Worst Injury you have expierienced?

My worst injury was when I had my thumb laying under a piece of raw chicken that I was cutting with my mini rukus while talking at the same time. As you can probably tell, I cut off the tip of my thumb. It didnt even hurt until I saw it I just felt the blade brushing up against me, didnt start bleeding until 30 seconds after it hapened but it did not stop for 30 minutes.
 
johnnycakes8787 said:
Wow! thats a good story? how hard was it to ride all that way with an injury like that?
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I don't remember much of the bike ride except I had my right hand clamped around my left forearm and it didn't bleed much because I had put pressure on it so hard and fast. My left hand was on the handlebars of my bike, I guess it was a mixture of shock and adrenaline that was keeping me moving.
 
If we're talking knife injuries, mine was 2 weeks ago. I broke my long standing run of not getting cut by my knives (excepting minor skin shavings during sharpening). I was cleaning a chicken with a 1/8" thick 4" camp knife (fully as heavy as my 8" Chef's knife) and as I moved to rinse my hands in the sink I dropped the knife. I felt it hit the back of my foot and thought, "whew, I'm glad it hit butt first". I looked down and saw a mini-fountain of blood about 1" high on the top of my foot. The tip of the knife had gone right through the cuff of my jeans and a pair of thickish socks like they weren't there. The 1/2" deep 1/2" long cut fortunately missed tendons and didn't chip/break any bones. The 2 stitches came out a few days ago. Still have the cut bandaged up. And probably no soccer for another 2-3 weeks. Sigh.
 
Worst injury for me was not caused by a knife but it's sharp alright... Got jumped while doing a routine check on a boat at sea, he got me really good on my forearm with a piece of broken glass. Figured he would go after my MP5 in the scuffle, tried to trigger off but couldn't, only realised later this was because the tendons had been cut off. Got old fashioned with him with a nightstick till I passed out from loss of blood. 32 stiches, 3 surgeries (adding another 16stiches) and months of physio theraphy. Worst day was waking up knowing i my days as a police officer was over, I'm a third generation and very proud of it. The psychological damage was considerably worst as the sound of glass breaking freaks me out, became uncomfortable in the dark. Plunged into depression, leading to a slow but inevitable breakdown of my marriage and contemplated suicide a few times. On a brighter note I picked myself up, the government still saw some use in me, sent me back to school at age 30 and I'm now an elementary school teacher. The best experience (if you can call it that) was when our classroom window got broken by a soccerball during a lesson, I cringed, froze in fact... One of the 7year olds came up and and hugged my leg and told me "Its ok Mr Azad, its ok... Its just the glass". That put a smile back on my face.

Best regards
Azad
 
I cut a quarter of an inch into my fingernail with a fixed blade case. So sharp it didnt even hurt. i felt a tug on my nail, looked down and was gushing. 23 hours of bleeding and 4 stitches later, I was good. Funny thing.. I cut my left middle finger and had a huge white bandage wrapped around it, so for a couple days, I was involuntarily flipping everyone off.

Had a Schrade Sharpfinger go through its sheath deep into my thumb

Had a fully serrated spyderco delica knock off go to the bone in my left index finger.

Other than cuts, deep bruises, and bad ankle sprains.. never broken a bone.
 
My worst injury with a knife was a half-inch deep slice into the palm of my left hand. Injury was due to stupidity on my part. No tendon damage (doc said I was lucky), but I got five stitches. Now I have a neat permanant scar.

I got stabbed in the right pectoral muscle with an X-acto knife when I was 13. The blade part (not the handle) went all the way in, then slashed out in two movements, so I have a 3.5 inch permanant scar above my right nipple. Lots of blood, but no stitches. Probably should have gotten them, though.

The worst pain I've ever experienced by far was breaking two ribs in a trampoline accident, also when I was 13. Hurts a heck of a lot worse than getting cut.
 
gajinoz said:
I broke my leg when I got chucked out of an aeroplane. Does that count?
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I win- I broke both!!!:(

I stabbed clean through the pad of my left hand (hypothenar eminence) with a tanto while carving once- interestingly enough it left a perfect right angled scar so now I can true things up with my hand!
 
the first time i opened my kershaw leek I split my thumb wide open cuz i didnt know to use the spine on the back of the knife.

I also split my pointer and middle finger wide open with a machettee as I used it to climb in some mud and my hand slipped down the edge of the blade... that wasnt fun. Luckly it didn't get infected at all even though my hand was covered with mud haha. Yeah immunity!
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
I win- I broke both!!!:(

I stabbed clean through the pad of my left hand (hypothenar eminence) with a tanto while carving once- interestingly enough it left a perfect right angled scar so now I can true things up with my hand!
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Lol, that's pretty cool.

I gotta say that I've never cut myself when I was concentrated, it's always been when someone else was with me, and we were talking.

