What is the worst injury you have driven with?
 

It's possible that I broke my right hand earlier today. Even if it's not broken, I can't lift a beer and my first thought was how will I be able to drive the manual.

The story is lame and the injury and story are not near as good as when I had a bad accident in turn 5 of Willow Springs that left me with a shatter collar bone and broken wrist, thumb, and scapula all on the left side. That accident was on Saturday and I drove my manual VW Corrado to work on Monday. That was an interesting time, steering with my knees when I needed to shift….

What is the worst injury you have drivers with?

Nothing as for me. Growing up I read in a boy scout magazine that a boy and his father were both injured hiking and had to drive to the nearest gas station for help. The boy managed to get his father in and proceeded to drive with a broken arm and leg. Hopefully no one on the forum ever has to go through that. They got the help needed, the boy got a medal, but not a fun experience.

Had a herniated disc. Getting in and out was the worst!

Herniated disc is bad. I'm in therapy for that now.

I've broken an arm, an ankle, and my face! All on different occasions?
Fingers x4, some ribs. I've been hurt a lot.

I cut 3 of my fingers off on my table saw. Right hand. Spent 10 days in the hospital and drove my manual Z3 the day I got home. Modified the cast I had to enable me to change gears. Both my mother....who had flown up to take care of me, and my wife at the time, thought I was entirely insane. But it made me happy to do it.

*but*....I just thought of this....I once pulled my groin at the gym and spent the next week DIEING in my car trying to push the clutch in. It was excruciating. So...the groin thing doesn't sound nearly as cool...but good Lord...it was just as painful.

Winter job. Snow and ice. Years back.

Had an extension ladder against a house on a deck working on a light fixture. Deck frozen. I was about 6' up the ladder when it just went. Didn't think it was on ice but it was getting dark. As it went down, I held on and it just slammed onto the deck. Because I was grabbing the rails, it crushed 4 fingers of which 3 broke, and I slammed my face against the rungs.

Customer not home. Had to stand up first. Immediately I started to shake from shock. Made it to my Ranger and had to just open the door. Terrible pain to get my keys from my pocket. Couldn't start the truck and started falling asleep, but shook it off. Got the truck started, warmed a bit, and drove maybe 4 houses away before I pulled over and passed out. Came around almost 30 minutes later, truck running, dried blood in my eye and on my face. Drove to ER.

Drove self to hospital after cutting off a finger tip with portable band saw. Saw my pulse in the hose water.

Drove self to hospital after impaling myself on a fence I was welding on a cast iron flur de Le into back of my right thigh, just under ass. Tore a hole bigger than a silver dollar in my thigh, I could see my muscle move back and forth and had fat cells hanging all over. I just hung there, impaled, for a minute while I stood up, lifted my leg off, and wrapped it up.

Others, but those were the worst. I work alone typically and you do what you have to do.

Let's see, fractured vertibrae ( dirt bike crash ), herniated disc, broken foot, Gout flareup in big toe ( you wouldn't think a toe could be so painful! ) , right ACL surgery/cast ( lucking I had an Automatic '69 Mustang at the time ), Broken right hand ( puching plaster wall-stupid ). I also rode my dirt bike home with a broken right collarbone, it's very difficult using your left hand for steering/throttle on the right side!

PS I think Timco wins !

sliced the cartlidge that connected 3 of my ribs to my sterum. didn't think it was that bad until I tried to shift from 1st to 2nd.... ended up not shifting out of third the rest of the ride to the hospital. 16 miles on the highway with my flashers on.

Geeeeze you guys. I didn't realize this was such an accident prone group!

Broken toe - made a plaster casting of my right sole and fashioned pedals to install on my 924.

Shattered collarbone - the pain was incredible, just steered and shifted with my left hand. Very gingerly.

TO

Testicular Trauma!! Guy started a fight with me at work, punches me in the jaw. I go after him, he drops to the floor & kicks me in the left ball. This bursts a blood vessel & my scrotum fills with blood. It weighs about a pound soon so I drive myself to the nearest Doc-ina-Box. I walk in carrying my junk in one hand & explain my problem to the nurse. They get me in for exam quickly & tell me to go to a hospital. Drive to a hospital & they tell me I need a ultrasound. I go to the ultrasound nurse, by now my scrotom is fully inflated with blood pressure & looks like a turtle. Nurse greases it up & does ultrasound test scan which I pass. I drive 20 miles home & get the icebag. :eek:

Currently have two bulging discs and one herniated disc in my lower neck, pinching a nerve and causing my right hand to "go dead". Results of car accidents many years ago, but they were "re-aggrivated" when I fractured a rib about three weeks ago. Also have 2 herniated discs in my lower back.

