Lol. Well, I have one of those coolers. Its useful to know how heavy it is when full.

I was playing frisbee with a neighbor. The power pole had a guide wire. As I chased the frisbee I hit the guide wire and fracture the upper head of the radius.

Just last night I was walking down the stairs carrying a bowl of cereal, my feet slipped milk and ceral everywhere, slight discomfort in my right ankle.

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All I Wanted Was A Pepsi, Just One Pepsi

Team Zoot, Team Zoot Mid-Atlantic

I was on the turbo in the bathroom one night and dropped my towel, I reached over to get it and my cleat unclipped causing me to fall onto the cast iron bath. I ended up with a black eye and enormous lump on my head. I was lucky not to have another black eye as the extremely loud "bong" resulting from my cranium striking the metal bath reverberated around the house, waking the baby, causing some anger from the Mrs. We ended up laughing, pretty certain nobody believe the origin of my black eye though.

I broke my fibula in France taking a picture and had to have surgery before I could fly home. My husband and I had just finished a two week Trek Travel tour of the major Tour de France climbs without incident and decided to do some light hiking in Chamonix. We hiked out to a mtn hut and I decided to take an pic of the glacier, even though "this is how people get hurt" did occur to me. Squatted down to line up the photo, water bottle fell out of my backpack, stepped on it, and SNAP. Local urgent care confirmed the break and said it needed open reduction and fixation surgery at a bigger hospital up the road. Surgery the next morning, then a couple of days of begging to be released so we could fly home. Airline wouldn't let me fly without a doctor's note.

The good news: I had purchased travel insurance. That paid for an upgrade to business class for both me and my husband, private escorts through the airports, a limo ride home, and reimbursement of related expenses (extra night in France). The French hospital wouldn't mess with American health insurance so I had to pay for the medical costs upfront. Urgent care, x-rays, surgery, 3 days in the hospital - all of $2500, which my health insurance reimbursed.

Finally, a thread for me to shine in.

Almost broke my arm (Turned dark purple from the palm to half way up my upper arm) because I reached out to touch a train and it touched me back.

Broke my toe getting out of bed. I caught it on the bed rail.

Broke my toe playing Ultimate barefoot on wet grass. I tried to cut and ended up kicking my heel with my trailing foot. Broke the second toe and split the webbing between the second and middle toe.

Broke my wrist cycling in the dark when someone had put a railroad tie across the path. (I'm putting this down as stupid because I was cycling, drunk, in the dark.)

Broke my nose blocking a flying disc with my face.

Pulled my hamstring giving my dog a bath.

Broke my collar bone playing prohibited tackle football in the school yard in 4th grade.

Broke my nose flirting with a girl. (Her ex punched me while I was standing at the jukebox.)

Actually forgot about this one, which was even worse than the previous. 2 months out from my first full distance tri, which was Norseman in 2017, I cut the end of my finger off in a gardening accident/fail.

YIKES!!!

Maybe just a link to that one, with a warning, instead of the actual pic

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Sprained my mcl stepping over a laundry basket in the laundry room en route to get a beer out of garage fridge. Was a sad day 😤😭

I have a scar that when anyone sees it, they assume I attempted suicide when I was younger. Several years ago, I was cutting the long full-length grips off a set of Scott AT4 bars, and I slipped with the knife. The blade made a 2" slice in my right wrist, running parallel to the main artery but just a few mm to the side. At first I saw the long cut and thought "Oh, f***!, but then realized it wasn't bleeding that bad. It didn't even require stitches, but just 2 or 3 mm to the left and I would have been rushed to the ER...

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"I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10, and I don't know why!"

I started out writing left-handed, but when I started school back in the mid-60s my teachers tried to get me to switch to right. I was told to do everything right handed, and though I tried I was not adapting well. My dad was heavily into building model planes, and got me into it at a very early age. So one day when I was 8 I'm trying to use an X-acto knife with my less coordinated hand, and ended up nearly completely severing my left index finger (the blade went right through the second joint). Ironically, this ended up forcing me to finally completely switch to writing right-handed because I didn't get full motion or feeling back in that finger (though I'm still left-handed for everything else).

I've also noticed a pattern here, I shouldn't be near knives...

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"I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10, and I don't know why!"

