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What's the worst or weirdest injury you've seen in real life? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by thermal_shock to c/asklemmy

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When I was around 8, a neighborhood kid was swinging around a light pole, just a plain metal pole but it had the wirenut box attached to the side about a foot from the ground, which he was standing on while spinning.

His foot slipped, the corner of this box ripped his ankle open, cut right up from the top of the shoe about 6 inches into his lower calf/ankle.

He screamed and ran home, blood pouring everywhere. Saw him a few days later with massive stitches and bruising all over his leg. Wasn't as bad as it looked, but fuck me it still makes me wince thinking of my ankle being sliced by a dull metal corner by weight and gravity alone.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh boy! ER Nurse at a busy urban trauma center

The one I'll never forget was self inflicted GSW to head. He pulled the trigger with the gun pointed to his temple. Bullet somehow immediately took a turn downward and exited through his jaw on his opposite side.

Came in by EMS alert and neuro totally intact. I heard he even walked out of the hospital on his own when he was discharged

[–] Ziglin 1 points 23 hours ago

How come you get to shorten gun shot wound? How often do they occur? Are you American?

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