Getting in and out when the top is up is an exercise.

But I wouldn't give it up!

Hey BYprodriver,

I was just enjoying my lunch when I read your post. Suddenly lost my appetite................ Go figure.

TO

p.s. A nurse greased up your nutsack??????????

Yeah it's just like if you're pregnant, but lower! It was more like a purple kick ball at this point than a sack! :D

^ He wins. I got nothing, I mean NOTHING, that can top that. :cheers:

I'm fairly determined that I never will either. :o

Mine was similar...except it was an incarcerated inguinal hernia on the right side. The fluid filled my right scrotum. Drove to the Dr. As soon as she saw it she admitted me to the hospital.

The prep nurse saw it and said "Oh my god! you poor thing...."

painful....

Some excruciating stories here, but I think everyone has missed that the OP wins hands down, as he stated:


End of story! :cheers:

During a late night run for some extra cognac with JD, I contracted a rare strain of the airborne Ebola virus. I got better.......

That's it. I'm getting a steel cup.

Does anyone know of a Snell approved model?

TO

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.

An acute case of double pink-eye.

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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.

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.

I stepped out of my front door during winter. Second step on ice put me down a flight of 16 Stairs where I landed square on my back on concrete edge of the first stair. I somehow dragged myself into the Boxster and drove to the emergency room. I learned that day what a rodeo clown feels when he's kicked in the back by a bull. Although I didn't sleep on my back for months by some miracle nothing was broken.

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HAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA
ByPro, I don't know if your story is true or not but full points for originality, great laugh!
Damn I hope its not true that would be serious pain, and the nurse with ultrasound!

It's all true. After the 1st day it wasn't that painfull as long as I kept my purple turtle supported manually! I had to laugh when I walked into the elevator carrying my load. It was just me & a older woman going up 3 floors to ultrasound. She kept sneaking glances at me like I was some kind of freak pervert. :dance:

I hate when that happens!

Nothing bad like Byprodriver but, I dislocated my right shoulder in a college after school basketball game. A week later my professor went beyond our classed scheduled time. I got up with my arm in a sling and he tries to embarrass me saying the class wasn't over. I told him my car was a stick and that I needed to catch a ride home with a friend. Made him look like a dick that day. lol

I did drive with my hand in a sling the first week though but not by choice.

Can't beat the painful injuries already mentioned (Thankfully).

I blew out my left knee playing basketball when I was about 20. Injury ended up being ACL and MCL ligaments and torn menicus. Thought I was going to pass out it hurt so bad.

I drove myself home.....Fiat x1/9. I was able to work the clutch, brake and throttle with my right leg....very interesting drive home to say the least.

Broken wrist. Broke it last winter during the first few hours of the first full day on vacation.
Had my Xterra 4x4 6 speed manual and I was about 1000 miles from home.

You guys are dangerous to yourselves, and certainly worse than what I have done.

1st time - cut the tendon in my left thumb along the length. Bad enough for 2 hours of plastic surgery in New Jersey, then flew home to Toronto with a cast on my left hand. I got home about midnight, driving a stick shift Tercel with the fingertips of my left hand for steering while I shifted. My wife and I traded cars till I got the cast off. BTW, she didn't know about the injury till I walked into the bedroom with my arm up in the air.

2nd time - I'm coming home early on my Triumph Trophy. Light turns yellow, I hit the brakes, the back end comes up and starts to slide. Next thing I know is I'm at a 45° angle in the lane, both feet on the ground still atop the bike, thinking damn my left leg hurts. Must have been about 1/4 - 1/2" free play in the knee joint. Ride home about 6 miles. After dinner hop in the Honda Accord and drive the wife to Kitchener, about an hour away. Stick shift of course. Somewhere along the line she started to realize I'd messed up my knee. Turned out to be a torn ACL. Gear changes were somewhat interesting. Since then she has said we need at least one automatic transmission car. The Boxster is not it.

Yeah, my ACL was a motorcycle incident, dirt bike high-side. I knew right away, it tore the ligament, with a chunk of bone, completely off. Took my breath away for about a Minute or two !

Great stuff, puts things in perspective…

X-rays show no major breaks, just a few spots where it appears that the ligaments have pulled away from the bone. I can now appreciate the left side key position.

I think the exploded nut sack is tough to top, and I don't even want to try….

Years ago during skiing I crashed HARD and injured my right hip. Could not walk for 2 weeks. Hit the slopes again and crashed on my first run again and -of course- right hip again. Actually passed out for a moment. Took me 3 hours (!) to limp down and get into my GTI with manual. Drove myself to the ER, they had to lift me out of the car......
Doc said I should take up boarding...... :)

Bottle of Cognac...my head was exploding.:cheers: