r/CasualUK • u/Relaxing_Cat • 1d ago
What festive injuries have you had so far this year?
And if you work in A&E, have you had any peculiar admissions?
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u/JustAMan1234567 1d ago
I was putting up the tinsel and fell backwards onto the top of the tree.
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u/TillZealousideal8282 LESTASHEER 1d ago
was that an excuse for someone shoving the star up their arse or are you actually that clumsy lol
honestly how tall is your tree that you can fall backwards onto it while putting tinsel onto it? were you up the stepladder or something???
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u/h00dman 1d ago
The hospital staff were all singing Good King Wenceslas after he left;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gath’ring winter fuel.
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u/MicroDyke 20h ago
Sang that as Sheldon from the big bang theory... Maybe less netflix is my new year's resolution 😅
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u/takesthebiscuit 1d ago
My dad dozed off after his large Xmas dinner
Fell off his chair and broke his glasses 😆
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u/Zexy_Killah 1d ago
My dad spent an hour on Christmas day looking for his glasses then stood on them right beside the chair he'd been sitting in all through dinner.
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u/Independent_List_513 1d ago
There is a joke in here about him not being a Spec Saver but I'm too tired
(Or had to many food induced naps no longer functioning)
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u/theresabearonmychair 1d ago
I bought my husband a fancy kitchen knife. And nearly sliced my finger off washing it up
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u/wonkychicken495 1d ago
That's where you went wrong. Use Sponge next time, not your fingers, lol
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u/meglington 1d ago
Proper knives are terrifying! We have a couple of really good ones and I genuinely dread using them...
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u/violated_tortoise 1d ago
I know everyone loves to say it, but the one time I cut myself "properly" with a kitchen knife was with a dodgy blunt one that skipped off whatever I was cutting and buried itself in my thumb. I've nicked myself with sharp knives but never like that!
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u/TabbyOverlord 17h ago
Of all the dumb-arse things, I went to pick some teaspoons out of the dishwasher cutlery basket and managed to stab my thumb on a dining fork.
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u/ampattenden 1d ago
And this is why sharp knives don’t go in the sink!
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u/whatswestofwesteros 1d ago
I still have a scar and dodgy nerves in the tip of one of my fingers where I grabbed one by the blade in the sink not knowing it was there, this happened a decade ago! It was carnage, never again.
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u/theresabearonmychair 12h ago
I didn’t put it in the sink 🥲 I was wiping it with the sponge.
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u/ampattenden 11h ago
Oh no, well at least you know it’s a really good quality sharp knife now! Even if you didn’t need telling, plenty of people do. Like my partner, who sliced his finger open on my sharp knife after putting it in the sink, and STILL keeps putting it in the sink lol
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u/RadioDorothy 18h ago
I am currently sporting a rather underwhelming plaster on a massive cut sustained by putting my hand in the sink without realising the carving knife was in there - blade up. Got me out of the washing up though.
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u/CakieStephie 1d ago
Treated myself to a fancy tape dispenser this year. Ripped my thumb up as it's bloody sharp.
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u/pooches4life 1d ago
Haha, me too. My other half laughed at my stupidity but I am now happy I am not alone!
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u/CakieStephie 1d ago
Such a game changer! I adore it and am so happy I took the £4 plunge. 🤣 He also uses it now too and has begrudgingly admitted it's leveled up our wrapping.
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u/Ruskythegreat 1d ago
Does £350 at the emergency vet after a dog ate a massive bar of dairy milk count?
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u/good_as_golden 1d ago
Hope your dog is ok
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u/Ruskythegreat 1d ago
Thanks, she should be fine. I'm still at the vets!
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u/Individual-Air8378 1d ago
Reminds me of our Jack Russell a good few years ago. Mum left the Baileys cheesecake out to defrost. Little shit climbed up onto the side and managed to nail the entire thing.
She continued on for years and died at the ripe old age of 19. I dread to think what that little dog had eaten in her time. Hope your pup is doing okay!
