more about the bruise from hell (kinda gross, warning)/more bruise tales?

[bertha katzenengel]

Don't read this if you get grossed out.

Here's the original thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3875054

The huge bruise actually never materialized, but now I have a gouge, about the diameter of a quarter and about a quarter inch deep. :shudder: My shin is bruised all around this thing, but I expected the bruise to get as big around as a cantaloupe. I'm surprised.

More nasty bruise tales! Tell your story. I like to know I'm not alone.

[Debbi801]

1. LOL. Here's mine....

First of all, I hope yours is feeling better soon!

When I was growing up, my grandparents lived in a row home in Baltimore city. Actually, I guess they'd be called duplexes, because there were only 2 houses attached to each other (that looked like row homes) and then space before you get to the enxt two houses. The two houses that were attached to each other each had a front porch. There was about a 2 foot space in between the 2 porches.

For some reason, when I was about 10-11, I thought it would be so fun to balance a yard stick between the two porches and bounce up and down on the yard stick in the open space. Well, it was fun, until the yard stick snapped in two and I fell and landed on my hip.

I had a bruise that was the size of a large grape fruit. it was huge and ugly. And it hurt. Not knowing any better, I was showing it to anyone who wanted to see it, kinda like a war wound. Boy did I get into trouble when my mother found out I was bragging about it and showing it to all the neighborhood boys. :rofl: It was totally innocent as far as I was concerned, but she certainly didn't see it that way. :-)

[bertha katzenengel]

2. You little tart.

;) Good story.

[sybylla]

3. I hurt my shin in a similar manner over 30 years ago

We lived in a house with old, worn steps to the basement where we did our laundry and kept our freezer. I'm not sure at the moment why I was down there but I got called upstairs and raced to get there. About half way up, my foot slipped off the step and my shin crashed into the tread. I don't think childbirth was a painful. I had a huge bruise for a very long time, which was nothing new because I was quite a tomboy. But when it was all done, I ended up with what is called "spongebone" in that spot. (It's in the medical books, you can look it up.) Spongebone is created when the bone and surrounding tissue are damaged/smashed and they heal together.

So when I cross my legs or stand in a particular manner, I have this noticable bump on my shin about the size of a quarter. And when you push on it, if feels really weird, like a firm sponge.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. woo...

OW. :looks up spongebone: :)

[youthere]

15. spongebone..ewww.

[sybylla]

16. Yeah, I could be a side show geek

You just haven't lived until you can creep out your pre-teen sons.

[youthere]

17. LOL...you are the queen if pre teen boys are grossed out.

[Rainbowreflect]

5. Last summer I was hurrying around, getting ready for a picnic.

I started to run downstairs & slipped. I came down hard on my butt.
I got up carefully & seemed to be fine.
Went to the picnic & had a blast. When we went home to change for a baseball game my husband gasped when I got undressed. He told me to go look at my butt in the mirror.
My whole left butt check was almost black it was such a dark purple. Trust me, I do not have a small tush.
My husband called my sunset ass for about a month as the colors changed.

[texas1928]

6. Kicked in the thigh by a horse.

had a dinner plate size bruise on my leg. He just grazed me so I did not have the horseshoe impression. That one hurt. Or the time I walked off the top bunk as a 9 year old (I was sleep walking, the only time I have ever done that) I landed on stuff below and bruised 5 ribs, and had carpet burn from the top of my forehead to the bottom of my chin and a shiner that was a real beauty.

[justabob]

8. mine involved a horse too

I DID get the horseshoe shape. I fell off and like an idiot didn't let go of the reins and so got trampled. Huge ugly shoe shape on my thigh. It was really bad because the horse had studs(like soccer cleats) in his shoes because of the weather.

[Flaxbee]

23. thrown off a horse, twice --

was riding in a ring, and it was waaayyyy windy and my horse kept getting spooked at one particular corner. Fourth time around, he bucked, hard, and I flipped head-over-butt off him and came down on the ring rails, with my calves smacking the top rung. Got back on, went around again, and same thing happened. He bucked at the exact same spot, and I flipped head-over-butt again, same thing.

Got back on again, but didn't go by that spot again.

My calves were so swollen I had a hard time getting my boots off. My legs were solidly tight, with no bruising, for about two days. Then I woke up the third day and both of my calves were black; actually, my legs were black from calves down b/c it seems the blood had pooled and traveled down to my ankles.

Took me about 6 months for the worst of it to go away, but it was almost a year before my legs were their normal so-white-they're-blue color.

[eyepaddle]

7. Well, just this weekend I was kayaking at the

Upper Midwest Freestyle Championships in Wausau WI (not as a competitor, just recreationally) and I had been hitting my moves, feeling pretty much like a rockstar and decided to paddle to the end of the course. It's a pretty pushy high flow course and it has a few meaty drops. I ran the first one with aplomb and was doing well flying through the standing wave train below it--unitl I caught my stern and right edge in the current and flipped--just at the entrance to the second drop. I was still feeling good and confident and was setting up for my roll when i felt the telltale pillow of current around a submergeed boulder. I got my clock cleaned. The helmet took most of the shot, but got pushed back on my head and more forehead got really scraped up. Not much a bruise though.

