senior ring stuck on his member (and, might I add, that kid either has BIIIGGG fingers or a mighty small...........) and it reminded me of the time when I was first married, I was watching TV and playing with my wedding rings - absentmindedly, I put one of them on my toes and it got stuck -- I got it off eventually but not before it was awful swollen and painful -- my incentive to get it off was the thought of the abuse I would take at work if I had to go into our ER for that dumb reason!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I thought toe rings were all the rage! :chuckle

Specializes in Medical Oncology, Med-Surg, L & D.
A friend of mine was doing his first night of ...internship on an ER rotation in Kansas. There was a thunderstorm that night -- thunder and lightning lighting up the sky! He was at the reception desk of the ER, staring at the rain through the sliding glass doors. A lightning bolt lit up the parking lot, and he saw an incredibly macbre sight! A man came walking through the rain, carrying a limp, unconscious woman. But the truly bizarre thing was he appeared to have a hatchet protruding from his skull.

Yup! The guy got all likkered up and decided to try his hatchet-throwing skills by throwing at a target affixed to a cement wall in his basement. The hatchet hit the wall, bounced back, and embedded the sharp edge in the guy's skull. Frightened, he went upstairs to get his wife to drive him to the ER. She took one look at him and passed out. So he picked her up and put her in his pick-up truck to drive her to the ER.

Seems that the hatchet went right between the two lobes. It was successful removed and the guy was discharged without any discernable brain damage. (And ADDITIONAL brain damage!)

This is very funny! :rotfl: :chuckle :rotfl: :chuckle
Many years ago a nurse told me a story that I will never forget!

While working ER one night a man was wheeled in by a friend to the desk. The man was wearing a long trench coat. When the nurse asked him what he needed he said, "Can you take this off?" He opened the trench coat to reveal a duck in his lap. Seems he found this duck attractive and was being intimate with it. :chuckle They wheeled him to surgery with the duck quacking all the way. Unfortunatly the duck did not survive.:crying2:

So just remember it's never a good idea to **** a duck!

JEEEEEZ!! :bluecry1: What Next?!?!?!?!?!

This is a family tale as oppossed to a work tale. When I was in high school my mom ruptured the tendon on her middle finger. Of course it was Christmas Eve night and we couldn't miss Mass. She must have forgotten that it was splinted straight up and was giving everybody the bird as she walked back from Communion. My brother and I were purple trying not to laugh. Mom's face looked like this when we told her.:imbar We, of course, looked like this::rotfl: :lol2: It's now a classic story passed down to the kids!

Now, my face is like this... :rotfl:

Isn't it wonderful when you have ammunition against a parent?

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