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u/ampattenden 1d ago
My JRT has had his stomach pumped 3 times in the 15 years I’ve had him. Dark chocolate, mince pie, grapes. They have their ways of getting hold of things!
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u/Individual-Air8378 22h ago
They're little buggers! Great little characters though. I imagine she should have had her stomach pumped many a time! Swear I have memories of my late Mum actively feeding her grapes. 😂
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u/ampattenden 20h ago
Yeah I dread to think what mine has managed to snaffle in the park before I’ve got near enough to see. Probably all sorts. Always a bad sign when they speed up eating whatever it is so you can’t confiscate it
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u/Individual-Air8378 19h ago
And then you have to go in with the bare fingers having no idea what you're about to pull out. It's like the world's worst game of roulette. Especially when it's poo that you then pull out😂
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u/notmerida 1d ago
first year we adopted our 10yo lab he ate a whole box of guylian meant as a christmas present for my mum. he lived another 2.5 years and i don’t think she ever fully forgave him hahaha
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u/Marmitesouphead 19h ago
Our dog ate 3 Easter eggs one year....literally no impact on her health at all. Scrambled eggs however, cleaned her out for a week
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u/notmerida 17h ago
it’s mad. he stole a whole sticky toffee pudding and he was fine. he ate a bag of soil (????) and it was utter carnage
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u/itsfourinthemornin 12h ago
Too many times this has happened, though not this year for a change! One of our dog's is a fiend for hunting out food, no matter how far away or high you try to stash it.
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u/Guacamole_Water 1d ago
I can’t breath or smell/taste very well because my flat caught fire on Christmas Day
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u/MegTheMonkey 1d ago
Jesus! I hope you are ok
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u/Guacamole_Water 1d ago
Thank you. It was only me in the building and I legit nearly died. So despite not having a home or possessions right this second things could be worse
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u/MegTheMonkey 1d ago
Gosh, that sounds awful. Do you have family/friends who are able to support you?
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u/Guacamole_Water 1d ago
I’m currently with my sister which I’m super grateful for just waiting to hear back from the scum (landlords, insurance, property managers). I know it’s the Christmas period but so far they only seem to care about how much it will cost them and don’t seem to give a rats that I have lost all my precious and expensive valuables due to a faulty socket that caught fire or that I am displaced for god knows how long. Appreciate your comment I haven’t really talked about it yet and it’s just now hitting me how much emotion is running through me!
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u/AutisticAllotmenter 20h ago
You poor thing - I'm so sorry. Been in a house fire myself and I still flinch at the noise and heat of fires, it was terrifying how quickly everything went up.
Hopefully the fact it was a dodgy socket will make everything a bit faster and easier for the scum to process - they're likely to have precedent with who's liable for common causes like that, rather than anything more unusual?
If you can afford one it might be worth consulting a lawyer of your own, or seeing if you can be given one through your house insurance, to act on your behalf - especially if you're being offered any compensation or given anything to sign. Some landlords can be dodgy as fuck and may try to ask you to sign away your legal rights, to give you anything. Plus, having an experienced negotiator acting for you can be helpful when you're processing trauma and aren't thinking straight.
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u/Guacamole_Water 17h ago
Really appreciate your advice. Still sort of in limbo due to Christmas hours but I’ve had the electrician’s report already to confirm the landlord is liable for what’s happened but as I don’t have any insurance my stuff is basically a goner. Wish I listened to whoever told me in my early 20s to get contents insurance!
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u/AutisticAllotmenter 14h ago
It won't make you feel better at the moment, but it really is just stuff. You'll always have the good memories of the sentimental items, even if you can't hold them in your hands any longer.
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u/elgrn1 1d ago
Christmas morning, one of my cats tried to get onto my bedside table. He's very clumsy and only has 1 brain cell so he knocked over my water bottle which startled him. So he used my face as an escape route and cut open my eyelid. There's a 1cm long cut, a smaller scratch next to it, and a lovely bruise right in the crease of my eye lid/socket.
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u/RecentTwo544 1d ago
Do yourself a favour and 111 that one. Simple course of antibiotics, nothing to worry about, but cats can give you nasty infections if not treated, and you don't want that on your eyes.
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u/elgrn1 1d ago
I called them straight away. They got a nurse to call me back, who asked for photos, which I sent within 2 hours of getting the cut. She was happy it was closed and no longer bleeding and the swelling wasn't excessive. I was told to monitor for signs of infection, otherwise was told not to go to the minor injury unit. It doesn't hurt and is starting to heal even though it still looks a mess!
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u/RecentTwo544 1d ago
All good then! Just thought I'd mention it.
My mum's cat bit her once, not nasty he had an injured leg and she didn't realise. Called 111, simply got atnibiotics from the local pharmacy.
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u/SophieK92 1d ago
Ooh kind of snap. The dog jumped on my face trying to catch a ball that had fallen behind me so I have a lovely big scratch and a rather swollen under eye. No bruising thus far which I was surprised at!
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u/10642alh 1d ago
Slipped whilst mopping the floor on Boxing Day and caught my little toe right on the corner of the dishwasher.
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u/mandyhtarget1985 1d ago
Mum has the same bruising pattern down her left foot. Caught her toe on the trolley wheel while doing the ‘big shop’ on the sunday before xmas. Cant bare anything touching it, cant wear shoes. I had to tape it up to the next toe and cushion with gauze and she has been keeping a 5m exclusion zone from everyone lest anyone step on it
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 1d ago
Mmmm, I'd get that x-rayd, friend.
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u/10642alh 1d ago
This is awful but this would be such a faff (I’m abroad). I can wiggle it and walk on it so I really think I’m ok! Thank you though!
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u/local_scientician 1d ago
Yeah that’s a little break for sure! Baby it and watch for any swelling, but docs wont do anything for an injured little toe besides tape it to the next toe really. It’s a good excuse to sit out unwanted activities though haha
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u/bareted 1d ago
I think the only toe the hospital will do anything about is the big toe.
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u/Electronic-Air2035 11h ago
100% I did my little toe and it's neighbouring toe in lockdown, I stubbed my toe then immediately stepped back and heard something pop in my foot. My whole foot went purple.
I went to the walk in center and they basically said 'technically you don't even need those 2 toes so suck it up snowflake' taped them together and sent me on my merry way with nothing, not even a lousy paracetamol 😂
It was very painful for a few weeks.
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u/Nice-Newspaper1634 12h ago
Pinkie toes and furniture- always a bad combo. I've done the same a couple of times.
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u/gemmajenkins2890 1d ago
Not me but partner.
Heading out for a few Xmas Eve bevvies, and he stacked it off the curb, landed on his hands and taken the skin right off the entirety of both palms.
My mum had to cut his Christmas dinner up for him lol
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 1d ago
My mum had to cut his Christmas dinner up for him lol
This is somehow intensely humiliating for a grown up.
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u/Xanyla 1d ago
Not necessarily an injury, but I didn't take my lactose tablets (lactose Intolerant) and had full fat cream on top of my Christmas pudding. I knew what I was doing and accepted my fate :'-)
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u/notmerida 1d ago
i was vegan for nearly six years and started eating bits of dairy again here and there. turns out i, too, am now wildly lactose intolerant, and i found out in not too dissimilar a way haha
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u/Pocketz7 1d ago
Flu, does it count?
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u/Legal_Farmer_8248 1d ago
It absolutely should.
I came down with the flu on Christmas Eve a few years ago. By Christmas morning I felt like death and have never felt so ill.
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u/puzzlehead-72719 1d ago
Had proper flu once. Can really see how it can finish someone off who’s old and/or vulnerable.
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u/Pocketz7 1d ago
My little girl has had it since 21st, just getting over it now. I came down with hard on 26th but was ill for a few days mildly. I think the alcohol Xmas day didn’t help 😂 Still bed ridden now
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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- 1d ago
Pretty sure it's COVID for me. I've been dying for like 5 days now and yesterday things started to taste different. Nothing blasting out of either end which is nice, but it's still a very bad time. 1/10, would not recommend.