I bailed out of my boat, and got washed up onto some rocks in the middle of the channel. I should've stayed in the boat--I likely couold've rolled up anyhow, but, oh well..Just below the rock I was on, the water was recirculating in a sticky looking hole (the kind you might get trapped in). I wanted no part of that, so I jumped over it--into the calm looking pool beyond. Basically I was doing a cannonball. That's when I hit the SECOND boulder of the day--right on my right "cheek" dearest god I thought I broke so many things. That made the head shot tickle in comparison. Oddly enough no bruise was visible. I still hurts to sit down for long periods though.

People sure do notice my forehead though!

[sybylla]

9. So you got paddled, so to speak.

Sorry, couldn't resist. I live in central WI and have thought about going to watch the championships in Wausau. They do look awfully painful sometimes. Hope you're feeling better soon.

[Misunderestimator]

10. I once got one on my butt that almost covered an entire cheek.

Was helping friends take down some trees on their property. I was pulling one back and forth to loosen the roots, when it came loose entirely and I fell back onto a recently cut trunk... the trunk of a small tree about two inches in diameter. Bam! Right in the center of my cheek... Had a puncture and a bruise that lasted over a month. I was grateful that I didn't land a few inches over at least. :scared:

[progmom]

18. ack.

:scared:

[bridgit]

11. sounds like you stressed your cartilage/connector ouch...

or bruised a bone x(

[bertha katzenengel]

12. i dunno

all i know is it still hurts. i'm just glad it wasn't directly on the bone. it's just off the bone, in the meaty part of the shin. :( -- right where you get shin splints.

:hi: bridgit

[bridgit]

13. hey, bertha...

:hi: that sucks, hon. see, if you were in the NFL you'd have some high dollar coach yell'n at you get to back in the game but i say, "be careful, k?"

[bertha katzenengel]

19. i try to be careful

but i am such a klutz. :shrug:

:trips:

See?

[youthere]

14. I don't bruise easily...

but I have a great bruise story...I've never seen anything like it. A friend of ours went waterskiing and wiped out when he went over a (barely) submerged stump. The stump caught him behind his right thigh, all the way up between his legs, across his butt and into his lower back. The bruise covered all of that and was absolutely black-no purple or blue areas-completely black. It reminded me of necrotic tissue (if anyone else knows what I'm talking about). It was interesting (and lucky) that the stump never tore his skin open-just bruised it badly. He walked on crutches for a long time because it was so bad, and he was in so much pain. His testicles swelled up (no kidding) to the size of (and I swear I'm not exaggerating) cantaloupes. It took more than a year for him to heal from that. He still goes waterskiing though.

On edit: Google Image search "necrosis" and you'll get a pretty good idea what I'm talking about-but be prepared for some really gross photos.

[antigone382]

20. I had a black eye for six months when I was about ten.

Some neighborhood kids and I were playing backyard baseball. I'm not very sporty and I didn't know exactly what to do, so they chose me to be catcher. I got right behind the batter (w/o any head protection of course); the pitcher threw the ball, the batter swung, and after hitting the ball he let his arm drop back, causing the bat to collide directly with my left eye.

I tried to shrug it off for about two seconds, and then my eye brow started swelling up and turning purple...so I ran in the house and Mom took me to the emergency room. I was OK, but by the next day my eye was swollen shut, and a little darker than a ripe eggplant. It didn't completely fade away for six months, and for the next two years, my eye would swell shut for a day or two when the pollen got bad and my allergies kicked in.

The best part was going out in public...adults would always come up and try to quietly ask me what happened to my eye, like they thought I was an abused kid or something...I guess it's good that people were concerned, but it was kinda funny at the time.

[seemunkee]

21. Worse bruise I ever saw

A friend was rope climbing and took a fall. One of his pieces of protection came out and he hit the dirt landing on his back hard enough to bounce a good two feet into the air. His entire back was one huge nasty looking bruise. Looking at it made my butt pucker.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Once, when I was teaching high school, I was running late

to go to my tutoring job after school, so I was sort of fast walking, running in the parking lot and slipped on some ice. My left thigh crashed into the bumper of a car and I was left with a bruise, I kid you not, from my hip bone to my knee.

It was so bad, I could hardly walk and couldn't get pantyhose on. It was the worst.

Took forever to go completely away.

[ronnykmarshall]

24. Well it's not a bruise but I gotta story.

Read in Roseanne Rosanna Danna voice:

The other day I was at gym and who do you think comes in but Miss "10" herself, Bo Derek.

So I'm minding my own business when she comes up to the lady on the treadmill next to me and starts talking to her.

Well I noticed that she this hair coming outta her nose. I couldn't keep my eyes offa it. She'd talk and talk and that hair coming in and out of nose, getting longer every time she took a breath.

Finnally I couldn't stand it anymore, I yelled "God-damn Bo Derek you gotta big ol' hair coming out of your nose! Why don't you pull a few more out, braid and put a bead on it .... whadda tryin' to do? Make me SICK?".