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Sebastian F7

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So just wondering how much more accident prone I am than most people. Last week I got 15 in my hand. I don't know for sure how many I've had throughout but I know its somewhere around 100. How many have you guys had?
 
I'm 51, and have had only 25 in my life thank God. That's not counting when I should have gotten some and "patched" it up myself. Yes, I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to sewing anything more than clothes!!!:cheers:
 
Only 20 for me. 8 in my arms when I went through a glass door as a kid, 4 in my head when I bashed it in the Army, 4 in my chin when I wiped out on the boot of a Ford Capri (pushing it!) And 2 in each side of my ball bag when I had the snip!:eek:

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10 from my appendix bursting when I was almost 7 yrs old... and then 8 from sinus/throat surgery back in 2005.

I've had no stitches as a result of bodily injury though. And I do a lot of wood working, metal work, mechanical work and now starting to dabble with welding.

My Dad and two of my brothers have all cut off fingers... I'm a lot more careful than they were/are!
 
A lot from several surgeries ( more on the way for carpal tunnel), 2 ACL reconstructions, one arthroscope, two hernia repairs (both abdominal), emergency stitches when I was a kid about 20. Do we count periodontal and wisdom teeth extraction?

Phew, without those sutures I would be falling apart.
 
Sebastian F7 said:
So just wondering how much more accident prone I am than most people. Last week I got 15 in my hand. I don't know for sure how many I've had throughout but I know its somewhere around 100. How many have you guys had?
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I am the same way.
I can't imagine how many stitches, staples, etc I have piled up over the years. LOL I remember watching a DVD named Jennifer 8 where a detective was trying to ID a severed hand and was amazed that that hand had 8 scars. WOW!! I counted 11 on my right hand and I'm 42. :)
Funny story - I cut my finger at work one night and it happened to be a night that 3 drivers called in sick so I had to drive. Well I wrapped up my finger as well as I could but it was going to need an EASY 3 stitches. Unfortunately I do NOT have insurance on this job so the ER was out (even though our pharmacy is 1/2 a block from the ER). I wrapped it up and kept applying direct pressure. FORGET IT!!!! That just won't work when the cut is too deep. I went ahead and started driving and kept pressure on the cut. So I stopped in a small town that had a 24 hr gas station/ convenience store. I remembered an old article in Men's Fitness that suggested using Super Glue to close a wound until you could get to a hospital. So I bought some SG for $3 and sat down at the table of the restaurant (it was a Texaco/Subway). So I unwrapped the gauze and it was BLOOD SOAKED!! HAHAHA!!! I will never forget looking at the wound and all of a sudden blood just started gushing again so I pinched my fingers together to close the wound. Just then I heard a voice say "Are you OK?" I looked up and 3 people were staring at me. LOL I said everything was OK but I needed to stop the bleeding. A few more people came around as I was opening the super glue. By the time I had the super glue opened - there was about 5 or 6 people standing around the Subway booth watching. I remember from reading the article that this would work well but DO NOT get the SG inside the wound. So I start gluing the wound back together and I hear a young female voice ask "Does that hurt?" I look up and a few more people have gathered around. HAHAHA I started to speak and I saw the table full of bloody paper towels. I was in "Fix It Mode" so I had not realized that I was sitting where people eat their food. :wow: I was seriously embarrassed but I was in the middle of "Glue Surgery" and I couldn't stop there. Since I had never done this before I had to kind of figure this out as I went. I treated it like painting and added one layer at a time. I had to wait a few minutes for each layer to dry which gave everyone gathered around (about 10 people by this time) a chance to ask all kinds of questions. HAHAHA It as a real small town named San Saba and I don't think they get too much action around there. :) After a few layers of SG - I cleaned up my bloody mess and said goodbye to my new friends (several of them shook my hand :) ) and I was on my way. Since I don't have insurance - this SG became the only plan that I had and I was forced to make it work. I repeated the procedure again in a few days when I could feel the SG getting loose. I had to keep gluing for about 3 to 4 weeks and then I stopped.
My cellphone camera does not pick up the scar very well but then again - it healed pretty well. I guess that is a testament for Super Glue. :woot:







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superglue what I can but this was beyond an at home repair. You could see veins and tendons.
 
You guys are freaking me out! I must have lived a very protected life. Age 67 and no external stitches. Had a hernia operation, but don't know how many stitches that involved.
 
Here's my count for stitches, in order:

1) Split knee, age 4 - 3
2) Hernia op, age 12 - 12?
3) Skin Cancer, age 35 - 2
4) 3 Knee Scopes, ages 34 to 44 - 12
5) 1 Shoulder Scope, age 44 - 3

Total: 32

Now broken bones, I take the cake on that one!

In order:

1) Right ulna and radius, skateboard fall, age 12
2) Lower jaw, fight with bully, age 14
3) Three ribs, bicycle crash, age 19
4) Big toe, motorcycle crash, age 20
5) Tail bone, ski crash, age 22 (OMG that one hurt!)
6) 5 ribs, collarbone, scapula, motorcycle crash, highside, age 24
7) Pinky finger, playing basketball, age 34
8) Crushed elbow bone end, bicycle crash, age 38
9) Ribs, motorcycle crash, lowside, age 47

Total: 18

My knickname growing up was, you guessed it: Crash
 
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