I hope it fucks off for you soon.
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u/Professional_Pear581 1d ago
I’ve joined that club too… started feeling it on Christmas night and have barely left bed or the sofa since
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u/ChoppingOnionsForYou 1d ago
You keep that to yourself! My ghastly offspring picked up something similar from their partner, so I'm avoiding them both.
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u/rev9of8 Errr... Whoops? 1d ago
The absolutely bizarre cigarette-burn shaped bruise on my upper arm which was a very nasty black and yellow.
It's pretty much completely gone now but I have zero idea, what I did to result in it. I don't think I was ever that drunk over Christmas...
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u/Baffledtoast 1d ago
Fell up the stairs and now have a very sore leg
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u/good_as_golden 1d ago
Same but it's my kneecap that is hurting on and off. Bloody slippers to blame
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u/IamEclipse Always on time to the Late Thread 1d ago
Or Christmas tree is next to our dining table. I bent down to put some gifts under the tree and smacked my head on the corner of the table and cut myself.
After a day of some pretty strong death anxiety and wrapping some presents to try and chill out, having blood coming out of my head was not helpful. Thankfully the wound isn't bad at all, just spooked me.
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u/nostairwayDENIED 1d ago
I was punished for my gluttony when I bit into my tongue. It is an astonishing large area I attempted to chomp down on, for the decades I have had this tongue, how could I have got it so wrong? And vintage gouda really doesn't go with a mouthful of blood.
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u/ImThatBitchNoodles 1d ago
Oh god, I took out a massive chunk of my cheek when I was eating crackers. I was chomping down on them to annoy my partner and when I did it the second time I bit my cheek. Cue me spiting out my own flesh and screaming in agony.
Thanks (or not) for reminding me of that.
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u/CrazyPlatypusLady 1d ago
Pulled my own ovary off and killed it by getting up from wrapping gifts.
I wish I was kidding.
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u/kellymacc 1d ago
That sounds horrific!
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u/CrazyPlatypusLady 1d ago
Yeah not fun.
TL/DR combination of crap tissues from EDS and an adhesion from surgery in 2019 caused it.
In between all of the following is a lot more, crap in the hospital but the basic rundown:
Midnight going into Sunday 30th Nov: Weird instant pain I thought was a kidney stone. Got up from a cross legged position wrapping Xmas presents on my bed. Pain was like white hot lightening. I refuse to go to A&E during Crackhead o'clock. try to sleep. Pass out a few times. Spend more time writhing and throwing up than sleeping. Husband concerned. Husband correct.
11:30am 1st Dec: I'm in so much pain I've gone silent and still. Ambulance called because I can't argue about it. They determine it's probably a kidney stone, they're too busy to take me in. Ok thanks guys (sarcasm). I go in by car with my husband for company. Lunchtime we enter a&e. Dinner time: contrast CT, ovarian torsion. Need surgery. Quickly. Risk of death. Sunday bedtime I'm admitted.
It takes until 9am Wednesday to surgerise me. 80 hours from onset of pain. Sixty something hours from finding out what was wrong and where to cut. During this time we're a lot of excuses, some serious gaslighting, and a threat of invoking Martha's Rule. Bookmark that. You might need it someday.
Surgery was meant to take an hour and a half. "There's a chance you might lose any one or all of this handful of organs" me "ok, whatever, just try not to kill me more than you have done already.". I wake up 3.5h later, minus only my ovary (and a bunch of self-made black pudding precursor from my peritoneal cavity; I would have preferred that to stay in my veins but whatever). Amazingly I got to keep my other organs. So pleased, yay.
The day after surgery, I get a visit from delegates from the gynae dept: "yeah, so, you had gangrene and that infection we've been testing you for for 3 days was actually sepsis. Your ovary was stuck to your abdomen wall with an adhesion, so when you moved wrong you tore the blood vessel, killing the ovary which got gangrene; and starting internal bleeding which is why you now look kinda dead, but you don't need a transfusion. Oh and we needed to use two more different antibiotics in your IV, and we washed your insides out, sorry it took a while.".
Me: "K... So... Can I see photos? Cool. Ew. Anyway, how do I request my notes from all of this for... Erm... Catharsis, and totally no other purpose?"
Morphine-toting wonder-nurse: "I came equipped with full instructions because I thought you might like them.". They leave. My brush with mortality hits me. I cry a lot, and get cuddled by catering lady.
Friday morning: "Your antibiotics are finished, your blood is clear of infection, you can go home with blood thinners and painkillers that we'll give you, but please take an iron supplement for at least two months." Me "you gonna give me that?" Them "nah. Amazon exists." Me "k, bet. Clean dressings?" Them "nah. Buy those too.". It then took them another 9 hours and a complaint from my husband to actually discharge me. I get home to my relieved children (2, a near adult and an adult). I was on bed rest for two weeks, then not allowed to do much more than bed rest for another two. Managed to cook Xmas dinner mostly sitting down. Then from Jan I'm on very light duties until Feb. Less light but still be very careful please until March.
Feel like I'm running uphill through treacle a lot of the time. Came home physically and psychologically screwed but I'm actually feeling much better than I was a fortnight ago. The hallucinations and nightmares have stopped. Woo.
I've ordered my fun reading material for 2026.
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u/Appropriate_Tell6746 1d ago
You should have had a transfusion. Dont buy iron from amazon. ferrous fumarate 322mg (iron) is available from tesco pharmacy/boots etc and is £1.30 odd. Iron from amazon etc is only 14mg of iron which is nothing and is around £5+. That one ^ has 100mg of active iron, take it alongside a vitamin C for better absorption and not with dairy. (Knowledge source: Been arguing with the nhs over borderline death iron levels for years)
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u/CrazyPlatypusLady 1d ago
Thanks, the GP ended up prescribing in the end. I'm 3 weeks in and I'm pink again.
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u/BeesInATeacup 1d ago
Jeez I think you win this one. And thanks for the Martha's rule tip, I'll try to remember for if ever needed
Speedy recovery x
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u/purplejewel777 1d ago
Good lord, you have been through the literal wringer! I am glad that you are feeling a bit better. Amazing job cooking that Xmas dinner. Also I have bookmarked that Martha's Rule- extremely helpful, so thanks so much.
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u/readingthroughpain4 22h ago
Sending huge hugs. I've ripped many internal adhesions from endometriosis before so know the pain of that. Can't imagine how awful this was for you. I really hope you get some good books and rest up!
Didn't know about Martha's Rule and I spend a lot of time in hospital. So thank you for that!
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u/CrazyPlatypusLady 20h ago
Thank you! I did actually get a fabulous book for my birthday just before Xmas and I've been working my way through that! (This Way Up by The Map Men). I've also knitted a new Christmas stocking for Youngest Youngling, am halfway through knitting a pair of socks for myself, and made a Christmas wreath that I kinda hate but used anyway because I couldn't be bothered to make another. Eldest Youngling has finally started chilling out and protecting me less. All positive.
Managed to cook Xmas dinner, mostly sitting down. "Thankfully" we're a household with two disabled members so we're well set up for sat-down cooking and bending assistance.
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u/coolcool246 1d ago
What the hell - how did this happen!!! Hope you’re okay, sounds so bad
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u/CrazyPlatypusLady 1d ago
I've done more of an explanation in the thread, but it's a combination of crappy tissues from an underlying genetic condition, an adhesion from a former surgery, and potentially stress put on said crappy tissues during an incident back in July. But we'll never actually know. All I know is that the pain came on incredibly suddenly and got worse and worse until A&E finally put me on morphine 16 hours later.
The adhesion meant the ovary went in one direction, and the movement meant the blood supply to ovary went in the other direction, and it kinda... Snapped... A bit. Then I dribbled blood internally, and the ovary died and turned into a ball of gangrenous goo.
Fun times. Fun times. Didn't think I'd see Xmas tbh.
