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So, you've got scars...
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Had both mine done also, one in 2014 and the other one 18 months later.
Playing rugby (until i was too old) chasing recoil, and heavy compound bow usage, all eventually took their toll on the old body parts
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4ndy
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In 1984 we where travelling down to the Norfolk Broads for a Family Holiday, we were split into 2 vehicles, I along with 5 others was in a VW Type 2 transporter.
I was passenger by the door nodding off at the point I am describing now so thankfully did not see it happen.
So on the A47 at East Dereham we were about to start the dual carriage way when a Range Rover on the other oncoming carriage way lost control and came the across central reservation just after the barriers finished and hit us head on.
Four of us ended up in the N&N Hospital, I must have taken the brunt of the impact. The door had somehow opened and I was on the floor at the side of the van.
I had compound fractures to both Tibia and Fibula's on both legs.
My mum and dad, who were in the car in front, would not let me look down at my legs.
Anyway I was off work for nearly 5 years due to complications arising from that accident.
I have taken a photo of the plate they eventually put in my right leg. After the weekend of 18/6/85 I went back to A&E and said something was not right with my leg as I was in a lot of pain.... they took an xray and informed me they were keeping me in as the plate had failed...... this is what they gave to take home.
I know the exact date as I was at Knebworth to see Deep Purple, funny thing was I never saw them as I was in the back of the van as it was to wet and muddy to be out on crutches, I did see just about see Meat Loaf though and I’m sure he had a broken leg too.
One good thing from the accident...... the young nurse who looked after me all those years ago still looks after me today, married 34 yrs now.
I was passenger by the door nodding off at the point I am describing now so thankfully did not see it happen.
So on the A47 at East Dereham we were about to start the dual carriage way when a Range Rover on the other oncoming carriage way lost control and came the across central reservation just after the barriers finished and hit us head on.
Four of us ended up in the N&N Hospital, I must have taken the brunt of the impact. The door had somehow opened and I was on the floor at the side of the van.
I had compound fractures to both Tibia and Fibula's on both legs.
My mum and dad, who were in the car in front, would not let me look down at my legs.
Anyway I was off work for nearly 5 years due to complications arising from that accident.
I have taken a photo of the plate they eventually put in my right leg. After the weekend of 18/6/85 I went back to A&E and said something was not right with my leg as I was in a lot of pain.... they took an xray and informed me they were keeping me in as the plate had failed...... this is what they gave to take home.
I know the exact date as I was at Knebworth to see Deep Purple, funny thing was I never saw them as I was in the back of the van as it was to wet and muddy to be out on crutches, I did see just about see Meat Loaf though and I’m sure he had a broken leg too.
One good thing from the accident...... the young nurse who looked after me all those years ago still looks after me today, married 34 yrs now.
psychosomatic gardener
Super member
Well across the pond mate you have sunshine its pixxing down in blighty so my arthritis is playing up...
Brilliant brilliant story, thanks for sharing. Those screws & plates make my arm ache.In 1984 we where travelling down to the Norfolk Broads for a Family Holiday, we were split into 2 vehicles, I along with 5 others was in a VW Type 2 transporter.
I was passenger by the door nodding off at the point I am describing now so thankfully did not see it happen.
So on the A47 at East Dereham we were about to start the dual carriage way when a Range Rover on the other oncoming carriage way lost control and came the across central reservation just after the barriers finished and hit us head on.
Four of us ended up in the N&N Hospital, I must have taken the brunt of the impact. The door had somehow opened and I was on the floor at the side of the van.
I had compound fractures to both Tibia and Fibula's on both legs.
My mum and dad, who were in the car in front, would not let me look down at my legs.
Anyway I was off work for nearly 5 years due to complications arising from that accident.
I have taken a photo of the plate they eventually put in my right leg. After the weekend of 18/6/85 I went back to A&E and said something was not right with my leg as I was in a lot of pain.... they took an xray and informed me they were keeping me in as the plate had failed...... this is what they gave to take home.
I know the exact date as I was at Knebworth to see Deep Purple, funny thing was I never saw them as I was in the back of the van as it was to wet and muddy to be out on crutches, I did see just about see Meat Loaf though and I’m sure he had a broken leg too.
