I am a bit clumsy. A bit i say, but Bill would throw his head back and laugh at that.
I tend to do lots of goofy things. Like the time I bent down to pick up something I dropped while doing a blood draw on a patient, and on the way down hit my head on the side of the chair. When I lifted my head back up, blood was running down my face from a laceration to my forehead. The patient almost passed out.
Or the time I fell out of the deep freezer at the marine park I worked at, and landed in a crate full of frozen herring, twisting my ankle all to hell.
This time, a car was involved. A parked car.
I lifted the hatch on the van, grabbed the groceries out of the back, and pulled the hatch down hard…..right on my face. i am still trying to figure out how I managed it.
It made me see stars and I staggered in the house with blood running down my face, and dripping off of my nose….the workers building homes on either side of us stood staring, tejano music blaring in the background.
The gash on my nose was pretty icky and wide open. The one on my forehead was mostly just split open. I called Bill at work and, get this, he said he would come home at lunch and look at it. It was 9am at the time. True love.
After checking out the wounds, he decided not to stitch them. The nose one was bad, but stitching that area would be difficult and end up with more scarring.
I also ended up with a mild concussion.
I am not going out in public, because people keep asking what happened and I have to explain how I accidentally slammed my face in the trunk.
Goofy.
And just think, they allow me to drive a car.
Many years ago, when I lived in a heavily wooded area dense with mosquitos, I performed a similar feat, gashing my face with the car door in my rushed attempt to get into the car quickly enough that no mosquitos got in with me.
I also once hit my baby (my first) with the car door when getting into the backseat with him to put him in the carseat. Talk about feeling bad–that was way worse then hurting myself.
I really enjoy reading your blog. I hope you are feeling better!
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Tal
Oh, poor thing! That looks like it smarts. At least you have those gorgeous eyes to compensate for the gashes.
Yikes! Your face doesn’t look too bad, but then, I don’t know how long ago this was either.
Today I ran my shopping cart full of groceries, off the ramp thing at Walmart and spilled them everywhere. I thought I was still on the sloped area and…apparently not. So you are not along in feeling like a clumsy idiot.
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OWIE!!!! Heal fast lady!
Owie! I hope you are feeling better soon.
I did that about a year ago with my van’s tailgate. We were eating at Boston Pizza and I needed to get something from the van – probably the diaper bag. I popped the back, grabbed the bag, and SLAMMED the door down on my forehead. Man, that hurt. I reeled back, cursing loudly as my head rang.
I gathered my senses and closed the door without using my head, went inside and fetched our son to change him. My family looked me kind of oddly as I did this, and when I got to the bathroom I realized why. There was a fairly significant amount of blood flowing from my forehead. It had been raining out so I assumed that was why my forehead was wet. Huh.
After some pressure the bleeding stopped, and I didn’t need any stitches, so I got off easy. But I know it can happen.
Wow! Not a fun morning! Is it sad that I actually laughed at your story? Well I did, so here’s one for you: I tend to hit my huge nose on doors and cupboards as I open them. My mom, who has the same huge nose, actually broke her nose by hitting it on a cupboard door. Hope that got you to smile.
lol..i only laugh because that’s something I totally would have done…in fact I hit the back of my head on my hatchback the day before yesterday…although that’s a little more explainable! i blamed it on the car.
You forgot to mention the incident with the icy/snowy driveway, the sled, the lamppost and the broken wrist.:)
Oh my goodness! I hope you feel better soon. I too am glad to know I am not the only klutz running around in the world!
Awwwww.
Hope it heals fast. I always hate it when things like this happen!
Karen
Oh my !! Hope you are okay !! That totally sounds like something I would have done. Glad I am not the only klutz in the world.