Ok, I've got quite a few injury stories, so bare with me. Here goes...
* At my brother's bucks show he tried to do a runner and as I attempted to tackle him, he lifted his right knee into my face as I dived at his legs.
This dislocated my jaw, broke my nose, put a hole under my lip that went right through so you could see inside my mouth, and my teeth went down into my bottom lip to make another big hole.
My cuts required 18 stitches, and I couldn't close my mouth properly for about 3 days from the dislocation. This was bar the most painful injury I've ever had, as the mouth is the most sensitive part of the body
* When I was 13 I was seeing how high I could jump on the old trampoline. I became unbalance and fell from a great height onto the side of my left foot.
I tore the ligaments off the side of my leg but before they tore, they broke the 3 outside tentacarpels in my foot.
* Falling off my pushy when I was trying to slipstream a coal truck in the Macquarie Hills Industrial estate. I was doing approx. 60km/h behind a truck going down a hill and because of my close proximity to the truck (you need to be within about 2m of the rear of the truck to get caught in it's slipstream) I didn't see a huge pothole as my front wheel hit it.
I ended up breaking my right wrist and losing a fair bit of skin on that one.
*Sliding under a wire fence and having the wire cut down to the bone on the outside of my left lef about 15cm above the ankle.
Seeing my bone and the blood vessels severed in half aswell as spiting blood was actually worse than the pain.
*Having my bare foot get caught in a bike's spokes when being doubled down Marshall Street at Cardiff Heights, at speed. This wasn't so bad because I wasn't the only one that got hurt.
*Crashing my mate's motor bike into a retaining wall at 70km/h. I misjudged a bend in the road after it had been raining and lost control. I locked it up so the brakes were pretty useless, but don't worry, the wall stopped me pretty well.
Ended up in hospital with a few broken bones. Broken arm, cracked sternum and a few other dings aswell as a severly bruised pride.
*Coming undone during a waterskiing tournament race at about 80-90km/h. I basically caught an edge on a chop and cartwheeld for about 10 metres before plunging head first, upside down into the water.
Unfortunately my eyes were open when my head first impacted the water and I couldn't see for a day or two afterwards.
Luckily no permanent damage was done there.
*Falling off my skateboard whilst trying to rail slide a handrail at Civic park in Newcastle. I simply misjudged my attempt and ended up head first on the concrete steps.
I cracked my eye socket and looked like Rocky Balboa after 8 stitches around me eye.
*Having my head run over by my brother on his bicycle when I was 12 years old. I had to get a few stitches in my eyelid and back of my scalp, but I didn't feel the initial pain as I was knocked unconscious.
I have many more, but I'll finish with this one...
*Had a mate run over my head in the surf on his surfboard and got a nice fin chop on my melon. Nothing too complex, just a big gash requiring 14 stitches, and a lot of blood.
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The teachers told me it was just bruised and when I said it hurt more than that, they made me walk the length of the classroom in front of the whole class for back-chatting. I did that and cried, and then they yelled at me. Child abuse hehe! The look on their faces a few days later when I came in with a plastered leg was pretty priceless.
