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What's the worst you ever hurt yourself as a kid?
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The worst was probably splintering my tailbone. Apparently I have oddly dense bones, so they don't like to full out break, but just splinter.
I was snowboarding and trying to keep up with my mom. At the very very end of the run, I snagged my back edge and got slapped so hard to the ground, I'm pretty sure I blacked out for a few seconds (wear a helmet, kids). We rode the rest of the day and I don't remember much about it all except my butt hurt so bad. I couldn't sit down normally for over a year. I sat on my knees or in a snow tube in the living room because I couldn't stand to sit on the couch or in a chair at all.
A separate incident that might also tie for worst, but I think I fractured my skull when I was around 8? It could just be one of the growth plates, but I have a scar in my skin, and then a serious dent in my forehead in the skull which is attached to a long crack that goes down to my eyebrow before I'm not able to feel it anymore. We didn't go to the hospital or anything, I just dealt with the swelling and the small split. I did dent the corner beam in our house though. Thick skull I guess?
I dented my forehead as a kid on a coffee table at my grandma's house.
I was jumping on the couch from cushion to cushion and slipped head first into the edge of the table. Don't remember much afterwards except for no hospital. My dad told me years later "yeah, that probably needed stitches, but I didn't want you to be scared..."
That's the one benefit of today's IKEA furniture: it disintegrates on heavy contact; furniture from the 70's was made from steel reinforced hardwood -- that table could have held up a truck.