It wasn't a crazy cut, but it took forever to heal. I was checking an edge for sharpness on a piece of paper, and got to close to my left point finger when slicing. Cut a flap of skin about a centimeter square, right on the effin knuckle. After a day or so, I realized bandaids weren't going to cut it, so I fessed up to my mom and showed her. Told her to get some liquid bandaid, stuff worked good, and it was almost healed after maybe 2.5 weeks. And by healed, I mean not needing bandaids, and only needing liquid bandaid. Well, I woke up during a school morning from bed, and felt some pain on my finger, by instinct I moved my hand away. Turns out because of being on my knuckle, the liquid bandaid has edge that can get caught on things. So I ended up ripping the liquid bandaid off, AND the kinda healed skin flap underneath. Took like another 3 weeks probably to heal because it was a rip and not a cut.

Also, once in 6th grade at a friends birthday party we were all going off of jumps on bikes, and I went way too slow off this one jump and just fell to the side onto the concrete:). I got up, and was like oww, kinda hurt. Friend was like "Dude, your arms a little cut". So I look at my elbow and theres the majority of my elbow skin missing and a trail of blood behind me. That injury wasn't hard to heal though, because I could just get some of those big 3 inch wide rectangular band aids and slap it on for 2 weeks. I didn't really know what it was at the time, but there was alot of pus from that wound. But I couldn't really detect a infection, maybe I just had a good immune system. Kinda cool thing about that injury, is that now my elbow skin is super stretchy. People are always amazed at how far it stretches.

Other than that, I've also cut myself on this plastic workbench thing at the YMCA somehow when I was 5. There was like a roof to the workbench, and somehow a removed the skin on my right eyebrow area. Everyone was confused as to how that happened! Got some stitches, and now I just have a scar about an inch long.

Plenty other cuts, but I've also burned myself on my whole hand. It was 3rd of july, and I was at my dad's house with my brother and his friend Mike. We were shooting off fireworks obviously, and using a propane torch to light alot of them. Well, my brother and his friend were heating up one of the copper tubes we were using. And I wanted to have a battle with them. So I went to pull the copper tube they were heating out of the ground, right by the area they were heating up for several minutes. Was pretty painful, was just kind of sad for causing stress between my parents. Went to the emergency room and all they gave me for the $500 something bucks was a bucket of ice water and ibruprofen.
 
Sharpening my becker necker cut my left wrist a little under the thumb. Did not notice I was bleeding until I started dripping. Pretty deep and a nice flap of skin. only a little scar left.
 
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My grandfather immigrated from Sweden to the Alaskan Gold Rush, but settled in Seattle by 1915.
He was retired and returned to Sweden on vacation in 1963 and brought back Sloyd knives in hard sheaths for all his grandsons.
My knife was stuck and I pulled hard to get it out. When it came out it cut through my pants leg and into my leg.
48 years later there is still a scar.
I did not tell anyone about it an no one noticed.
These days a kid would go get sewn up.
 
Worst injury from a knife was when I picked up a blade for my friend who teaches FMA. I found a kriskaram (not sure I'm spelling that right) at a flea market and picked it up for him. It's an odd looking knife with a kris-style main blade and a sort of karambit blade on the other end. There was only a sheath for the kris end, but both were pretty dull so I threw it in my bag and didn't think much of it. When going home, another friend was driving and I had my bag slung on my right side, between me and the door. One fairly minor car accident later and I had the karambit blade sticking into me about half an inch. Hurt like crazy and scared the crap out of me, but the damage was mostly superficial. Now I'm MUCH more careful about how I carry any knife.
 
I severed my Superficial Radial Nerve in my left wrist with my Izula... Knives don't belong in your arm. I have about 95% feeling back in my left hand, and only sometimes get a twinge from the nerve surgery.
 
Not technically from a knife, but my worst cut was from a LM Fuse when I flicked it open; the pliers must have had super sharp edges, because when they hit my index finger in their way, they sliced right through, turning my top finger pad into a flap. I was going downstairs for clothes for a shower, cut it, and thought, 'It shouldn't bleed at all, no need to wrap it.' I ended up leaving a blood trail down the stairs to my room, staining my new shoes, and staining the drywall around the light switch in my room.

Connor
 
I'm 58+ years old. I have been "into" knives since I was 8 or 9. I have cut myself so many times that I've lost count...Only a few of 'em required stitches.
 
I had a brand-new Buck knife and was showing my boys how NOT to slice. My thumb needed three stitches.
Sonnydaze
 
Wow - just like that and a four year old thread comes back to life. I ended up with seven stitches a few months ago doing something with a knife I shouldn't have been doing.

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I was batonning with my Ka-Bar BK2 and I dont remember what happened, happened too fast. Sliced trough my left index , the bone and everything. The finger was hanging with a bit of skin. Ugly stuff... Never cut myself with my knives before that.
 
mbaker said:
I was making the hole bigger in a knife blank with my drill press. I was holding the blade with my left hand with three fingers to the left of the drill bit and my index finger to the right. I pulled the drill press handle down with my right hand. Just before the hole was complete, the bit hung and the blade started spinning like a helicopter blade stuck to the bit. In a split second I had cut the finger print off my ring finger, a slice off my middle finger, a slice above my ring, and almost cut the entire end off the bottom of my index finger. This was last summer and everything looks normal again, but my finger tips are still sensitive to pressure and heat and cold.
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good god :(
 
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