Laceration thread

Hand through window playing "two below" aug. 79. twenty-something stitches.

Fell on asphalt road about ten years ago. 5 staples in the knee. The removal of said staples was about the worst pain I've ever felt.

Hockey puck in the face while making an excellent defensive play blocking a cross ice pass in a Senior Men's B league.

The puck hit my stick flipped up and cut my lip in two places... all the way through. I could feel the lip puffing up and swelling. I fell, hit the ice, rolled over, counted my teeth with my tongue then got up.

The first guy that saw me said "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww..." and almost turned green. Blood all over me. I was using another guys' jersey. He said "Cooooooooool."

72 stitches inside and out. It was my 3rd hockey-related emergency room trip.

I quit playing hockey the next day, after cleaning all my equipment, I DONATED it into a Salvation Army box, then I took up running.

Other two trips:

1) six stitches over the right eyebrow and a broken finger from the one night I was stupid enough to play in goal

2) cut directly above the right eye on the bone below the eyebrow from an errant stick when I executed a positional check on a faster guy at center ice. I cut him off and took possession of the puck only to see lights flash in my head a second later as his stick came under my chin as he spun around and slashed upward trying to hit my stick [he claimed]. I was very lucky it wasn't an inch lower.

Hockey is a DUMB game. Guys who think they're Stars really suck donkey d*ck.

This was in the pre-faceshield era.

Not 100% sure on the details, because it happened when I was 3 or 4 years old. Friend was dragging me in a wagon, and took me off a curb. I fell out the back, and smashed my head on the curb. Think my hair was a bloody mess, but only two or three stitches (and a partially shaved head) to close the wound. I must have a cool scar buried under my hair.

Ow. Lucky you didn't suffer a skull fracture.

I've had a few nasty gashes while running, but only one required stitches.

1) Worst laceration occurred how and where?

I was cooling down back to the track when I tripped on the edge of a sidewalk and fell head-first directly onto a wooden stake (it was a new sidewalk). It could have punctured my eye or broken my nose, but I was saved by a few millimeters.

2) Number of stitches

There were many, but I was never told how much. They wouldn't even let me see it at first.

3) Ever cut while running?

I get cut, scraped, and bruised all the time, mostly by tree branches.

4) Were you ever spiked anywhere but the lower leg? If so, where?

Just the legs.

Two really good ones.

1) I was pushing around a small step-ladder as a toddler, hit a lip between a hardwood floor and carpet, and the step-ladder closed on my right index finger. I'm not sure about how many stitches, but the scar goes all the way around just below the nail on that finger,

2) Night of my worst high-school race I was blowing off some steam at a show. Last stage dive of the night goes wrong and I wind up hitting the back of my head on a hard tile floor from about 7 feet up. After the 2 hour drive home and dropping the girlfriend off, I go to the ER for 8 staples. What a night.