# DIYs, have you recently injured yourself while doing a repair? I did. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diys-have-you-recently-injured-yourself-while-doing-a-repair-i-did/397488 "2007-03-26T01:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diys-have-you-recently-injured-yourself-while-doing-a-repair-i-did/397488/21 "2007-03-27T15:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] … At this point the chair tips, I am simultaneously trying to rebalance, grab hold of something, but not a pipe or a wire and trying to figure out how the [Coyote](http://images.allposters.com/images/ATA/21477BP.jpg) always pulls those wonderful signs out of nowhere. … [/QUOTE] _winces_ Well, you don’t really want to know. I usually injure myself a lot. Partly due to not really being very handy even though I want to be and partly because it’s sort of a family tradition. I guess my worst injury (so far) was the whiplash like injury I gave myself while standing on a step ladder and trying to hang a bathroom cabinet. I couldn’t get the damn screw in the hole and then the cabinet started slipping and I couldn’t hold it any longer so it slipped down the wall and over my foot that was sticking out over the edge of the ladder, taking a couple layers of skin with it. This caused me to start to fall backwards off the ladder and in trying to right myself I wrenched my back and neck in such a way as to feel like a whiplash injury, I was in pain from that for a couple weeks. At least it made my foot hurt less. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diys-have-you-recently-injured-yourself-while-doing-a-repair-i-did/397488/22 "2007-03-27T16:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] _winces_ Well, you don’t really want to know. I usually injure myself a lot. Partly due to not really being very handy even though I want to be and partly because it’s sort of a family tradition. I guess my worst injury (so far) was the whiplash like injury I gave myself while standing on a step ladder and trying to hang a bathroom cabinet. I couldn’t get the damn screw in the hole and then the cabinet started slipping and I couldn’t hold it any longer so it slipped down the wall and over my foot that was sticking out over the edge of the ladder, taking a couple layers of skin with it. This caused me to start to fall backwards off the ladder and in trying to right myself I wrenched my back and neck in such a way as to feel like a whiplash injury, I was in pain from that for a couple weeks. At least it made my foot hurt less. [/QUOTE] 😃 Did the cabinet survive? That is only the question. 😉 Lots of great replies so far. Thanks everyone for sharing. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diys-have-you-recently-injured-yourself-while-doing-a-repair-i-did/397488/23 "2007-03-27T16:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] 😃 Did the cabinet survive? That is only the question. 😉 Lots of great replies so far. Thanks everyone for sharing. Jim [/QUOTE] Um … I decided that the cabinet didn’t really go with the decor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diys-have-you-recently-injured-yourself-while-doing-a-repair-i-did/397488.md?page=1)