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What is the worst injury you've ever had (moto-related or not)?

Poor Maiden... why can't you go to zee concert? Anyways, I crashed in October and broke my shoulder and thumb. I had never broken a bone in my life up till then, so I guess it is my worst injury. A word of advice when crashing... don't roll.
 
when I was 14, I was mountain biking and was riding down the most gnarlyest hill I've ever been on. I was taking up so much speed I didn't notice the large root of a tree popping out to say hello to my front tire. Flipped over handlebars, landed on my head cracking my helmet, managed to tumble through POISON IVY bushes, fell off a 4 foot ledge and landed ackwardly on non-dull rocks. I tried to shout for help but only managed to huff a "He....uh." Luckily, I only dislocated my shoulder but it's considered my bad shoulder nowadays. Soon to be fixed on in the near future.

4 yrs ago, I slipped on my door's edge and fell on my hip, shattering it. Shocked, I kind of laid in my doorway for 10mins until my brother found me. The pro was that I got to replace a bad hip. 6 months later, I was good to go.
 
In June I crashed my R6. Broke 5 ribs, slightly fractured my hips, and tore my aorta. Had to have heart surgery to repair.
 
Earlier this year I had a toenail ripped off by a garbage can.

A few years back, I got knocked out and lost 8 teeth. (but you should have seen the other guy!!!)
 
I once dislocated & broke my elbow all nasty looking during an MMA match. It must have looked bad because the fire/emt just stood around a bit trying to figure out what to do.
 
Cdgskater said:
In June I crashed my R6. Broke 5 ribs, slightly fractured my hips, and tore my aorta. Had to have heart surgery to repair.
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Dude, you survived a torn aorta? A literal broken heart? Daaaaang.


I fell off a cliff in Yosemite during a backpacking trip when I was 13. I thought I knew how to free solo on a dry waterfall, being a 13-year-old invincible smartass.

No. Gravity and granite pwned me. :cry

I fell 30 feet, bouncing off a couple of ledges in the process. I landed on the last ledge over the huge pool below the waterfall, and started to slide sloooowly. I had just enough consciousness left to try to crawl back up the ledge, but all I did was peel the nails and skin back off my fingertips. Fortunately a backpacker (who also happened to be a motorcyclist, and later came to visit on hos Goldwing) heard the sound of my impact, ran over, and dragged me up the ledge. Someone else ran out down the trail and fetched a helicopter, which picked me up after 6-7 hours of howling in mind-bending pain. So much blood poured out of my head and face that it dried and stuck me to the rock.

Got some internal injuries, hacked up my face real good, and shattered my last lumbar vertebra into a whole lot of pieces. The fellow campers on the backpacking trip (a church trip, btw) said they had never heard such vehement and creative profanity pour from the mouth of a 13-year-old girl.

Eh, several months in a body cast later, I was relatively okay...just had to re-strengthen all my atrophied muscles. I got REALLY well read with all that downtime, man, and learned to hate TV forever. My back tells me when storms are comin' now.
 
Nemo Brinker said:
Dude, you survived a torn aorta? A literal broken heart? Daaaaang.


I fell off a cliff in Yosemite during a backpacking trip when I was 13. I thought I knew how to free solo on a dry waterfall, being a 13-year-old invincible smartass.

No. Gravity and granite pwned me. :cry

I fell 30 feet, bouncing off a couple of ledges in the process. I landed on the last ledge over the huge pool below the waterfall, and started to slide sloooowly. I had just enough consciousness left to try to crawl back up the ledge, but all I did was peel the nails and skin back off my fingertips. Fortunately a backpacker (who also happened to be a motorcyclist, and later came to visit on hos Goldwing) heard the sound of my impact, ran over, and dragged me up the ledge. Someone else ran out down the trail and fetched a helicopter, which picked me up after 6-7 hours of howling in mind-bending pain. So much blood poured out of my head and face that it dried and stuck me to the rock.

Got some internal injuries, hacked up my face real good, and shattered my last lumbar vertebra into a whole lot of pieces. The fellow campers on the backpacking trip (a church trip, btw) said they had never heard such vehement and creative profanity pour from the mouth of a 13-year-old girl.

Eh, several months in a body cast later, I was relatively okay...just had to re-strengthen all my atrophied muscles. I got REALLY well read with all that downtime, man, and learned to hate TV forever. My back tells me when storms are comin' now.
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:wtf Fehckkk!! Glad you and CDGskater are still around!

I spent 2 months in a body cast when I as 13 too. Didn't have as knarly of an accident as that though! :laughing:laughinging at the profanity part...

CDKskater... open heart surgery, that's crazy! Do you remember how you crashed?
 
HaChu said:
4 yrs ago, I slipped on my door's edge and fell on my hip, shattering it. Shocked, I kind of laid in my doorway for 10mins until my brother found me. The pro was that I got to replace a bad hip. 6 months later, I was good to go.
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Werd to my hip replacement brother! :thumbup :laughing
 
Highside at the track back in September 05, my first and only crash (street or track). Broke my ankle (talus bone, actually) and my hand, both on the right side. With both ankle and hand casted on that side, made it pretty much impossible to use crutches until I got the hand cast off. 2 years later hand is 100%, but ankle continues to hurt like hell and I am coming to grips with the fact that it may be like this for the foreseeable future.
 
Old Maiden, I will go to see Maiden with you in February, if I can stand that long by then. :laughing

I will even by you a ticket.
 
I was in a car accident (as a passenger), ended up with a fractured skull, fractures of 3 lumbar vertebrae, a compound fracture of my left wrist, a fractured bone in my foot (which was actually the most painful), and my right elbow was not broken, but the flesh was ground off to the bone. A few days in a coma, a month flat on my back, and a bunch of surgeries later, I am pretty much in one piece. This happened in 1984, I have some residual nerve damage in my left hand which makes it tough to use, but I just clutch with that hand anyway...
 
I broke both my arms Sledding at the same time when I was 8. They had to knock me out to set the bones. THe left broke in 3 places the right broken in 2.
 
i got hit by a drunk driver, head-on one night. he was doing about 70mph i was going about 40mph and i wasnt wearing my seatbelt. so needless to say i kissed the windshield, the air bag saved my life. i ended up with:
- 7 broken ribs
- shattered knee cap
- various torn tendons & ligaments from my knees to my hands
- broken leg & shin bones
- a bunch of broken foot bones
- cracked jaw
- busted cheek bone,
- busted orbital bone (holds you eye muscles)
- busted collar bone
- broken wrist
- a destroyed left hand which i had just had surgery on 3 days before the accident
- hairline fractures on my c6 & c7 vertebrae
- extreme whiplash
also:
- a collapsed lung
- bruised liver & some internal bleeding

those are pretty much the big ones. all said and done it took 6 surgeries, 3 months of hospitalization & 3 years of PT to recover. i was with my girl at the time, she got it worse than i did, and drunky had a passenger who got the worst of it all. luckily we all lived through it. by far the worst i've ever had in one shot.
 
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