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In reply to the discussion: Dumbest ways you've injured yourself. [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)And missing.
I was trying to bring this horse in to eat it's morning feed. She'd run through the barn, around the back barn yard, through the barn, around the front barn yard, each time going past the open stall with her feed inside. But she didn't want her feed, she wanted to run back and forth.
Finally she stepped partway into the stall, stopping with her butt sticking out. I knew if I moved away to get a lead or anything to encourage her to go the rest of the way in she'd take off again and we'd be back to the running back and forth. So I slapped her on the butt with an open hand, trying to make a popping noise and getting her to move in. Nothing - she just stood there.
I hauled back and slapped her a little harder. Nothing. So I wound up and gave it all I had, knowing that I could not slap this horse hard enough with my bare hand to hurt her. She moved just before my hand connected with her butt. My arm swung on through and my hand connected with the angle iron that framed the stall door, hitting full force in the middle of the bone between the first joint and the wrist.
Instantly I could not move that thumb. The pain went up the arm to the shoulder. I closed the door on the horse who was now happily eating her morning feed oblivious to the damage I had done to myself.
I got in the truck to drive back to the house so my husband could take me to the doctor. Not thinking I tried to turn the key. With my right hand. With the thumb I had just whacked the sh!t out of. It was not a pleasant feeling. When I stopped feeling nauseous from the pain, I started the truck with the other hand and drove home.
The rest of the story is longer and more tedious. It turned out I did not break the bone though I did chip off some bits of bone into the upper joint of the thumb and put a dent into the bone that remains to this day twenty years later.