One good thing from the accident...... the young nurse who looked after me all those years ago still looks after me today, married 34 yrs now.
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Mike Woody Watkins
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Broken collar bone playing Rugby 
Broken wrist playing in goal
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Broken toe stubbed on the fireplace
Top of index finger missing due to a router
(finger bone now shaped like the router bit 
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Apart from that nothing really
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Broken wrist playing in goal
️Broken toe stubbed on the fireplace
Top of index finger missing due to a router
(finger bone now shaped like the router bit )Apart from that nothing really
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psychosomatic gardener
Super member
Ive still got mine just like that some were from my wrist...
Right Cant
Super member
Just a new knee here, nothing too crazy ...
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David M
Super member
I'm a bit boring compared to you macho bunch..!
Broke 2 left ribs on my birthday when our big lab thought it a good idea to run straight through my shins, I was wearing a pair of binoculars round my neck at the time and landed on them..
Broke two right ribs messing about in the bedroom, I fell onto the corner of the bed, the mattress collapsed but the wooden bed didn't, end of session...
Broke my wrist on a motorcross bike as a kid. Belting round a marshland high brush path, I went round a corner one way, another bike came the other and we hit handlebars. My clutch lever broke across my knuckles and snapped my wrist round. I went home and ate my Sunday dinner at the table with my hand in my lap, I wasn't meant to be on the bike and hid it until Mum rumbled me.
Both ankles are now shot to bits through multiple breaks (I still have 2 in my right). Too much tennis, football, cross-country and falling down rabbit holes in long grass. I now have to watch everywhere I walk and they give me constant grief.
My best scar from a cut was kneeling down in front of a running ic engine on a model plane. I thought I had tethered the model and blipped the throttle on my transmitter, the model leapt at me and the prop buried itself deep into my thigh. I went to A&E and I went in ahead of quite a few. He was cleaning the deep gash up to the the first knuckle of his finger.
Basic stuff compared to you lot....!!!!!
Broke 2 left ribs on my birthday when our big lab thought it a good idea to run straight through my shins, I was wearing a pair of binoculars round my neck at the time and landed on them..
Broke two right ribs messing about in the bedroom, I fell onto the corner of the bed, the mattress collapsed but the wooden bed didn't, end of session...
Broke my wrist on a motorcross bike as a kid. Belting round a marshland high brush path, I went round a corner one way, another bike came the other and we hit handlebars. My clutch lever broke across my knuckles and snapped my wrist round. I went home and ate my Sunday dinner at the table with my hand in my lap, I wasn't meant to be on the bike and hid it until Mum rumbled me.
Both ankles are now shot to bits through multiple breaks (I still have 2 in my right). Too much tennis, football, cross-country and falling down rabbit holes in long grass. I now have to watch everywhere I walk and they give me constant grief.
My best scar from a cut was kneeling down in front of a running ic engine on a model plane. I thought I had tethered the model and blipped the throttle on my transmitter, the model leapt at me and the prop buried itself deep into my thigh. I went to A&E and I went in ahead of quite a few. He was cleaning the deep gash up to the the first knuckle of his finger.
Basic stuff compared to you lot....!!!!!
Lightning22
Super member
That's some nice tidy suturing.
Mr Rooney
Super member
I was lucky with only a broken wrist and broken ankle from Oulton park track days
I want to talk track days, not tonght thoughI was lucky with only a broken wrist and broken ankle from Oulton park track days
uncle bulgaria
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I found out the hard way that a meeting of a car and pedal cycle does not end well.... I got hit pretty much head on by a boy racer. After doing the proverbial double somersault over the bonnet and being rendered unconscious, I immediately realised that my collar bone was broken. It also hurt a tad when the very helpful paramedic tried to remove my rucksack by bending and twisting my other arm- rather than cut the straps of. Subsequent xrays showed that my elbow was smashed in 4 places!!
Elbow was wired up and looks a bit strange- but apparently this is the best they could do.
