My wife thought I should post a pic of my thumb that I tore up while changing my VP. She's a real riot I tell ya. Unfortunately our digital camera went ***-over-teakettle and now it doesn't work.
I figured some of you might have some good pics or fish stories to tell.

 

had me a bit of motorcycle accident one time



these two were sticking out of my arm




and this is what happens when you hit ice doing about 80 km/hr on a snowboard

 

i dont have any pics but i have many scars from slipping wrenches and what not..... and the usual cuts and scrapes from being a mechanic, comes with the territory i guess

 

I know all my knuckles are pure scar tissue and my fingernails have not been clean since my senior prom. The winter time is horrible, no matter what I use my hands split wide open from the hand soap.

Go check out the hands of a 60 year old mechanic once. This one guy at work has short, stubby fingers that he can barely bend from being banged up all those years. We call him Wreckingball because he could punch through a cinder block wall and never feel it.

 

Well I broke my clavicle once...halloween evening 2004 about 5:30pm. I had a 04 Yamaha kodiak that i played around on frequently. Well the tires I had were super stiff, one of the front ones had no air in it and while I was playing around and made a sharp turn the tire rolled on the rim and rolled. As the four wheeler shot in the air it tossed me head-first to the ground. I landed on my shoulder. Not even realizing it, my adrenaline carried me and I quickly rolled the atv back over and rode to my sisters. That's when i realized i couldn't stand straight or hold my head up straight. Swoll up like a melon on my neck and shoulder. Doc said i probably dislocated it. Yeah! This is what the radiology technician showed me



Well, i have had 2 sugeries to repair it, one to put in hardware, one to take out hardware due to it wearing throuh my skin. Now every winter I get some serious cramps and pain in that area, and sometimes i wake up stiff because I slept on it wrong. But it does feel stronger than my other side now! And I have a battle scar

 

I had a job where I was on a scissor lift 30 feet in the air for 2 weeks cabling a building lying on my back most of the time and I could have fallen off at any time but the day I was on a 6’ ladder something knocked me backwards and I fell landing across my own arm that hit some equipment and I snapped my hand completely backwards, it was hanging against my arm.

The bone was sticking out and the radial nerve was stretched over the bone.

I had to load my tools back into my truck, open a 12’ high steel sliding gate and relock it after I got out. I drove myself 15 miles, picked up my family and then to the Emergency Room.

By now the pain was almost unbearable and the only way I could support my hand was to wrap a rag around my wrist and roll it up in my driver’s window.

By now my hand and wrist were almost twice their normal size,
When I got to the hospital they took one look and took me right in and packed it in ice and called for Ortho.

The worst pain for the night was when they put it in a cast and were twisting (reducing) all of the bones back into place, even with 150mg. Demoral and 50mg. Visteral I was crying like a baby.

After a month of constant nerve pain I went in and they had to re break it because it was not right. 2 big doctors came in and backed me up on the table and jerked my hand and re broke my wrist without anything for pain, my left hand somehow got free and swung up and punched the doctor, it was an accident.

I had broken so much bone in my wrist that my hand is now canted in 6* towards my little finger.



I have only broken 3 sets of bones in my life so far, my wrist, my nose (well cartilage) and my back and of all of them my wrist was the most painful I had to sleep for 8 weeks sitting up in a chair taking Vicadon.

Yes I even had my digital camera with me in the Emergency Room, I don't leave home without it.
Jim

 

I posted these on the first attempt at this thread as well.......

This was a while after my hand got caught ina very heavy piece of machinery when somebody unexpectedly picked up the three point hitch on a 7810 John Deere tractor. Luckily three fingers took the weight or I'm sure it would have nipped one or two off, but this one got it the worst.

I took these photos myself when my boss called me wondering why I wasn't back to work with mya hand wrapped around the joystick of an SP sprayer all day....

I told him I'd need a couple more days....

Thew fingertip bone was crushed and split lengthwise. The end of the finger burst, something like a squished grape.

Absolutely ammazing how much pain one finger can cause in your whole body for weeks.

 

Well, The most recent was a horse that flipped over on top of me. He caused me to fracture the radial head in my elbow. Nothing any more major than that lately. I'm always busting knuckles and such working on trucks or farm equipment.

 

well heres the pics from my motorcyclce accident NOV/06.....

the story......

i was riding about 10pm going around a curve on a divided 4 lane.... in the left lane passing a car... i was going about 70mph... the driver of the car was getting closer and closer to me, i was almost off the shoulder of the left lane and made the decision that if i didn't stand her up and cut through the median i was toast........ so much for that!!! my dad was right behind me watching this happen... actually he was trying to pass me, so when i took the ditch he did the same, he made it through to the other side (no traffic coming the other way) i found a very large drain thingamabob and couldn't avoid it without hitting my dad and taking both of us out, last thing i remember before being knocked out...... this is gonna hurt.... ALOT.... OUCH!!!! woke up to about five or six people standing around me and holding me down in fear of a back or neck injury.

i was loaded up in the ambulance, half naked because they cut off my jeans(and it was freezing in the ambulance LOL) the state trooper who was the first "rescue" person there, he said he could actually hear it when it happened...... he was about a 1/2 mile up the road waiting for speeders..... he then brought me my watch which is the reason my hand got so messed up... (because of the watch not the trooper) it had gotten caught on something and ripped off.... he also informed me that i flew over 380 feet before i can to rest.... the bike went further....

all of these pics were taken 3 or 4 days after the accident as i couldn't move keep in mind i never touched pavement or gravel... just the "nice" grass median.....so the first pic is my left leg, pretty tor up, the second is my left hand, busted and bruised, the third is my left side.... pretty good kidney brusing... the 4th and 5th pictures are my back. i had a really thick leather jacket on thank god otherwise it would have been much worse... and the full face helemt i was wearing???? toasted.... broke the lens to bits.... and cracked the actual helmet in two places..... someone was definatley watching over me that night, someone ^ ^ (upstairs)


wow... this got pretty long.... sorry about that

 

Man, if I still talked to my ex I'd have some photos to show.

Cut my finger tip off, cracked my head open, and burned the skin off the back of my one leg all in one year.

The new girlfriend thinks I'm crazy when I ask her to take photos of these things. You guys are gonna have to set her straight for me!!

 

I don't have any pics but being a mechanic/welder and now going full time welder I've always got something going on. I guess the hardest part is welding overhead or in positions where the sparks are flying on top of your head, down your coat, had a couple land in my boots and burn all the way down my leg and then roll around in the boot til it cooled off. Bad part is when your part way through a rod you don't want to stop....so it's suck up the pain. I'm to the point now where if I get a 1st degree burn I wish it was a third degree. At least the third degree chars the skin and pain goes away quickly, the 1st degrees are agravating.

Stepped on a nail today.....that's always fun

 

I was so happy when that was off the main page - lol

Thats so gross, looks like sausages

 

Fixing rust on the 77 ... Newly cut sheet metal is SHARP!!!! 8 Stitches...7 in the skin 1 in the tendon. OUCH!

 

lets see i dont have no pics but:

coller bone twice
nose 5 times
both wrist twice
stiches 3 times
3 surgerys
torn knee ligaments and ankle along with shoulder.

Needless to say im 23 and feel like 60!!

Oh u should see my x-ray folder!!!!!!!

 

Havent broke any bones *knock on wood* but have had skull reconstruction surgery a few times.. and therafter fireplaces and coffee tables like to make skull contact and break it open again. Childhood memories