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.

[Perfectlap]

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.

[coreseller]

[pjq]

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!

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by pjq

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!

[rp17]

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.

[dghii]

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.

[Muzzle of Bees]

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.

[TripleTrophy]

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.

[stephen wilson]

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 !

[runjmc2]

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….

[AndyA6]

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......

[jcb986]

Bottle of Cognac...my head was exploding.