When I was 14, I was riding my bike home from a baseball game, it was at night and it was raining. I didn't see this car coming and it hit me at about 35 mph and my head went through the windshield. I was conscious and in shock so I quickly tore my head out of the windshield and sat down on the sidewalk. By the time the ambulance came and I got to the hospital, I was in surgery for 3 hours (unconscious of course). Afterwards, they said I had needed five units of blood and about 800 stitches (500 inside and 300 on the skin). Turns out most of the damage had probably been done when I took my head out of the windshield and not from going in. But of course, I didn't feel anything at the time. The doctor described my neck as being "cut nearly ear to ear". I still have four distinct scars on my neck where most of the outside stitching was done, but luckily I have no real aftereffects of this injury.
Aside from that I broke my right pointer finger twice, and also got an infection in that finger from a separate incident involving rooting out a drain trap at my seafood job. I was about 24 at the time. It swelled my finger up twice the size and turned it purple, and my right arm up to the elbow had red lines on it. But IV antibiotics fixed that nicely. After a day or two, my finger "popped", juice came out and the skin sloughed off.
The only other thing was that I tore ligaments in my elbow from trying to show off my arm in college baseball practice when I was 20. That injury i still get pain from fairly often.
Aside from that I broke my right pointer finger twice, and also got an infection in that finger from a separate incident involving rooting out a drain trap at my seafood job. I was about 24 at the time. It swelled my finger up twice the size and turned it purple, and my right arm up to the elbow had red lines on it. But IV antibiotics fixed that nicely. After a day or two, my finger "popped", juice came out and the skin sloughed off.
The only other thing was that I tore ligaments in my elbow from trying to show off my arm in college baseball practice when I was 20. That injury i still get pain from fairly often.