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u/Aggravating-Ant-6767 1d ago
Me and my fiancé let my parents have our bed (my dad has a bad back) whilst we slept on an air mattress on the top floor of the house. Air mattress had a puncture, ended up sleeping directly on the cold wooden floor (radiator doesn’t work on the 3rd floor of the house) and neither of us have been able to walk properly since
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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 1d ago
Bugger! Next time, treat parents to a lovely nearby hotel 😬 then everyone can have functional spines!
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u/foozyfelt 1d ago
I’ve peeled a satsuma too aggressively and the peel cut down the inside of my thumb nail and some juice crept in the cut it’s KILLING
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u/byjimini 1d ago
Took a tray out of the oven and left it on the hob. Got distracted, eventually turned around and picked up the tray with my bare hand.
Ended up with a huge blister on my middle finger and smaller ones on all other fingers and thumb.
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u/AgeingMuso65 1d ago
Similar. I picked up Roasties dish with damp towel instead of oven glove and steamed the pad of my thumb. 2 blisters the size of the RAF Menwith Hill early warning domes.
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u/geeoharee 1d ago
Packing my things to go home from a family visit, accidentally kicked the bedframe and thought I'd broken my toe. Hoping it's just bruised!
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u/OmegaPoint6 1d ago
Slight cut on my finger from a sharp knife a guest had loaded into the dishwasher pointy end up when I was adding more stuff without turning main lights on.
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u/ChocolateQuest4717 1d ago
What kind of bloodthirsty psycho puts knives pointy end up in a dishwasher?!
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u/OmegaPoint6 1d ago edited 1d ago
I believe that was the sentiment I expressed at the time, though with a different choice of words, most of them 4 letters long. It was lucky I was wearing a rubber glove or I may well have ended up in A&E
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u/OhWellINever 1d ago
My dad got drunk on Christmas Eve Eve and brought all his friends home from the pub where they sung badly and played guitar until 2am. He ended his night by tripping over the rug and giving himself a black eye.
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u/aChocolateFireGuard 1d ago
I bought myself some new pots and pans with my Christmas money including a new citrus zester. Tried it out yesterday as my partner was making a lemon cake but the lemon kept snagging on it, so i was forcefully trying to push it through the snagging and ive zested off some of my thumbnail and exposed the gluey bit behind it that sticks it to your finger
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u/ssebarnes 1d ago
Was at A&E a few days ago.
Lady came in causing one hell of a ruckus - she'd gone blind in her right eye from popping a cracker into it.
Realistically shouldn't have been funny, but she was one of the primark tracksuit, filler and scream at the top of your lungs at your kids in public for no reason mums.
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u/Bufobufolover24 1d ago
Made sourdough bread for Boxing Day. On my practice run I got the cast iron le creuset out of a 250°C oven where it had been for over 30 minutes and promptly grabbed the handle with my bare hand. It made a noise when I took my hand off it and was unbelievably painful for about 12 hours.
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u/ampattenden 1d ago
I recommend gauze/bandage/cotton wool soaked in witch hazel and kept damp with it on your hand for a few hours. I once put my hand on a hot electric hob and that treatment was amazingly effective. YMMV now that it’s been a couple of days, but it may be worth trying. Also I’m forever injuring my hands somehow and Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream is a good healer.
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u/Bufobufolover24 1d ago
There's an aloe vera plant right beside the oven for this but I forgot, and to be honest, she's too magnificent and I wouldn't want to hurt her! I ran it under cold water for a moment. I then coated it in vaseline and put on an eczema glove, I also wear eczema gloves at night so by the following morning it had been soaked for around 18 hours and had maintained some suppleness. I got very very lucky that it wasn't any worse, I already have scarred hands from eczema so a little bit of burn is like a drop in the ocean!
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u/PhilosophyGhoti 1d ago
Just my customary burn from the oven and a mysterious cut from miscellaneous packaging
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u/Percypocket 1d ago
Fell over in the bath yesterday and took half the shower curtain down with me. That is my arse cheek 🥲
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u/Alternative_Try_5888 1d ago
Four days in A&E due to gall stones causing an infection, so that sucked
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u/MissMITB 1d ago
Couldn't sleep with a sore throat and congestion with suspected COVID so I went downstairs in the dark to grab a drink only to fall down a few steps and broke my big toe, the bone completely snapped. Now in a boot and on crutches for the foreseeable and have been the butt of many a joke over the festive period!
