Dumbest injury ever? you be the judge

[rivkat]

I just stabbed myself in the webbing between my middle and ring fingers with a meat thermometer that was in the sink to be washed.  Typing = double plus unfun, though honestly it's nowhere near as painful as I probably deserve. At least my tetanus shot is up to date?

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[azurelunatic]

I vote "not dumbest", because last year I had a steak knife (dirty) left point-up in a wine glass, left over from dinner. And in the morning I was chair-dancing to some fantastically flamboyant video, and managed to hurt myself. (For the squeamish, I'll leave some scroll space.) In the ER, when asked what kind of injury, it was, I said "Stupid," providing some small levity to the triage folks, who were looking for "accidental" or "someone stabbed me on purpose".
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Basically I impaled my arm on the knife, fortunately at an angle, and fortunately my arm had more of a layer of fat padding then than it does now, so I think I only nicked the muscle, despite the knife going in a significant distance. There were stitches and a tetanus shot. It didn't hurt enough for them to give me the good drugs.
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So yeah, yours is not a particularly smart injury, but here's hoping you won't require stitches and all.