• Question: what is the worst injury you have ever had?

    Asked by 326nepk48 to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 4 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Oli Wilson

      Oli Wilson answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I’ve been very lucky and I haven’t really had any bad injuries. I once got punched (and possibly kicked) in the face, which made me bite through the inside of my cheek and the end of my tongue, but I didn’t need stitches in the end. Aside from that I’ve broken a little finger and a big toe, and had a few other cuts and scrapes, but nothing major!

    • Photo: Yo Yehudi

      Yo Yehudi answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      Ow. I’ve been in a serious car crash I was a passenger in a car that flipped over twice, and was lucky to only break my arm.
      I have some funky scars from biking, too. Once I fell off my bike on a gravel towpath and got gravel embedded in my elbow. I cycled home and tried to fish the gravel out of my elbow before deciding it looked too revoltingly meaty. I went to A&E instead to let them do it.
      I also have a scar on my chin from a time I got knocked off my bicycle by a taxi. I had to get stitches, and they kind of looked like I had beard hairs sticking out of my chin until I got them removed.

    • Photo: Kerrianne Harrington

      Kerrianne Harrington answered on 5 Nov 2017:

      As a kid I once tried to skate down a cement covered incline that served as a wall for a car park. It wasn’t quite vertical, but it was so steep it might as well have been. So it went as well as you could expect! I scraped off a lot of skin from my knee, knocked myself out, and then couldn’t walk for a while. I remember that my dad had to carry me around the house for at least a week! I tried a lot of stupid stunts on my bike and skates as a kid, so I think I’m lucky that so far nothing more serious than that has happened to me!

    • Photo: Ed Bracey

      Ed Bracey answered on 12 Nov 2017:

      I once broke my leg playing rugby, that was a bit of a pain!
      I also managed to slice my thumb with a craft knife.
      The nurses said if I’d gone a millimetre deeper, I’d have cut the nerve and might have lost the use of my thumb.
      Needless to say I’m a lot more careful nowadays.
      When I was doing work experience as a doctor I got to see a lot of surgeries.
      The bone surgeries were pretty intense, not for the weak stomached!

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