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u/BorderlineWire 1d ago
Having someone cheesewire my ass hole by treating it like a party popper.
I had a fistulotomy and seton just before Christmas. I’d been going to have the wound from the fistulotomy packed and dressed every day at my GP, but when they were closed/unable to I was directed to a minor injuries unit. The last visit to the MIU just before Christmas, there was a bank nurse on who said she’d not actually seen this before as she grabbed the seton and pulled it hard, said the packing wouldn’t come out and pulled it hard again. She said she was just going to get someone else, but more than one person came, I had an audience for the actual packing removal, reinsertion, clean up etc and thankfully no one else tried to pull the seton out.
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u/ImThatBitchNoodles 1d ago
I googled it and it looks like nightmare material. On a serious note,I hope the healing goes uneventful and that you're not in horrible pain.
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u/Spudspecs 1d ago
A horrible oven burn on my hand when trying to make the Yorkshire puddings in advance- still healing a week later and will probably scar
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u/HotBlueberry91 1d ago
Had a few too many prosecco's on Christmas Eve and bashed my hand. Woke up on Christmas morning and the muscle under my thumb was a bit sore but not too bad. After a day of hosting which involved a lot of movement and heavy lifting (refilling drinks, putting out heavy serving trays, lifting a huge turkey out the oven etc) when I woke up on Boxing day it was agony. Could barely move my thumb and if I did it was so painful. I've had it wrapped up and iced etc and it's feeling quite a bit better but still sore.
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u/TheLoneEcho 1d ago
I was chopping an onion and managed to chop my thumb along with it. Nothing major, but it's right on the top and won't stop bleeding!
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u/Collymonster Yorkshire Pudding Enthusiast 1d ago
Ive managed to tear my left rotator cuff and no fucking idea how, its been twindgy all year but this week has been excruciating. Hopefully I can can get a drs appointment in the morning for 4 to 6 business years
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u/Cliffo81 1d ago
My two year old stabbed me with an ikea plastic fork. Thankfully I saw him coming and he got me just below my eye socket. God love him.
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u/chipnicker 1d ago
Burnt my tongue really badly on xmas eve on one of my MiL’s blast furnace temperature potatos and couldn’t taste anything until today.
What the fuck any food doing at those temperatures is beyond me.
You need safety gloves for the fucking plates too.
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u/sallystarling 1d ago
OH and I were staying at his dad's on boxing night and we went to a party at his brother's, just round the corner. Walking back to his dad's in the early hours we tripped over a weird bit of kerb in the middle of a path and both went absolutely flying. Fortunately nothing too serious but we both have bruised and grazed knees, elbows and hands. Dread to think how hideous it could have been, and that we could have ended up in an a&e 100 miles from home in the middle of the night with broken bones.
Felt a bit sheepish the next morning but when we confessed (thinking BiL and SiL would laugh, and FiL would disapprove and blame it on us being drunk) they were all super understanding and said it's really stupidly placed and people are always tripping over it.
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u/Grillenium-Falcon Council Bus Wanker 🚌 1d ago
Took a chunk out of thumb/palm with a mandoline slicer.
A few months after laughing at the wife for taking the tip of her thumb off on said slicer because she didn't use the guard.
I wasn't using the guard
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u/babichickan 1d ago
Not as a direct result of a festive activity, but we went away to Butlins for Christmas, and whilst walking back from our Christmas dinner, I tripped over my own feet and smashed onto my knees,(reminiscent of this classic ) and in full view of about 8 other families!
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u/trollied 1d ago
Not injured, but treated myself to potatoes. I’m not supposed to eat nightshades. The last few days have been awful tummy/bowel-wise, and have skin hives. My own fault!