Shoulder didn't heal so I had to have a second operation to pin and plate my collar bone. This now remains in situ and resembles a garden rake. Even more painful (as the surgeon warned) was that they had to take bone chippings from my hip to pack the shoulder wound in order to assist bone grafting!). I was clicking on the morphine pump like there was no tomorrow!
Also thanks went out to nursing staff who put painkillers at the end of the bed..... when both of my arms were in slings and I couldn't access tablets!!!!
Unfortunately I do not have photos but will ask doctors when I go for my old fogey mot if they have digital copies.
Elbow was wired up and looks a bit strange- but apparently this is the best they could do.
Shoulder didn't heal so I had to have a second operation to pin and plate my collar bone. This now remains in situ and resembles a garden rake. Even more painful (as the surgeon warned) was that they had to take bone chippings from my hip to pack the shoulder wound in order to assist bone grafting!). I was clicking on the morphine pump like there was no tomorrow!
Also thanks went out to nursing staff who put painkillers at the end of the bed..... when both of my arms were in slings and I couldn't access tablets!!!!
Unfortunately I do not have photos but will ask doctors when I go for my old fogey mot if they have digital copies.
Had to lift a 250tonne roll housing casting at work in 1999 in the burning booth, Ropes were 4" thick and didn't like bending, Had to push with all ones strength to bend them just slightly over the edge of the casting and on to the trunnions, Four ropes, Four blokes to put the ropes on. My feet slipped in the crap in the booth just as the crane was taking the weight, My face was going to smash in to the steel trunnion so had to grab the rope after pushing with the flats of the hands, It tightened on to my right index finger so I pulled as hard as I could and got it out but it pulled the fleshy pad off (Was still in my glove), Had to have a bit of my arm removed to make it up but it's still a quarter of an inch shorter than the other one!, There was the bone and my nail still attached, Got pretty mad as i'd paid for a full term of guitar lessons, Had to finger pick using the middle finger, Ring finger and pinky until later when it healed up!!
The surgeon cut my finger right down to the next one, Dunno why though..
It's healed quite decent in the pic although there's ingrained oil from changing the suspension on the car, Did that with the clips from a knee replacement still in!!
This isn't a scar but it's the same finger that had a new bit put in, It's not as tough as the skin on my other fingers and wears through when I used to rub stocks down for refinishing, It always bled when none of the others did, Don't do them now!!
Carpol tunnel release surgery- Best thing I ever had done but now the other one needs doing as it wakes me several times a night with tingly numb fingers that feel like pork sausages!!
There's actually a scar on my wrist too where I put my hand through a bathroom window chasing my brother to clip him, It severed the artery and blood squirted across the room and hit the ceiling!, My life flashed before my eyes that day as it wasn't like you see in movies, It really has some oooph behind it! Can't see the scar though in this pic, It's fairly invisible, It was forty years ago though!
There's a scar on my right wrist too, I once drilled a piece of bronze in my lathe to take a 3/8" rod, I used a new 3/8" drill, When i'd finished drilling I tried the rod in to see if it would actually go in, The bronze rapidly cooled and grabbed the rod so I pulled fairly sharply and got it out but my wrist ran down the new drill bit in the tailstock and sliced it!, It opened up and was very white inside but didn't bleed this time!!
It looks like i've tried ending it all with the scars!
Was burning scrap at work, Concrete exploded and a lump went down my glove, Damned gloves were tight and I was sweaty and couldn't get it off when a chunk ok hot concrete went down, Had to let it burn, It gave me a bit of a blister!!
New knee number one fitted, When I had the second one done there wasn't the slightest bruising like this one but it was infected and took ages to heal fully!
The foundry where I worked is a dangerous place and the fact that i'm a clumsy sod meant I became good friends with the staff in the ambulance toom!!
John..
The surgeon cut my finger right down to the next one, Dunno why though..
It's healed quite decent in the pic although there's ingrained oil from changing the suspension on the car, Did that with the clips from a knee replacement still in!!
This isn't a scar but it's the same finger that had a new bit put in, It's not as tough as the skin on my other fingers and wears through when I used to rub stocks down for refinishing, It always bled when none of the others did, Don't do them now!!
Carpol tunnel release surgery- Best thing I ever had done but now the other one needs doing as it wakes me several times a night with tingly numb fingers that feel like pork sausages!!