Friend of a friend was hiking in Western United States with his then girlfriend, now wife, and was attacked by a bear. Never saw it coming. One moment they were walking along a trail and the next moment he was being mauled by a bear. Girlfriend ran down the trail, about a mile to a ranger's station. They all come back to find him, a bloody mess on the trail, but the bear had fortunately lost interest and left him behind.

Several hundred stitches later, he is pretty much ok and is a bit of a celebrity for surviving an actual bear attack.

He was interviewed on the local nightly news, and the exuberant news caster was asking him about being attacked by a bear..... "Don't you feel lucky....? His response, "well, yeah, except for the bear attack."

I don't know why, but his response makes me laugh every time I think about it.

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Jason
None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

I've fallen off my treadmill twice. Both a while ago, but still.....

Woke up a few weeks ago with a sore knee. Still hurts. I guess I slept wrong....

super embarrassing........a few years ago (2020) I ran in a pair of shorts with a built in liner (not traditional liner but compression style liner). apparently, the liner rubbed my wedding tackle in a weird way when I was running (did not feel it at the time) and I was badly chaffed, to the point where I could barely walk the next few days. I went to the doctor and he looked at it to make sure it wasn't a serious issue/infection (this was after 2-3 days of hobbling....liner cut me badly and "it" couldn't heal when I walked). The real crap part is every time I go to the doctor and see my records when I log into patient portal, I see the date and the patient issue reads 'lesion on penis". The injury that keeps on giving every time I go see a doctor or specialist for anything. I always feel like saying...yeah, that 2020 entry isn't what you think it is....

X2.

on the one hand, I am sorry so many of your stories are things that caused lifelong issues.
This has frightened me that mine will head that way, even though the doc said it is a grade one strain (orthopod, not PCP)
I am also grateful I didn't do more damage (I was anyway but particularly after reading this thread)

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Forgot to tighten my bike on trainer. Fell over and slammed ribs onto hard bar of elliptical. Could have been worse (nothing broken) than it was but caused me lots of pain and had to withdraw from an event as it happened just days before the race.

I feel ya pain!!

The only lingering injuries are my concussions

Going through life headfirst will do that

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Last Friday my 13 year old son said the toilet wasn’t flushing.

The lever came unscrewed on the inside of the toilet. I fixed it. Then I replaced the toilet cover. Then I bent down to pick up the little basket with the extra TP…and pulled a muscle in the bottom of my back. Today it’s just starting to feel better. Literally pulled a muscle picking up toilet paper.

Oh yah. After the muscle pull. I had a vasovagal episode as I got lightheaded. I sat on the toilet. My son got me some water. I passed out and he said I hit my head on the bathtub. Luckily no mark or anything.

Dr. Tigerchik wrote:

I wasn't replying to you in particular

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

+1 for stupid lower back muscle pulls. I’m struggling with them for decades, despite training for marathons and Ironmans. A couple of years ago it started to affect one of the quads and I decided to take it seriously. Visits to multiple doctors and PTs. Now I’m doing a strengthening routine almost every day and back feels better.

Last year I pulled the back only once. Preparing for a deadlift. Not during the deadlift, but getting the bar in place! 2-3 weeks of pain as result.

So this year, of course, I decided to do some lifting again in the offseason. Good warm-up, some light deadlifts with the bar. Then put 20 pounds on, get the bar in place, and voila! Back thrown again. The same way, preparing for a deadlift. Nice.

Why is your trainer in the shitter? 😁

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Favorite Gear: Dimond | Cadex | Desoto Sport | Hoka One One

I eat yogurt almost every day and I lick the foil lid when I remove it. One time I cut my tongue pretty badly on a sharp corner. It took weeks to heal because, not surprisingly, you use your tongue quite a bit every time you eat. Had to cut down on sour, hot, and cold food/drinks. Not fun!

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Great things never come from comfort zones.

I tore an intercostal muscle by sneezing.

I’ve always been a reptile guy. I got my first big python when I was in college. One day after class, I ate some baked chicken then went to clean the snake cage. I was going to feed it a chicken that day and I wanted to tidy up its enclosure before feeding time. It smelled the chicken on my breath and bit me across my face. Top teeth went in my nose, bottom teeth caught the right side of my cheek at the corner of my mouth. When she got me, I immediately - and instinctively - pulled my head back. That dragged her teeth down my nose and opened up some pretty big scratches. The snake let go and I got a tetanus shot. I ended up looking like a cat had mauled my nose. I still have scars. I also still have snakes but I’ve not taken a hit to the face since.

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