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

A nominee for "funniest" injury...

women came in with cc of nipple pain. Turns out she decided to get her nipples pierced for her 65th birthday. Considering the age and nature of the complaint, everyone thought it was quite amusing

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I have a cpouple of favorites to add...

50 y/o male comes in for amputated fingers.

Seems he was trying to prune his shrubs with the push mower.

Brought his 15 y/o son with him...

Son was holding up the other side of the mower.

Hmmmm...who thought THAT was a good idea?!!?

Then of course there are the numerous "suicide attempt:...

Guy who tried to hang himself...using the shower curtain rod

Girl who tried to slash her wrists...with a pen

Guy who tried to OD...forgot to refill his scripts

Guy who tried to die of CO poisoning in his garage...tube fell out of car

Then I had a very pathetic 16 y/o...

Tried to hang himself in the backyard...branch broke

Tried to off himself in the garage...ran out of gas

Tried to strip naked and lay in the snow in woods and die of exposure...found by a hunter

Told this kid...it is just NOT your time son!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

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!)

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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!)

Yes...but how was the wife?!!!?

LOL!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

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here is one i saw on the internet, took me a few days to find the story and picture.

... statistics show that archery is safer than baseball, football, and even soccer, ...

october, 2001 - two brothers, ron and brian, were hunting deer. as ron shot his bow, he bumped his brother, causing brian to swivel as he was shooting and his arrow hit ron in the back of his head. the arrow penetrated ron's skull and pierced his brain. the fact that the brothers were standing close together prevented the accident from being worse. ron remained conscious and was calming brian down, who was shaken by the incident, as they walked from the woods. surgeons spent three hours removing the arrow.

http://poetry.rotten.com/bowhunter/

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Not an "injury" so much as a precarious situation, but a young woman admitted with a (standard) "LIGHT BULB" (unbroken) inserted in her cooch.

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Specializes in CCU (Coronary Care); Clinical Research.

Kind of a sad story...We had a guy recently admitted to ICU...he and his wife were hugging, they lost their balance and she fell on him...he sadly ruptured his spleen, had to be emergently taken to the hospital via ambulance, go to emergency surgery and had a very rough post op course...truthfully, I don't even know if he made it...regardless, he had a rough, rough night....

take home message....don't fall on your husband while hugging!! Can you imagine the guilt???

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about 10 years ago my wife and i were getting a bit frisky in the kitchen and we were both naked. she grabbed for my special purpose and by pure reflexes i jumped away and caught my scrotum - that's right - scrotum, on a kitchen cabinet and tore a small hole in it. well, thinking i would never have any more children, i called the er and told the nurse what had happened. i could tell she was trying no to laugh and told me there was nothing she could do unless i came in. so i did. after a few pokes and prods i was sent home with nothing more than a bandage. a small bandage at that. needless to say once my wife reported my er trip to the relatives i got all kinds of testicular jokes! but, everything's fine now. the boys healed well. :p

:uhoh21: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhhh, ahhhhh!!! whoo! did it hurt?? rofl!!:rotfl:

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Had a 50 something man come in after thinking that the vacuum might be pleasant to use "you know where." Unfortunately, he didn't use the hose of the shop-vac, thought there would be better suction if he was closer to the motor. He's not half the man he used to be. Wound up somehow being picked up by national news service!! (yes, ETOH was involved)

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Once again, stupidity/ETOH = job security!

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I live in a resort area and one evening I got a call from an elderly lady telling me she was bringing in her husband that had a fish hook in his "sac". Well I wasn't just sure if I heard correctly, but I told her to bring him right in. It turned out that the elderly gentelman did indeed have a fish hook in his scrotum. It seems that his grandson had laid his fish hook down on the drivers seat of the boat while his grandfather was standing helping his other grandchild land a fish. The man then sat down on his seat. The doctor and I had a difficult time not laughing and the poor gentleman was terribly embarrased.

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Specializes in Renal, Haemo and Peritoneal.
A nominee for "funniest" injury...

women came in with cc of nipple pain. Turns out she decided to get her nipples pierced for her 65th birthday. Considering the age and nature of the complaint, everyone thought it was quite amusing

That does not bring an attractive image to mind!

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