^Wow...I'd probably cry too. I've grown up with a few younger brothers and sisters and I have a new niece right now too.
^I haven't grown up with any siblings. I have a half brother but can't talk or see him, cause of his mom. Which sucks but is okay. But lil' kids are sooo adorable! Talking about smashed fingers earlier, I'd have plenty of those. Along with stubbed toes and stepping on glass. not as fun as it seems. Of course it wasn't intentional though. :/
Nothing very major, touch wood. But feel free to be amused.. I fell, running, with my baby bottle, face-forward onto the ground. Now I don't recall this particular episode, but I have it on good authority from my parents that's what happened. Plus there's the scar on my chin to prove it. Other good ones: Falling off a couple of trees, once or twice spraining my hand. I was an expert tree climber, as a rule.. A boy (who might have fancied me, let's face it) giving me a very hard - and quite unexpected - shove, making me take a decent tumble down a climbing frame. Split my head open, but no concussion. Geography school trip, c. 1997, tripping and falling a fair distance down the steps of a rockside. Damn Jurassic Coast... haven't been back since. A recent one, walking up the stairs, hot cup of water in hand... resulting in quite deep burns to the inside of my right leg..
Wait a second, I forgot about my most humorous injury. This could get disgusting but I'm going to make it short... I just got off the toilet, and as I was pulling my pants up I smashed my head on the towel rack and it went flying up in the air about three feet off the wall. I laughed at myself for a good ten minutes or so.
Right, that's what happened. I'll send you a VM for you to understand. I briefly and barely remember as a kid swatting a fly that wasn't a fly, but a bee. And then I started getting hives and allergic reaction. And I here I thought I had mastered some kung fu moves catching it in the air.
I was almost killed when I was 15. I was surfing off the coast of Crete when I veered a heavily to one side and was sweeped by the waves onto a rock pool. I remember hearing my back cracking and echoing underwater as I was smacked against the rocks. I had to pull myself out of the rock pool, and I banged my head numerous times losing a lot of blood from jagged edges and I started losing consciousness.
I've thankfully never broken any bones before or done anything too serious. My worst two injuries were -when I was about five I was running down the driveway with my dolly pushchair, and my uncle thought it would be funny to trip me up (yea, nice family ) Well, I went flying over the handlebars of the pushchair and scraped off the skin from one side of my face, took weeks to heal over and didn't look very pretty. -The other one was about a year ago, when I was (stupidly) trying to run across the road to catch the bus. I tripped in the middle of the road and just managed to scramble out of the way of a car . . . . . Led to huge gashes/swollen kneecaps and I couldn't walk for about a week.
One time I re-opened the same scab three times. It wasn't anything serious, just about a quarter-sized gash I acquired from a roller-blading tumble. Bu then, I went bike-riding and fell on the same elbow, tearing the scab off again. Then, a day or two later, I was walking down to the basement and there was this nail sticking out of the wall that my father had neglected to fix - it somehow caught my scab as I was walking by and tore it off again. To this day, I have this white patch on my elbow with no feeling in it. All because of one scab that wouldn't stay put
It's not really an injury, but the fact that I am missing one kidney is a pretty big thing, I guess. The biggest injury must be when I fell of my scooter and had the freshly paved road scrape half of my facial skin away... No, I wasn't wearing a helmet, so yeah, my own stupid fault, but hey; I was only 17.
I broke my jaw in a school drama lesson. We had to pretend to be animals from the jungle... I was an elephant and I got attacked by two wildcats, who basically rugby-tackled me and I smashed my jaw on the ground. Still cringe at the memory today >.<
