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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What???

[(Anonymous)]

What is a vegetarian doing with a meat thermometer???

Re: What???

[rivkat]

Washing the dishes in a nonvegetarian household?

[serrico]

Ouch! And boo, kitchen injuries. Utensils and so forth are supposed to help us make delicious food, not hinder us with pain and suffering! (I know whereof I speak: while making pizza last weekend, I peeled a strip of skin right off my index finger with the cheese grater.)

[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.

[xenacryst]

Ow! Ow! Owwwww!

[par_avion]

Ouch!

It may amuse to know that I read the title at least twice as "Dumbest jury ever? You be the judge."

That would be a rather different post.

[thefourthvine]

Ow!

Although I'm not sure you win the dumbest injury ever title. At the very least, I can provide you with some stiff competition. I am extremely gifted in the stupid injuries department.

[saraht]

I don't know, I think that's a pretty imaginative injury!

[rothesis]

I'm sorry you are hurt. However, I cannot award you the prize for dumbest injury.

As back up safety officer at my previous job, I had to fill out the incident report for a senior scientist who broke a finger. He was either running or quick walking down the handicapped ramp, tripped, caught the railing right where it attached to the wall, and broke his finger. No, there were no obstructions or slick spots on the ramp. The solid concrete ramp was long, so in the middle there is a short flat area to allow a person in a wheelchair to rest. He tripped over the change in angle on a ramp he'd been up and down before.

[wendelah1]

It sounds painful but entirely plausible. I'm amazed more people don't get injured on similar implements washing up. The only thing I can think of that might have helped is wearing thick rubber gloves to prevent slippage. You've probably already gone but you might want to head to urgent care just in case. The injury sounds like a perfect set-up for an infection.

A couple of months ago, I tripped over my son's shoes which had been left on a step that leads down into our den. Several times I passed them, thinking to myself, "I should move those before someone trips and gets hurt." I missed five weeks of work due to a stupid and entirely preventable accident.

[tehomet]

Sorry to hear it, and it's one of those areas that will take a while to heal, too. :(