Just chicken pox for me and a few scrathes
Degloving of back of thigh/avulsed hamstring/broken femur.
I win. 
Heart attack.
2nd-degree burn on leg.
Dislocated wrist.
running coach … that’s definitely worse than mine… how did you manage to get injured so heinously?
Mine was a ruptured patellar tendon and subsequent repair / PT. Managed to stumble off my back deck and land just right on one foot, so that it popped the tendon off the bottom of my kneecap, rendering me unable to actually straighten my leg out using my thigh muscles.
Heart attack, 51 years ago.
Riding my bicycle. Got clipped by the wheel fender of a passing horse trailer.
Worst injury had to be the knife slash across my chest when I was about nine years old. Fifteen stitches on my scrawny little self.
Illness: guess I’ve been very lucky so far. The worst was a case of mononucleosis when I was in college, which meant being confined to bed for a week. I have Type II diabetes at this stage of my life, but it’s under control.
:eek:
Just now old are you?
Misdiagnosed ruptured appendix. Finally, botched surgery followed by two weeks in hospital, then prolonged recovery at home.
I do not recommend Long Island College Hospital. They almost killed me.
Exactly what is a “scrathe”?
Illness would have to be mono. I felt like I was going to die.
Injury would be torn ankle ligaments. Not super painful, just very annoying and slow to heal
It’s a tossup. Nine kidney stones, or legal blindness. Never had a trauma injury worthy of note.
Gall bladder removed as an emergency surgery 20 years ago.
Heart attack then angioplasty 2 years ago.
I’m done.
Childbirth. 27 hours of labor, followed by three hours of pushing, a forceps attempt, with two different styles of forceps, and then the doctor says we have to go to a c-section, and while we were signing papers, the baby’s heartbeat dropped, so I suddenly had to be rushed into an emergency c-section, and given general anesthesia. They did try to restart my epidural, but I felt the knife go in, so the mask came down on my face, and I don’t remember anything else.
Either that or the attenuated case of pertussis I had at age three. It only lasted a couple of days, and the serious cough only a day-- I was vaccinated, but either I caught an attenuated strain before the vaccination was in effect, or I caught a very virulent strain after I was vaccinated. Or somehow I got sick from the vaccine (third is the least likely scenario). It was not the nightmare illness of full-blown pertussis, but it was miserable, and it’s the reason that just being vaccinated yourself isn’t enough, because vaccinated people in an unvaccinated herd can catch things like that frequently. I will never forget that relentless cough, and it was the mildest of cases.
Last month, my son had freaking Scarlet Fever. He got strep, and for some reason, had no sore throat or fever. His first symptom was the rash. We need a strep vaccine. Yes, I know we won’t get one, since you can get strep multiple times, but I can still wish.
I’ve led a boring life, the worst I can recall was pneumonia when I was 19.
No terrible injuries. Illnesses? Most serious I guess was CHF. Spent a week in the hospital.
The worst an illness ever made me feel was measles, at 15 years old. I’ve never felt sicker in my life. I contend that anyone who intentionally lets a child get measles should be jailed for child abuse.
Guess I should have also mentioned open heart surgery in 2012. Got a new aortic valve, plus triple bypass. The recovery was actually less than my appendectomy.
Really not much. I had a kidney stone last year, but it was a passing illness.
Probably Scarlet Fever as a child. The combination of extremely high fever and young age means I don’t remember it at all. Good thing I guess. My parents told me I was screaming while being held down in an ice bath to get my fever down.
Mononucleosis when I was in college, and a gall bladder-ectomy when I was about 35 or so.
I thought I was having a heart attack one night, but it was some codeine I had taken earlier after skin cancer surgery. It gave me godawful pain in the pancreas area for hours, easily the worst pain I have ever experienced.