There's actually a scar on my wrist too where I put my hand through a bathroom window chasing my brother to clip him, It severed the artery and blood squirted across the room and hit the ceiling!, My life flashed before my eyes that day as it wasn't like you see in movies, It really has some oooph behind it! Can't see the scar though in this pic, It's fairly invisible, It was forty years ago though!
There's a scar on my right wrist too, I once drilled a piece of bronze in my lathe to take a 3/8" rod, I used a new 3/8" drill, When i'd finished drilling I tried the rod in to see if it would actually go in, The bronze rapidly cooled and grabbed the rod so I pulled fairly sharply and got it out but my wrist ran down the new drill bit in the tailstock and sliced it!, It opened up and was very white inside but didn't bleed this time!!
It looks like i've tried ending it all with the scars!
Was burning scrap at work, Concrete exploded and a lump went down my glove, Damned gloves were tight and I was sweaty and couldn't get it off when a chunk ok hot concrete went down, Had to let it burn, It gave me a bit of a blister!!
New knee number one fitted, When I had the second one done there wasn't the slightest bruising like this one but it was infected and took ages to heal fully!
The foundry where I worked is a dangerous place and the fact that i'm a clumsy sod meant I became good friends with the staff in the ambulance toom!!
John..
chouchin66
Top Tier member
Feck me !! You winHad to lift a 250tonne roll housing casting at work in 1999 in the burning booth, Ropes were 4" thick and didn't like bending, Had to push with all ones strength to bend them just slightly over the edge of the casting and on to the trunnions, Four ropes, Four blokes to put the ropes on. My feet slipped in the crap in the booth just as the crane was taking the weight, My face was going to smash in to the steel trunnion so had to grab the rope after pushing with the flats of the hands, It tightened on to my right index finger so I pulled as hard as I could and got it out but it pulled the fleshy pad off (Was still in my glove), Had to have a bit of my arm removed to make it up but it's still a quarter of an inch shorter than the other one!, There was the bone and my nail still attached, Got pretty mad as i'd paid for a full term of guitar lessons, Had to finger pick using the middle finger, Ring finger and pinky until later when it healed up!!
The surgeon cut my finger right down to the next one, Dunno why though..
It's healed quite decent in the pic although there's ingrained oil from changing the suspension on the car, Did that with the clips from a knee replacement still in!!
This isn't a scar but it's the same finger that had a new bit put in, It's not as tough as the skin on my other fingers and wears through when I used to rub stocks down for refinishing, It always bled when none of the others did, Don't do them now!!
Carpol tunnel release surgery- Best thing I ever had done but now the other one needs doing as it wakes me several times a night with tingly numb fingers that feel like pork sausages!!
There's actually a scar on my wrist too where I put my hand through a bathroom window chasing my brother to clip him, It severed the artery and blood squirted across the room and hit the ceiling!, My life flashed before my eyes that day as it wasn't like you see in movies, It really has some oooph behind it! Can't see the scar though in this pic, It's fairly invisible, It was forty years ago though!
There's a scar on my right wrist too, I once drilled a piece of bronze in my lathe to take a 3/8" rod, I used a new 3/8" drill, When i'd finished drilling I tried the rod in to see if it would actually go in, The bronze rapidly cooled and grabbed the rod so I pulled fairly sharply and got it out but my wrist ran down the new drill bit in the tailstock and sliced it!, It opened up and was very white inside but didn't bleed this time!!
It looks like i've tried ending it all with the scars!
Was burning scrap at work, Concrete exploded and a lump went down my glove, Damned gloves were tight and I was sweaty and couldn't get it off when a chunk ok hot concrete went down, Had to let it burn, It gave me a bit of a blister!!
New knee number one fitted, When I had the second one done there wasn't the slightest bruising like this one but it was infected and took ages to heal fully!
The foundry where I worked is a dangerous place and the fact that i'm a clumsy sod meant I became good friends with the staff in the ambulance toom!!
John..
psychosomatic gardener
Super member
Thats a most impressive water feature mate ha..
Is that from my neck of the woods a COCK KNEE