[Prophet]

Oh, and since we are talking about head injuries... I once had a dart shot in to my skull, just below above the right eyebrow. It went deep, so I had to pull really hard to get it out. It didn't bleed or anything, just left a small red mark. Just to be safe I went to see a doctor (having a metal spike pierce my skull did freak me out a little). I told him what happened, and he took a look at the place the dart impaled me. And, being highly educated person, he just said "Yes, there's a hole". And then sent me home.

When you think about it, that area above the eye does have some empty space. So I guess I was lucky it hit me there (I would have preferred it to miss my head altoghter).

There you go. I told it before in another cheerful thread. No pics, sorry.

When you rig a toy crossbow to shoot real pointy darts, I'd advise to never actually point it at yourself...

[Herra Tohtori]

 

Sinus punctuation through external ways... That's what there is below the eyes, beneath the cheek bone, but I think it only got stuck to your cheek bone. You should've walked around couple of days with the dart impaled on your face.


And well, yes, the idea of not pointing weapons at people (only at the enemy!) is quite sound.


...was it an ordinary cottage dart (mökkitikka) or something more specialized? Did the crossbow work well otherwise?

[Mongoose]

The only thing I've ever needed stitches for was whacking my head on a coffee table when I was 18 months old.  Besides that and a pinky finger that was broken by a soccer ball, I've been fortunate enough to avoid major bodily harm.

*knocks on convenient piece of wood*

[Prophet]

...was it an ordinary cottage dart (mökkitikka) or something more specialized? Did the crossbow work well otherwise?

Just an ordinary mökkitikka. With mild fine tuning applied by knife to fit the crossbow. Which did have enough power to shatter bones at close range, but other than that, the performance was unfortunately lacking. I guess the dart was a bit heavy for a toy...

And now that you mentioned it. I noticed that I've been writing a complete horse****. The dart landed above my eye, not below. Not that it makes much difference since these a load of empty space there too...
Strange, maybe it did cause me some damage. I'll need to fix that quote...

In other news. I can type normally again. The axe wound has closed up quite nicely. I can't believe I have to keep the stitch on for another week...

[Col. Fishguts]

anyone remember the slingshot eppisode?

Wasn't there also a incident with the nail pistol ? (Including X-ray images for greater hilarity)

[Prophet]

That's the thread I quoted myself from. The link is just up there...

[Dysko]

I'd say that this thread is the cutting edge, but I may be too cynical...

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Gortef]

In other news. I can type normally again. The axe wound has closed up quite nicely. I can't believe I have to keep the stitch on for another week...

Auch! Good to hear that you are recovering normally.

I can't remember any incidents where I would have cut myself deep enough to need stitches.
I have crashed with my bike hard enough to lose my lights for half a day or so though...

[Wobble73]

I've said it before, so I'll say it again

I've never been in the military, (apart from the army cadets in my youth), but I wouldn't know what a rocket propelled grenade looks like. I once ripped open the end of my finger though on some kind of detenator. I found it in the street, it looked like a torch, without the lens/bulb etc. A long black handle, a wider flat end and on the handle, a spring loaded switch type thing. I just walked up the street flicking the spring loaded bit back and forth, until I eventually pulled the switch to its full length and let go. The wider end blew with a deafening bang. Luckily I had the thing pointing down and away from me at the time, but I did have the index finger of my right hand on it which was slashed wide open. I dropped the thing very quickly and ran away. I was in Salford at the time and had to get a bus back to Bolton, (late night and the trains were off therefore a rail replacement bus was provided). By the time I got back to Bolton an hour later, my finger was still bleeding, so I went to A&E to have it stitched.

I rambled a bit haven't I? anyway my point is that although it sounds like a stupid thing to do, he might not have known what it was and therefore had no reason to suspect the thing was gonna blow up in his face!

From this thread!
Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer

So we can all do foolish things....



However, the most stitches I have had was 43-44 (?) when I had a lung operation. I have a scar that runs from the middle of my back, to just below my right nipple. Looks cool though, I tell the girls that it is a shark bite and that I managed to fight the shark off with my bare hands! 

[haloboy100]

fell off a bike while taking a sharp curve, landed on my ass nicely, and it hurt like a damned hell. I had to go into the washroom and pull my pants down and see the horrible bloody mess on my ass....no stitches, so instead i have a scare i can't show anybody 

[Tyrian]

I could tell about the time I had a 4 in. section of my skull surgically removed...But I doubt you guys would be interested in that...

[IceFire]

fell off a bike while taking a sharp curve, landed on my ass nicely, and it hurt like a damned hell. I had to go into the washroom and pull my pants down and see the horrible bloody mess on my ass....no stitches, so instead i have a scare i can't show anybody 

Actually its just as well that you landed there...thats what its for

I've fallen off my bike a few times and the one time I landed on pavement it was knee first.  It took weeks to heal but you can hardly tell now.  The rock I hit playing soccer one time left a more substantial mark!

[Polpolion]

fell off a bike while taking a sharp curve, landed on my ass nicely, and it hurt like a damned hell. I had to go into the washroom and pull my pants down and see the horrible bloody mess on my ass....no stitches, so instead i have a scare i can't show anybody 

Actually its just as well that you landed there...thats what its for

I've fallen off my bike a few times and the one time I landed on pavement it was knee first.  It took weeks to heal but you can hardly tell now.  The rock I hit playing soccer one time left a more substantial mark!

This one time, I was riding my bike back from a store with like 4 two-liter bottles of soda. This bug flew into my ear, and I tried to get it out with my hand, but I went on a bump, lost control and flew into some bushes. I got this gash that was about an eight of an inch deep and two eights across. Now I have this weird smooth spot there.

[Mars]

Didn't expect how easily shock can get you. Head got so blurred I walked in to a wall while getting some paper towels for the bleeding! I did recover pretty fast and drove myself to the hospital.

I half cut of one finger and I was in shock the entire day

[Herra Tohtori]

Actually, you did not have shock. You most likely simply experienced the effects of opiates (endorphines), adrenaline and other stress hormones flooding to your circulation and messing around with your nervous system, blood pressure and breath control, and you might have had some light-headedness due to some of the reactions resulting in reduced blood pressure in the brain, but definitely no shock in it's true medical sense.

Shock is a serious medical condition where the tissue perfusion is insufficient to meet demand for oxygen and nutrients. This hypoperfusion state is a life-threatening medical emergency and one of the leading causes of death for critically ill people. This primary cause may lead to many other medical emergencies, such as hypoxia or cardiac arrest.

Psychological shock and the effects of "fight-or-flight" response are often mistakenly dubbed as "shock", which can be pretty confusing depending on the context.

[Einstine909]

eh well i had my middle finger crushed off in a gym door... that was painful
well, because i was young, they stitched it back on. I got all function and feeling back... so end of that.
But i was traumatized, i still fear my hand next to doors like that...

[jr2]

Herra is right, you wouldn't experience shock unless you lost a lot of blood volume, or the ability to pump it sufficiently.

[Prophet]

Psychological shock and the effects of "fight-or-flight" response are often mistakenly dubbed as "shock", which can be pretty confusing depending on the context.

Yeah I've watched ER and I know what shock is in medical context. However It was shocking to go blind and collide with walls when sober. And the feeling could be described as shock like (forgetting the correct medical term for now). Thus I chose to describe it as "shock", because I would have also used that word in Finnish.

I don't think it was too serious rape of language on my part since it took you several days to get confused about what I meant.

[Herra Tohtori]

Haha, yeah... 

Just my typical way to nitpick about everything, you can blame me... I won't be shocked.