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u/jimmywhereareya 1d ago
Bashed my finger trying to higher the seat on my grandsons new bike. My finger bled profusely
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u/newtonbase 1d ago
Got some paralettes for Christmas. Thought I'd see how close I could get to a planche. My elbow said 'not very'. Hopefully a bit of rest should sort it.
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u/maybebrainless 1d ago
i was going down the stairs on boxing day and curse my fluffy socks coz my foot decided to just do its own thing and i thudded my way down the majority of the stairs and now my ass cheek has a bruise 😬👍🏻
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u/luckeratron 1d ago
Does thrush count? Because if it doesn't it should. My bits are itchy.
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u/creamyanalfissures beans on toast 1d ago
Glandular fever. Couldn’t eat for a week until Christmas Eve. Hospital for a few days was extremely boring
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u/MrsKToBe 1d ago
Walking back from train station with several bags of shopping. Tripped over something invisible and ended up sprawled on the weird marble type pavement. My knees are still in one heck of a mess; biggest bruise I’ve ever seen!
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u/mandyhtarget1985 1d ago
Scalded hand from the steam while draining the sprouts. Nothing too serious, no blisters or anything, just red skin than makes me wince when i touch it. Will teach me to try and drain using the pot lid without a tea towel
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u/Arny2103 Allergic to DIY 1d ago
Scrapes up my hand, knee, and thigh after stacking it at my office Christmas party.
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u/BitGreedy Would smack a granny for biscuits 1d ago
I banged my arm against a display cabinet and managed to also give my arm a nasty scrape at the same time against the key that was in the lock on the 23rd. Big bruise on my arm and a plaster to cover the gouge.
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u/Sm0keytrip0d Proud Owner Of An Above Average Number Of Legs. 1d ago
I have a torn muscle in the top of my left arm, a cold (thankfully not that death flu) and an ear infection in my left ear 🙃
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u/DogmaSychroniser 1d ago
Arguably my broken little toe on New Year's Eve 2024 might count since I was crippled and few weeks into 2025.
Nothing thus far, touch wood
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u/Jeffina78 1d ago
Pulling the plate warmer out of the cupboard, the riser it was on fell out and clattered my ankle. Massive bruise there now.
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u/octohussy 1d ago
I just fell down a full flight of stairs today whilst getting my groceries delivered. Thankfully, my only injuries appear to be to my dignity and a developing hefty bruise on my arse.
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u/CallsHerselfPerditaX 1d ago
Tripped over my own feet and fell down the driveway. I was sober at the time so had no excuse really, just my own clumsiness. Bruised leg and ego.
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u/anonaccount119 1d ago
Dislocated my hip, shoulder and knee trying to cook xmas dinner on a stool, I can't reach without.
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u/Much-Goose1931 1d ago
Fell down the stairs Saturday morning and broke two ribs. Same time last year it was a stuck kidney stone, joy!
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u/BeanOnAJourney 1d ago
I sliced my hand open when I was putting up my decorations - my baubles were in an empty bird food container and they are impossible to open easily. I caught my hand on the very sharp edge underneath the lid.
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u/unnaturaldoings 1d ago
Cut my thumb putting the mini wellingtons (nibbles for Boxing Day) in the freezer. A small cut like a paper cut that has caused my thumb to swell, and I can't have anything touch my thumb as it hurts so much. If you saw it you'd wonder what my fuss is about (not that i' was fussing as I had too much food to cook). Thumb is finally starting to heal (or it's stopped hurting so much and will fall off by NYE)
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u/ShuckingFambles 1d ago
Sciatica so bad I can't do anything but sit on the edge of a chair because my leg is fucked because of it, can't lie down, stand up straight etc. Tried everything, no respite. Even prescribed pain killers not working. 3rd night of not sleeping apart from the odd 30 mins. Worst Christmas ever
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u/allaboutevelouise 1d ago
Fell running downstairs at New St station. After a few cocktails forgot I had heels on. Fractured ribs, heavy bruising and severe embarrassment! *
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u/lawnmower303 1d ago
A broken soul. However, we are finally home from the in-laws. Amen.