What is the worst injury you have driven with?

[KevinH1990]

Several of you guys have me beat.

However, this thread does remind me of the time I was playing third base in a softball game. I made a nice backhand catch of a ball hit down the line and heaved it towards first with all of my might. I got the out, but it felt like my right arm was going to fall off. I later found out that I had elbow tendinitis. The upshot was that I had a Toyota with a stick shift and I had to shift with my left hand on the way home.

Timco - I had the same experience with a ladder. I fell from the height of a second story gutter. Fortunately I didn't have to drive because it happened at my house. I also did not catch my fingers under the ladder. I do remember laying there wiggling my toes and fingers and being thankful that I wasn't paralyzed.

[Johnny Danger]

An acute case of double pink-eye.

[BYprodriver]

[QUOTE=KevinH1990;374792]
However, this thread does remind me of the time I was playing third base in a softball game. I made a nice backhand catch of a ball hit down the line and heaved it towards first with all of my might. I got the out, but it felt like my right arm was going to fall off. I later found out that I had elbow tendinitis. The upshot was that I had a Toyota with a stick shift and I had to shift with my left hand on the way home.


This happens to me every weekend, except the part about the Toyota, turns out I'm getting old.

[Timco]

Originally Posted by KevinH1990

Several of you guys have me beat.

However, this thread does remind me of the time I was playing third base in a softball game. I made a nice backhand catch of a ball hit down the line and heaved it towards first with all of my might. I got the out, but it felt like my right arm was going to fall off. I later found out that I had elbow tendinitis. The upshot was that I had a Toyota with a stick shift and I had to shift with my left hand on the way home.

Timco - I had the same experience with a ladder. I fell from the height of a second story gutter. Fortunately I didn't have to drive because it happened at my house. I also did not catch my fingers under the ladder. I do remember laying there wiggling my toes and fingers and being thankful that I wasn't paralyzed.

I've fallen about 20' onto a hardwood floor as an extension ladder slipped out that was set against a beam in a mansion in Park City. Each time I have fallen I check feet and hand function. When a wrench hit my face I checked my eye. I can't think of all the times I've been hit or fallen hard enough to need to check hand and feet function. 74 year old friend fell from a fruit picking ladder this weekend. Fractured skull, removed part for swelling. 2 surgeries now to repair his ribs. So sad.